where did the memos come from?

This would make a hell of a movie...

...a HBO show at least.

While all campaigns have such memo's there is something dirty and unnerving about seeing campaigns discuss voters as points on a score card. Talking frankly about how to make one pitch to women and then a different one to blue collar voters - I don't know how anybody could read those and not believe they were somehow used.

the Florigan memo's are telling in that they admit that they wanted to get them seated not for any grand principle, but because Hillary needed the votes. Of course they said they'd try and make the case to seat Florida and Michigan about founding principles, because they acknowledged that they couldn't argue about changing the rules in the middle of the game. It was always about getting them to re-vote because it would help Hillary, and while everybody not a dead-ender realized as much, it right there for all to see now. All the talk of disenfranchisement and comparing the situations to Zimbabwe was a campaign stunt, pure showmanship.

Higher, hire, hi! 'er!
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(That was central to my point. /Jonah Goldberg)

I can't wait for the TV/Movie version of this never ending Clinton saga...lol.

Hillary has a long history with Mark Penn. She knew why she wanted him to run her campaign.

She knew what type of tactics he would pursue. He did not suddenly develop a new style, just for this campaign. Hillary knew what she was getting for the millions she paid Mark Penn.

The article in the Atlantic in fact seems to suggest that had she followed Penn's advice fully from the start and without the distraction of inner squabbles, she would have won.

I thought I was over it, but it's back:

Clinton Fatigue!!!

Can we just please stop talking about anything Clinton, say, for the rest of time? Why, oh why, do the mindless zombies in the national press corp obsess so much over this couple? The rest of us in the real world have more pressing issues than two egomaniac drama queens. The MSM is enabling their psychosis if you ask me.

Why so much chatter about Clinton, instead of say, Vicki Iseman, John McCain's lobbyist-sex friend.

Ok, totally off topic, but this is very, very interesting. The theme for the day that the vp speaks will be veterans, benefits, and helping the troops.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/11/a-vp-hint-vps-convention_n_118148.html

Interesting. Webb has been awfully quiet and notwithstanding his statement, it sure sounds like a day tailor made for him. Maybe, just maybe it is webb and obama and webb worked it out. That would be huge. I gotta good feeling about this. Obama/Webb 08, all the way baby.

Why are you smearing Clinton with ancient dirt?

Something scaring you?

If you're interested in the article that inspired Robert Barnett's 6 March memo about the "circular firing squad", it appears to be, "Even in Victory, Clinton Team Is Battling Itself"

Even if you believe such drivel, is not the candidate responsible for both the choice of squabbling personnel, and for the ultimate decisions on what advice to take?

What strikes me about the memos is the notion that the Clinton campaign was driven by steely eyed professionals is a myth. As the kindergarten attack proves the campaign was a very human enterprise subject to overreaction and a desire to fulfill the foolish wishes of the candidate.

I wonder if the McCain campaign is really controlled by 10 foot media giants who market test everything from the color of the backdrop behind the candidate to his every campaign statement.

I'm sorry, but the egotistical squabbling of the Clinton campaign oozed out on all sides during the entire primary season. From a purely campaign perspective, the difference between the two camps couldn't be clearer. Hillary's people communicated an air of entitlement with an occasional whiff of knee-breaking. I'm not the least bit surprised that the sanctum sanctorum was toxic.