The Next Memo-What Democrats Need to Hear: 'STOP IT!!!!'

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The Next Memo
What Democrats Need to Hear: 'STOP IT!!!!'

By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Thursday, August 14, 2008; A17



Will the Party of Clinton ever become the Party of Obama?

It has been more than two months since Barack Obama secured the Democratic presidential nomination, yet here we are, still fascinated with Bill and Hillary Clinton and what they're up to. Why?

The latest round of Clinton mania was precipitated by Joshua Green's article in the Atlantic on a Clinton campaign riven by unresolved factional disputes, as well as the online publication of a trove of internal memos portraying a staff in strategic and tactical gridlock.

The notion of the Clinton campaign as a Jets-and-Sharks knife fight is hardly new. Members of the campaign's high command were leaking so furiously against each other that Clinton loyalist and lawyer Robert Barnett was moved to write an early March memo (unearthed by Green) declaring: "STOP IT!!!! . . . This makes me sick. This circular firing squad that is occurring is unattractive, unprofessional, unconscionable, and unacceptable."

Still, it's always entertaining to learn so quickly after the fact who said what to whom in the middle of a fierce campaign, and the memos suggest why Obama is having difficulty moving the Clintons gently offstage and seizing control of a party whose nomination he won fair and square.

[Captain Hilts]

1. The convention will be fine. This column is silly.

Dionne was a solid Obama backer as well.

Let the convention begin. People will watch ours and NO ONE will watch the Republican one.

I am still surprised Bill Richardson isn't speaking.

[Top Cat]

2. So am I but there's only so much time allowed

[Captain Hilts]

4. I actually JUST read he will speak about energy. nt

[angee_is_mad]

6. This is good

Richardson went through a lot during this primary season also. God bless him.

[Captain Hilts]

9. I respect him and am still surprised at what a bad candidate he was. Disappointed, really. nt

[Political Heretic]

3. You're the same guy who wrote "FUCK BILL AND HILLARY!!" in the other thread, right?

Pretty sure the answer is yes....

How about giving it a rest for a while.

[Top Cat]

5. Why?

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[AtomicKitten]

8. I think if the Clintons and their "people" showed Barack an ounce of respect

it wouldn't so stridently oppose the Clintons.

But they don't.

And I do.

[ErinBerin84]

10. CNN was on a grand democratic disunity tour last night

and Gergen said that it "reflects VERY poorly on the Obama campaign that these details are just being worked out now." Oh, fuck off, David.