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Penn in December 2007 on Plan for Two-Way Race Against Obama: "Release the Tapes"
August 11, 2008 8:17 PM
In a December 30, 2007 memo written on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Mark Penn writes to his fellow Clinton staffers that after the caucuses, if Obama "is riding a high we will have to take him down."
He runs through a series of potential attacks against Obama -- he has taken a bunch of liberal positions that make him unelectable, has been inconsistent on Iraq, has flip-flopped on issues, and voted present a number of times in the Illinois legislature instead of taking a position.
Then, playing out a number of scenarios, Penn writes that if they come out of Iowa and it's a two-way race with Obama, "on Friday we do a media interviews (sic) and basically say that he is unvetted, discuss his ever-changing positions. Release the tapes. Create immediate pressure that deprives him of oxygen.'
"Release the tapes"????
What tapes?
- jpt
UPDATE: Ben Smith at the Politico and Sam Stein at Huffington Post say that a Clintonista reports the tapes were video of Obama taking ultra-liberal positions that don't square with his current stated views, nothing more nefarious than that. For what it's worth.
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Hillary Clinton sucks! I hope her 13 millon in debt chokes her!
Posted by: Joe | Aug 13, 2008 5:20:30 PM
LETS GET A FEW THINGS STRAIGHT..
1ST,ALL THIS TALK ON WHAT HAPPENED TO HILLARY AND HOW SHE LOST IS SIMPLE..
SHE GOT BEAT!!
SHE GOT BEAT BY SOMEONE WHO PREPARED BETTER,FOUGHT HARDER,AND WAS SMART ENOUGH NOT TO ATTACK HER LIKE SHE DID HIM AND COME OFF AS A BULLY BEATING ON A GIRL..
2ND, FROM THE DAY SHE ENTERED THE RACE,SHE HAD NAME RECOGNITION,8 YEARS AS 1ST LADY,POLITICAL POWERHOUSES AS FRIENDS,AND MOST OF ALL.. MONEY!!!!
SHE DID NOT PREPARE OR RUN HER CAMPAIGN FOR THE LONG HALL LIKE HE DID..
HE TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE INTERNET,HIS ORGANIzATIONAL SKILLS,AND HIS ABILITY INSPIRE PEOPLE AND MOVE THEM WITH HIS SPEECHES..
3RD,SHE RAN ON THE SAYING,"I HAVE OVER 35 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE"..WHAT EXPERIENCE????
THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WERE IN CLINTONS CABINET AND ADMINISTRATION HAVE SAID THAT SHE DIDN'T HAVE NO EXPERIENCE IN FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS,OR EVEN SITTING IN MEETINGS CONCERNING THE ECONOMY,OR EVEN VOTING ON ANYTHING..
BUT AS U PUT IT,SHE HAS EXPERIENCE..LMAO,GIVE ME A BREAK PEOPLE..
OBAMA,RAN ON JUDGEMENT..
REMINDING ALL,THAT THE SAME PEOPLE WHO CLAIM EXPERIENCE,LIKE SHE AND JOHN MC CAIN,AND ALL THEIR EXPERIENCE,GOT US IN THE WAR AND PREDICTAMENT THAT WE ALL ARE IN NOW!!
3RD,BE HONEST..THE REASON I SEE ON THE INTERNET,HEAR ON TALK SHOWS ON THE RADIO,AND SEE ON TV ABOUT HOW U CAN'T VOTE FOR OBAMA BECAUSE U ARE AFRAID,IS WEAK..AFRAID OF WHAT???
U GOT A BLACK MAN WHO HAS FACED PREJUDICE,LIKE HILLARY,AND OVERCAME IT..
HE GREW UP POOR AND ON FOOD STaMPS,UNLIKE
HILLARY AND MC CAIN,aND OVERCAME THAT TOO!!
HE GREW UP WITHOUT KNOWING HIS FATHER WITH HIS SINGLE MOTHER AND GRANDPARENTS RAISING HIM LIKE MOST YOUNG KIDS DO NOW,AND U SINGLE MOTHERS OUT THERE THINK THAT HILLARY KNOWS BETTER OR BEST FOR U???
SHE HAD PARENTS AND MONEY...
