[lbo-talk] Hillary in meltdown?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Feb 14 06:25:34 PST 2008


[from The Note]

Things don't look good from the inside, either (and when stories like this make it outside the room, what does that say about where things are headed?).

"The campaign has something of a shellshocked feel, as staffers privately chew over a blowup last week where internal frictions flared into the open," Monica Langley and Amy Chozick writes in The Wall Street Journal.

"Clinton campaign operatives say it happened as top Clinton advisers gathered in Arlington, Va., campaign headquarters to preview a TV commercial. 'Your ad doesn't work,' strategist Mark Penn yelled at ad- maker Mandy Grunwald. . . . 'Oh, it's always the ad, never the message,' Ms. Grunwald fired back, say the operatives. The clash got so heated that political director Guy Cecil left the room, saying, 'I'm out of here.' "

This precious detail from the trail in Texas: "Mrs. Clinton stayed on the stump, wearing her trademark yellow jacket and a sunny disposition, while the campaign song blaring here, in Spanish, was 'Estos Celos,' or 'This Jealousy.' "



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