Clinton's Supporters Question Her Strategy

Washington Post ^ | January 5, 2008 | By Anne E. Kornblut, Jonathan Weisman and Paul Kane

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MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 4 -- After an unexpectedly thorough defeat in Iowa, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton faced a barrage of second-guessing Friday from supporters worried that her campaign strategy could cost her the Democratic nomination.

In a flurry of conference calls throughout the day, described by several participants, anxious Clinton advisers agreed to stick to her original message -- that only the former first lady has the experience to bring about change. And while they decided to increase the pressure on Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) here, campaign officials were debating how hard to hit him on his experience level in the few short days until the New Hampshire primary.

So far, no senior Clinton advisers have been ousted for failing to produce a victory in Iowa, despite their spending many months and millions of dollars there only to see the candidate's status as the Democratic front-runner vanish. But supporters outside the campaign were quick to question Mark Penn, the chief strategist, whose polling data suggested she could win in Iowa; Patti Solis Doyle, the campaign manager, who moved to Iowa to try to eke out a win; and an inner circle of operatives whose "inevitability" strategy failed to blunt the message of "change" that swept Obama into first place Thursday night.

As Clinton flew from Iowa to New Hampshire, her supporters were divided over how she should handle the early defeat. Paul Begala, a campaign strategist for her husband and a Hillary Clinton supporter, said she could take one of two approaches: explain away Iowa by dismissing it as unfamiliar territory, diminishing its odd caucus system and portraying it as Obama's neighboring state; or accept responsibility for the loss, saying, " 'I've been knocked on my rear end. It's not fun, but the view from the canvas can be

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948648/posts?page=9#9

This thread! That’s what brought it up. I said there was no name on it.

Maybe that’s where Pookie sometimes pings me when others submit things?? [some of mine had names removed!]

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Paul Begala, a campaign strategist for her husband and a Hillary Clinton supporter, said she could take one of two approaches:

You know you are in trouble when The Forehead starts giving out advice.

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Any gravy train Hillary would've let them ride on them would certainly be kept polished and well-supplied by B. Hussein.

HF

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LOL, that photo of Hillary on the left is unreal!!

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I believe that Obama is actually a weaker candidate for the Democrats than Hillary would be.

I think Obama could probably turn out more Democrats (lots appear to be sick of the Clntons), however Hillary would turn out more Republicans (voting against her). My nightmare would be Hillary running against Giuliani. We'd be screwed no matter who won.

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Yup

Strange Politics URL

I never “tag” my .gifs

That’s the one I cropped and resized the BG on and then I added your H-Rant.gif

It jumped up a bit so you repeated the animation by setting each frame precisely on the ballot box

It came out great -

I may have to start putting a “SIG” on them somewhere in the BG graphic where it is nearly impossible to erase or paint over

I’ll bet my info and screen name and LSLM is in the root code of that Strange Politics URL -

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with=”390” height=”507”

10 - Delay setting

Yup - my exact cropping & resizing and the delay speed thayou used on the final version

Root code info has been stripped -

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How did you go about finding out the rootcode had been stripped?

You need to devise some tiny logo that you can put on your best things. I’ve found if it is not on the image they erase it, lol.

My Jason’s animator ‘may’ put some code in but I don’t know how to ‘see’ it.

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I just added a tiny detail to one .gif I just posted

I’ll have to put a tiny “SIG” overlaid on one of the graphics

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I don’t know which and can’t really tell anything.

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The Angel.gif in the upper right corner

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Lol, I took it into the animator and looked at 8 frames but don’t know what you did. As long as YOU do it’s OK!

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Simple composite at +0+0 NorthEast of the Angel.gif was added

I can add that to most any .gifs I work on

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I’ll take it into the animator again tomorrow and try to see. Can’t tell from here.

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Hillary was awful - she took “brittle” to new levels of understatement...

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That’s just how she looked tonight! No pretty hairdo, just plain-jane, or plain-butch, whatever the case may be!!

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Wow, kudos to you - you made Hillary disappear!! Lol. The angel is all alone up there. I know you - you’ll fix it in no time! http://domania.us/Oaccess/H/H-Suit.gif

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LOL! ...I'd bet lots of folks are hoping you're right, Phil!