Buzzflash: Mark Penn and Sen. Clinton: It's a Matter of Trust

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http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/077

Mark Penn did not get "demoted" from being Clinton's chief strategist for meeting with the Colombian government. He got officially "pushed" aside for getting caught, which had the danger of once again exposing Senator Clinton's hypocrisy and deception on fair trade and union issues. Of course, he will still be "consulting" for the Clinton campaign. Natch.

Consider this April 4th Clinton campaign statement "inoperative" now: "Today, the Clinton campaign was asked about the meeting, and a spokesman, Mo Elleithee, said that Mr. Penn’s work had nothing to do with the campaign and that he did not see any conflict or perception problem."

BuzzFlash has a homework assignment for our readers. Examine the following excerpts from articles this past week about what was clearly a Clinton campaign overture to Colombia to get involved in the U.S. primaries by denouncing Obama. But there’s more to it than that. Despite all the ongoing Mark Penn apologies, he’s the poster boy for the corporate lobbyist destructive infestation of our government – and he is Clinton’s lead strategist.

Clinton can’t ever distance herself from Penn, because she chose to put a guy so compromised that he represents some of the worst corporate violators in the world as head of Burson-Marsteller as the chief strategist of her campaign. As Senator Clinton keeps telling us, actions speak louder than words. And the Senator fired Patti Solis Doyle and kept Mark Penn on in her campaign, to this day. (See update at bottom of commentary. Sunday evening, Penn formally got the heave-ho as official lead strategist, but apparently he'll still be doing polling and consulting. His crime: he got caught by the Wall Street Journal.)

This speaks volumes about how the corporations and "K Street" lobbyists will be running the White House if Clinton were to be the Dem nominee and get elected. Clinton’s campaign is so compromised ethically and in terms of contradictions to her stated public policies by the RepubliCrat Penn – and her "centrist" policies before the primaries started -- that it leaves you breathless.

[marmar]

1. "It's a question of lust, it's a question of trust.....

.... it's a question of not letting all we've built up crumble to dust.

Sorry. Can't resist the opportunity to inject Depeche Mode lyrics whenever possible.
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[Andy823]

2. I don't understand

How she could say there was not "conflict" with his trip to Columbia, and do so with a straight face! This is just another in a long list of things that show her as the "corporate" candidate, and as the article states, it shows how a Clinton presidency will be run, by the lobbyists!!!!!!!!

I can't understand how the average person can not see the problems with her and the way should would run the country if elected. It just amazes me!

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. It's easy to understand.

Penn's dealing with the Colombians is completely in line with her beliefs - thus, no conflict. What she says while campaigning is just campaign rhetoric - as I've had more than a couple Hillary supports say, all politicians lie, and you can't trust anything they say while campaigning.

Simple, no?

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Buzzflash, unbiased?

[goddess40]

5. The union buster never should have been part of the campaign

The reason my interest in Clinton fell off was not (directly) her but the people she choose to surround herself with. Between Penn and Terry (throw the candidate under the bus)McAuliffe I couldn't warm up to supporting her.

If in the end she is our candidate I will support her all the way until McAuliffe throws her under the bus just as he did with Gore and Kerry.

[lefty from jersey]

6. The smartest woman in the world

Well I guess we can start looking for a new title holder. Hillary has set a low standard for the title. Lindsey Lohan, are you listening?

Man, did she blow it! Maybe a bad analogy, what with the Lewinsky thing still fresh in everyone's mind.