And it won't make a bit of difference. This is just a smoke screen to have the press focus on this, instead of questionable tax records that were released on Friday. Smart move but it won't make a bit of difference. People have been waiting for those records forever, and some fat *** pig stepping aside won't make them focus on him instead of questionable business dealings and practices.

The Clinton campaign continues to implode.

The tax records are a NO ISSUE. They gave an enormous amount to charity compared to OBAMA who gave less of a percentage than my grandmom living on social security except for last year where he wanted "to look good."

HILLARY 2008. NO OBAMA

That is terrible news for Hillary!
Now she will have to pay him!

Does she still have to pay him the 2.5 million she owes him? You can't tell me that the campaign didn't know he was working for the Columbian government on the trade deal. They knew.

Wow. Hillary's campaign is a total mess.

The Clintons are hustlers and it's been catching up with them.

Campaigns have their ups and downs. This is not an implosion. The media could find very little wrong with the Clintons' tax records and they gave them years and years. The Clintons gave $10 million dollars to charity. Why isn't that publicized?

HRC needs to "kiss the ring (Obama's ring)" like McCain did in 2000 (Mac kissed W's ring). I bet the Clinton's made money on that "Colombian" trade deal. BLoggers dig deep on this.

The real question that needs to be asked is weather or not Clinton opposed the trade deal Before or After her run for the white house.

I wonder how they will spin this critical mass implosion

I highly doubt this was news to Hillary. Everything is business with her, she stands for nothing.

The only charities they contributed to were there own. Sounds like typical self serving style!!

Is this karl rove's fault?

Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick

Clinton's Campaign is about to explode. When your Chief strategist is stepping down because of unetchical practices, you really have to wonder about the strategies that he has set forward throughout the whole campaign.

To some of you, it wouldn't matter if she was caught molesting children, you would support her anyway. Talk about blind faith.

Just goes to show you that without Obama in the race, none of this would ever be reported at all by the liberal press....they have chosen their lot and they need to destroy Clinton, Inc. to allow the slightly more socialist senator to rise to prominence.

Before you gush all over the Clintons for their donations to CHARITY (?) take a closer look! More than haLf of the donation is to their own organization. They are such hypocrites.

Mark Penn is finally exposed as the cynical huckster that he is. It was no accident that he courted Columbia's business. He already figured out that H. Clinton was a lost cause.

How does it feel Hillary to have your chief strategist dump you? You made a mistake in choosing him.

Blumenthal is gone too.

Next, maybe she will dump Sandy Berger.

The Clinton's did give 10 million to charity. Most of it to....... the Clinton Foundation of which only half has been used. The other half just sits there waiting for their charity Needs. These people are a joke. Love that they released then at 4pm on Friday no less. They aren't afraid of anything and if this were so crystal clean why did it take months to get the data. Oh yeah thats right it was in a file drawer somewhere and they couldn't find them. They are too much! Can't wait to see them fade into the sunset forever!! Loving it!

Hey raf - most of that $10 million went to Clinton's own foundation.
PS: how are things down at HRC HQ? The fattest rat just jumped ship. Wolfson and his ugly sweaters must be next.

The Clinton's did give 10 million to charity. Most of it to....... the Clinton Foundation of which only half has been used. The other half just sits there waiting for their charity Needs. These people are a joke. Love that they released then at 4pm on Friday no less. They aren't afraid of anything and if this were so crystal clean why did it take months to get the data. Oh yeah thats right it was in a file drawer somewhere and they couldn't find them. They are too much! Can't wait to see them fade into the sunset forever!! Loving it!

raf Campaigns have their ups and downs. This is not an implosion. The media could find very little wrong with the Clintons' tax records and they gave them years and years. The Clintons gave $10 million dollars to charity. Why isn't that publicized?

it is because they gave it back to them selfs the clinton foundation, any other question.

Will somebody find out the organizations who paid Clinton so much money and their connection to Dubai? How can you have a potential President beholden to Dubai, which advocates the destruction of Israel?

...and the Clinton tag-team still think they have a chance?

If they can't run their own campaign, what chance the rest of the country?

How many people now have they fired or "resigned"!!!

Come on Hillary, the joke is not funny anymore. Quit while you have some dignity still! Even if you keep telling lies, quit now and save what little more you have left to pay your reported way over due bills.

$10 million to charity?

