Hillary Clinton is the new Tonya Harding

[pstans]

It seems Clinton's plan is to be the new Tonya Harding. Her only strategy will be to go for Obama's knees and make sure Barack is bloodied at the end of the race...

From the Nation...

What is getting started is an edgier, rougher Democratic presidential race. And don't think that the New York senator will pull any punches.

If the Clinton campaign has learned anything from the two-week campaign that preceded the Ohio and Texas votes, it is that Hillary Clinton will not win unless Barack Obama loses. The senator from Illinois must be damaged, badly, or so the theory goes, in order for the senator from New York to grab the Democratic nomination from his clutches. Make no mistake: The candidate and her Clintonistas have sought to inflict that damage.

This campaign moves so fast that it is easy to forget everything that happens in a two-week timespan. But, since Clinton lost Wisconsin's February 19 primary, the hits really have kept coming. There was "Barack stole lines from Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick" hit. There was the "Barack stole a page from Karl Rove when he sent out negative mailings" hit. There was the "Barack dresses like a Muslim" hit. There was the "Barack's campaign told the Canadians one thing about trade and Ohio another thing" hit. There was the "Barack's not the guy you want answering the phone in the White House" hit. There was even the "Barack's defiling the memory of Ann Richards because she would have wanted Hillary to have a clean shot at the nomination" hit. And always, always, always, there was the steady drumbeat from candidate Clinton that: ""I have a lifetime of experience I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech (against authorizing President Bush to attack Iraq) he made in 2002."

Now, the strategy has been sufficiently-if-not-completely validated.

[superkia]

1. What a great comparison! NT

[thunder rising]

3. Yes it is!!!

[superkia]

7. The sad thing is, there was nothing the media saw more...

important back then and we all know all about it. What a country!

[HooptieWagon]

27. Yes! Tonya Harding - that's it!!!

Every guys nightmare of an unhinged, vengeful ex...

[Stephanie]

51. Every woman's nightmare!

It was Nancy Kerrigan who got whacked after all.

*edited thanks to timely correction

[Zhade]

60. Nancy Kerrigan.

Just for the record.

[superkia]

70. My nightmare would involve Lorena Bobbit...ouch!

[NC_Nurse]

2. Ha! Does that mean she'll be in washed up celeb boxing some day too?

[JVS]

4. Gilooly

[MercutioATC]

20. That's funny all by itself

[Fredda Weinberg]

5. You can't handle the truth n/t

[muntrv]

6. You mean Hillary is throwing hubcaps at Bill, like Tonya did to her ex?

[OzarkDem]

8. What idiots

those folks at the Nation have gone off the deep end.

No wonder none of them had the guts to put their name on that piece of crap.

[pstans]

15. Written by John Nichols

[jlpohio69]

9. Obama damaged himself this week...

The whole "NAFTA-gate" was a bit of a blunder on his part. This was news for the two days prior to the vote, and I believe it made people question his honesty.

[Kittycat]

13. That story was discredited.

And before you try to spin it some more... Keep in mind this is a democrat we're talking about.

[casus belli]

54. I don't know whether people are really just clueless...

or if they are intentionally continuing on with the attack despite it being discredited and APOLOGIZED FOR by the Canadian Embassy. It's really starting to get silly.

[donheld]

68. Please do not try to distract these fools with facts

Facts are so distracting.

[Tellurian]

33. It sure did.. Thats Chicago politics for ya! Then again, it all begins here..

“Barack Obama and his Slumlord Patron”

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/353829,CST-NWS-rez23... .

From the article:

“For more than five weeks during the brutal winter of 1997, tenants shivered without heat in a government-subsidized apartment building on Chicago’s South Side.

It was just four years after the landlords — Antoin “Tony” Rezko and his partner Daniel Mahru — had rehabbed the 31-unit building in Englewood with a loan from Chicago taxpayers.”

“”Their buildings were falling apart,” said a former city official. “They just didn’t pay attention to the condition of these buildings.”

Eleven of Rezko’s buildings were in Obama’s state Senate district.”

“Obama role unclear:
Just what legal work — and how much — Obama did on those deals is unknown. His campaign staff acknowledges he worked on some of them. But the Rezmar-related work amounted to just five hours over the six years it said Obama was affiliated with the law firm, the staff said in an e-mail in February.”

