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Posted at 12:21pm on Apr. 9, 2008 Bill And Hillary Split

By California Yankee

The Hillary Campaign acknowledges that, like Hillary's recently demoted strategist in chief Mark Penn, Bill Clinton "supports a free trade agreement with Colombia that she [Hillary] strenuously opposes:"

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Posted at 9:46am on Apr. 7, 2008 Blaming Penn for Hillary

Hillary is a lousy candidate.

By Mark Kilmer

Hillary's chief strategist, Mark Penn, was recently "fired" for conducting lobbying business with the Columbian government while working on her failed campaign. (He wasn't really fired, as he'll still be doing the same thing for the campaign without the title.) Chris Matthews's guy David Shuster, most known for calling the Clintons' daughter a whore, had this to say (on MSNBC's morning show) about that:

Well I think it's too little, too late. I mean I think you're absolutely right. The only reason he was hanging in this long was because he had the support of Hillary Clinton. I mean, a lot of people in the Clinton campaign were infuriated. You remember, Joe and Mika, a month ago, after a couple primary losses, when it was Mark Penn who said "oh, I wasn't in charge of Hillary's campaign," which just infuriated who were working with the campaign, who knew his crucial role.

I mean it was Mark Penn who made the case and sold it that Hillary Clinton should run as the de facto incumbent, and that proved to be a disaster, because of course that left the territory wide open to Barack Obama to claim the mantle of change in a change election. And of course when you think about all the various slogans, and campaign themes, and constantly changing message, I mean that was Mark Penn's doing, and I think you're absolutely right: this is something that might have helped Hillary Clinton a month ago. I don't think it makes any difference today.

Shuster misses the point in his pathetic attempt to defend Hillary. It's not Penn's fault that she failed to become her party's nominee. She is a lousy candidate. The only reason she was taken seriously is that she was Bill Clinton's wife, and that's frankly not enough. There was nothing Penn could have done.

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