Wall St Journal article on Clinton campaign

[NYMomof2]

<p>You shared a bed with Mark Penn, Donna? That’s a story I would actually pay to hear!</p>

[teriwtt]

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You shared a bed with Mark Penn, Donna? That’s a story I would actually pay to hear!

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<p>I’ll bet a lot of magazines would, too.</p>

[NYMomof2]

<p>I just read that Obama backed Lieberman up into a corner today in the Senate and engaged in a heated exchange, presumably to discuss Lieberman’s repeated public criticism of Obama. I can’t use the link, but the description can be found at Talking Points Memo.</p>

[tega]

<p>Lieberman is an independent, he can do whatever he wants. He does not owe the party anything. The Democratic Party tried to oust from his Senate seat in 2006, which they failed miserably.</p>

[tokenadult]

<p>Here’s a link to an AP article looking back at the campaign: </p>

<p>[The</a> Associated Press: Thirst for change trumped Clinton’s experience](<a href=“http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jf9LlVgALh_3XOGhDI2yo0aU-seQD913CGBG0]The”>http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jf9LlVgALh_3XOGhDI2yo0aU-seQD913CGBG0)</p>

[SouthJerseyChessMom]

<p>“Here’s a heart-warming piece that I haven’t heard getting air-time to any large degree. Perhaps that’s the way Sen. Obama wants it. IMO, this is who Sen. Obama is.”</p>

<p>CelticClan thanks for posting this “insiders” view of the arena last night in Minn. As the camera scanned the audience, I noticed a mixture of responses, and think this article explains why.</p>

[k_amp_s]

<p>Hillary has no one but herself to blame for running/managing a bad campaign (so much for “experience”).</p>

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a) a stacked DNC rules committee nullifying huge early wins in major states of Michigan and Florida. The real tally at that point was Obama: IA, SC versus Clinton: NH, NV, MI, FL. The storyline was that Obama had already clinched the nomination.

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<p>Uhh, you (like Hillary and her supporters) totally overlook the fact that Hillary AGREED at the onset that Mich and FL should not count. Once again, the rules (and her word) don’t apply to Hillary (plus, how is the vote even legitimate – since many voter didn’t even bother to vote or couldn’t vote for Obama?).</p>

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b) a delegate selection process that awards disproportionate degelegates to districts voting Democratic in the last election. Because Democrats have had such little appeal, the only districts getting bonus degates were heavily African American districts. It is essentially impossible mathematically for the Democratic Party, under its current rules, to nominate anyone but a black candidate. Winning suburban and rural counties is penalized under the nominating rules. Of course, the irony here is that it is impossible to win national elections without appeal in these suburban and rural counties.

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<p>Harold Ickes played a major role in setting up that system. Oh, the irony.</p>

<p>I guess it’s Obama’s fault for Hillary listening to Penn and not Ickes.</p>

[DonnaL]

<p>I ain’t talking! It was 37 years ago! I was 16 years old! I only thought about it again after Mark Penn’s name started appearing in the news, and I saw his picture, and realized that he looks pretty much exactly the same.</p>

[Inthebiz]

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a stacked DNC rules committee"</p>

<p>Could you explain what you mean by that? Who were the Clinton and Obama supporters on the committee at the time it decided (last year) that MI and FL wouldn’t count?

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<p>The DNC was stacked . . . with Clintonites! (Ahh, the irony!)</p>

<p>Hillary, herself, and through her minions, argued loudly that Michigan and Florida shouldn’t count because they broke the rules (although, interestingly, Hillary was the only Dem who did not pull her name off the ballot in Michigan) and continued that argument until she desperately needed Michigan and Florida. </p>

<p>I think she (and/or her advisors) used a very poor strategy all along and relied on the fact Super Tuesday would give her the win. When it didn’t, she was out of money and out of luck.</p>

<p>Obama ran a great campaign - smart strategy, great control from top to bottom, beginning to finish. Those are things I’d like to see in the White House.</p>