Mark Penn throws a hissy fit at a fellow Clinton staffer...a sign of things to come?

[Bicoastal]

But the campaign has something of a shellshocked feel, as staffers privately chew over a blowup last week where internal frictions flared into the open. 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. "The execution is all wrong," he said, according to the operatives.

"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."

Despite Hillary's optimism, I wouldn't want to be inside the Clinton War Room right now...

An interesting read, even if it IS from the WSJ. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120295209438666989.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy

[Bread and Circus]

1. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

[burythehatchet]

2. But she will be ready on "Day 1"

[Exultant Democracy]

3. I tried to rec this but it said I already had, funny since there are 0 recs.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Oh, they did this before NH--pretend to be in "meltdown" mode (note that

Hillary is never involved in the staff turbulence), lower expectations, and then call her the comeback kid if she gets a better-than-projected result or wins WI. Her staff leaks the staff tales of woe--believe me, they have control over this. This doesn't even sound real--sounds like a fake "acceptable" battle--it's meant to let us know they're "retooling" their message and changing strategy.