WTF?!? Mark Penn Op Ed: Clinton's Problem Is She Could Not Raise Enough Money To Pay Me

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The Comedy writes itself
Among the Clinton post-mortems in the NY Times today is a self-delusional column by Mark Penn. Stating not so implicity, I fucking kid you not, that Clinton's main problem is she couldn't raise enough money...to pay Mark Penn.
http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2008/06/comedy-writes-itself.html

Op-Ed Contributor
The Problem Wasn’t the Message — It Was the Money

By MARK PENN
Published: June 8, 2008
Perhaps the most frustrating part of losing a close race is thinking about what else you could have done to win. You replay the campaign over and over again in your head. As an adviser to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, I sure do.

The conventional criticisms of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign are these: she had no message; she ran just on experience; she should have shown more of her warmer side; she was too negative; President Clinton’s campaigning hurt her; and she presented herself as inevitable. It is amazing she got any votes at all.

So let’s take on a few of the myths. Even schoolchildren got the message that Mrs. Clinton was ready to be president on Day One. As a result of her campaigning and ads, people saw her as a strong commander in chief, a good steward of the economy and a champion for people who needed one.

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While everyone loves to talk about the message, campaigns are equally about money and organization. Having raised more than $100 million in 2007, the Clinton campaign found itself without adequate money at the beginning of 2008, and without organizations in a lot of states as a result. Given her successes in high-turnout primary elections and defeats in low-turnout caucuses, that simple fact may just have had a lot more to do with who won than anyone imagines.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/opinion/08penn.html?_r=1&oref=slogin