Wash Post: Clinton Team Is Battling Itself, Even in Victory

[RamboLiberal]

For the bruised and bitter staff around Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Tuesday's death-defying victories in the Democratic presidential primaries in Ohio and Texas proved sweet indeed. They savored their wins yesterday, plotted their next steps and indulged in a moment of optimism. "She won't be stopped," one aide crowed.

And then Clinton's advisers turned to their other goal: denying Mark Penn credit.

With a flurry of phone calls and e-mail messages that began before polls closed, campaign officials made clear to friends, colleagues and reporters that they did not view the wins as validation for the candidate's chief strategist. "A lot of people would still like to see him go," a senior adviser said.

The depth of hostility toward Penn even in a time of triumph illustrates the combustible environment within the Clinton campaign, an operation where internal strife and warring camps have undercut a candidate once seemingly destined for the Democratic nomination. Clinton now faces the challenge of exploiting this moment of opportunity while at the same time deciding whether the squabbling at her Arlington headquarters has become a distraction that requires her intervention.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR2008030503621.html?hpid=topnews

[madaboutharry]

1. I can't help but feel that this is a reflection of her own

management skills. The candidate has to bear some of the responsibility for their own campaign.

[thunder rising]

2. 2nd-ed! Us, we think alike!

[totodeinhere]

5. And if she can't even manage her own campaign,

how can she be expected to manage this country?

[thereismore]

3. Karma, baby. nt

[msallied]

4. EGADS!

Why is the media still spinning this like it's a "stunning victory??" It was nothing for the Clinton camp but a STALEMATE.

I'm so disgusted with the news outlets right now.

[pbca]

6. It makes a better "story" that's all

the media, especially in the states, is in the business of telling stories. The more interesting they make them the better the ratings.

There are no (I repeat NO journalists of any credibility left in the US). John Steward literally has as much credibility as any of them, probably more. Read the international press.

[bridgit]

7. Hey! That's *great* news to hear that HRC's internal campaign is just like DU!!

:bounce:

[XemaSab]

17. Do you want DU picking up the red phone at 3 in the morning?

:shrug:

:scared:

[spooky3]

8. Don't trust anything Baker and Kornblut write, especially not with

two anonymous sources in the first 4 paragraphs.

Take a look at their MANY citations at MediaMatters.org, whose mission is to report on conservative misinformation:

http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/search_results?qstring=peter+baker

91 citations!

http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/search_results?qstring=anne+kornblut

86 citations.

Pretty fair and balanced...

[MadBadger]

9. Fire Penn and Wolfson.

I think I could actually like Hillary if she did.

[Stephanie]

10. Yep, she's a Real Leader

And if she won we'd have the same kind of infighting and mismanagement in the Administration.

[Cha]

11. The most Texas delegates went to Obama..is that

a problem for them?

[mmonk]

12. Sounds like the bush administration.

[FrenchieCat]

13. Sounds like this is the atmosphere generated everywhere

Hillary is. That's not what I want again in my White House!

[democrattotheend]

14. Is this how the Clinton White House would be run?

Doesn't exactly embody competance to me.

[seabeyond]

15. she lost texas, but dont let truth get in the way of a good story. n/t

[HooptieWagon]

16. Sounds like bushCo...