Mark Penn and Senator Clinton: It's a Matter of Trust

[Demeter]

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.)....

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[Life Long Dem]

1. The phoney bastards are making a path to Colombia for cheap labor

More offshoring since countries like India are driving up wages they are looking toward other countries. And the two faced Clinton has always been in the middle of offshoring with lobbyist.