Internal sniping tarnishes Clinton’s image.

[JTFrog]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23552134/

Internal sniping tarnishes Clinton’s image.
Feuding between aides shines spotlight on candidate's management style

By Adam Nagourney, Patrick Healy and Kate Zernike
updated 11:56 p.m. ET, Sun., March. 9, 2008

WASHINGTON - The morning after Senator Barack Obama shook the Clinton campaign by winning five states in one weekend, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s new campaign manager — Maggie Williams, who had taken over in a shake-up the night before — assembled the curious if demoralized staff.

“You may not like the person next to you,” Ms. Williams told dozens of aides who ringed the conference room at the campaign’s Virginia headquarters last month, according to participants. “But you’re going to respect them. And we’re going to work together.”

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Caught off-guard
For all her years on the public stage, Mrs. Clinton has never come close to assembling and running an enterprise like the 700-person, $170 million-and-counting campaign organization that she has created. At times, her aides made assumptions about tactics and voters that turned out to be wrong. They nearly ran out of money at all the wrong times, like just after Mrs. Clinton’s victory in the New Hampshire primary and right before the 22 state nominating contests on Feb. 5.

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But a month later, she described herself as stunned to learn the campaign was nearly broke — notwithstanding financial reports sent to her every week by e-mail — and was all but conceding the 11 contests that were to come over the next month.

[Larkspur]

1. Hillary's management style will be a BUST for America if she

is the Dem nominee and eeks out an victory of McCain in the Fall. She would literally be Dubya ver 2.0

[CoffeeCat]

4. Contrast that with the stellar machine...

....that Obama has organized--and the differences between Obama and Clinton are stark.

I've never seen a ground game like or a campaign as effective, creative and inspiring as
Obama's. His people are all respectful, knowledgeable and very gracious--and they're
running on inspiration, fueled by Obama.

Obama's campaign is run the way he worked as a community organizer. This is what he's talking
about when he says that he wants to inspire the American people to take charge of their government.
When he says that the government doesn't work "from the top down, it works from the bottom up" he
means that "We The People" need to take responsibility and make it happen.

Obama is a true leader. His campaign is a testament to that.

I've witnessed plenty of campaigns coming through Iowa every four years--for the caucuses. I've
never seen anything like the Obama campaign. There has never been anything like it.

We need this man in the White House.

[babylonsister]

2. If she can't run a campaign, how can she run a country? That

little bit about receiving e-mails regarding finances that she didn't read is worrisome, too.
Sounds too familiar.

[NDambi]

7. Didn't she say...

during one the debates that you have to manage the bureaucracy and be hands on?

Live by your words, Hil

[SoCalDem]

3. In a way, it's not her fault.

She's mostly been a First Lady..and that entails lots of OTHER PEOPLE doing most of the pre-planning and the paying for of all things involving that position.

and even when she ran for senator, it was a one state deal with lots of help from BC, so she probably had very little hands-on experience with much of anything involving management for most of her life..

And her staff seems fairly fractured and incompetent.

[Yael]

5. Yet she is asking us to trust that she is prepared to run this country.

[SoCalDem]

6. I keep waiting for Obama or his supporters to stress this solid fact

It's like how people fawn over celebrities with kids and their high power career..and how hard it must be..

nannies, housekeepers, drivers, personal trainers, assistants, accountants, gardeners, pool guys, cooks.. yeh.. that sounds like a really hard job..

[BearSquirrel2]

9. A good president ...

A good president, in my opinion, comes perilously close to micro-managing their cabinet secretaries. They should have a VERY good handle on what these people are up to and actually READ serious document like the NIE.

[Exilednight]

8. I went out to my driveway this morning, picked up the NYT and on the front page right column it.....

said in nice bold letters - Sniping by Her Aides Hurt Clinton's Image as Manager