SO DID JM AKA JOHN MC CAIN...
OBAMA KNOWS WHAT ITS LIKE TO BE POOR..
BUT DID HE RAISE THIS AS AN ISSUE OR COMPLAIN ABOUT IT???
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HE STAYED HEAD STRONG,WAS SELF MOTIVATED,AND WHAT DO U KNOW,ENDED UP AT HARVARD!!!
MS.CLINTON,WOULD SAY OR DO ANYTHING FOR YOUR VOTE..
4TH..THE LIES aBOUT GETTING OFF A PLANE UNDER GUNFIRE,THAT SHE REPEATED ON MORE THAN 2 OCCASIONS..AND HER SUPPORTERS CLAIMING THAT THE MEDIA WAS ATTACKING HER BECaUSE OF THE STATEMENT..WELL,SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE LIED,AND TRIED TO COMPETE WITH JM TO SAY SHE TOO HAD COMBAT EXPERIENCE,LOL...WELL....
5TH..HAVE U CLINTON BACKERS EVEN LIFTED A FINGER ON YOUR KEYBOARD TO SEE JUST WHAT SHE'S DONE IN THE SENATE????
SHE HAD ONE MEANINGFUL BILL SHE SPONSORED,AND IT WAS ABOUT HEALTHCARE...THAT WAS IT!!!
THE OTHER 19 HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH NOTHING..LIKE,NAMING POST OFFICES AFTER SOMEONE..WHAT THE HECK???
OBAMA HAD MORE EXPERIENCE ON HIS 1ST DAY IN THE SENATE THAN CLINTON DID..
AND HAD WRITTEN,SPONSORED,AND PASSED MORE BILLS THAN SHE DID..
U HILLARY SUPPORTERS NEED TO GET A LIFE AND GET OVER IT!!!
SHE LOST....
Posted by: THE TRUTH... | Aug 13, 2008 12:19:07 PM
hfp - All of your conspiracy theories lead to one logical conclusion: Evil Obama has been smart enough to fool everyone in the US government. You're right, it would be terrible if we elected someone smarter than everyone else...
Posted by: grr | Aug 13, 2008 8:51:43 AM
So let's get this straight... those who believe unsubstantiated rumors are "informed" and those who will only believe what they can prove somehow are not informed?
Interesting take on things...
Posted by: Jeff | Aug 13, 2008 12:52:59 AM
jeff, let us catch you up... Soetoro adopted Barry and his name was changed as was his birth certificate, to Barry Soetoro, and he traveled to Pakistan on his Indonesian citizenship passport in 1981. You can't even get a low-level security clearance at the FBI with dual citizenship, fyi.
Posted by: hfp | Aug 12, 2008 11:43:13 PM
Obama also posted a selective service registry number which he said he got in Hawaii one year after his 18th birthday which doesn't match up with his name on cross-check. He was at Occidental college at the time he said he registered, and the number is not for him or any of his many alias names (Barry Dunham, Barry Soetoro, Barack Obama)
Posted by: hfp | Aug 12, 2008 11:30:12 PM
Jeff - Please stop jeff, youre making me laugh way too hard. you are so easily taken for a ride. That birth certificate is a PROVEN PHONEY. It lacks official characteristics, found on real BC issued in Hawaii at that time. You expect to find the truth an Obamas website??? Of course you do, youre an Obamna supporter. Was his 20 years membership to black liberation church just a figment of our immagination also? Howabout his choice of anti-american associates? No lies there. Count em, Frank Davis, William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan,Tony Rezko, Louis Ortega, Raila Ordinga,,,, Shall I go on. Stop watching MSNBC before they make a complete sucker out of you. The man is a Marxist ideologue.
Posted by: badger1 | Aug 12, 2008 11:21:11 PM
Amazing...dozens and dozens of outright lies attempting to smear Obama. You people should be ashamed of yourselves. Whatever happened to "Thou shalt not bear false witness...?"
Posted by: Jeff | Aug 12, 2008 11:00:36 PM
I would love to hear Obama's plan to beat Hillary. I bet it includes playing the race card.
