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Chelsea 2016: In Hillary's Crosshairs?
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe momentum for a Chelsea Clinton presidential run in 2016 is building, if a bit slowly. It began a few months ago on these pages, and Buzzfeed has this today: With her mother's campaign apparently winding down, is Chelsea Clinton thinking about politics? In an exclusive with People, her dad says the campaign has taught him that his daughter "is really good at" working the electorate. Will the future Madame President Clinton have the first name of Chelsea? Aside from the obvious question of how People magazine keeps getting political exclusives, this made me wonder if Hillary Clinton would ...
John Edwards Endorses Barack Obama
By David Knowles - Politics DailyPolitical Machine contributor and Time Magazine blogger Mark Halperin had an inkling. Earlier today, the Obama campaign touting a "big national endorsement" in Michigan. Halperin asked six senior Obama aides point blank if was John Edwards. All of them offered silence in return. John Edwards "has boarded a plane" Halperin later said.The other big endorsement to catch the Clinton campaign off-guard today came from NARAL Pro-Choice Amercia. Howard Wolfson said he was "surprised" by it. Here's NARAL's statement via AOL News:"Today, we are proud to put our organization's grassroots and political ...
Clinton Strategists a Hot Mess
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe Clinton braintrust has been making news the past few days, and not in a good way. First, there was the revelation that I was righter about Mark Penn than I knew. From Time Magazine: As aides looked over the campaign calendar (last year), chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates. It sounded smart, but as every high school civics student now knows, Penn was wrong: Democrats, unlike the Republicans, apportion their delegates according to vote totals, rather than allowing ...
Hillo Does Billo: God Bless(ed?) Us Rich People
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe first 2 parts of Bill O'Reilly's 4 part interview with Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton aired on Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor last night. Her decision to appear on the conservative program was a controversial one, and coupled with her recent remarks about the Democratic Party's anti-war base, it seems clear that Senator Clinton is targeting a very specific kind of swing voter. The presidential hopeful tried to toe the line between maintaining the "common touch" while trying to appeal to Republican viewers suspicious of populist politics. While she and O'Reilly both stressed ...
Wolfson: Mark Penn is No DiMaggio
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyOn today's Clinton campaign conference call, a reporter asked Howard Wolfson whether strategist Mark Penn would continue to participate in campaign conference calls. Wolfson refused to answer that question, although the Obama campaign reported earlier, on their own call, that Penn had, indeed, taken part in a call earlier today. Wolfson went on to say that Penn would continue to play a part in strategy, but would not be the Chief Strategist. When the reporter followed up by asking what the distinction was, Wolfson likened it to the difference between a Chief editor and a contributing editor. ...
Firing Offense for Mark Penn? Yes!
By David Knowles - Politics DailyPoor Mark Penn. The Chief Political Strategist that everybody loves to hate is at it again. Only this time, he may just have gone too far. You see, this week he was moonlighting for his lobbying gig, and attended a conference promoting a free-trade agreement with Colombia that Hillary Clinton officially opposes. From the Wall Street Journal:Attendance by this adviser, Mark Penn, was confirmed by two Columbian officials. He wasn't there in his campaign role, but in his separate job as chief executive of Burson-Marsteller Worldwide, an international communications and lobbying firm. The firm has ...
Clinton Camp Breaks Tax Return Promise-Update
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailySenator and presidential candidate Barack Obama released his 2000-2006 tax returns last month, and called on the Clinton campaign to follow suit. During a conference call on Thursday, March 27, the campaign promised the returns in short order:Question: Scanning and posting tax returns is a fairly simple process. Why is there any delay, at all, in making her returns available? Clinton Campaign: You know, why was there delay in Senator Obama's making his returns available when we asked for them, despite the fact that he was asking for them on a daily basis? You know, we'll have them within the ...
Hillary Ducking Sniper Fire
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyA firefight has erupted over "Sinbad-gate," or the differing accounts of Senator Hillary Clinton's trip to Bosnia in 1996 with the "Star Search"-winning comic and singer Sheryl Crow. On the Clinton conference call yesterday, for the first time, Howard Wolfson admitted Hillary "...might possibly have misspoken." As reported here last night, Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor released a statement pointing out that inaccuracies in prepared remarks are not misstatements, but rather "misleading." Then, at today's conference call, Phil Singer referred the first question on this to yesterday's transcript. ...
Obama Releases Income Tax Returns
By Dave - Politics DailyAnd dares Hillary to do the same: Barack Obama released seven years of tax returns today "to demonstrate his commitment to transparency," said spokesman Robert Gibbs. Gibbs called on Hillary Clinton to do the same. "We believe that the Clinton campaign should meet that routine standard and meet that routine standard now," he said. Clinton's campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson has said HRC's tax returns would be released on or around April 15th. He promised at least three days of lead time before the April 22 PA primary. With Hillary defending her "hot zone landing" lies, I'd say that Barack ...
McCain/Clinton Ticket Possible?
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyI first floated this idea yesterday while reporting on a conference call with Howard Wolfson and Mark Penn. Here's the excerpt from that story that gave me the idea:Also interesting was, when asked about John McCain's Iran/Al Quaeda gaffe from yesterday, Howard Wolfson declined to jump on McCain or his foreign policy credentials, instead highlighting Hillary's differences with McCain on Iraq policy. Why this reticence to go after McCain? Is Hillary angling for a VP slot with McCain should she lose the nomination? Taken by itself, this is a little bit of a stretch, but when you consider several ...
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