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Home Front: Politix
Hillary throws Shaheen under the bus
2007-12-13
Jim Geraghty, "Campaign Spot" @ National Review

Fresh in my e-mailbox from Team Hillary:

A STATEMENT FROM BILL SHAHEEN
Shaheen announces decision to step down as Clinton campaign Co-Chair

“I would like to reiterate that I deeply regret my comments yesterday and say again that they were in no way authorized by Senator Clinton or the Clinton campaign.
"I was, like, stoned, man."
Senator Clinton has been running a positive campaign focused on the issues that matter to AmericaÂ’s families. She is the best qualified to be the next President of the United States because she can lead starting on day one. I made a mistake and in light of what happened,
". . . and the horse's head I found in my bed this morning, . . ."
I have made the personal decision that I will step down as the Co-Chair of the Hillary for President campaign. This election is too important and we must all get back to electing the best qualified candidate who has the record of making change happen in this country. That candidate is Hillary Clinton.”

Posted by:Mike

#6  On a different note, does anyone have a copy of the official Enemies List?

I believe that goes under the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" subheading. To be found at any voter registration office under 'Republican'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-12-13 22:18  

#5  Heh, on first glance, I thought the headline was, "Hillary Throws Sheehan Under the Bus." My bad......
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2007-12-13 21:37  

#4  Like someone said, what we have here is Richard Milhous Nixon is a pantsuit. Now it's great to have Dick Nixon to kick around again during the campaign, but don't let it go any further, OK? On a different note, does anyone have a copy of the official Enemies List?
Posted by: SteveS   2007-12-13 20:56  

#3  Ht to AOSHQ:
Blue Hampshire catches Clinton staffers' sockpuppetry:
"Recently, we admins noticed this comment thread on a recommended diary, and the oddities it posed made us look a little deeper than we normally would.
As the comment thread revealed, users pinballwizard, elf, shley24, MTAY all registered in succession to recommend the diary. A further look by us revealed that:

* they had registered within minutes of each other, including another user a bit later, janbaby, who was not among the recommenders,
* the same IP address was used by all of them, and is registered to the Clinton campaign,
* two other recommenders, blues and kmeisje, also registered from the same IP address.

To be clear, and to reiterate what's stated in our Getting Started page: paid campaign staff are welcome in this community, but are asked to disclose their affiliation to a campaign, either through their signature line, a disclosure statement on a diary, or even in the choosing of a username. The fact that all the users mentioned above came from a Clinton campaign IP, but did not register with campaign email addresses, and avoided making comments or diaries, instead only recommending pro-Clinton diaries, strikes us as gaming the system and a form of "recommend astroturf." As a result, we have banned those accounts, and will do so again for undisclosed paid staffers of any campaign if need be.

We have spoken with Kathleen Strand, who assured us that this was not an orchestrated effort but the product of over-eager staffers and volunteers, done without her awareness, and that it will not be repeated. We appreciate her responsiveness and believe that this may indeed be a misunderstanding of low-level staffers of the norms of the site."

this by a site that is not anti-HRC by any means. Can you smell the desperation? Of course all those "over-eager staffers.... and volunteers" will be fired, and their FBI files retained for further discipline (for being caught so easily). Incompetence will be punished...at the lower levels!
Posted by: Frank G   2007-12-13 20:43  

#2  She will not just throw them under the bus, she will drive the bus and back repeatedly over anyone who gets in her way to get to the White House again.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-12-13 20:13  

#1  He's lucky he didn't develop a sudden case of Vince Foster syndrome.
Posted by: Rambler   2007-12-13 18:46  

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