Penn Out As Clinton Senior Strategist

Hillary Rodham Clinton is turning to her communications chief and pollster to plan her presidential election strategy after giving the boot to a polarizing top aide because of his work on behalf of a trade agreement Clinton opposes.

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Colombia Fires Top Clinton Aide's Firm

The Colombian government said Saturday it has fired Mark Penn's public relations firm after the chief campaign strategist for Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized for meeting with Colombian officials pushing a trade deal with the U.S.

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Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's pollster in 2008. Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's pollster in 2008.

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The New York Times Fired Ben Stein For Hawking Sleazy Credit Products While Writing About Financial Matters. Unbelievably The Wall Street Journal Decides To Keep Mark Penn. The Columnist Tries To Snag Clients For His P-R Business After He Writes About Them.

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In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than Americans working as computer programmers or firefighters.

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On Thursday March 5, Rachel ripped into AIG for adding a public relations firm called Kekst and Company to its list of PR firm representation. But the story doesn't end there.

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IF YOU WATCHED television at any point in the seventies, you saw him: America's most famous Indian. Star of perhaps the best-known public service announcement ever.

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Mark Penn analyzes the effect of the economic crisis on the election and deems it favors Obama.

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On Tuesday, the mainstream media, which never looked into allegations against John Edwards that turned out to be true and might have affected the race, splashed the personal life of Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter onto virtually every front page, including this paper's — …

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Say you find yourself seated on the train behind two white supremacists who are beside themselves over the possibility that Barack Obama could become America's first black president. They are so fired up, they fail to notice you.

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Josh Green's big piece in The Atlantic on all the behind-the-scenes drama that gripped Hillaryland during the campaign has just been posted online, and the host of internal campaign memos he's obtained are now up.

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In the Atlantic article, which is based on internal Clinton campaign memos and e-mail messages, Green highlighted bitter fighting among Clinton's staff, writing that her advisers "couldn't execute strategy; they routinely attacked and undermined each other and Clinton never force …

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On my shelf (July 08)

I've been reading Nick Hornby's book, The Polysyllabic Spree, in which he, month by month, lists the books he has bought/read/is in the middle of each month, which I found to be a brilliant way of dealing with the books that stack up. I love books.

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As aides looked over the campaign calendar, chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates.

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Mark Penn is the C.E.O. of Burston-Marsteller, a consulting firm whose clients include Blackwater, Microsoft and General Motors.

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Hillary's right. The boys are holding her back. And the worst part is, they're her own boys. Fresh from pushing the preposterous Mark Penn to the rear of her leaky boat, Hillary has to deal with Bill making waves again.

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From WSWS: The resignation of Mark Penn, the top campaign strategist for Hillary Clinton, sheds light on a feature of the Democratic Party that is not merely an aspect, but rather the essence, of this political institution: it, like the Republican Party, is a wholly owned subsidi …

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The Resignation of Mark Penn as Clinton's Strategist Reveals a Long Overdue Rejection of a US-Colombia "Free Trade" Agreement

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Enter with me now into the exciting and furtive world of Mark Penn, international man of intrigue. Penn is the top consultant for Hillary Clinton, a job for which his firm has so far been paid around $11m.

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Former President Bill Clinton has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars speaking on behalf of a Colombia-based group pushing the trade pact, and representatives of that organization tell The Huffington Post that the former president shared their sentiment.

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Think Mark Penn is gone from the Clinton campaign? Think again.

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Infamous Republican hit man Roger Stone was directly involved in the downfall of Clinton campaign chief strategist Mark Penn.

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As (former) chief strategist for Hillary Clinton's campaign, Mark Penn has been involved in a conflict of interest for some time. His firm, which has raked in millions from the campaign, has promoted anti-union activities for years.

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Mr. Penn took part on the campaign's morning message call this morning, as usual... Mr. Penn "is still going to be very much involved," a senior campaign official said.

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In the days and weeks ahead, the Barack Obama campaign is going to pose a simple question to the undecided voters and undeclared superdelegates who will decide the Democratic nomination for president: If Hillary Clinton can't run a good primary campaign, how is she ever going t …

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The Times, The Independent, The Guardian and The Telegraph, all have their say in the matter of Mark Penn's resignation. The roundup gives you an quick overview

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