two thoughts...

1.. when hillary says that she learned from republican attacks on them in the 90's, what she means is that she learned how to parrot those attacks. her insinuating that rezko is
anything more than a small-fry problem with no real stain on obama is right out of the whitewater playbook, the subtle racial attacks are straight up southern (or shall we say archie bunker) strategy. her red-phone gambit is straight up content free fear mongering. she's definitely learned well.

2. i've heard it said that 'the establishment' would rather lose a race but maintain control of the party than vice versa. HRC more strident and republican-eque attacks on obama are a perfect example of that. if she can't be president then
she'd rather that obama (the dems) lose the general than allow the grassroots movement that he's built to supplant the establishment's hold on the democratic party. its utterly cynical power-grabbing and deserves condemnation from all quarters.