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Former Hillary Campaign Manager Considering Working For Obama
Patti Solis Doyle, one of the closest of Hillary confidantes, is informally discussing the possibility of working for Obama in the general election. Already.
That the woman who actually coined the expression "Hillaryland" would be discussing this at this juncture -- when the official position of the Hillary campaign is that this thing is far from over -- is pretty striking.
Indeed, here's what Hillary spokesperson Howard Wolfson had to say when asked about this:
"I intend to be working in the general election for Sen. Clinton," said Wolfson. "I find any other speculation offensive."
Ouch.
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Isn't she also considering writing a book about the campaign?
And isn't Woolfson considering that as well, even though he has vehemently denied it?
Face it, you 17 million Hillary voters. Even the campaign think it's over. And, it is. OVER.
May 19, 2008 2:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's getting embarrassing.
May 19, 2008 2:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
One of these days there all going to be in some meeting and Mark Penn will excuse himself to go to the bathroom. Then out the window they'll see him run to his car and peel away.
May 19, 2008 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol. I would love to see the picture of Penn scooting to his car.
May 19, 2008 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just got busted wasting time at work on the Intertubes. Couldn't help laughing at the thought of the Pennster speeding off in his car, after cutting his firm a $million check for "consulting fees". Gotta cash that baby while there's still money in the account!
May 19, 2008 5:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary takes the oath of office, to fulfill Howard Wolfson's dream.
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/0/5/2/obama-inauguration-lk0424d.jpg
May 19, 2008 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol. thanks. wouldn't be surprised it if happens.
May 19, 2008 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
... one of the closest of Hillary confidantes ...
In this case, don't know that I'd put this on my vita, Patti ...
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Obama/Olbermann '08!
May 19, 2008 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS IS EXCELLENT!! NEWS FOR HILLARY!!
HILLMENTUM!!™
idiotic© 2007
May 19, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Merely a flesh wound!
May 19, 2008 3:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL! An apt analogy!
May 19, 2008 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Patti's been with Hillary since 1992. I guess she to has been drinking the kool-aid.
May 19, 2008 3:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wait, so when Obama wins the nomination, (tommorrow) and jumping to July and August the main heat of this general election between McCain and Obama you mean to tell me far off in the distance will be Hillary still there campaigning with her cronies Mcauliffe and Wolfsen backing her?
May 19, 2008 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am afraid that is exactly what that means. She is NEVER going away.
May 20, 2008 3:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Memo to Obama campaign: In case Mark Penn wanted to work for you, don't let him. Not even if he was paying you money.
Wasn't Patti Solis Doyle blamed by some other Clintonies for seriously mismanaging the Hillary campaign?
May 19, 2008 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
From the reptile mouth of James Carville:
"Patti Solis Doyle is a Judas for having abandoned the campaign that fired her."
May 19, 2008 3:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
And Obama would want one of the factors and one of the key people on team Clinton who has been widely regarded as in over her head and a factor that drove the Clinton into the ditch on his team why exactly?
May 19, 2008 3:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Watching her stump speech on CNN.
She is telling you to get ready for $5 gallon gas while Oilbama does nothing.
Oilbama is much ado about nothing.
Business as usual.
May 19, 2008 3:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Giving billions to the oil companies in fake "tax holiday" gimmicks is doing worse than nothing. It is an insult.
May 19, 2008 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
hahaha, she's "telling us to get ready."
Thanks for the heads up, former Presidential candidate Clinton.
May 19, 2008 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary who?
May 19, 2008 3:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
She was Hillary's campaign manager but was booted. That should raise huge red flags, given the degree to which Hillary puts loyalty ahead of competence when it comes to her advisors.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200802u/patti-solis-doyle
May 19, 2008 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Sure, Patti, we can absolutely us you.
"Now, here are some yard signs, here are some stakes, and here's a hammer.
"Welcome aboard!"
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Obama/Olbermann '08!
May 19, 2008 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dammit! ^"use", not "us"^
May 19, 2008 3:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's a trap.
May 19, 2008 3:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you, Admiral Ackbar.
May 19, 2008 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Haven't you seen "The Departed"! ;-)
May 19, 2008 3:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, my cultural literacy is strictly limited to movies and shows from the 60's and 70's.
May 19, 2008 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary has not done a damn thing to reduce gas and oil prices. She just pulled on her Pandersuit to dupe all those Goatshite like imbeciles.
May 19, 2008 3:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
And Howard Wolfson's offended?!?
He should be freakin' flattered!
But, please God, Axelrod, NO!
May 19, 2008 3:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
For individuals working for or supporting HRC's campaign in any form, any suggestion that she will not be Democratic nominee for President is patently offensive. :)
They're just full of outrage these days, aren't they?
May 19, 2008 4:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Outrage.
Fecal matter.
I say tomayto, you say tomahto!
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Obama/Byrd '08!
May 19, 2008 10:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
test
May 19, 2008 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
There we go. Site was giving me guff. Anyway, here's something fun I just saw:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/19/superdelegates-turned-dow_n_102450.html
Haim Saban, Clinton supporter and billionaire, offered $1 million to Young Democrats of America for their two superdelegates' support just before NC and Indiana.
May 19, 2008 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't know much about her, other than she was regularly trashed for mismanaging Hillary's campaign -- especially on the money side -- and was considered by some to be a prima donna.
She also may have other motivations for doing this considering that she was unceremoniously booted out of Hillaryland.
