'60s War Protesters Accuse Clinton of Hypocrisy for Criticizing Obama Ties

Two left-wing lawyers are calling Hillary Clinton a hypocrite for criticizing Barack Obama's ties to radicals, saying Clinton had to know in 1971 that she was interning at a law firm that represented Black Panthers and Communists.

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Monday, May 19, 2008

Two left-wing lawyers are calling Hillary Clinton a hypocrite for criticizing Barack Obama's ties to radicals, saying Clinton had to know in 1971 that she was interning at a law firm that represented Black Panthers and Communists.

On Monday, The Washington Post reported comments from two attorneys who owned a law firm where Clinton interned as well as other 1960s and '70s protest movement leaders who say Clinton's own past makes it improper for her to criticize Obama for being friendly with former Weather Underground member William Ayers.

Also criticizing Hillary was '60s radical Tom Hayden, who says her closet has its own skeletons.

"The very things she's accusing Barack of could be said of her with much greater evidence," Hayden, one of the Chicago Seven and a self-described friend of the Clintons, told the Post.

A Clinton campaign spokesman said the comparison between Clinton's and Obama's associates is "patently absurd."

Clinton also was defended by Carl Oglesby, the president of Students for a Democratic Society, who says he knew the Democratic presidential candidate back during her days at Wellesley College. Oglesby was tied to Ayers until SDS and the Weather Underground split over methods of protesting the Vietnam War.

Click here to read The Washington Post article.

 

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