A Penn-Less Pennsylvania For Clinton

[bijou]

Mark Penn, chief strategist for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, quit Sunday.

The official reason: his meeting last Monday with the Colombian ambassador in Washington to discuss strategy to pass the U.S.-Colombia free trade pact that Sen. Clinton vehemently opposes.

Why was Penn meeting with the Colombians?

Because he’s always had another job as chief executive of Burson Marsteller Worldwide. Burson, you see, has a lucrative contract with the Colombian government to win congressional passage of the bilateral trade deal. Penn met with the Colombian government within hours of a Clinton speech to the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO in which she pledged to fight the trade deal in part because the Colombian government beats and intimidates union organizers.

Having your chief strategist plot strategy to pass a trade deal you oppose for reasons of economic and bedrock politics is, how should we say, awkward.

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http://bourbonroom.blogs.foxnews.com/

[Uhhuh35]

I don't understand how this happens to "The Smartest Woman in the World". Doesn't she know about the people she hires? Or does she know all along and then do damage control when she can't keep a lid on it?

I guess that's how the Arkansas Mafia works.

[CG6468]

Your second question provides its own answer.