That said, I don't have a problem with her working for the Obama campaign per se, so long as she is placed in a position that makes use of her talents, whatever they happen to be, and minimizes her weaknesses.
The concept that is really ludicrous and outrageous is the idea even being mentioned of the hack Wolfson working for Obama. Plouffe and Axelrod ought to make sure they stay 500 miles away from him and from the other pathological liars and scum of the earth purveyors of Karl Rove-style cynical and destructive politics: Penn, McAuliffe, Davis, etc.
But as for other Clinton staffers, I don't see an inherent problem as long as the fit is right.
May 19, 2008 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I suspect that Patti Solis Doyle is a better person than all those she was surrounded with. If you did not fit in with that cluster of snakes, I think that is a point in your favor.
Keep in mind, most of the dirty campaigning from the Clinton camp came after Ms.Doyle was no longer with them. She may have been the one person with class that was actually repressing the worse impulses of the other key players.
May 19, 2008 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!
May 19, 2008 3:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please tell me the Obama campaign isn't actually going to HIRE her in any real capacity... Doyle is the one who managed to blow $30 million in Clinton's cakewalk NY senate re-election.
May 19, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
why, after the disastrous exercise in mismanagement and poor planning that was the clinton campaign, would barack obama even consider hiring one of those incompetent hacks?
May 19, 2008 3:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let's not forget that back in January and early February Hillary was courting the hispanic votes and trying to divide the minorities. She used Solis Doyle's latin American heritage as a symbol that she has all the hispanic support. But after the original Super Tuesday when Hillary got all the votes she needed from hispanic voters in California and New Mexico she dumped Patti and sent out a memo to the MSM of her campaign manager firing for the reason that she did not close the deal against Obama.
Hillary's actions then ticked off a lot of Hispanic supporters see this interesting story from the NY Post following that firing
May 19, 2008 3:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Perhaps she can help Obama with outreach to Hispanic voters and Clinton supporters.
Obama's management has been so on-target, I have confidence that he, Axe, Plouffe et al can make use of her talents.
May 19, 2008 4:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
You have a good point. She didn't do well for Clinton, but oftentimes I've seen good, talented people fail because they were simply in the wrong job. Given Obama's campaign has been managed so effectively thus far, I can hope (at least) that they know what they're doing.
May 19, 2008 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oops. Guess I should have refreshed before posting. Great minds think alike!
May 19, 2008 4:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sure she has talents but I wouldn't assume that just because somebody is Hispanic they can do "Hispanic outreach." That will have to come straight from BHO, working with serious people.
May 19, 2008 4:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Perhaps this is a move that could help with Hispanic outreach. Certainly, that's one of Obama's weaker areas, and presumably PSD does have some campaign skills. It sounds like she was in over her head in the Clinton campaign, but that doesn't mean should could effectively serve in some other role.
May 19, 2008 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
I suppose this would be one way to unify. Let people on who know how to appeal to a specific voting group. I'm not sure that she was wholly responsible for crashing Clinton's campaign. However, it is scary to see her let onto the Obama campaign. Mark Penn - definitely NOT.
May 19, 2008 3:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anyone else having posting problems?
May 19, 2008 3:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah. Off and on.
May 19, 2008 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Off and on all day.
May 19, 2008 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well Howard....You will be working as the ClintonS maid, because your Rovian ways will never be used by anyother REAL progressive or Dem....Oh maybe you can be Bills pimp it is what you seem to do best
May 19, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Like you would not believe -
May 19, 2008 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is NOT a good thing, people.
May 19, 2008 4:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nothing to get to excited about. David Axelrod knows Ms.Solis for a long time. Pay attention to the following excerpt from the article:
Solis Doyle, a Chicago native whose brother is an alderman there, has known Axelrod even longer than she’s known the Clintons. Both said they’d talked frequently through the course of the campaign. Solis Doyle said there had been “no real conversations” about a job, but didn’t deny the subject had been broached.
May 19, 2008 4:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Log off and back on again. You have to sign a user agreement.
May 19, 2008 4:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just did and no user agreement. Hmm?
May 19, 2008 4:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just did and no user agreement. Hmm?
May 19, 2008 4:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Guffaw!
May 19, 2008 4:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know the Hillary supporters hate the Nixon comparison (though I think it's apt), so here is a salient quote from RMN:
Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.I think Hillary is in the phase very close to destroying herself. She has preached hate during a large part of this campaign and that has blinded her to reality. For every day that she delays dropping out she loses that much more political capital.
May 19, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, that's a surpise.
I don't think PSD did all that good a job for Clinton, so I question her value. But it doesn't hurt to bring Clintonites on board and have a bigger tent. So I welcome it in that sense.
I doubt PSD would talk about this without HRC's okay. Or am I wrong on that? It seems inconceivable that this would be a "betrayal" of any sort. Maybe some sort of feeler/olive branch?
May 19, 2008 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
She probably just needs a job. Though I'm sure she could have found a position somewhere other than the opposing campaign. Is this bad taste or not? Did she violate some real or imagined loyalty oath? Who knows? It's just another tidbit of the day.
May 19, 2008 6:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hate to break it to you Howard.
You aren't in demand
You aren't very good
May 19, 2008 6:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
if Obama's people can talk to Hamas why should they exclude Patti Doyle?
She was losing Hillary's campaign due to her laziness. Take that work ethic and bad karma over to Obama for some 'diversity' seeing as Obama's team is mostly white.
May 19, 2008 7:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
May 21, 2008 12:40 AM | Reply | Permalink