The scandalous conflict of interest in Clinton's campaign.

[Skidmore]

Now who has the most to gain from Hillary's disastrous campaign? Clinton and the Democratic Party or McCain and the Republican party when longstanding Republican operatives are running her campaign? The Republicans are out to destroy many right now, for those of you who don't get or don't want to.


http://www.americablog.com/2008/02/mark-penns-tangled-corporate-web.html

Monday, February 25, 2008

Mark Penn's tangled corporate web: Clinton is a client; McCain is a client.
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 2/25/2008 10:18:00 AM ET · Link
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As has been widely reported, Hillary Clinton's top guru, Mark Penn, is leading the charge within the Clinton campaign to go aggressively negative against Obama. Besides the fact that Penn is the architect responsible for Hillary's presidential aspirations going from "inevitable" to being on life support, he is reportedly obsessed with destroying Obama. While it is understandable that Clinton's top adviser wants his client to win at all costs, going massively negative against Obama (or Hillary for that matter) risks damaging our candidate in the fall election against McCain. Unfortunately, this is something another "client" would welcome. That client is named John McCain.

Penn is the CEO of Burson-Marsteller, a DC public relations (PR) firm. Burson-Marsteller owns a subsidiary, BKSH. BKSH is run by Charlie Black. Black is a longtime Republican politico, and a top adviser for John McCain for President. And, as Think Progress notes, while Black is a volunteer on the McCain campaign, he views Mcain as his client and continues to take a paycheck from BKSH. JedReport dissected these relationships in a diary on DailyKos last night.

Much more after the jump...

And, Ari Berman wrote about this last spring:
A host of prominent Republicans fall under Penn's purview. B-M's Washington lobbying arm, BKSH & Associates, is run by Charlie Black, a leading GOP operative who maintains close ties to the White House, including Karl Rove, and was a partner with Lee Atwater, the consultant who crafted the Willie Horton smear campaign for George H.W. Bush in 1988. In recent years Black's clients have included the likes of Iraq's Ahmad Chalabi, the darling of the neocon right in the run-up to the war; Lockheed Martin; and Occidental Petroleum. In 2005 he landed a contract with the Lincoln Group, the disgraced PR firm that covertly placed US military propaganda in Iraqi news outlets....

more....

[ej510]

1. This is does not surpise me at all.

This is why you should not hire lobbyist to run your campaign.

[Skidmore]

2. kick

[Skidmore]

3. kick

[alteredstate]

4. kick

[anonymous171]

5. Add this to the transparency battle and Obama will have a good offensive.

[izzybeans]

6. Clinton must denounce Mark Penn or Drop out.

If we are to follow the logic of the day, that is. Or better yet, she must drop out now.

That's what the race baiters are saying about Obama.

[Forkboy]

7. K&R for any thread showing Penn's true colors.

:kick:

[99th_Monkey]

8. Rec'd - illuminating, though not surprising, given how Bill went on RushL's show

to punp up Rethugs to cross-over to vote for Hillary.

Hillary's being painfully and increasingly exposed for the DINO republican shill that she is ...
she should know better than to lie down with these dogs ... well if she has a shred of conscience
left that is.

[Skidmore]

9. kick

[blogslut]

10. Yep

Clinton and McCain hired the same PR firm.

[Skidmore]

11. kick

[wrando]

12. they're all just politicians

Thehill.com

Lobbyists on Obama’s ’08 payroll
By Alexander Bolton and Brittney Moraski
Posted: 12/20/07 07:59 PM
Three political aides on Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) payroll were registered lobbyists for dozens of corporations, including Wal-Mart, British Petroleum and Lockheed Martin, while they received payments from his campaign, according to public documents.


The presence of political operatives with long client lists on Obama’s campaign contrasts with his long-held stand of campaigning against the influence of special interests. Obama has even refused to accept contributions from lobbyists or political action committees (PACs).

[Skidmore]

13. kick