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A couple of days ago the Obama campaign proudly announced that it had hired Patti Solis Doyle, the most loathed ex-Clinton campaign staffer in the world besides Mark Penn, and a chorus of OH NO HE DID NOTs echoed around the Interblogosphere as horrified political dorks contemplated the meaning of this travesty. Worry no more, because Barack Obama himself explained it all yesterday.
Here is what the candidate said about his new employee:
“Patti Solis Doyle I think is a terrific experienced campaign hand. She’s from Chicago. Her brother and I organized on the southeast side of Chicago when I first moved to Chicago as a community organizer, so I’ve known the family for a very long time. I think that she will bring not only a set of skills that we’re gonna need as we put our ticket together but she’s going to be a terrific adviser and offer insight and judgment that will help us.”
In other words, “She is useless.”
Obama on Patti Solis Doyle [First Read]
i think she demanded blackmale to keep her head down during the campaign
Hopey just hired Patti so he could get Huma’s home number. Nothing to see here, folks… move along now.
Borat: yes, she demanded a black male.
“Besides, she looks good in a little black dress.”, continued Obama. “Patticakes, Bring me some coffee and a cigarette. Thanks, Sweetie!”
Borat: That is too damn funny!
The mere fact that you are still writing about this nobody is a slap in the face to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
I still say her face is much too square. Hopey: If da face is square, ignore da hair!
EnBuenOra: Why yes, yes it is. Now over my knee and get yours!
I hear she is going to be in charge of the microphones. Barry gets really pissy when the sound is not just right.
terrific…experienced…campaign…hand…job
Wasn’t this covered in “The Godfather: Part II”?
“Keep your friends close. But keep your enemies closer.”
(Fade shot of Hillary’s severed head in the bed.)
EnBuenOra: EnBuenOra: Why yes…yes it is. Now over my knee and get yours!
If by “useless” you mean “hot”.
he’s so slick.
hang out with the brother to get close to the sister.
EnBuenOra:
Are you trying to tell me chief of staff to the vice presidential candidate’s campaign isn’t really that important in the grand scheme o’ things? I don’t believe you.
WIDTAP:
“Test…..test…..test. Patti, go get the doughnuts now.”
Botswana Meat Commission FC: Flunky of a warm bucket of spit. Sexy!
She’s got friends there already, great organizational skills, the Clintons rolodex, she’s cute and she pisses off the Clintons. Sounds like a great hire to me!
Oooh, so she has family connections! That means a lot in Chicago.
I’ve got a feeling that Solis Doyle was scapegoated for Hillary’s failure on Super Tuesday — probably by the Penn/McAuliffe/etceteras. She wouldn’t have been in that spot without being very capable. Hillary and Obama have probably already agreed on Hillary’s payoff, which didn’t include being V.P., so this seems like much ado about nothing.
Canuckledragger: Huma lives in my neighborhood, so I was hope(tm)ing for a quick end to the Clinton campaign so she’d return and I could catch some sightings. That’s the change I am believing in.
Is it me or does she have a striking resemblance to a certain intern?
Servo: No. Patti is too thin. Bill would never go for that.
Barry just wants to make sure to hire everyone who’s ever worked in Chicago politics. That was when they fuck up Chicago style, he can personally spank them, also Chicago style. Can’t do that with twats from New York City or whatever.
blowhard: Does she actally live there or does she cocoon somewhere until the next political season?
If Hopey starts pointing, clapping and crying, so help me I will scream.
Kingbee: Apparently PSD ran Clinton’s Senate campaigns, both of which were megaexpensive. But in the 06 campaign, where there was no opposition, she still maxed out the coffers. Methinks this chick is spending large because she’s compensating for unhappiness at home … Hopey. Watch out for your block and tackle!
Hold on here …. “Her brother and I organized on the southeast side of Chicago when I first moved to Chicago as a community organizer, so I’ve known the family for a very long time.” I smell a mole!
Rule 1: Do not hire as your campaign manager very good family friends of your opponent.
Sabotaging (bankrupting) Hil’s campaign must have been an inside job!!
In other words, “This shit was just too easy! Teh Hilz is now on vacation for a month trying to get her gigantic granny panties pried loose from the nuclear wedgie that this one, little appointment made! BWAH-HA-HA-HAAAAA!!!”
Not_So_Much:
From: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/clinton-takes-month-off-2008-06-17.html
“Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is taking a month off from Congress to recuperate after her marathon run for the presidency. … Reines would not say where Clinton is vacationing, and most senators said they did not know her location either. / Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), a stalwart supporter of Clinton’s presidential bid, would say only that she and former President Bill Clinton “wanted to go somewhere private and far away ”
is “a month off to recuperate” long enough for Bill’s bruises not to show on their return?
Wikipedia tells us the PSD came up with “Hillaryland” and that is such a GENIUS idea (name+land=slogan?moniker?epithet?) that BHO had to keep her powers in the hands of good to prevent a McCainland from ever appearing.
Kingbee:
That’s not racial transcendence, but it’s exactly right.
you just wait until obama announces the hiring of mark penn to run his campaign! hillary is going to be so pissed!
She ought to be fired.
Does the Hillz campaign ‘owe’ her anything in that giagantic debt? Give Selma, I mean Patti, a nice consultancy fee and she can forget about what Hillz owes her. The biggest worry is the Penn might be the next advisor to consider waving his debt in exchange for some of the Hope’s sweet candy
So… There’s “hope” for Patti’s brother? (wink wink)
Well, duh: before you FIRE someone, you first need to HIRE them.
WIDTAP: Oh, in other words she is going to be a roadie. Sound check, check, check, how’s that check, more bass check.
Samantha Power, all is forgiven. Y’all can come back now.