2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton's campaign is reportedly unhappy with Hillary Clinton
There is trouble in Hillaryland: According to anonymous sources who spoke with Politico, Hillary Clinton is frustrated with her campaign staff and vice versa. With the too-close-for-comfort win over Bernie Sanders in Iowa and a New Hampshire victory for the Vermont senator on the horizon, Clinton is reportedly looking to reassess the staff at her Brooklyn headquarters sooner rather than later.
One source who is close with both Hillary and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, said, "The Clintons are not happy, and have been letting all of us know that. The idea is that we need a more forward-looking message, for the primary but also for the general election too
There's no sense of panic, but there is an urgency to fix these problems right now."
There is dissatisfaction among Clinton's staffers, too:
Over the summer while her campaign was bogged down in the email controversy, Clinton was deeply frustrated with her own staff, and vice versa. The candidate blamed her team for not getting her out of the mess quickly, and her team blamed Clinton for being stubbornly unwilling to take the advice of campaign chairman John Podesta and others to apologize, turn over her server, and move on. The entire experience made her a deeply vulnerable frontrunner out of the gate, and underscored a lack of trust between Clinton and her operatives, many of whom were former Obama staffers that she didn't consider part of her inner circle of trust.
Her advisers were also frustrated by having to play roles they hadn't been hired for and were ill-suited for. From the beginning, [the campaign's top pollster and strategist Joel] Benenson was frustrated that he was forced to split his time between defending his boss on emails and defining a path for her candidacy. Clinton, meanwhile, longed for a chief strategist in the Mark Penn mold who could take on a more expansive role than playing pollster. [Politico]
http://theweek.com/speedreads/604429/hillary-clintons-campaign-reportedly-unhappy-hillary-clinton
FULL STORY HERE:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/hillary-clinton-staff-shakeup-218955?cmpid=sf#ixzz3zbYzMVDK
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)Feel The Bern
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)then blame them for your fuckups.
Nanjeanne
(4,974 posts)That Hillary - she's just not good at campaigning.
In 2008 she lost to a black man with a Muslim name.
Now she's losing to a 74 year old Jewish socialist.
Hillary, we're making this as easy as we can for you.
You're gonna have to help a little.
frylock
(34,825 posts)What a hot mess.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Not "Hillary is not happy", but "[font size=3]The Clintons[/font] are not happy..."
That is a very telling remark. Hillary is not running for president, [font size=3]The Clintons[/font] are running for president, and I'm very uncomfortable with that.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)It is telling when a clown knows more than the clowns.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)I had a good friend who was a professional clown.
He was a genius...
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)I wanted to be a clown ever since, so thank you.
Unfortunately I had to settle for being an engineer to make enough to raise my family. hehe.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)He'd make a terrible clown, though.. too serious... :>
Beacool
(30,250 posts)Meh.........
Yurovsky
(2,064 posts)That's a pretty serious charge to lob at a legitimate news/political organization. Politico isn't Fox or Rush Limbaugh.
Now they might not be high-level sources within Team Clinton, but I would give Politico the benefit of the doubt.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)He rides around town, "have you seen my donkey? Im looking for my donkey"
On his donkey.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)One night the Mullah is crawling on the ground under a street light.
Guy walks up-- What are you doing?
I lost a key.
Where did you lose it?
Over there by the stable.
Then why are you looking for it here?
Because there is more light.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Autocomplete is my worst enema.