More Bad News for Clinton
Posted:
11/9/07
Woe be the frontrunners, for they are the targets of all attacks. Hillary Clinton's campaign has got to be frustrated. On the heels of leaked poll numbers showing a tightening race in New Hampshire, expect to see two other stories create traction.
Just a month ago, Hillary made waves by accusing a Iowan of being a plant, a stooge, a phony questioner sent from another campaign, just there to pepper her with irrelevant but angry questions. That accusation was false. Now, a Grinnell College student is saying that Hillary Clinton's staff is planting questions at her events -- maybe as a way to avoid the difficult real ones coming from actual voters.
In addition, Mark Penn, her chief strategist, has to disavow connections to yet another of his firm's clients. This is the same guy who had to distance himself from his firm's union busting. Then he had to explain that he wasn't involved with his firm's relationship with Blackwater USA. Now he has nothing to do with his firm's client that is responsible for putting kids into comas.
What's amazing is that Penn is the Chief Executive Officer of his firm, meaning he's the guy where the buck stops. Yet his firm now has three clients where he doesn't have any responsibility for the relationship.
It makes you wonder just what he does there.
Just a month ago, Hillary made waves by accusing a Iowan of being a plant, a stooge, a phony questioner sent from another campaign, just there to pepper her with irrelevant but angry questions. That accusation was false. Now, a Grinnell College student is saying that Hillary Clinton's staff is planting questions at her events -- maybe as a way to avoid the difficult real ones coming from actual voters.
In addition, Mark Penn, her chief strategist, has to disavow connections to yet another of his firm's clients. This is the same guy who had to distance himself from his firm's union busting. Then he had to explain that he wasn't involved with his firm's relationship with Blackwater USA. Now he has nothing to do with his firm's client that is responsible for putting kids into comas.
What's amazing is that Penn is the Chief Executive Officer of his firm, meaning he's the guy where the buck stops. Yet his firm now has three clients where he doesn't have any responsibility for the relationship.
It makes you wonder just what he does there.