Quote Originally Posted by Squirt View Post
Actually they aren't private they are public and housed in the Mudd Library at Princeton for anyone to see. Currently online they have 449 thesis's available for sale. Michelle Obama's was one of them until recently.

And for a candidate who's running on the premise that words mean everything I'd think a 96 page thesis the woman he married, and who speaks for him to arenas full of thousands of people, matters.

BTW there are thesis there from the 60's and beyond. For you to say that what people write and think in the past doesn't matter I think is off mark.
Okay, I'm wrong about them being private. I'm not above admitting I'm wrong. And yeah, it is odd they would stifle them from the public. What are their reasons? I have no idea and I'm not even going to try and guess.

I never said that what people have written and thought in the past didn't matter. I think we can learn a lot about our history and help shape our future by reading things written in the past. However, what I am saying is that you cannot take something that had been written 23 years ago, take it out of context and try to compare it to what a person thinks and feels today. She may very well think and feel the same way, I'm not arguing that fact, but until you hear it from her very mouth today then you have no right to point to that document and say she is the same person today as she was then on the basis of that document alone. Not to mention, you are taking those opinions and placing them against a backdrop of a modern time, which might make her opinions seem much more harsh by today's standards then they were in a much more racial intolerant time.

That's like taking the writings of a gay person from the 50's who talked about not wanting to come out for fear of police harassment and imprisonment and saying that same person today must still have those feelings and that they are unfounded because that does not happen today. It was a different time and people were treated differently then.