Clintons Compare Obama To…Ken Starr?

At this point in the race, is it really a good idea for the Clintons to be dredging up that series of nightmares?

On Sen. Barack Obama’s new pledge to run a more aggressive campaign against Sen. Hillary Clinton — asking what her national security credentials are, pushing her to release her tax returns — Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson just said on a conference call with reporters: “I for one do not find that imitating Ken Starr is a way to win a Democratic primary election for president.”

The Clintons are probably thinking that their liberal base hates Ken Starr as much as they hate, say, Karl Rove. But the truth is that liberals hated Ken Starr only insomuch as his independent counsel was inconvenient for their political star of the moment. Which was, back then, Bill Clinton.
But now the liberal base has a new star, vapid as he is, so invoking Starr only reminds Democrats of the sleazy side of Bill’s administration while foreshadowing what could come under Hillary.
Not really a good idea.

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  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Somehow I doubt that the former Clinton allies in the press are going to treat Obama as a big mean bully like they did with Ken Starr.

    Without unanimity in the press that kind of demonization isn’t going to work for them.

  • Anyone Butclinton

    Where’s Bill when you need him?

    It’s 3 a.m. on 9/11/09 and the red phone rings. A groggy but nonetheless shrill voice answers the phone and listens to the frantic assessment by national security advisor, Nancy Pelosi. Angry at being ‘the first person to get the question’ she asks where the heck is Pakajeekoshickostan and what’s that foreign leader’s name…um…um…Med-Med-something? .Then, using all of her experience over the last 35 years, she hands the phone over and says “Bill, this one’s for you” but no one grabs the phone. “Where’s Bill?”. Chief of staff, Harry Reid, is clueless (as always) but reflexively blames the Republicans for the missing co-president. “I checked Monica’s place and he had just left but didn’t say where he was going next, just muttered something about not being able to find ‘some trailer trash’ when you need to”. So I called Jennifer but she didn’t answer. He’s apparently removed the GPS device that you personally superglued to his private parts and remember we’ve sworn Secret Service to never reveal where Bill goes after hours.

    “Well, this is a fine mess the Republicans must have gotten us into”. “I knew Rush Limbaugh would destroy this country by advising his listeners on who to vote for.” “We need a strategy! Call an emergency United Nations meeting to see which American conservative group we can blame for this crisis and by all means withdraw the US from this current situation…and don’t forget to mention something about a right wing conspiracy”

    A fine mess indeed!

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    The same thing that Ken Starr did, he’s getting in the Clinton’s way. That’s all it takes for them to demonize someone.

    Thanks for the easy question.

  • Angellight

    Obama Returned Rezko Money Why Won’t Hillary Return Money to IPA Company acused of sexually harrasing women?

    Sen. Hillary Clinton has declined to return $170,000 in campaign contributions from individuals at a company accused of widespread sexual harassment, and whose CEO is a disbarred lawyer with a criminal record, federal campaign records show.
    The federal government has accused the Illinois management consulting firm, International Profit Associates, or IPA, of a brazen pattern of sexual harassment including “sexual assaults,” “degrading anti-female language” and “obscene suggestions.”
    In a 2001 lawsuit full of lurid details, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims that 103 women employees at IPA were victimized for years. The civil case is ongoing, and IPA vigorously denies the allegations.

    “This is by far, hands down, the worst case I’ve ever experienced,” said Diane Smason, one of the EEOC lawyers handling the lawsuit. “Every woman there experienced sex harassment, they were part of a hostile work environment of sex harassment. And this occurred from the top down.”

    Sen. Clinton’s spokesman, Howard Wolfson, told NBC News in a statement that the senator decided to keep the funds because the lawsuit is “ongoing” and because none of the sexual harassment allegations has been proven in court.
    “With regard to the pending harassment suit, as a general matter, the campaign assesses findings of fact in deciding whether to return contributions,” Wolfson said.
    From NBC’s Lisa Myers and Jim Popkin

    This Country must stand for something. We cannot let anyone take our Democracy from us be it the Clintons or anyone else. They must follow the Rules and not change game in middle. They know this. They cannot be allowed to Cheat the System for their own aggrandisement.

    As for her superior foreign experience, Hillary did not think it important enough to read the National Intelligence Report and she voted Yes on a Stupid War/Mistate instead of having the intelligence and Judgment to say No, as other Senators did, and stated at the time, we must not invade Iraq who did not bomb us on 911 but instead finish the job in Afghanistan. This makes her qualifying inelligible for the top job as commander-in-chief. Just because she surronds herself with a bunch of generals does not make her qualified or anyone else. They love to stage phony events for the perception to make us think something that is not, is. Masters of Spin & Hype!

    Those of us who care for our Democracy must begin to call CNN, MSNBC, NBC, etc. and ask them to begin to Vet Hillary Clinton and ask the questions they should be asking like why she has not returned the money back to IPA, and about their Camp contacting Canda first in the Naftagate controvery, and to stop the unfair and uneven reporting of just Obama. It is an illusion that the press has been soft on her. They as you know are the Masters of Spin.

  • AntiConservative

    If Ken Starr didn’t exist 9/11 would never have happened. President Bill Clinton would have been able to do his job. But no, motherfucking Ken Starr had him answering questions that SHOULD have been kept between Bill and Hillary and their marriage counselor, if need be. Bad things should happen to him. Preferably involving being bled dry and having his corpse raped and infused with the semen of necrophiliacs and his body being donated to a dog food factory (protein enriched).

  • Jack Augsbury

    The history that the Clintons carry around like a bad smell is the reason why I truly hope the Clinton era is at an end.

  • Tuna

    Well, you can tell a lot about people by their fears–Democrats are scared to death of special prosecutors. The fact that Hillary Clinton’s campaign brain is calling Obama Star-like is more instinctinve than anything else. Don’t waste time looking for the logic.

  • http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

    Anticonservative,

    A wise man would hesitate to advocate lynching, as turnabout would likely be lethal. But if you really feel the need to suck start that pistol, go right ahead.

  • AntiConservative

    I can see why Ken Starr should be lynched, he deserves it, but what the fuck did Obama ever do to deserve to be compared to such a soulless daemon shitstain of human life?

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