Ugh! Who cares?!?!

(Sorry, Greg.)

Awesome news - now can we stop talking about it? This is getting ridiculous.

Ultimately the media broke the Wright story, though that hardly rules out the possibility that some Hillary advisers were partly responsible for making that happen.

Damn, ya think?

this is a way to say (again) that the race card was never used by sen. obama's opponents, that sen. obama used it to try to paint both sen. clinton (and surrogates) and sen. mccain (and surrogates) as racist.

"we didn't go the xenophobic route- we talked about it and thought about it, but we didn't go that route...so all those claims that we were running a racist campaign did not compare to what we were talking about in our meetings...we didn't end up using them and we ran a clean campaign" (pretty much how i see wolfson spinning this thing)

if the mccain gets accused by the media as being racist: "since the general campaign as kicked off, we have run a lighthearted and humorous campaign to highlight the obvious deficiencies in sen. obama's campaign. it has been he who has played the race card, and he also did so during the democrat(ic) primary against sen. clinton."

Wolfson: Hillary's Senior Advisers All Rejected Penn's Push For Xenophobic Campaign

And then they all claimed they had never even MET Mark Penn, and if they had, it was a long time ago, and there were lots of people at the party that night....

McCain is not the only one doubling down on stupid!

I still think there's some revisionism going on here.
Here are a few key quotes from the campaign (not in order):

1) "There's no -- [n]o, there is nothing to base that on, as far as I know." (re: "You don't believe that he's a Muslim -- or implying, right?") (Hillary Clinton)
2) African garb photos (courtesy of Clinton campaign; circulated right before crucial OH and TX primaries)
3) "I have no shame or no problem with people looking at Barack Obama in his native clothing, in the clothing of his country." "... we ought to be able to support their ability to wear the clothing of their nation." (Clinton surrogate Stephanie Tubbs-Jones)
4) “I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country.” (Bill Clinton)
5) "He would not have been my pastor." (Hillary Clinton)

Does that sound like a rejection of the xenophobia strategy to you?

Just when the Hillary supporters were getting use to the idea that BO is the nominee, she speaks, stoking, and some would say picking at the scab of the nomination fight.

The only think that shut the Clintons up is a win by BO in Nov 4.

BULLSHIT. Josh Green's article let Clinton off the hook on this, too (saying that Clinton never followed the advice "to her credit"). Does no one remember Clinton's prepared remarks following Obama's "bitter" comment? She said some version of "America" about 30 times in 3 minutes before going on to talk about learning to shoot with her grandpa, etc, etc, etc.

Briefly, it was exactly what Penn had suggested months earlier as a way that Clinton could racebait (or play to xenophobia if you want to be subtle about it) without getting in trouble. She did do this, and letting her off the hook for it for the sake of party unity a couple months later is fucking disgusting.

"Sen. Obama's remarks are elitist and out of touch," she said. "they are not reflective of the values and beliefs of Americans, certainly not the Americans I know, not the Americans I grew up with, not the Americans I lived with in Arkansas or represent in New York."

Frankly, Clinton's damned lucky to have Penn's memos leaked, because it shows her implementation of his advice to appeal to xenophobia to stop a few inches short of everything he'd advocated.

WOLFSON IS A LIAR....Hey Howard go back to your logcabin reTHUGlicn meetings where you belong....
This Wolfson/Clinton rehabilitation tour is becoming more pathetic by the minute...and if the progressives let them off the hook we deserve wat we get with these DLC friggin hacks!

Ugh, that bloated bag of puss. You'd think someone so worried about images would lay off the twinkies and Champagne, but no.

The difference between 2004 and 2008 elections is that in 2004, we did not see the perp who stole the election, until it was too late. This time the thief is clear and visible, AND she is one of us. Will she succeed?

I'm so sick of Bill, Hillary, Mark, Howard, Lanny, Chelsea and whomever else I forgot to mention.
Please, please, please: no more, no mas, move on, walk on by, pass it up, give us a break.

We are all sick of them.