———

The “5 hour” number is a legal obfuscation by the Obama campaign meant to confuse his real involvement as a lawyer in multiple Rezko Slum-tenement land deals.

There is probably one specific deal that occurred were Obama billed Rezko for only 5 hours of work. So when asked how much work Obama did for Rezko, the Obama campaigns changes the question from how much work did you do EVER, and instead answers how much work they did on ONE SPECIFIC DEAL.

In the case I referenced earlier from 1994, Obama represented Woodlawn, who was a partner with Rezko in this deal. Woodlawn was supposedly a non-profit organization that teamed up with the For Profit Rezko to build/rehab/manage these slum tenements.

For all intents and purposes Woodlawn and Rezko are one in the same. But to push these corrupt land deals through a person like Rezko needs to create the ILLUSION of Public Service by partnering with a shell organization like Woodlawn.

And In order to create the ILLUSION OF PUBLIC SERVICE Obama decides that it will be Woodlawn, and not Rezko, who fights the tenants and the city in Court. And, obviously, it is the better legal strategy to claim that your enterprise in NON-PROFIT, for the public good, etc.

But Rezko and Obama knew what they were doing. And they knew that when it came time to fight for Rezko’s Personal interests against the people he was letting freeze, it was better to show the face of the NON-PROFIT in court.

The entire point of bringing in a “non-profit” like woodlawn is to HIDE who is really responsible.

Obama is trying to hide behind Woodlawn. How much work did he do for Woodlawn(subsitute:Rezko)?

.. so why hasn't Obama turned over his State legislative records? hmm?

[Zhade]

58. NAFTA-GATE WAS A LIE. THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT CONFIRMED IT NEVER HAPPENED.

Yet here you are, lying about it.

[Sir Jeffrey]

10. Her willingness to stay in a race that she has already lost...

reminds me more of Mike Huckabee than anyone else.

[truedelphi]

22. Except that Mike Huckabee did not suddenly come into 54 million dollars

And I bet he has his recent tax statements to release too.

[Stephanie]

55. Reminds me more of Fred Thompson.

Old and in the way. Get off the stage.

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. A round of hipster "it's the new...." game!

[Dogmudgeon]

42. DU is the new Seventh Grade!

How 'bout that?

All we need are macros to type out "nimrod" and "douchebag".

--p!

[BootinUp]

12. THis is a sick post. nt

[tabasco]

14. Clinton took it to the gutter and unfortunately

Obama will have to get in there and go on the attack.

[Cha]

53. It'd be so cool if Obama could

pick hilary up outta the gutter and bring her 1/2 way up to where he is because her toxic attacks weren't working. Back to reality..

All Obama has to do is get the facts out about hilary..is that going in the gutter?

[Not the Only One]

16. Because it works, sadly

People respond to fear. Advertisers have known this for ages.

[aquart]

17. How utterly, crassly revolting.

As always, so much entitlement from the Obama camp.

[Zhade]

59. HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh man, that's rich.

I remember all the "Clinton is due!" nonsense LAST YEAR about her being "the anointed one". And now you say Obama people have a sense of entitlement? LOL!

Such hypocrisy.

[HooptieWagon]

64. "How utterly, crassly revolting."

You're right, Tonya is probably pretty pissed Hellary is being compared to her...

[nebula]

18. Shillary will be washed up and end up in a trailer park.

after all is said and done.

[aquart]

19. Ick ugh pftui!

Obama ugliness never ends, never finds its bottom. Always sinking lower. Disgusting.

[HooptieWagon]

30. Yes, must keep digging until reach "Level Clinton"

[nebula]

48. Ain't that the truth

[AngryAmish]

41. When do you think she hits someone with a hubcap?

[HooptieWagon]

52. She says she hasn't - as far as I know...

[Zhade]

61. She's thrown a few verbal ones, like the "your kids will die if Obama wins" meme.

NT!

[Debi]

21. Snark - K&R Pstans n/t

[ClayZ]

23. BINGO! K and R

[rug]

24. Does that make Obama Nancy Kerrigan?

[bridgit]

31. Stop being mean to Ms. Kerrigan!!

[tishaLA]

37. LOL. I love that picture

Whenever I want to express mock-exasperation to my friends, I do a mock-Kerrigan scream of "Whhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyy???"

