Hillary was undone by “a clash of personalities more toxic than anyone imagined”
August 12th, 2008 at 07:41am Pat Cunningham
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On the basis of hundreds of internal e-mails and memos, The Atlantic is out with a sensational POST-MORTEM on Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential campaign.
The bottom line, as I read it, is that Hillary couldn’t effectively control her campaign staff, which strongly suggests that she was not qualified to run the country.
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1. Mike Carroll | August 12th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Pat-I read the bottom line a bit differently after an admittedly cursory read. It looks to me as though the emphasis was on competing philosophies of how to MARKET/PACKAGE Hillary as opposed to emphasizing her ideas and political philosophy. It was almost as though her campaign was deciding who she should present herself to be rather than emphasizing who she was.Maybe that is what all campaigns are these days. If so, we are the losers.
2. Millard Fillmore | August 12th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Mike - that exact point was clear to me the night of the NH primary, when she said the bit about how she “found her own voice.” Well, then, whose voice had she been using?
3. Mike Carroll | August 13th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Millard-Exactly
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