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 Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 2:01 am Post subject: Errors Haunting Clinton |
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 Errors Haunting Clinton
By E.J. Dionne Jr.WASHINGTON POST - The most striking critiques of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign have come not from her opponents or her enemies but from her most loyal friends.
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By E.J. Dionne Jr.WASHINGTON POST - The most striking critiques of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign have come not from her opponents or her enemies but from her most loyal friends.Since December, I have been hearing a steady stream of worries from Clinton partisans who took Barack Obama's challenge seriously from the start. These loyalists felt her campaign was misreading the nature of the political year, the state of the Democratic Party, the organizational requirements of a long struggle for the nomination and the complexity of the party's attitudes toward both the candidate and former president Clinton.The immediate cause of Mark Penn's departure as Hillary Clinton's chief strategist was his private work on behalf of a Colombian free-trade agreement that Clinton opposes. But the fact that Penn could not hold on to his privileged position is a reflection of problems that plagued the Clinton campaign even before it lost the Iowa caucuses in early January.The failure in Iowa, which allowed Obama's candidacy to take off, was Clinton's original strategic sin. Clinton's advisers were ambivalent about competing in the state. They worried that her vote to authorize the war in Iraq would make it hard for her to win in a place whose caucus-going Democrats are, on the whole, staunchly antiwar.According to a leaked internal memo, Clinton advisers considered skipping Iowa altogether. Instead, her lieutenants were sluggish in organizing in the state and then, realizing the dangers of losing it to Obama, poured in resources -- thus depleting her coffers for the fights to come. Her campaign seemed to have only two speeds: overconfidence and panic.Clinton's surprise comeback in New Hampshire looks ironic in retrospect. Many attributed the victory to an emotional and revelatory moment in which Clinton choked up at a campaign event and declared: "This is very personal for me; it's not just political."Defying the false assumption that she was an unfeeling political automaton was one crucial element to Clinton's victory. Her win may have saved Penn's job at the time. Yet, according to his critics inside the campaign, it was Penn who had resisted counsel that Clinton needed to show her human side.
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