[elehhhhna]

25. oh no they di'n't!

LMAO

[AZBlue]

26. I can't believe no one's posted this yet

[Mooney]

29. And I can't believe

nobody's started using "Hillary W. Clinton" as a meme yet.

[HooptieWagon]

32. "Wahhh, I want a do-over!"

[JackORoses]

38. oh it's been done

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

I had that same pic.

but got locked away in the museum.

Great minds and all...

[AZBlue]

44. ...

[Dogmudgeon]

40. It has been posted, a couple of times. Check the past pages.

If you really want to slander someone, you need to at least be able to click on a link or two.

--p!

[LisaL]

28. How low can you go?

[David Zephyr]

34. Tonya Harding. Hillary Clinton. Sore losers who refuse to bow out.

Not a bad comparison at all.

[RememberWellstone]

35. Obama is Willy Wonka

and his Oompas Loompas whine bitch and moan....run the race and quit crying. Lead, follow or get the hell out of Hill's way.

[pstans]

39. I doubt Wellstone would be for Clinton's DLC stances

[RememberWellstone]

45. You're channeling now?

Paul would be with the fighter of the campaign, that would be no doubt. I believe he would have a hell of a time going for either the kid or the Lady...he was too independant but did like the Clintons.

[boppers]

63. I respectfully request that you look into the history of Oompa Loopas.

You're on fairly thin ice here, and may not know it.

[boppers]

65. BTW, I wasn't joking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oompa-Loompa

'In fiction, the Oompa-Loompas were first featured in Roald Dahl's 1964 children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The original book first portrayed Oompa-Loompas as black pygmies from "the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had been before". After the book's U.S. release, complaints of racism caused Dahl to rewrite the characters as dwarves with "golden-brown hair" and "rosy-white" skin.'

[HooptieWagon]

36. k

[progdog]

43. Funniest thread I've seen all day. n/t

[jgraz]

46. Tonya was better at her chosen profession

If Tonya skated the way Hillary campaigns, she'd fall on her ass after a few steps on the ice and then whine to the judges that she still deserves the gold medal because more 60-year-old women clapped for her.

[smalll]

47. Don't mind that too much. Tonya was a "beer skater" not a "wine skater" -- and if she's a Dem,

she's a Dunkin Donuts Democrat, not a latte liberal!

[Zhade]

62. "latte liberal"? You're quoting Rush Limbaugh now?

Well, you are a Clinton supporter, it makes sense...

[Beacool]

49. Poor little Obama, Hillary is mean to him!!!!

I guess she's supposed to roll over and let him take the job without a fight? Geez, I thought we were having an election, not a coronation..........

[davidinalameda]

66. a hillary supporter talking about a coronation?

wasn't this supposed to be HER coronation?

[Stephanie]

50. The thread title is the most apt summation to date.

Say no more.

[nomorewhopper]

56. kicking

[New Dawn]

57. K&R !

[SoCalDem]

67. It's the LACES... the LACES.. it's not her fault

[Seabiscuit]

69. What a disgusting, grotesque distortion. Yellow journalism at its worst.

Clinton had absolutlely nothing to do with the photo of Barack in Africa wearing native garb. And neither she nor any of her campaign people ever said "Barack dresses like a Muslim". Talk about a bold faced lie.

Barack DID steal lines from Deval Patrick, without attribution. That's the truth, and he's admitted it. There's nothing "negative" about that, beyond Barack's own bad behavior. Talk about warped projection.

Her 3 a.m. ad did NOT say "Barack's not the guy you want answering the phone in the White House". It simply promoted her and didn't mention anyone else either by name or by implication. It was almost a takeoff on Ghostbusters: "Who ya gonna call"? It was almost humorous. Talk about paranoia.

And Hillary didn't slam Barack for "negative mailings". She slammed him for the pack of disgusting lies about her health care plan contained in his mailings, which he has continued to use long after being exposed as lies, a practice which IS positively Rovian. Talk about dirty politicking.

I haven't heard of the Ann Richards thing, but in view of the above, that quote is undoubtedly a pathetic distortion as well.