Republicans are running both Hillary's and McCain's campaigns.

[Skidmore]

Mark Penn and Charlie Black are gaming the election. Reason enough not to trust Hillary.




http://www.americablog.com/2008/02/mark-penns-tangled-c...

Monday, February 25, 2008

Mark Penn's tangled corporate web: Clinton is a client; McCain is a client.
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 2/25/2008 10:18:00 AM ET · Link
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As has been widely reported, Hillary Clinton's top guru, Mark Penn, is leading the charge within the Clinton campaign to go aggressively negative against Obama. Besides the fact that Penn is the architect responsible for Hillary's presidential aspirations going from "inevitable" to being on life support, he is reportedly obsessed with destroying Obama. While it is understandable that Clinton's top adviser wants his client to win at all costs, going massively negative against Obama (or Hillary for that matter) risks damaging our candidate in the fall election against McCain. Unfortunately, this is something another "client" would welcome. That client is named John McCain.

Penn is the CEO of Burson-Marsteller, a DC public relations (PR) firm. Burson-Marsteller owns a subsidiary, BKSH. BKSH is run by Charlie Black. Black is a longtime Republican politico, and a top adviser for John McCain for President. And, as Think Progress notes, while Black is a volunteer on the McCain campaign, he views Mcain as his client and continues to take a paycheck from BKSH. JedReport dissected these relationships in a diary on DailyKos last night....

[Kittycat]

1. More like destroying her Campaign from the inside out.

[Skidmore]

2. A reflection of poor judgment on her part to not only hire them but

keep them after all the losses.

[madrchsod]

3. just think if she could have brought upon herself

to dump penn and the rest of the losers and run a 50 state campaign..

[Emit]

4. Why did she hire them?

I'm so confused

[99th_Monkey]

5. Hillary: "If I can't play, I'm taking my ball and going home" -nt

[Skidmore]

6. Kicking because there is something really wrong with this.

[Avalux]

7. I guess Hillary decided in order to win, she needed to 'become' Republican.

And I don't understand why people can't see that she IS the establishment candidate for Democrats. Voting for her will ensure business continues as usual in Washington. After the last 7 1/2 years, one would think the Democratic base would reject a candidate who wants to be so much like her competition.