Clive Crook

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If only they had chosen Clinton...

12 Aug 2008 05:03 pm

I don't think so. Read this piece by Josh Green and the accompanying haul of documents from inside the Clinton campaign. This is the candidate who ran on management expertise--on "actions speak louder than words", on the ability to get things done. Hillary, it appears, is a pitiful manager.

Clinton ran on the basis of managerial competence--on her capacity, as she liked to put it, to "do the job from Day One." In fact, she never behaved like a chief executive, and her own staff proved to be her Achilles' heel. What is clear from the internal documents is that Clinton's loss derived not from any specific decision she made but rather from the preponderance of the many she did not make. Her hesitancy and habit of avoiding hard choices exacted a price that eventually sank her chances at the presidency.

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Unbelievable! Even after death by leak and counter leak....what do all these political "professionals" do? Leak and counter leak!

robert powell

Combined with the recent Edwards meltdown, I'd say the Dems dodged at least two bullets in this campaign by nominating Obama.

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