How nice of them to donate most of it to their OWN charity.

Wouldn't it be great if we all had our own foundation that we could just 'donate to'?

Water is rushing into the Clinton campaign and it will capsize in just a few weeks.

Oh PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE...just keep the quarreling and sniping up for another 5 months because I am LOVING every delicious minute of it.

McCain 2008!

Here is why the charity is not publicized: The Clintons paid $33.8 million in federal taxes and claimed deductions for $10.2 million in charitable contributions. The contributions went to a family foundation run by the Clintons that has given away only about half of the money they put into it, and most of that was last year, after Mrs. Clinton declared her candidacy.

Hillary is CEO of her Campaign it speaks volumes to her incompetence as the Chief Executive.

As you read this HRC is cancelling checks to Mark Penn since he is 'dead to her.'

Mark Penn needs to be GONE PERIOD. It looks like he will STILL be part of the Hillary campaign but will have another "title".

He NEEDS to go.

The Clinton's "charity" is just a tax dodge. You will note that the "Clinton Foundation" did not spend a dime until after she announced her candidacy. And what exactly does "the Clinton Foundation" do? What kind of "charity" does it support?

Too little to late. The damage has been done.

This was just an excuse not to have to publicly fire him. This was a long time coming. It's quite something to have to announce it openly.

The so called "Charity" they gave 95% of their money to was the "Clinton Foundation". Moving the cash from the right pocket to the left pocket is a tax dodge, not charity.

The money the Clintons gave to charity was their own charity: Bill Clinton's Foundation. And where is their 2007 return? oh yeah, she thinks she's going to be the nominanee so they filed an extension, and will probably file another one before August, so no one will get to see it until AFTER the election. A little sneaky if you ask me.

For someone who was leading in all polls just a year ago, the inevitable candidate and her campaign sure have imploded. Penn was a mess, and sleazy. That Mrs. Clinton chose him to run her campaign is another example of her terrible judgment.

Giving to one's charities is fine, EXCEPT, that they where all sponsered Charities of the CLINTONS!!!!!!!!!!!

Check it out!

Your Conscience-Happy day. Jumping ship? Texas said no Obama. Ohio said no Obama. RI said no Obama. Wonder what PA will say next? Looks like BO peaked too soon. Pass the deodorant BO is finished.

It really was as poorly run a campaign as I've ever seen. This is really just the last stages before the end becomes official. This nomination was effectively decided after Texas/Ohio anyway as Clinton has no realistic shot at catching Obama in pledged delegates.

Penn is just an employee. He is just in charge of the the overall strategy of HRC's campaign. He gets paid millions for his work. Just because he is quitting/getting fired in the home stretch of a campaign doesn't mean anything. Employees come and go.

No problemo.

Mark Penn the lobbyist is stepping down?

How do you get below a gutter?

This guy should have left a long time ago. As "chief strategist," he drove Hillary's campaign into the ditch with one miscalculation after another. I'm an Obama supporter, but I harbor no illusions that the mismanagement of HRC's campaign has not contributed to Obama's success. I only hope it's too late for the survivors to get the HRC bus out of the ditch!

The $10 million the Clintons' donated to charity was mostly to "Clinton Fondations." So they gave themselves $10 million and called in charity.

The $10 million the Clintons' donated to charity was mostly to "Clinton Fondations." So they gave themselves $10 million and called in charity.

When Hillary met Sir Edmund Hillary.....

My parents named me after you 7 years before you became a household name.
And I went to a mountain top too when I met with MLK in 1962.
It's congenital...she can't tell the truth because she is a sociopath!!

Wait till the Rezko story implodes on Obama by late May. Maybe someone else will be leaving his camp. Anyone want to guess?

Didn't the Clinton's give all that "charitable" money to the Clinton Foundation? Amazing how people can turn things around to suit their own needs. How about giving to a real charity, Hillary. Marc Rich already gave enough for that one.

The reason that I like Senator Obama is because he chosen not to participate in dirty politics. If this was him linked a working lobbyist for the Columbian Goverment the HILLARY CAMPAIGN WILL TRY TO DESTROY HIM.
Jay
Mobile, Al

Sure...there are no problems with Hillary's taxes unless you have a problem with the fact that her 10 million dollar donation went to the Clinton's own fundraiser and that there are 18 million dollars still unaccounted for.

