Posted on 08/25/2008 10:48:48 AM PDT by HAL9000
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In May 2006, Clinton herself had interviewed another experienced campaign consultant, Steve Hildebrand, but had turned him down. The time was not right. And she had plenty of time. But it would prove to be a costly mistake. A few months later, Steve Hildebrand would play a key role in persuading Barack Obama to run for president.Hillary still was not worried. She would put together a great campaign team, a Dream Team. It did not turn out that way. Happy families are alike, Leo Tolstoy famously wrote. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The Hillary Clinton campaign was an unhappy family.
I was told by Clinton campaign staffers that Mike Henry, the deputy campaign manager, stalked Clinton headquarters in Ballston, Va., with a baseball bat in his hand.
I was told that Patti Solis Doyle stayed in her office watching soap operas and refused to return the phone calls of governors, members of Congress and Bill Clinton.
I was told that there were suspicions that Mark Penn, the campaigns pollster and chief strategist, cooked the books in presenting his polling results. (All denied the accusations.) It was that kind of campaign.
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Clinton HQ is right in my neighborhood, often I’ve walked my dog in the evenings and looked up, wondering what soap operatics were going on in that grey block of a building.
“The Convention is not yet over; the nomination not yet voted upon.
Hard to say that shes been outsmarted quite yet...”
Until I see the head separated from the body, taken out and ground down into pulp and fed to sharks (and even then I give her a fighting chance) she is going to be in this race.
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