Posted by: willie | Aug 12, 2008 10:16:26 PM
It is really sad that we have a chance to elect Hillary; a candidate that really understands the issues and would put this country back on track, but instead we end up a with Obama; a candidate that is going to announce his choice for Vice President in a text message--this is becoming extremely embarassing.
Posted by: amazed08 | Aug 12, 2008 9:53:21 PM
Bart.
Ever hear of issues? For example.... Obama wants to repeal the capital gains tax break.... do you understand what that means to millions of seniors just getting by on limited income? Have you researched this? FEELING GOOD ABOUT OBAMA IS JUST NOT RATIONAL... DO YOU UNDERSTAND???
Posted by: Manitu | Aug 12, 2008 9:43:51 PM
If you Liked Cheney, You'll Like Obama, his cousin, they both have turned out to be alike.
Posted by: NoTrustObama | Aug 12, 2008 9:22:50 PM
McCain is terrible: massive flip-flops and deception. He is completely immoral: he voted against his own anti-torture bill to curry favor with his political bosses. His campaign is staffed by lobbyists. He even had a lobbyist campaign staffer announce that he wouldn't have lobbyist campaign staffers.
His website pays people points to post anti-Obama posts. They are called trolls and Badger is one of them.
McCain has to pay people to write lies about Obama because he can't win on his own accomplishments.
If McCain is elected, he will crash the American economy just like he crashed FIVE planes when he was in the military.
Posted by: Bart | Aug 12, 2008 9:19:50 PM
PCC - Yes, it really does boggle the mind. Obama could rob a bank today,,, it would be news for a day, and the liberal media would be right back to promoting obama, while cleaning his diaper. The flip flops, the lies, the church affiliation, the shady associates. Unbeliveable.
Posted by: badger1 | Aug 12, 2008 8:33:02 PM
What alot of you Obama supporters don't understand is we don't hate Obama ...Obama has done more then his share of hating what America stands for by staying with wright all those years...You see we don't trust Obama and all his friends alot of American's don't trust him and this is going to show come Nov...Its called trust ..If you can't stand for something you will fall for anything and thats what alot of you Obama supporters are doing ..You will not stand up for America against wright and Obama and Farrahkan ..You are saying it's ok to G.D America and that we had 911 coming to us...Obama thanks it's ok to or he would have left the trash he was being feed..
Posted by: PCC | Aug 12, 2008 8:07:50 PM
Ben - got news for you - your story is pretty old too - been around for years!!
Posted by: Manitu | Aug 12, 2008 7:52:35 PM
badger1...It just is amazing that so many people are falling for Obama knowing what they know about him...All his life he chose to have the people that hate America all around him and Why?...It sure does tell you how some
American's feel about this country
...Sad really really sad that they will not stand up for this country and all it gives them...Because they really think Obama is going to do something for them...Some just can't understand that he's just another typical politation.
Posted by: PCC | Aug 12, 2008 7:36:59 PM
So Obama wants to suspend the income tax on seniors. How do you spell "I WANT TO WIN FLORIDA!!!" I don't know what the tapes are that Penn refers to, but I hope some REAL journalist finds them and releases them, preferably during the convention.
Posted by: anne1244 | Aug 12, 2008 7:32:05 PM
WOW - SO OBAMA IS GOING CANCEL THE INCOME TAX FOR US OLD GUYS!! AND... GIVE LOTS OF OTHER INTITLEMENTS FOR PRACTALLY EVERYONE ELSE EXCEPT THE FAT CATS AND BIG OIL. THAT WILL ONLY CAUSE THE NATIONAL DEBT TO DOUBLE, WEAKEN THE DOLLAR SOME MORE, AND...... CAUSE THE FIRST DEPRESSION SINCE THE 1930s. SAD TO SAY THAT AT LEAST SOME OLD GUYS WILL FALL FOR OBAMA'S GOBBLEDEGOOK!!
Posted by: Manitu | Aug 12, 2008 7:17:15 PM
How can anyone keep supporting a man who knows very little about government, foreign affairs, history, people, and politics? It is a shame that so many are so determined to vote " D" when they don't veen know how pathetic their choice really is. Shameful, really.
Posted by: Jack | Aug 12, 2008 4:45:55 PM
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