The penn-ultimate step; now it is time for Hillary to go, too.

It's soft and cuddly week for Hillary.Did anybody fall for her award winning performance last week honoring Martin LK? I almost jumped up and started to clap when she said she threw her bag against the wall and felt that her whole life had been drained from her body. What drivel. I guess we have to wait a week or so before someone at the school tells us she was actualy sucking soda at the time. This woman is the best actress I have seen in years. I believed her about dodging bullets in Bosnia. I believed her when she said Chelsea was a block away from the World trade Center when in fact she was upstate at home. I think I will stop believing Hillary DUH!

Hey BRIAN, do you mean Sandy Burglar ? I think she might need to keep him around in case she needs something stolen from the Archives.

Corrupt Clintons, corrupt staff....

The reason that I like Senator Obama is because he chosen not to participate in dirty politics. If this was him linked a working lobbyist for the Columbian Goverment the HILLARY CAMPAIGN WILL TRY TO DESTROY HIM.
Jay
Mobile, Al

The reason that I like Senator Obama is because he chosen not to participate in dirty politics. If this was him linked a working lobbyist for the Columbian Goverment the HILLARY CAMPAIGN WILL TRY TO DESTROY HIM.
Jay , Al

Hillary threw Mark under the bus

Actually, only about $500K out of $10+ mil had gone to charities other than the Clinton foundation. Yes, hypocrites they are.

Did you know that Michele Obama over a 7 year period at her job with the hospital she works for, would make more money than Hillary did for U.S. Senator? Do you not think if Obama becomes president he would not eventually become more wealthy than he is now? The Clinton's have disclosed personal records for 30 years. Don't you think they know people are watching.

Did you know that Michele Obama over a 7 year period at her job with the hospital she works for, would make more money than Hillary did for U.S. Senator? Do you not think if Obama becomes president he would not eventually become more wealthy than he is now? The Clinton's have disclosed personal records for 30 years. Don't you think they know people are watching.

Uh, the only charity the Clinton's gave to was The Clinton Foundation...of which Bill and Hillary get a healthy "management fee." Come on, people, there is never a raw moment of goodness from these people. When will you learn?

Obama-$22,500 donation to Reverend Wright. Yep. You pay for the bigot you deserve.

She has nothing under control, our Hillary.

She wouldn't even be able to be the manager of a local supermarket. I

Her campaign is, by any standard, a complete failure.

She's a parody of a presidential candidate.

Again - the clintons will say ANYTHING to win. Do ANYTHING to win. And toss aside anyone who gets in their way. They believe in MONEY and POWER only. And their poor little daughter. She is an adult - working on wall street. Can bash the sitting president, but WON'T TALK TO THE PRESS. Come on now. When will this clinton con game end...

All their 2006 charitable donations went to their own foundation, how self-serving.

I want to know what political favors get doled out to the Chinese, Dubai investors and god knows who else in exchange for donating to the Clinton presidential library. Don't forget it's how they sold off pardons to Mark Rich.

Finally, she's gotten rid of that large leach. Mark Penn has made millions off a flagging campaign. He's been a horrible strategist. Why Mrs.Clinton chose to keep Penn this long is another example of her bad judgment. She has no integrity and is unqualified to be President. Obama and McCain will make a much more interesting presidential election.

lauren-How many times did Obama throw his own grandmother under the bus? Answer: Twice.

The Obama campaign should imediately hire Mark Penn. He will have a mother load of dirt on Hillary and Bill.

Another rat scrams from the sinking scum-bucket's ship... this is too much fun!!!!!

"The Penn situation -- and the lack of action by you -- raises serious questions about the veracity of your claims of what you would do should you become President," the unions said in a statement released Saturday.

I hope now the Unions see who Hillary really is Say anything mean nothing.

I think that Mrs. Clinton has only one major problem.That she is a female and I don't think we should hold that against her. If she can do the job lets get her in

Yesiree folks, we now have liberal, ultra-liberal, and marxist running for POTUS. What a choice the media gave us. Now it's up to the sheeple to doom themselves with this great(?) selection.

How pathetic.

Your Conscience - News Alert - OBAMA WON THE MOST DELEGATES IN TEXAS. Exactly. The Obama supporters overthrew the will of the people. Good point.

this is a good news for HRC campaign.

