Hillary's campaign manager steps down?

[sfam]

This was just on Fox News. Wow...not sure what this does for her at this point...But Patti Solis Doyle will apparently stay on as a senior advisor.

EDIT: I changed this from "resigns" to "steps down". Not sure I see the difference here, as the implication is the same. She's being demoted due to something bad occurring - usually this a perceived performance issue.

[Medusa]

1. I believe "resigns" should be put in quotation marks

to denote the more correct reality of the situation.

[sfam]

2. Maggie Williams is the new Campaign manager...

my apologies if this is old news. Here's a link if its not...

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/02/10/politics/fromtheroad/entry3813801.shtml

[BeatleBoot]

3. No one resigned.

They swapped positions.

[sfam]

4. I changed it to "Steps Down" - happy?

this still isn't much better in terms of perception. "Changing places" isn't really accurate as this implies its a minor change. Dropping a campaign manager down is not a minor thing.

[npincus]

5. "stepped down" is to "quits" what "passed away" is to 'died"

just a kinder, gnetler way of saying the same thing. Hillary's campaign for whatever reason decided that someone else should take command.

[sfam]

6. CBS' headline: Clinton Campaign Manager Steps Down...

This is a pretty normal usage of the term. You usually use this term when someone is canned by the organization keeps them on the payroll.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/02/10/politics/fromtheroad/entry3813801.shtml

[npincus]

8. ABC News: "Clinton Campaign Manager Calls it Quits"

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4269776&page=1

[sfam]

9. Read the first sentence of the link you provided...

"Patti Solis Doyle announced that she is STEPPING DOWN as the campaign manager for the presidential campaign of Sen. Hilary Clinton, D-N.Y."

[npincus]

10. it's a semantic argument

calling it quits = quitting = stepping down

Unlike gettting fired, all of the above infer that the position is being left by choice not by force; it is a decision made by the person quitting (or sgtepping down)and not by others. "Stepping down" is a softer way of puttinthg it; a nice idiom for the more direct equivalent "quitting".

That is how I see it.

[CreekDog]

7. And what of Mark Penn?

Well, he probably recommended a campaign shake-up, strategically below him --after all, he's too, uh, important and useful. Oh, and expensive. :grr: