Mark Penn's Clinton Camp Role Remains Undefined

The Clinton campaign's plan from Mark Penn.

"We can spin the media into broadcasting the stories about my resignation on a Saturday and convince the public that I'm off the team. Then, I'll poll the country to see if the public is paying attention, if not, I'll put together a focus group study to see how they react to my not leaving the campaign but just give myself a new job title." "Wow, I can charge the Clinton's several million for all this work......"

Imagine a Hil-liar-y Clinton administration; the thought is laughable. I am already a foreigner, so I could easily go live in Canada. I wanted to do it after Bush 2004, and this will be too much, 12 years of lies, manipulations and distortions, so I may just follow through.

Ah, kinda like being the head of the SS, he now just has a smaller role like Geobbels. Much clearer now, thanx Wolfson.

Penn is still there. Get ready for a barrage of attack ads against Obama in Pennsylvania. They will be right before the voting, so there won't be time for the press, media or Obama to respond. Work up the voters with attacks, whether true or not, get the votes and laugh at the poor people who believed the stories. It is becoming a habit.

Oh no. We're back to "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."

Penn shilled for Hillary in Colombia just like he did for NAFTA with the Canadians. Won't someone PLEASE ask her about it? As for his role--here's the answer. He was doing what she wanted. His role is UN. CHANGED.

Obama should worry about the clowns he has in his own campaign and those loud mouths who are now being silenced from HQ. If he thinks it's tough against Hillary...wait until the Repubs get hold of him and his dirt, should he be fortunate enough to squeak out the nom.

Yeah, what's up with this guy and why does the Clinton campaign protect him? He embarrasses her, and he still is around? Does he have some kind of iron-clad contract with her?

PS---Our current president was an actual cocaine addict and he was still able to win two terms.

Bottomline: http://www.miamiherald.com/jim_morin/image_media/486675.html

Seems to me that the Clinton campaign doesn't want to piss Penn off too much. I'd love to know what he 'knows'.

Hope voters in PA are paying attention.

he 's staying because he knows too much and outside somebody can make him an offer($$$) to talk about so many things.....

If I were a Hillary supporter/contributor, I sure wouldn't want to be contributing to pay Penn's salary.

Well . . . we've all seen this kind of thing before . . . Karl Rove. Just WHAT WAS his position in the White House Staff? Not subject to oversight, on the payroll, subject to Executive Priviledge, calling the shots but not subject to scruitiny.

Is anyone else tired of this crap and interested in more transparency in government?

The choice is CLEAR and it clearly is not HRC.

And THEY should talk. Maybe they should all head up to Canada to tell some more truths about Obama.

Keep vomiting lies and hatred hillary. You're starting to look a like like Dorian Gray

The more the Clinton camp wriggles around this issue, the more they remind us what worms they are.

What's to define he's still working for the campaign that's all that matters.

"You misspoke before. You're not "stepping down." I'm taking you out at the knees. The whole point is to prove that you're not deciding anything anymore. I"m firing you. Action's taken. Confidence restored. Stock goes up. I sell my shares."
- Michael Douglas in "The Game"

This is Hillary"s problem. She doesn"t get the basics. People are watching and they are seeing that she lets her campaign define her negatively rather than actively defining her campaign. She should have forced Penn to discontinue his responsibilities at his lobbying firm BEFORE bringing him on as her chief campaign strategist. She didn"t. After this story broke, she should have immediately fired Penn to send the message that "I am a leader; I am in charge of my campaign." Instead her campaign said "Mark Penn has asked to give up his role as chief strategist." Now he is hanging on around the fringes and the Clinton campaign refuses to define his current role in the campaign. Even worse, Penn is out there saying "Don"t be fooled, I am still an integral part of Hillary"s campaign." The funny thing is that, by all accounts, he isn"t even giving her sound political advice. So all she is getting out of this is the negative effects from prolonging the story and the constant drumbeat of people pointing to her poor judgment.

He will be the Clintons "Money tester."

They'll just give him millions of dollars to test whether it works or not...

His role will be "unofficial advisor". He will also continue eating the donuts.

Penn = Colombia, Blackwater, Countrywide......and the candidate is adamantly opposed to issues connected with these. Why would you employ someone with those ties? Even the appearance of a conflict of interest should be avoided and this long list goes way beyond that.