Did Mark Penn Make Clinton The Anti-Feminist Candidate?

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Thursday June 05, 2008 · 7:31 AM PDT

2008/06/05 · 07:31

Throughout the Primary season, we've heard about how sexism has hobbled Hillary Clinton's Presidential bid. Some of those charges are spot-on; are are mere hyperbole and hyperventilation. But could it be that the largest bastion of sexism was within the Clinton campaign itself?

The Wall Street Journal kicks off the Hillary Clinton for President 2008 Post-Mortem Field Day with a long article analyzing the mistakes of her campaign. Jackie Calmes sings the familiar refrain that Clinton didn't let the voters see her true colors:

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Wednesday June 04, 2008 · 5:59 AM PDT

2008/06/04 · 05:59

[UPDATED: Pelosi proclaims that we have a nominee. Disregard this post. :-) ]

Well, this is just sad. Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and DGA Chairman Joe Manchin have released a statement declaring the Democratic primary over. But the way they talk, you would think we still don't have a nominee:

"Democrats must now turn our full attention to the general election. To that end, we are urging all remaining uncommitted super delegates to make their decisions known by Friday of this week so that our party can stand united and begin our march toward reversing the eight years of failed Bush/McCain policies that have weakened our country.

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Tuesday June 03, 2008 · 8:55 AM PDT

2008/06/03 · 08:55

As the bruising Democratic Primary season dragged on, Team Clinton attempted to bash Obama's brains in with any club they could get their hands on. There was Jeremiah Wright. There was gun control. There were those 3am calls on 90s-era telephones. (Really - the Senator from New York can't afford a frigging cordless phone?) There were the racially fueled insinuations that Obama would be pummeled as a druggie.

With every new barrage, Obama supports like myself shook our heads and wondered in dismay: How is she ever going to walk back from this?

Well, here we are. The Democratic nominating contest will end some time this week, leaving only a handful of diehards manning the barricades. By next week, Hillary Clinton's only viable political option will be to get behind the Democratic nominee for President, Barack Obama.

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Thursday May 22, 2008 · 6:39 PM PDT

2008/05/22 · 18:39

Earlier today, Al Giordano reported an amazing story from unnamed sources: that Hillary Clinton "went nuclear" with the Democratic Primary nominating process because Obama had privately rebuffed her as his Vice Presidential pick.

That argument from "secret sources" appears to have been brought into question by none other than Barack Obama himself.

According to Andrew Romano at Newsweek, Obama was asked if he'd consider a VP nom "even if his or her spouse is an occasional pain in the butt." Obama laughed and, echoing a London Times piece by Andrew Sullivan, responded:

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Tuesday May 20, 2008 · 6:39 PM PDT

2008/05/20 · 18:39

I just received an email from Barack Obama celebrating his loss in Kentucky.

What? Celebrating? That's the only way to describe it. Perhaps the best title for the email blast is "Hillary WHO?!" There's no mention whatsoever of Clinton. Instead, Obama explicitly tackles the General Election against McCain with these words:

Unfortunately, our opponents in the other party continue to embrace yesterday's policies and they will continue to employ yesterday's tactics -- they will try to change the subject, and they will play on fears and divisions to distract us from what matters to you and your future.

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Monday May 19, 2008 · 7:45 AM PDT

2008/05/19 · 07:45

What do you think of when you think of "Karl Rove"? Okay - leaving out anything that couldn't be printed in HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN, that is? Well, hold on to your seats, folks, because Karl Rove is about to show you a side of him you've never seen:

KARL ROVE, DEFENDER OF THE CONSTITUTION!

No, wait, I'm serious. Why are you kneeling before the toilet like that?

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Tuesday May 13, 2008 · 9:50 PM PDT

2008/05/13 · 21:50

Even while West Virginians were going to the polls yesterday, it was clear that the media wasn't going to give Hillary Clinton a "wedge" that would allow her to simultaneously overturn the laws of mathematics and of the Democratic Primary process. It was obvious that this campaign had crossed another threshold: the Clinton campaign had lost control of the press narrative - and they stood no chance of gaining it back.

The Associated Press kicked off the festivities early in the day with their article, "Clinton seeks largely symbolic win in W. Va".

Hillary Rodham Clinton reached out for a largely symbolic victory in the West Virginia primary Tuesday over Barack Obama, front-runner in a historic Democratic presidential race nearing an end. Obama conceded defeat in advance in the state, looking ahead to the Oregon primary later in the month and the campaign against John McCain.

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Tuesday May 13, 2008 · 9:49 AM PDT

2008/05/13 · 09:49

A majority of Americans say they want us out of Iraq. A majority of Americans want universal health care. A vast majority of Americans wanted Congress and the President to extend health care benefits for children of poor and lower-middle-class families - even if it meant raising their taxes.

House Republican leader John Boehner and his colleagues have heard their calls, and responded...by crafting a marketing slogan that tells Americans what idiots they are.

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Monday May 12, 2008 · 7:23 AM PDT

2008/05/12 · 07:23

Hmmm. A Freudian slip - or signs of a diehard Obama supporter at Talking Points Memo? This graphic from TPM this morning shows a little, um, spelling mistake near the bottom that is oddly congruent with current affairs:

With Clinton team member Howard Wolfson acknowledging that the Senator from NY is $20 million in debt, and even John "Endorsement?!" Edwards ~~admitting~~ saying that it's Game Over, it's a hard label for Clinton to dodge. We'll see whether she continues to wear it as a badge of honor, or comes to her senses and gets behind the Democratic nominee for President in 2008.

Yeah, I'm not holding my breath either. Hey, a guy can dream.

Olympic Opening Boycott: Should Obama Second Clinton's Call? [Edited]

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Monday April 07, 2008 · 11:55 AM PDT

2008/04/07 · 11:55

The cynical (and hey, that might be me if I'd gotten out on the wrong side of bed) will say this is an attempt to distract from Mark Penn's firing. Maybe, maybe not. But it's refreshing to see Hillary Clinton take the bold step of demanding that President Bush boycott the Olympics opening ceremony.

This is an issue too important to convert into an anti-Clinton commentary. Over the course of the past 40-some years, the Chinese government has waged incessant genocide on the Tibetan people. Today, the country is predominantly composed of Han Chinese, all while the West looked the other way. Now, we have the gross spectacle of Western democracies like Britain spending millions of their own taxpayer's money to "protect the Olympic torch" by quashing pro-Tibetan protests.

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Friday April 04, 2008 · 8:08 AM PDT

2008/04/04 · 08:08

A month ago, I finished reading Marion Nestle's book What to Eat. Nestle is a frequent critic of the government's lack of oversight of the food industry, pointing out how the same agencies charged with promoting American food and drug business are the same agencies tasked with regulating them. Ever since meat-processing industry catcalls forced the McGovern commission in 1977 to back off its recommendation that Americans eat less meat, the USDA and associated agencies have sided with American big business interests against the interest of the American consumer.

As today's news proves, this is not an uncommon phenomenon.

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Thursday April 03, 2008 · 8:23 AM PDT

2008/04/03 · 08:23

I predicted in a comment yesterday that Obama's campaign would announce today it had raked in over $40 million in donations for March. And...good news indeed! It seems that the Dinner with Barack campaign (which, I'll admit, got me to throw another $15 at Obama for auld lang syne) netted the Obama campaign another large haul, the Rev. Wright "scandal" notwithstanding.

Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign raked in...well, we don't know. according to Ben Smith, Clinton won't release her fundraising digits until the forms are due with the FEC on April 20th. That's very telling. I take it as meaning one of two things:

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