Mark Penn

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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John McCain Should Go on Vacation, Hillary Clinton is Doing His Job for Him

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics

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By attacking Obama in a way that confirms every right-wing demagogic caricature of her own Party, Hillary has adopted the frames, lies, stereotypes and destructive clichés long embraced by the likes of Karl Rove.

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Hillary Get Your Gun

RJ Eskow | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics

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This isn't a primary race anymore. It's a suicide pact. It's Gun Crazy II, starring Sen. Clinton as the gun-totin' candidate who fought her way up from her hardscrabble origins.

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Obama: I Would Have Fired Mark Penn

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama at a press conference in Indiana: "I think it was surprising to me that a high ranking, if not the highest ranking, member of Senator Cl...

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Forget American Idol: A Crescent City Proposal For Hill, Barack and John

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 04.10.2008 | Home

In the vein of Stephen Colbert, imagine getting the candidates to all sign a Rebuild New Orleans pledge. After the race, their surplus campaign funds would go directly to rebuild New Orleans.

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Mark Penn, Designated Scapegoat?

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

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This is an interesting move for Clinton: it could truly be an effort to reunite the party by distancing herself from the mudslinging -- which will help the party whether she's the nominee or not.

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The Vanity Campaign

Ryan J. Davis | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

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It's very hard to take Hillary Clinton seriously these days. Yesterday, I received three e-mails begging for donations to her broke and seriously mism...

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Mark Penn's Fall: Clintonistas Dance On Penn's Grave

New York Observer | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

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On a conference call among high-level Clinton staffers on the morning of April 7, longtime adviser Mark Penn was arguing about a proposed advertisemen...

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Hillary is Joan Crawford and Bette Davis Rolled into One

Bill Katovsky | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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Now that the poisonous Penn has been effectively defanged as Clinton's chief strategist, one can only wonder what more surprises await us with her topsy-turvy presidential campaign.

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Fired Clinton Campaign Head Mark Penn Takes His Client to Dinner

Jeff Danziger | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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Mark Penn's Clinton Camp Role Remains Undefined

Huffington Post | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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The Clinton camp faced a series of questions from reporters seeking to clarify what, exactly, is Penn's new role with the campaign. "I appreciate the...

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Hillary Clinton's Penn-Ultimate Leadership Mistake

Gloria Feldt | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

That Clinton finally fired him as chief consultant -- though strangely retaining him as pollster, not realizing that failure to fire cleanly is as bad as not firing at all -- is a Hail Mary pass, but it's the best supporters can hope for.

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Mark Penn And Hillary Clinton: If They IM'd

236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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Hillary Clinton's campaign took yet another Sisyphean turn this weekend when Mark Penn, her chief strategist, stepped down from his post amid apparent...

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Gov. Ed Rendell: Clinton Should Get Rid Of Penn Altogether

USA Today | Mark Memmott and Jill Lawrence | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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Mark Penn shouldn't just be out of his job as chief strategist for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, he should be cut off completel...

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Mark Penn, Not Reverend Wright, is the Mega-Embarrassment of this Campaign

Adam Hanft | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

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Mark Penn represents everything that's wrong with the American political system: paid access, unfettered lobbying, market-tested nothingness, cross-over conflicts.

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Clinton Colombia Ties Don't Stop With Former Chief Strategist

Politico | Eamon Javers | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

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Mark Penn isn't the only Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter on the wrong side of the Colombia trade agreement. The Democratic-leaning advocacy firm the...

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Mark Penn Speaks (In Private): Will Still Advise Clintons, Calms Nervous Aides

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

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Mark Penn, who resigned over the weekend as the Clinton campaign's chief strategist, went into full damage control mode on Monday, hosting a conferenc...

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A Test for Democrats on Foreign Policy

John Fund | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

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The simple truth is that the opposition to the Colombian trade agreement -- from the Democratic presidential contenders to Nancy Pelosi -- has nothing to do with reality.

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