Via the Wall Street Journal...
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/01/04/iowa-isnt-that-important-clinton-staffers-say/">Here
ON BOARD THE CLINTON PLANE — After pouring millions of dollars and nearly a year of effort into a win in Iowa, senior staffers for Democrat Hillary Clinton now say the state isn’t that important after all.
“The worst thing would be to over count Iowa and its importance,” said chief strategist Mark Penn, just hours after the New York senator finished in a disappointing third place, behind Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.
“Iowa doesn’t have a record of picking presidents. We’re in a strong position to move forward,” Penn told a handful of reporters on board a chartered midnight flight that took Clinton staffers and such high-level supporters such as former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright from Des Moines, Iowa, to Manchester, N.H.
That contradicts the huge gravitas Clinton put on the Iowa caucus in her recent stump speeches, evoking the process as a democratic gift in the wake of Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s death.More...--------------------
It's not like we didn't see this excuse coming. They showed on CNN that Clinton also said something about Iowa not being important in picking Presidents. Which is somewhat of a white lie. I wonder how Iowans feel now? You better believe if Obama lost, he wouldn't stab Iowa in the back because of it. But this is classic Clintonism, they only want your support as long as it's beneficial to them. Afterward, they couldn't care less about you.
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