Mark Penn

Spare Change for Hillary?

Keith Berner | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home

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Every minute spent trying to fill Hillary Clinton's tin cup is a minute not spent raising that same money for Obama or myriad other candidates. She has sucked bank-fulls of cash out of the DNC donor rolls.

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Mark Penn's Wife Feeding At The Democratic Trough

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

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Undaunted by the defeat of his most prominent client, Hillary Clinton, Mark Penn and his wife, Nancy Jacobson, have moved quickly to cash in on their ...

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A Hillraiser Not Yet Ready to Back Obama: Could She Be Flirting with McCain?

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

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In an interview with Hillraiser Susie Buell, the cofounder of Espirit clothing company sounded uncharacteristically disillusioned after watching her beloved Hillary get beat up and beaten in the long nomination battle.

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Paying Off Clinton's Debt: Not A Dime For Mark Penn

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

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Penn has hated everything about the movement for change long before he helped pilot the Clinton presidential campaign to disaster. Now he's teaming up with Karen Hughes in a "bi-partisan" effort.

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Mark Penn, Karen Hughes Team Up On Corporate Crisis Group

WSJ | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

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The Wall Street Journal reports (password req.): Two hard-charging political operatives are teaming up to create a bipartisan consulting organization...

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Hillary Clinton Campaign Insiders Dish On What Went Wrong

Vanity Fair | Gail Sheehy | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton's Campaign, Harold Ickes, Patti Solis Doyle, Hillary Clinton, Mark Penn, Politics News

Vanity Fair's Gail Sheehy talks to Clinton insiders about what went wrong with her once 'inevitable' campaign. See excerpts below and read the entire...

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Tapping Barack Obama's Phone

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

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When Obama eschewed the pundit's red-blue-purple state preoccupation during his '04 Democratic Convention speech, he was choosing poetry over polls.

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Bush Calls Mugabe "Undemocratic"

Michael Carmichael | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics

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As a former advisor to Morgan Tsvangirai, I want to offer observations on the recent attempt by President Bush to appear less despotic than the reviled president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe.

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Mark Penn's Post-Mortem Interview

GQ | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

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GQ's Lisa DePaulo has posted a long interview -- one might call it a post-mortem -- with Mark Penn on Hillary Clinton's failed campaign bid. The whol...

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Top Clinton Adviser Mark Penn Blames Money Issues For Defeat

New York Times | Mark Penn | Posted 06.08.2008 | Politics

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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...

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Hillary Learned Nothing From Iraq

Steve Young | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

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Hillary's campaign was built on the base of predetermined success. Mission Accomplished declared with far more hostilities left to deal with.

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Time And Tide Wait For No Woman

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 06.05.2008 | Home

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We can credit Hillary with many gifts, among them, however, is not a mastery of timing: The "experience" candidate's campaign is a textbook example of right things done at wrong times.

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Why Hillary Lost: She Failed to Share Her Heart's Stories

Rob Kall | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

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Once Hillary moved Mark Penn to the background, she began to share more of herself, but she never really did delve deep into her heart to find the personal stories that defined her

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Chelsea's T-Shirt Project: Too Little, Too Lame

Chip Collis | Posted 05.30.2008 | Home

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The Clinton daughter breathless fundraising T-shirt contest is utterly lame and yet probably much more exciting than the actual nomination contest, at this point. We have some design proposals.

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TNR Asks Clinton Supporters: What Went Wrong?

The New Republic | Michelle Cottle | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

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Endings are rarely as joyous as beginnings--and in the case of a long, wearing, and ultimately disappointing campaign, they can be downright brutal. B...

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Clinton Campaign Reduced to Sketch Comedy

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

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The Clinton campaign has turned out to be as idiotically funny as the current TV spots DirecTV has been running.

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The Single Hardest Thing For Candidates To Understand

James Boyce | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

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The single hardest thing for any candidate to understand is that the consultant class that rules the legacy side of the Democratic party are, as a group, absolutely incompetent.

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Mark Penn Reportedly Dumber Than Previously Realized

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

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Campaign strategist Mark Penn has long been held out as the despised, incompetent ally of the Clinton campaign's own gravediggers, what with his decis...

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Obama De-friends Wright on Facebook

Andy Borowitz | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

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Chief Obama strategist David Axelrod said that Sen. Obama had to de-friend the Rev. Wright on Facebook "because he was getting really annoying."

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Billification and Other Bad Ideas

Dylan Loewe | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

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Bill Clinton is to politics what Isiah Thomas is to basketball. He can hit the political jumper, but he cannot call the plays.

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Bill Clinton Former Adviser: Hillary Should Have Gone Negative Sooner

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

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Some Democratic officials are cringing over the negative tone that the primary race between Sens. Obama and Clinton has taken, worried about party coh...

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Beyond Gotcha: In Search of Democratic Economics

Derek Shearer | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

I don't expect the candidates to endorse any one set of progressive reforms -- but I would like to hear them talking about an Economic Bill of Rights for the 21st Century, not just technocratic neo-liberal policies.

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The Political Titanic

Michael Carmichael | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

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At this point, it is probably time to revisit Mark Penn's role and relationship with the Clinton dynasty. The picture that emerges is at once lucid, revealing and troubling.

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Mark Penn's Replacement: "I Want Your Input"

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

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Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign sent supporters an interesting e-mail yesterday. With longtime Clinton adviser Mark Penn out, new strategist Geoff G...

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Judis Exaggerates Barack Obama's Electoral Death

John R. Bohrer | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

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Political scientist John B. Judis has a New Republic piece which seems to say that Obama surely cannot win the presidency against McCain -- especially after his San Francisco comments.

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