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Hillary Clinton Watch: The Memos

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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., greets with supporters after campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Friday,n Aug. 8, 2008, in Henderson, Nevada

The “LEAKED” Hillary Clinton Memos is the first “Shock and Awe” in the undermining attack by the Clinton Cabal on Barack Obama.

Read them here at The Atlantic.

Flap’s favorite graphs:

  • Mark Penn: Obama is “unelectable except perhaps against Attila the Hun,” and wrote, “I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.” Penn proposed targeting Obama’s “lack of American roots.”
  • After death-defying wins in Texas and Ohio, Mark Penn circulated his “Path to Victory,” which included portraying Obama as “a doomsday scenario.” He chided his adversaries for their timidity about attacking Obama’s pastor, Reverand Jeremiah Wright, Jr. “Many people,” Penn wrote, “believe under the surface that 20 years sitting there with Goddamn America would make him unelectable by itself.”
  • Mark Penn: “…Obama is Just Words – a campaign built on promises that turns out to be no substance, no leadership or judgment behind them in area after area…..
  • Mark Penn: “Obama must be vetted on Wright, Rezko, National Security and exposed for Just Words – his record of not showing the leadership or judgment he has projected on Iraq, Afghanistan, in the State Senate or the U.S. Senate. Not someone who will be able to beat John McCain as independents and Republicans learn more about him and all his positions.”
  • Mark Penn:”…Won’t a single tape of Wright going off on America with Obama sitting there be a game ender?”
  • Mark Penn: “Many people (Peter Hart excluded) believe under the surface that 20 years there with Goddamn america would make him unelectable by itself. What does that say about his leadership that he never left or complained? What would have other Presidents have done? Will he sit there and listen to the 5 dictators? No one believes he believes in these things – the question is why he lied about it all, like he did with Rezko, and what it says about his judgment and leadership. And what do these relationships say about his willingness to wheel and deal for political gain?…”

As a result (or NOT?), Hillary will NOT be delivering a keynote address at the Denver Democrat convention.

And, it is revealed today that there will be protests from Hillary Clinton partisans at the convention.

The pro-Clinton group PUMA (which stands for People United Means Action, and more popularly known as Party Unity My Ass) plans to hold a protest in Denver to demand Clinton be put back into the contest. The group released a letter to delegates on Monday lobbying super delegates to reconsider backing Clinton.

The group Colorado Women Count/Women Vote has said it will also hold a pro-Clinton parade in Denver on Aug. 26, the second day of the convention when the former first lady is scheduled to speak.

Ah, The Clintons and you thought they were finished with Barack Obama. It is just beginning.

Stay tuned……

Update:

Now, there are a few pundits that believe Team McCain is following the Mark Penn strategy memos.

And, why would anyone NOT believe that the Clintons are helping John McCain?

On Fox News, former Bill Clinton advisor Dick Morris makes the case that against “Conventional Wisdom” Hillary DID accept Mark Penn’s advice to paint Obama as “un-American” emphasizing her middle America background and roots.

Believe Flap, the Clinton machine is gearing up for McCain.


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2 Comments

  • Ling

    Is it just me who thinks so, or did the Clintons actually start piling up the pressure immediately after Obama asked for Florida and Michigan delegates to be seated?

  • Flap

    The Clintons take the long view of political conflicts. They have been subtly undermining Obama for months now. This is why Obama is not doing well in the polls with women over the age of 40.