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The Washington Post really outdid itself today — cheers to the Washington Post! In a long feature, we learn that all of the various Evil Clinton Advisers hate each other, but they mostly just hate Mark Penn, a.k.a. the Lizard King Bowser. Everything you thought was happening in Clinton's camp is fully confirmed, which somehow makes it less true.
Everything is Mark Penn's fault, and no one likes him, but BILLARY supports him, so it truly is a Triumvirate of Lizard Monsters:
"I think about all camps think it's Mark's fault," said a Clinton White House veteran close to the campaign. "I don't think there is a Mark camp." Another person who has advised the senator from New York said: "Penn should have been let go. He failed the campaign in developing a message and evolving the message as things changed."
But there is a Penn camp, however small, that believes in his message of strength, experience, and fear of recession and crisis — and its most important members are Bill and Hillary Clinton. Three times, campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle and senior adviser Harold Ickes tried to hire another national pollster so Penn would not be the one to test his own message, campaign sources said, and three times they were rejected. When the candidate forced out Solis Doyle last month after a string of defeats, the departing manager said Penn should also be fired, to no avail, sources said.
It even reached the point of "[Expletive] you!" between Penn and Harold Ickes. We don't know what the Post's current style guide is, so may it's "[I wish to be friends and make watercolors of rainbows and ride ponies with] you!" See, this could just be a sex thing, as most things are:
Penn was growing increasingly aggravated by what he saw as an untenable management structure, which another aide described as an "oligarchy at the top." Penn had no real people of his own on the inside and chafed whenever Solis Doyle or Ickes got involved in his sphere. At one point, he and Ickes, who have been battling each other within the Clinton orbit for a dozen years, lost their tempers during a conference call, according to two participants.
"[Expletive] you!" Ickes shouted.
"[Expletive] you!" Penn replied.
"[Expletive] you!" Ickes shouted again.
Meanwhile, Obama's advisers have never disagreed.
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This is news? It's been all over the NY Observer where Ickes spilled his guts and the LAT where various insiders have been leaking like a sieve.
Yes, people, this is what you can look forward to in a Clinton administration. General whining, bitching, hair-pulling, territorial fights over nothing. Happiness reigns when a Clinton is in charge. Then when Bill jumps in with his various floozies, that's when the fun really starts.
Clinton '08 - Fuck You!
"The greatest challenge going into the campaign," a senior campaign aide said with a sigh, "was the management of Bill Clinton."
I think Senior Campaign Aide = Hillary Clinton
Great fucking team cohesion, Hils. That's the way to build a coalition to beat Gramps Walnuts.
Only one team in history won by fighting among themselves and that would be Charlie Finley's 1972-1974 Oakland A's. I'd throw my vote (apparently Canada City types can vote in your election now) to Hilsbot if one member of her team decides to grow a Rollie Fingers style mustache (and I don't care who.)
Time to shift over to the less civility, more blow jobs platform.
Hilldog has given her staff new directives:
I hate reruns. I saw this all on 'West Wing'.
Obama 08: No, Fuck YOU!
Yeah, its Mark Penn, Hillary is not culpable at all. Its has nothing to do with her image, remarks, etc. Yeah, its Mark Penn.
Can I have some macaroni and cheese with that whine?
Fuck you. That's all I have to say. Fuck you.
@sluggo: Which one is Josh Lyman and which one is Bruno Gianelli?
I always figured Bowser for the leather daddy type.
Makes sense. Axelrod does kinda look like Luigi.
Vote Hillary '08 because she can bring together the nation... as she has shown with the Democratic party, and of course her own staff.
"Phil Singer, the campaign's deputy communications director, emerged from a meeting on Feb. 11 and without explanation started angrily cursing the war room. "[Expletive] all of you," he shouted, according to a witness, then stormed out and did not return for several days."
Corky St. Clair is working for the Clinton camp!
[guffman.warnerbros.com]
Well, you know there's a lot of fucking when Bill's around.
[i want to snort coke off a hooker's ass with] you!
@Pupster: Wow, I can't wait for more years of the Clinton machine in the White House! They're non-stop fun - and always put the country before insider politics...
Clinton '08 - No, Fuck YOU! No Backsies, Times Infinity, Plus One!
I think she keeps him around to always look good in comparison, or that he reminds her douchebag waterhead of a brother, Hugh. [www.bbc.co.uk]
Cauliflowered face lizard did NOT bring up COCAINE in this debate!
Let's try that again:
Cauliflowered face lizard did NOT bring up COCAINE in this debate!
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When Mark Penn "resigns," will the official reason be that he "wants to spend more time with Patty Solis Doyle?"
Fuck you, fuck you, you're cool (pointing to Huma), fuck you! I'm out!
an obama/clinton ticket might spawn a kind of electric, dysfunctional white house atmosphere that could potentially take reality TV to a whole new level.
I think it's more likely to be "wants to spend more time with 64 individually wrapped slices of American cheese." [users.snip.net]
@sluggo: And that was such a shitty season.
@Pupster: You forgot finger pointing. Hills doesn't clap-clap-point-point for nothing, y'know.
I didn't think you could get elected Senator from New York without yelling "Fuck you!" a few times.
And as for the Bowser analogy, does this mean we'll soon see Chelsea in something frilly and pink?
Clinton team needs less Bowser, more Mallow.
Isn't she Hillary Clinton? And didn't she approve that message?
@Destonio:You should be getting a check for these. I blew me up a poster of the "Muddy Hussein Waters" pic.
@Canuckledragger:
No. With her family.
@Joga: More cow bell!@norbizness: +1
You do know that Bowser is a good guy in the graphic you're showing.
@Dr.Woo:
Cool! I'll give you my address, but I'm in hiding.
If Penn delivers -sylvania, what can Ickes possibly deliver? Exactly. Penn wins.
@pantspantspants: You are exquisite to me. *sweet kiss*
@Moimeme: He appreciates it, but Wonkette killed him.
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