Sabotage

Totally ganked from Nezua's blog

New York Newsday published an interesting article about Hillary Clinton this past weekend. In An early look at how Clinton deals with crisis Glenn Thrush points to what seems to be the Senator "formative" experience as a defense lawyer or, as she likes to describe herself, a fighter.

In her 2003 autobiography "Living History," Clinton writes that she initially balked at the assignment, but eventually secured a lenient plea deal for Taylor after a New York-based forensics expert she hired "cast doubt on the evidentiary value of semen and blood samples collected by the sheriff's office."

However, that account leaves out a significant aspect of her defense strategy - attempting to impugn the credibility of the victim, according to a Newsday examination of court and investigative files and interviews with witnesses, law enforcement officials and the victim.

Rodham, records show, questioned the sixth grader's honesty and claimed she had made false accusations in the past. She implied that the girl often fantasized and sought out "older men" like Taylor, according to a July 1975 affidavit signed "Hillary D. Rodham" in compact cursive.

Yes. Hillary Clinton's first experience as a defense attorney was to represent a 41 year-old man who was accused of raping a 12-year old girl with the aid of her 15 year-old boyfriend. The way she went about winning a reduced sentence for her client was to question not only the reliability of the victim's testimony. Nope. The article suggests she may have even fabricated allegations against the 12 year-old victim (that she wanted to have sex with older men) in order to do shatter the victim's credibility.

This article is important for one reason. After a whole weekend in which the Senator went on a tirade questioning the credibility of Barack Obama it is clear now that the Senator is hell bent in doing exactly what the did 30 years ago to the 12 year-old rape victim : To destroy the credibility of Obama at all cost, especially before tonight's debate.

The New York Times claims is part of a 5 point strategy that has been laid out to kill Obama's momentum :

1. This past weekend she went on an angry yet media seeking "Shame on you" tirade against Obama for flyers that appeared in Ohio highlighting her support for NAFTA and the economic flaws of her health care plan.

2. She then proceeded to mock and ridicule Obama's theme of "Change" as something that would only appeal to delusional people.

3. She incredibly goes on to compare Obama with Bush.

4. Then there was the infamous non-denial from the campaign about their involvement with a photograph of Barack Obama in traditional Somali garb used to fan the fires of his crypto-islamism.

5. All this to 'hammer in' that Hillary is the most experience, most reliable, most electable.