{"id":194885,"date":"2008-08-11T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/11\/mark-penn-should-never-work-for-another-democrat\/"},"modified":"2008-08-11T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T04:03:00","slug":"mark-penn-should-never-work-for-another-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/11\/mark-penn-should-never-work-for-another-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Penn Should Never Work for Another Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And Democrats should never donate to a candidate that employs Mark Penn.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, Politico misses the point, and covers the trees, internecine sniping in the Clinton campaign, and misses the forest, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0808\/12420.html\">Mark Penn espoused a blatantly racist campaign strategy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Mark Penn, the top campaign strategist for Hillary Rodham Clinton&#8217;s campaign, advised her to portray Barack Obama as having a \u201climited\u201d connection \u201cto basic American values and culture,\u201d according to a forthcoming article in The Atlantic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Barack Obama was my last choice for the nomination, but I find these suggestions that a racist and xenophobic an indicator of Penn&#8217;s immorality and incompetence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Democrats should never donate to a candidate that employs Mark Penn. Once again, Politico misses the point, and covers the trees, internecine sniping in the Clinton campaign, and misses the forest, that Mark Penn espoused a blatantly racist campaign strategy: Mark Penn, the top campaign strategist for Hillary Rodham Clinton&#8217;s campaign, advised her to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,977,988],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-presidential-campaign","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}