If you think the DEM primary are over think again. Now
is behind the scene move.
Buried in a list of new appointments the Obama campaign
announced Monday was this: "Chief of Staff to the Vice Presidential
Nominee: Patti Solis Doyle."
Remember Patti? She was Hillary Clinton's campaign manager,
until she got canned in February...er,
left the campaign.
Here's a good
backgrounder on her departure from "Hillaryland"
-- a term, which apparently she coined.
The reaction from Hillarylard. A Clinton insider
told CQ:
"Translated subtitles aren't necessary. There is no other way to
interpret this other than '[Expletive] you.'"
Yeah, yeah, so this is inside-baseball stuff, right? Not really.
If PSD is Obama's czarina of Vice Presidential Nominee, then guess
who probably isn't going to get the nod? Uh-huh. And some of
Hillary's peeps are p.o'd. Like San Francisco's own
Susie Tompkins Buell. She
told the Washington Post:
"It's a slap in the face," Buell said. "Why would they put
somebody that was so clearly ineffective in such a position? It's a
message. We get it." She said it was a "calculated decision" by the
Obama team to "send a message that she [Clinton] is not being
considered for the ticket."
Indeed. Even though Patti's farewell statement from Hillaryland
said, "I have been proud to manage this campaign, and prouder still
to call Hillary my friend for more than sixteen years," apparently
the two haven't spoken since.
