And that’s why they pay him the big bucks
So. You pay a head PR person millions of dollars a month to run your campaign, and the best thing that he can come up with is to find a picture of your opponent dressed in traditional Kenyan clothing and leak it to the Evil Party PR organs?
Gosh, I can’t think of any reason why brilliant campaigning like this would tend to depress interest in your candidate. After all, accidentially enriching Mark Penn beyond the dreams of avarice for his spectacular job of expensively auguring your “sure thing” nomination into the rocks (DESPITE the teeny detail that you are probably the best qualified candidate for the job) would show an almost B*shian disregard for detail, and if there’s anything the Democrats aren’t they aren’t B*sh.
And that’s because B*sh is a Republican, and the Republicans have functional smear campaigns.
Update: The Clinton campaign has denied that they released the photo. I see no reason to disbelieve them, given their truculent comment was along the lines of “what’s so damned divisive about wearing traditional Kenyan clothing?” I suspect my dislike for highly-paid PR parasites (a dislike I developed when the highly-paid PR parasites drove the Dean campaign into the rocks, and which has been reinforced by some of the dimwitted campaign discussion that came from the PR parasites in the Clinton campaign early in this primary season) has made me jump to a conclusion that is completely wrong. Mea culpa, Ms. Clinton, mea culpa.
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Wow, you really are an ignorant, bigoted, knee-jerk, lefty radical.
Um, what? You must have posted that comment to the absolutely wrong weblog, because it has fuck-all to do with the post you’re commenting on.
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Let’s hope the Dems get the clue about Mark Penn faster than they did about Bob Shrum, who managed to blow the Gore and Kerry campaigns while collecting millions in fees. Among Shrum’s other accomplishments, he’s the genius who advised Kerry to ignore the Swiftboaters instead of punching their teeth down their throats, a tactic not seen since Dukakis won by saying nothing between the Democratic and Republican conventions. Oh wait…