According to Marc Ambinder, the Josh Green article detailing the Clinton memos are about to go up at 3:30 PT/6:30 PT.
I assume we'll want an open thread to discuss the fireworks contained therein...
UPDATE:
Here is a link to the memos.
UPDATE 2:
This diary is not meant for bashing-HRC and her voters, but rather a chance to look at the success/failures of the attacks in the primary and what can be done about them in the general. I'm not interested in relitigating the primaries by any means...
UPDATE 3:
Here's a link to the article itself: "The Front Runner's Fall"
Here's a link to The Atlantic
I'll add a link to the article as soon as it goes live, and put any juicy tidbits here as we find them...
Here's a little tease courtesy of Mike Allen at Politico:
Mark Penn, the top campaign strategist for Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign, advised her to portray Barack Obama as having a "limited" connection "to basic American values and culture," according to a forthcoming article in The Atlantic.
The magazine reports Penn suggested getting much rougher with Obama in a memo on March 30, after her crucial wins in Texas and Ohio: "Does anyone believe that it is possible to win the nomination without, over these next two months, raising all these issues on him? ... Won’t a single tape of [the Reverend Jeremiah] Wright going off on America with Obama sitting there be a game ender?"
Here are a couple of choice Penn road apples:
From "Launch Strategy Ideas" December 21, 2006
Blog effort is definitely worthwhile. (Press dept. may have other views on this.)
and
We have to attract the base of the party -- the most liberal, activist, difficult group of voters in America. Or not. We really need only neutralize them because time and again they have proven not to be the real base of the party.