Listed on C-Span as a "Democratic Strategist", I watched him speak at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service on the midterm elections. He appeared thoughtful and heartfelt in his desire to see Democratic Party succeed. In the end, he betrayed his pathetic lack of touch with the body politic. He parroted the beltway wisdom that "the center rules" and then betrayed himself as the complete idiot that he is.
Researching this diary I found out that not only is he a total and complete idiot, he is totally and completely without moral scruples. He is a turncoat and anybody who thinks him credible needs to get their fng heads examined.
Mark Penn's two firms awarded millions from stimulus for public relations work
. . .idiots
Mark Penn, Democratic Strategist. . .is he really? If so, does this mean that the Democratic party is so completely lost in the jungle of its own hubris that anyone with a shred of insight, morality and understanding has jumped ship?
Apparently so: Mark Penn was Hillary Clinton's chief strategist for her bid for presidency even though his firm, Burson-Marsteller is hugely popular with the GOP - link to Democracy Now.
Mark Penn’s polling firm polls for the Nuclear Energy Institute. . .Mark Penn, not only is a major pollster, which means he polls for all sorts of industries, like the pharmaceutical industry and the oil industry, which don’t necessarily see eye to eye with the Democratic Party, but he also is in a very strange position of running a huge, very Republican-friendly PR firm, Burson-Marsteller, which puts him at odds with many of Senator Clinton’s public statements on organized labor, for example. . . Mark Penn’s list of previous and current clients reads like a who’s who of Corporate America. Juan, maybe you could take it from there.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Texaco, Eli Lilly, Microsoft, Proctor and Gamble, Monsanto.
Here is what Rachel Maddow had to say about Burson-Marsteller:
Well, (Rachel Maddow says) let me put it this way, when Blackwater killed those 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, they called Burson-Marsteller. When there was a nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island, Babcock and Wilcox who built that power plant called Burson-Marsteller. The Bopal chemical disaster that killed thousands of people in India, Union Carbide called Burson-Marsteller. Romanian Dictator Nikolai Ceaucescu. . .Burson-Marsteller. The government of Saudi Arabia three days after 9-11. . .Burson-Marsteller. The military junta that overthrew the government of Argentina in 1976, the generals dialed Burson-Marsteller. The government of Indonesia, accused of genocide against E. Timor, Burson-Marsteller. The government of Nigeria accused of genocide in Biafra, (whispers) Burson-Marsteller. Philip-Morris. . .Burson-Marsteller. Silicone breast implants. . .Burson-Marsteller. The government of Columbia, trying to make all those dead union organizers not get in the way of a new trade deal. . .they called Burson-Marsteller. Do you remember Aqua Dots? The little toy beads coated with something that turned into the date rape drug when kids put the beads in their mouths and all those kids ended up in comas? Yeah, even the date rape drug Aqua Dots people called Burson-Marsteller. When evil needs public relations, evil has Burson-Marsteller on speed dial.
THIS IS THE KIND OF PEOPLE THAT OUR DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP LISTEN TO????
IS THIS THE BEST WE GOT???
The thing that inspired me to write this diary about the idiot who goes by the name of Mark Penn was when I simply watched a guy speakingwith all authority of position and prominence on C-Span. I watched him wax lovingly over how when a U.S. political party moves to the center it wins elections. I watched him say that if Barack Obama pushes small incremental, unassuming centrist health care reform issues, like medical record overhaul, then they will be successful in 2010. Then I heard the giveaway to the idiocy that is Mark Penn's thoughts, when he said:
The more the American people hear about the process of health care reform the more they become afraid of sweeping changes.
And this is where he FAILS.
Health care reform popularity collapsed after Democrats dropped the Public Option.. Up until the soon-to-be-former-senator Blanche Lincoln (aka wicked witch of the south) killed the Public Option, support for the health care reform was at 66%+. The day after it was killed by soon-to-be-former-senator Blanche Lincoln support dropped to 46% and continued to decline. It was only after this that the Republicans picked up the talking point that the American public is against health care reform.
So Mark Penn is either lying when he says that the American people are afraid of sweeping change or he is an idiot. I decided to be nice and call him out as an idiot.
If there is anybody in the white house administration staff that is listening to Mark Penn, those administration staffers should be placed on leave IMMEDIATELY.
Hillary deserved better, our president deserves better, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE MUCH MUCH BETTER.
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UPDATE:
But in choosing Bayh, Obama would be pairing himself with someone awfully close to Mark Penn. Would it bother Obama’s people to have Penn whispering in their vice president’s ear? The official answer, conveyed by Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor, is "We aren’t commenting on the VP selection process." The unofficial answer is, "You bet it would!"
That may or may not be sufficient cause to scotch Bayh’s VP prospects. But if it isn’t, Penn is right back in the presidential race—if not in an official capacity, then certainly in a functional one. "Bayh is the one guy who could get Penn back in the mix," a Democratic pollster told me today. "One guy" isn’t much. But it’s a long way from "finished."