Mark Penn was not doing a good job,Clinton old times like Carville and Bagela were staying away because of Penn

Dogsoldier: Old news. Move along. You want us to start talking about the missing White House furniture again?

Dogsoldier: Old news. Move along. You want us to start talking about the missing White House furniture again?

You can't make this stuff up.

This HAS to be the WORST campaign ever!
This is the stuff of "Commander and Chief?" She can't run a campaign in the primary... and some think she will be stronger in the General election?

She is a JOKE. A total JOKE.

WestCoastMessanger, Dogsoldier, Jgaw, Jay, MattOhio, et al all HillLovers, lack of judgement has knocked again at the door of Hill's campaign. The Hill's Campaign is desparate, that is not good news for Hill the Bosnian General specializing in snipers brigade. Let us stpo America of lobbysts and special interest on K street and get America back to Americans. God bless America and God bless Obama. OBNAMA08.

well i guess i was wrong .
Penn will continue to provide polling information to the campaign, but will no longer serve as the chief strategist. Instead, Geoff Garin and Howard Wolfson will head up the message for the campaign.

she didnt throw him under the buse she just had him switch seats.

What about the $2.5M he is owed by the Clinton campaign? What delicious problem!

hillary should just step down as well, do us all a huge favor, and go AWAY!!!

1) Penn disserved Hillary with a poorly run campaign, 2) The Clintons only donated money to their own foundation - how self serving is that (and it was all tax deductible as well of course) 3) Hillary won't quit until the Convention refuses to appoint her Queen and 4) Obama will be beaten in an unprecedented landslide come November.

The problem is not Penn. The problem is the candidate

What a horrible and costly lack of judgment to hire Mark Penn in the first place.

It took Hillary, who has no talent for management whatsoever, WAY too long to fire him.

And now - it's too late. Maximum damage done.

Good God you people are nuts! You have no Idea what you are talking about. The tax records are on line The reports made to the IRS are on line. They gave the Money to the Clinton Family Foundation. Not to the Clinton Foundation. Not to the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation. Or the 100 or so other foundations with Clinton in the name.

Get your facts straight.

Obama08

CLINTON LOSES PENN!!!

A harbinger of things to come?

Dale,

I agree. This morning on the Chris Matthews show panelist member Gloria Boucer of CNN said, 'the difference between this years election match-up as apposed to past elections, is that for the time the election will have two genuine nice guys; Obama and McCain.' She's right.

Wait til Penn tries to collect the millions owed him and his firm. LOL THAT will be great to see.

The "charity" the Clintons donated to is their own tax-free foundation, and more than half the money "donated" is still in the bank there, having never been given away. Charity begins at home, I guess. In this case, the address is in Chappaqua, NY

It's simply mindboggling that ANYONE could actually support this evil woman.
What a fraud. Wake up,folks!

Why you OBAMA supporters not asking OBAMA to reject his pastor and church?

Are you people also followers of Black Liberation Theology?

Hillary did the correct. She atleast fired someone who went against her position. Thank you Hillary

Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.

To me this sounds like teachings of Osama

Good-bye and Good-luck Hillary

Go Habs!!

Glad that Rev Wright is still on board the Obama campaign as advisor of hate and anti-americian rhetoric! Well if he goes Michelle can take over, there are always someone who hates american on that campaign!

Twenty,
I did nt fall for that book bag thrown against the wall performance either. Somebody has to go back in the archives and see what comments and speeches Hill made regarding Dr. King's assasination. DId she show as much emotion then? And if not, why not? Did she mention throwing her book bag across her dorm room in utter desolation? I don't recall her saying that before. Surely in her 8 years as first lady, she must've made some comment about it or her 8 years as first lady of Arkansas. Now, for the 40th anniversary of a sad occasion, she gets all worked up? If it is so sad in 2008 it must have been more sad and more fresh in 1998.

This speaks to Clinton's management skills. She doesn't fully vet her stories (in fact, she willfully embelishes) and she doesn't fully vet her staff.

Yeah, Sen. Obama claims he is running some noble campaign.. then bashes John McCain saying he wants to stay in Iraq 100 years, when he obviously didn't say that.

But, to his defense, maybe he didn't hear it... just like he didn't hear his pastor screaming racial nonsense from the pulpit for 20 years.

The Republicans and moderates are going to clobber him in November. Gotta love it when Democrats SHOULD in theory have a cakewalk to the White House and screw it up. lol