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• Friday, November 21, 2008 07:51 PM

  Rob A

  "@ jedlbmm

  I would buy your argument that Clinton's campaign managers are at fault for her failure, if only Clinton had stuck to the voice that she most famously found after NH and fired Mr. Penn before she was forced to. The responsibility for a campaign's direction and its success or failure ultimately rests with the person responsible for signing off on the strategic and tactical procedures presented by his or her strategists. You cannot delegate ultimate success or assign blame to the handlers, as this is simply another obfuscation to exonerate the candidate, in this case Clinton, for her kitchen-sink (their term) unguided judgment and lack of cohesive campaign identity.

  -- Rob A"

  Sometimes we read too much into campaign success as reflection of the management competence of a particular leader. George W. Bush because of his success against Al Gore and Kerry could be said to be more competent in management than his Democratic rivals. Yet the past 8 years epitomizes the level of incompetence in management few have seen in our history. Even his father cannot hold a candle to him in leadership in economic mismanagement.

  Sometimes, we pay too much attention to the media pundits in their ignorant analysis and oversimplification of political events and award of winners and losers. Obama probably knows more about this than you on this; explaining why he still picked Hillary notwithstanding all the crap he is taking from these talking heads and Clinton haters including David Broder, New York Times Friedman and others.

  —saman65 Read saman65's other letters
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