Posted on 01/04/2008 9:44:42 AM PST by COUNTrecount
While you were sleeping, the chartered jet of the third-place finisher in the Iowa Democratic caucus winged its way from Des Moines to Manchester, N.H. And it sounds like some decisions were made on that plane that may alter the course of that party's presidential race.
At her concession speech in Des Moines on Thursday night, Hillary Clinton was all gracious and determined and smiling. But hours later on that flight someone named Mark Penn, who happens to be her chief political strategist, ominously told a gaggle of reporters, including The Times' Peter Nicholas, that the campaign's focus needs to shift now onto, you might have guessed, someone named Barack Obama.
The Illinois senator happens to be the first-place finisher in those same caucuses and now Clinton, once the inevitable Democratic nominee, is playing catch-up. Things could get nasty with some pretty sharp media contrasts made in coming days, it would seem. "This has been very much a referendum on her,'' said Penn. "And people will take a harder look at the choice and the kind of president who will be needed in these times.''
Penn hinted that the Clinton campaign may be poised to mount a more aggressive campaign in New Hampshire than in Iowa. "Time and again in the Democratic primaries," he said, ...
... "you've seen people latch onto the new, seemingly fresh candidate only to then take a sobering look at the choice they have when it comes down to the end of it. I think you're going to see that again.''
He claimed that Obama's record is comparatively unexplored he suggested the news media should ask itself about taking a closer look at Obama's history. "Does everyone know everything they need to know about Barack Obama?'' Penn asked. "That's a decision you're going to make
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IMO, there has never been a dirtier, more corrupt, duo than the Clintoons. Slinging dirt may come back to stick on them. These sinister two have more room temperature associates than a Mafia boss.
Count me in !!
Go after Hillary, she’s fair game but not her child..
Exactly. I figure that Hussein and Her Thighness will club each other to a bloody pulp. Edwards is waaaay too slimey (even for dims). The victor will be bloodied and beaten badly.
Now, if the Repubs can make things “clean” and upbeat, they will win. I figure that Mitt and Huckster will bloody each other up also. If Fred maintains his upbeat campaign, he can win.
On a side note, I was listening to some old Reagan speeches and none were about this program or that program. They were about IDEAS and IDEALS. I hear the same stuff from Fred. That is the track to victory...talk about ideas and ideals, not programs.
And that will be the kiss of death to the new demographic that is turning out for Obama
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Ding! Ding! Ding!
We have a winner!
Mark Penn, Howard Wolfson, Harold Ickes, et al are some of the MOST VILE creatures alive!!! Hillary is the NICE face of the Clintonistas!! YIKES!
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