And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -- if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.'
- 1984, George Orwell

You can bet that Hillary Clinton paid attention to all the mistakes made during John Kerry's failed Presidential run. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony, confirmed her intention to run in 2008. We can look forward to four years of watching Hillary pretending to moderate her fairly Liberal positions on the issues enough to gather up some of those red-state votes for herself. It would be amusing to watch, were it not for the near certainty of "mainstream" media cooperation. Taking a page right out of George Orwell's 1984, the media will go right along with the pretense that her new positions on various issues have always been her positions.

Hillary Clinton's entire career can be understood through examining her college experience. Hillary interned with lawyer Robert Treuhaft, who worked for the Communist Party USA. She studied law at Yale, under Professor Thomas I. Emerson, another CPUSA member known as "Tommy the Commie." Hillary met with and wrote her senior thesis about radical organiser Saul Alinsky, a Marxist who counseled potential agitators to work their way into power from within the system, then use that power to bring it down.

Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" included such admonitions as, "Make the enemy live up to his/her own book of rules. You can kill them with this. They can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity." What better explanation of the Democratic vilification of Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) could be found? Lott was attacked for his feel-good praise of 100-year-old Senator Strom Thurmond, once a Segregationist before eschewing discrimination. His fellow Republicans forced him to step down from his position as majority leader. Meanwhile, the same Democrats continue to ignore the presence in the Senate of former KKK Kleagle Robert Byrd (D-WV). "The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength" can be seen in action as Democrats accuse Republicans of such things as plotting to bring back the draft or wanting to steal Grandma's Social Security check. This puts them on the defensive against phantom charges with no basis in fact, which are almost impossible to refute. Another rule, "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it," can be seen in all the personal attacks made by Liberal Democrats on President Bush and the members of his administration. Most recently, this tactic appeared during the confirmation "hearings" for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was defamed and maligned throughout the proceedings.

Hillary Clinton's association with radical causes continued, though on a more subdued note. Her plan for socialised medicine in America, caricatured as "Hillarycare," was widely considered a contributing factor in the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994. Hillary Clinton introduced keynote speaker Walter Cronkite at a gathering of the World Federalist Association in 1999. The WFA is the advocacy group for world government by the United Nations that unsuccessfully sued the US in 1986, arguing that Article VI of the Constitution should make the UN Charter the "supreme law of the land." No law can possibly be placed above the Constitution of the United States, by definition the governing document of the country. Were Clinton to get into office, however, those who advocate surrendering American sovereignty to the corrupt bureaucracy of the United Nations would gain a powerful ally.

We can see the "chameleon" mentality at work in Senator Clinton's shifting positions as she lays the groundwork now for her 2008 campaign. One reason Kerry lost was that he waited too long to shift his positions towards the right. Hillary won't make that mistake; she's starting already... although she risks losing her Liberal base by doing so. She knows, however, that there are far more moderate Democrats and middle-of-the-road voters than Liberals, and it's the votes that count.

Hillary has moved far to the right on illegal immigration -- to the right of President Bush, in fact. In an interview on WABC radio, she stated, "I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants." She attacked Bush for not tightening the borders enough to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country. However, she co-sponsored bill S. 2381 with Ted Kennedy, the "Safe, Orderly, Legal Visas and Enforcement Act of 2004." The bill included an amnesty that would have granted Legal Permanent Resident status to illegal aliens (and their spouses and minor children) who have lived in the US for at least 5 years, and worked for an aggregate of 2 years. This would have included just about every illegal immigrant currently living in the US. She also cosponsored S. 1545, the DREAM Act of 2003. The bill would have granted in-state tuition and amnesty to illegal aliens under the age of 21 who had lived in America for five years and were currently in 7th grade or above. The Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act of 2003 (S. 1645) also listed Hillary as a cosponsor. The bill would have granted amnesty to illegal immigrants who had 100 days of agricultural employment in the 18-month period that ended on 31 August 2003. To her credit, she did cosponsor S. 1749, the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2001, which would have created an alien tracking and identification system. However, her record can hardly be summed up as being "adamantly against illegal immigrants."

Hillary's rightward shuffle can also be seen in her position on abortion. While addressing a group of abortion supporters this week, Hillary spoke of finding "common ground" with foes of abortion, referring to it as a "sad, even tragic choice." She told the crowd, "I for one respect those who believe with all their heart and conscience that there are no circumstances under which abortion should be available." In fact, Hillary Clinton enjoys a 100% rating from NARAL, the pro-abortion group, which indicates the percentage of her votes on key issues that match the organisation's views. On 22 Jan 2000, she told the New York Times, "I am and always have been pro-choice, and that is not a right any of should take for granted. There are a number of forces at work in our society that would try to turn back the clock and undermine a woman’s right to chose, and [we] must remain vigilant."

Her history of strong support for abortion contrasts starkly with her position on religion and faith-based initiatives. The night before President Bush's second inauguration, Hillary spoke at a fund-raising dinner for the National TenPoint Leadership Foundation and the Ella J. Baker House, organisations that embrace faith-based initiatives. According to the Boston Globe, Hillary said, "There is no contradiction between support for faith-based initiatives and upholding our constitutional principles." Addressing a crowd of more than 500, including many religious leaders, she invoked God more than half a dozen times, at one point declaring, "I've always been a praying person." Hillary said there must be room for religious people to "live out their faith in the public square." However, in 1993 (according to FrontPage Magazine), she lobbied the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to create a new category of crime, "religious harassment." It would have led to disciplinary action for anyone of management level who wore a cross or yarmulke, or kept a Bible in plain sight at work. Where was she in 2002, when the Yonkers district of New York banned Christmas and Hannukah from its schools? Where was she when New York City banned nativity scenes in 2003? One would expect the state's Senator to have something to say, especially when she purports to have such strong religious feelings and has "always been a praying person."

What does she pray for? That no one notices her positions shifting as she makes her play for the "gullible, ignorant red-stater" vote in 2008? Well, that's one prayer that's going to go unanswered.