I posted a single thread nearly everyday for one month during the primaries.

[Skidmore]

This is for those of you who wring your hands about Mark Penn and see him as a bumbling fool or those of you who defend him.

You need to go here to get the thread I posted.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4764865&mesg_id=4764865

and here to read the article it referred to:

http://www.americablog.com/2008/02/mark-penns-tangled-corporate-web.html

Then you need to step back and ask why a person with obvious conflicts of interest was allowed to undermine a Democratic Party candidate. Ask why the McCain campaign appeared to dovetail nicely with the Clinton campaign. Ask why a Republican operative is not being called out for trying to sabatoge the Democratic Party candidate selection process.

This is all that needs to be said about Mark Penn.

[TexasObserver]

1. Who hired him? That's who to blame.

[DevonRex]

2. Ask yourself why a man with obvious conflicts of interest was hired

by a democratic candidate. Ask why a democratic candidate's campaign dovetailed with a nasty republican's campaign. Ask why a democratic candidate's campaign would try to sabotage the democratic party's candidate selection process.

The candidate is responsible for the campaign. The buck stops there. If the operative was indeed trying to do those things, then the candidate was also trying to do those things.

[Skidmore]

3. Agreed.

Exactly.