Mark Penn is sorry, really very, very sorry - honest. He's really, really sorry!!;

[Melinda]

But he still cashed the check.

Clinton aide sorry for trade meeting


WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief strategist apologized Friday for meeting with Colombian officials pushing a free trade agreement that the presidential candidate opposes.


The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the strategist, Mark Penn, met Monday with Colombia's ambassador to the United States. Clinton advisers said Penn's meetings were not connected to the campaign, but part of his job as chief executive of the lobbying and public relations firm Burson-Marsteller Worldwide.

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"The meeting was an error in judgment that will not be repeated and I am sorry for it," Penn said in a written statement. "The senator's well-known opposition to this trade deal is clear and was not discussed."

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According to Justice Department filings, Colombia agreed last year to pay Burson-Marsteller $300,000 to help "educate members of the U.S. Congress and other audiences" about the trade deal and secure continued U.S. funding for the $5 billion anti-narcotics program Plan Colombia.

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[tekisui]

1. If Hillary keeps Penn, she will lose PA.

And that would effectively end her campaign. She's gotta drop him, and fast. Having PA unions against your top aide in a union state is a recipe for a loss.

[u2spirit]

5. He has dirt on her

or she would have shit canned him months ago. She knows he's a dirtbag and bleeding her campaign dry.

[tekisui]

6. Then, she has sealed her fate.

[pdxmom]

2. It also makes me wonder what other meetings Penn has been involved

in during the campaign.

[tekisui]

3. It makes me question Hillary's character, motivation and judgement.

[pompano]

12. She'll probably get....

...rid of him but, not for the reasons one would assume.

The fact that he didn't continuously lie, deflect, blame or try to spin out of it shows he is not a team player for Camp Clinton. Nevertheless, the point is well taken, if she keeps him she is persona non grata in Pennsylvania, I would imagine? More than likely a few more States would follow suit.

[Bread and Circus]

4. Mark Penn is a duplicitous piece of human filth. That he is Bill and Hillary's main political...

confidant and strategist for 16 years never ceases to blow my mind.

[hisownpetard]

7. You are so right. Mark Penn is one of the sorriest people I've seen in a long time.

[Lerkfish]

8. he's also a Blackwater lobbyist, I believe

[tyne]

11. Well, look at the history of her choices...

She also chose Dick Morris to be Bill's top dude.

She sure does make good decisions.

[jgraz]

9. Dammit petard!

beat me to the joke by 2 minutes. :grr:

[0007]

10. A real sorry smuckerroo, 'eh? Sorry he didn't cover it better that is;

What a guy!

[frogcycle]

13. one sorry sumbitch

I want a do-over of Iowa.

Let's go back to eight candidates and rethink this thing.

[tekisui]

14. Notice they released their tax records at the same time this story broke.

They don't want this story noticed.

[Colobo]

15. I love that guy. He's such an asset to the Obama campaign!

[pompano]

16. I think ....

...this will be the proverbial last wood fasterner in the standard burial container for Camp Clinton.

Time to get ready for McCain. He has already enjoyed a headstart this Party didn't owe him.