Posted on 03/03/2008 6:59:15 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
"We'll deal with him later." -- Clinton co-chair Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, on Mark Penn.
"It's disgusting . . . that's just disgusting." -- Clinton supporter Hilary Rosen.
Mark Penn sleeps with the fishes. Metaphorically speaking only, of course.
On this evening's Tucker, Hillary's chief campaign strategist came in for some industrial-strength opprobrium from two prominent Clinton supporters for his attempt to flee what might be a sinking ship.
View video here.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Penn sleeps with the fishes ping to Today show list.
I have no idea what this article is about.
Sorry I clicked on it.
“Mark Penn sleeps with the fishes. Metaphorically speaking only, of course.” Maybe metaphorically for now.
“Mark Penn sleeps with the fishes. Metaphorically speaking only, of course.”
Of course? Certainly not “of course.”
Huh? I read it and don’t know neither!
I don’t know what this article is about either. Is he famous for being related to Sean Penn? Who is Mark Penn? Can’t find him on Wikipedia.
I guess you have to listen to the tape.
Which I did. And while it made things a little clearer, it was still a bunch of nothing.
It seems that Mark Penn made some comment about not being a big part of Hill’s campaign, what Hill’s other campaign people, and Tucker Carlson, think is an outrageous assertion. The notion is that Penn’s trying to distance himself from the failing Hillary campaign and he’s got a lot of nerve.
So they’ll “deal with him later”.
Maybe Mark Penn wants a job over in the Obama campaign.
The guy that got $10 M last month out of Hillary's campaign?
Sorry if it wasn’t clear, but the article did state that Mark Penn is Hillary’s chief campaign strategist and that Penn came in for criticism for his attempt to distance himself from the campaign. I quoted at length from the LA Times article by which he attempted to do that.
Thanks for the explanation.
Penn is Hillary's chief campaign strategist. Three months ago Penn was calling himself Hillary's head honcho now he's saying he was just hired to do a little consulting.
The next Vince Foster. LOL. I like that.
The Rats are jumping ship.
Yep - & Hillary - the smartest woman in the world is the one who hired him!!
From: http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/as_the_campaign_faces_a.php
Mark Penn’s Email
There are important political stories of the day, and then there are the juicy stories of the day. Here’s some of the that sweet nectar:
As the campaign faces a make-or-break moment, some high-level officials are trying to play down their role in the campaign. Penn said in an e-mail over the weekend that he had “no direct authority in the campaign,” describing himself as merely “an outside message advisor with no campaign staff reporting to me.”
“I have had no say or involvement in four key areas — the financial budget and resource allocation, political or organizational sides. Those were the responsibility of Patti Solis Doyle, Harold Ickes and Mike Henry, and they met separately on all matters relating to those areas.”
Howard Wolfson, the campaign’s communications chief, answered that it was Penn who had top responsibility for both its strategy and message. Another aide said Penn spoke to Clinton routinely about the campaign’s message and ran daily meetings on the topic.
First, giving a quote like this to a reporter while your candidate remains viable is like the NTSB issuing a report on an airplane before it’s crashed.
Second — Penn’s statement is literally accurate but macroscopically misleading. He has no direct reports, but he has something worth 700 of them: Hillary’s cell phone number and e-mail, and permission to call her whenever he wants. Also: Bill’s cell phone and e-mail.
Third, — Penn’s formal title is “chief strategist.”
Fourth, in the Clinton campaign, the message drove the strategy, which drove the organizational priorities. Why didn’t Clinton compete in Minnesota, allowing Obama to earn 20+ extra delegates there? It wasn’t because they tried... it was because they decided, strategically, that they’d rather spend money elsewhere. That was a decision that Penn was both privy to and helped to make.
Fifth, well — enough piling on. Penn is talented, terribly smart guy who pays close attention to optics — though too often, perhaps, not to his own.
He's a closet aquasexual...........
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