Thursday, March 13, 2008

When Will Mark Penn Shut The Fuck Up?

Total pandemonium! Dogs and cats sleeping together! Why does the Clinton campaign seem to be in constant shambles?

USA Today:

Though the campaign later argued that he hadn't said it, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief campaign strategist told reporters this morning that Sen. Barack Obama "can't win the general election.

...in the last 20 seconds or so [of his opening remarks, Mark Penn] says Obama "really can't win the general election." As you'll hear, he also says that "if Barack Obama can't win" in Pennsylvania, "how could he win the general election?" [You can listen to the audio here.]

Later, a reporter asks what he meant. Clinton campaign communications chief Howard Wolfson jumps in to say that "Mark did not say that." Then Penn says that if Obama doesn't win the Pennsylvania primary, it "raises serious questions" about whether he can win the general election.
All this on the basis of a memo on the Obama site by David Plouffe, apparently trying to be spun by the Clinton camp as derogatory or dismissive of Pennsylvania and its voters. The irony is the fact that it's the Clinton campaign that has a history of being dismissive of states or voters that they've lost, as the Plouffe memo sums up:
When we won Iowa, the Clinton campaign said it's not the number of states you win, it's "a contest for delegates." When we won a significant lead in delegates, they said it's really about which states you win. When we won South Carolina, they discounted the votes of African-Americans. When we won predominantly white, rural states like Idaho, Utah, and Nebraska, they said those didn't count because they won't be competitive in the general election. When we won in Washington State, Wisconsin, and Missouri -- general election battlegrounds where polls show Barack is a stronger candidate against John McCain -- the Clinton campaign attacked those voters as "latte-sipping" elitists.

And now that we've won more than twice as many states, the Clinton spin is that only certain states really count.

...We're ready to take on John McCain. But we also need to build operations in places like Pennsylvania, Indiana, North Carolina, and Oregon that will hold their primaries in April and May.


And from this they are claiming the Obama camp is tossing Pennsylvania to the side? Mark Penn and the Clinton campaign seems to be winning the same state over and over again: the state of Disarray.

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