In response to a recent recomended diary talking about the Obama Six I thought I would give my own version as it pertains to Hillary.
Follow me after the jump.
Perhaps more than any other candidate in history we will know exactly who Hillary will suround herself with if she is elected President.
- First and foremost there is this guy:
What is his role gonna be? First Man? Co-Prez? Man in waiting? Heck if I know, but his performance recently tells me he is running for SOMETHING in that house on Pennslyvania Ave.
- Next up we got this guy:
He oftens looks like a 5 lb sausage stuffed in a 3 lb casing but thats just how he rolls. Mark Penn is well known as the king of triangulation, a union buster and overall chief strategist for the Clintons. Lovely chap him.
- We all know this guy, he is well known:
Terry McAulliff, who has some of the best teeth in the business, will let you admire those chompers and then sink them into your back as you walk away. He is the "best fundraiser" in the Democratic Party (unless you look at the actual numbers) and he is well known for running an amazingly tight DNC ship that built the party in all 19 States in the Union.
- Now the Thompson Twins.
What else can be said about these two. They are currently "on the bench" per CNN rules but trust me, Mr. Matalin will play an influtional role in the White House. Which Administration? Who cares as far as he is concerned. Did I mention that Mr. Matalin's wife - WAS DICK CHENEYS CHIEF STRATEGIST. Just Saying. As for the other guy? Oh fuck what's his name again? Wasn't he just in the news recently?
- Next Up is our "friend" Howard Wolfson
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Many of you know him as the weirdo who appeared in a sweater (with the influence of Bill Cosby and the Donald Trump Skiwear collection) on the night of the New Hampshire Primary but you would be underestimating him.
First off, if you are looking for the architect of the recent "question of race" being raised by Team Clinton, look no farther than this dude.
You see Wolfson is the principle partner in the "Glover Park Group". Who are they? Lets go to the record shall we?
The Glover Park Group, a fast-rising lobbying and PR firm known as the "White House in Exile" because it's packed with former Clintonites. Its roster includes former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart and deputy chief of staff Joel Johnson. From Hillary's orbit come Peter Kauffman, her former press secretary, and Gigi Georges, her New York director. Campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle used to work there, and until recently so did Howard Wolfson. (but he didnt give up his partnership)
And there is more...
Glover Park's clients have included standard liberal groups like the United Federation of Teachers and the ACLU. Yet the Clinton ties have also helped the firm make an alliance with Rupert Murdoch. Hillary started cozying up to Murdoch after her 2000 Senate victory, in a calculated attempt to defang his conservative media empire, News Corp. In 2004 the billionaire required a favor of his own: Nielsen was preparing to change the way it measured viewership in US TV markets, a plan that Murdoch's Fox network feared would cost it millions in ad revenue. So Murdoch called on Glover Park. Wolfson secured a $200,000 contract and unveiled a PR blitz under the guise of a supposedly independent minority front group called Don't Count Us Out. The group played on fears of voter disenfranchisement, arguing that minorities would be undercounted in the new system. Don't Count Us Out ran more than 100 ads in two days, and Nielsen was deluged with hate mail. Letters of support came in from politicians, including Senator Clinton, who warned, "Nielsen would be remiss in pushing forward with its rollout plan."
Lovely Chap wont you agree?
- And finally we have Michael O'Hanlon (editorial comment - this dude creeps me out)
Who you ask?
Well let me tell you . This gentleman has been the ultimate "liberal hawk" and apologist for the Iraq War. He has been a cheerleader for the "Surge" to such an extent that it would make the real cheerleaders from Dallas blush.
Oh and he also happens to be one of Hillary's chief foreign policy advisors.
So there you have it. The Hillary Six.
I have spoken enough here and I will leave the anaysis of what it means that surrounds herself with people like these for another day except to say that the first woman president will quite possibily have fewer woman as top advisors than Dubya.
Think about that.