Posted by Jed Lewison on Mon Apr 7, 2008 at 12:59 PM Pacific

The Clintons are responsible for their own campaign -- not Mark Penn

Marc Ambinder makes essential points in back-to-back posts:

  1. The most important failure of the Clintons' campaign is theirs and theirs alone.
  2. Mark Penn was not fired. In fact, he was on the campaign's regular messaging call today.

What you're really seeing here is thoroughly desperate campaign spinning out of control in its final weeks -- soon to be days.

Also, credit where credit is due: Yesterday, The Nation's Ari Melber, kossack dawnt, and Politico's Ben Smith all saw through the Penn smokescreen.

Update: Ben notes that Clinton folks are still saying that the "central point here is that he's out, not that he's in." Color me skeptical.

The Clintons are responsible for their own campaign -- not Mark Penn

Marc Ambinder makes essential points in back-to-back posts:

  1. The most important failure of the Clintons' campaign is theirs and theirs alone.
  2. Mark Penn was not fired. In fact, he was on the campaign's regular messaging call today.

What you're really seeing here is thoroughly desperate campaign spinning out of control in its final weeks -- soon to be days.

Also, credit where credit is due: Yesterday, The Nation's Ari Melber, kossack dawnt, and Politico's Ben Smith all saw through the Penn smokescreen.

Update: Ben notes that Clinton folks are still saying that the "central point here is that he's out, not that he's in." Color me skeptical.

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