{"id":946,"date":"2008-02-24T04:40:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T09:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=946"},"modified":"2008-02-24T04:40:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T09:40:30","slug":"it-takes-a-village-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=946","title":{"rendered":"It Takes a Village Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’ve said before, unless blackmail is involved, I don’t understand the Clintons’ loyalty to their campaign strategists.
\nAt a time when the campaign is desperate for funds, last week’s buzz about wasteful spending, like the $500 a night rooms at the Bellagio, was bad enough.
\nBut why Senator Clinton was advised to make a “shame on you” public fuss about the Obama campaign’s claims that she’s supported NAFTA in the past is more than embarrassing, it’s farcical.
\nSenator Clinton might do well to stop tilting at windmills and take a closer look at the company she keeps and their impact on her relationships with old friends.
\nFor example, the Teamsters union had been Clinton supporters for some time, having gone on public record stating same<\/a> less than a year ago.
\nLast week, they endorsed Barack Obama.
\nCould it be that the Clinton campaign made a big mistake in ignoring Jim Hoffa when he expressed concern that her chief strategist, Mark Penn, heads a public relations firm that assisted Cintas in its anti-union activities<\/a>.
\nIt’s starting to feel like Hillary Clinton’s campaign has become a halfway house for the idiots lost by her fabled villages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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