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A Pen(n)chant for Buffoonery
11:38PM ON
04/07/2008
BY
Ari Savitzky
Who’s that Mark Penn guy that all the TV shows and what not are discussing this week? Yeah that guy.
The one who was until recently the “chief strategist” of the Clinton campaign. The one whose firm has made 14 million dollars from HRC’s campaign so far. That Bill and Hill are furious at not because his giant global PR firm was working for Countrywide and Blackwater, but because he was personally working to build support for a free trade pact with Columbia that HRC opposes and that Bush is fast-tracking. Probably because this is just a reminder that Hillary threw her support of NAFTA under a bus bound for Ohio. The single biggest advocate for an attack-dog strategy that has pumped Hillary’s negatives and compromised the party. The one whose firm’s lobbying arm was run by John McCain’s top strategist. That guy.
Oh him? He’s just this guy. Don’t worry, he’s still totally working for the campaign though. Totally.
Obama strategizerer David Axlerod responds to the Penn “demotion”:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y193w1Y4tc]
Also, the AFP’s lede on this story is ridiculous, even for a kool-aid guzzler like myself. Peep it:
The presidential campaign of Democrat Hillary Clinton was in crisis mode Monday after her top strategist was forced to quit amid a political firestorm sparked by disclosure of his lobbying ties to Colombia.
The departure of Mark Penn rattled the campaign struggling to match the soaring clarion call for hope and change ignited by Clinton’s Democratic foe, Barack Obama, who leads her in nominating contest wins and the popular vote as they tussle for the party’s nomination.
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