Who Speaks For Hillary?
April 8, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
The Clinton’s should probably swap memos more often. Bill supports one thing, Hillary supports another. Bill says one thing, Hillary says another. Of course, we could also talk about the rest of her entourage that supposedly speak for her, but generally seem to say the opposite of what she’s declaring.
This past weekend, we had the gaffe by her Chief Campaign Strategist, Mark Penn, who went to Columbia, wearing his lobbyist hat to broker a deal with the Colombians, that, apparently, Hillary is against. Well, it turns out that Bill was all for it.
Now, it appears that Bill and Hillary are at odds about whether or not folks should boycott the Olympics in China. Hillary just came out declaring that President Bush should not go, while last summer, Bill talked Steven Spielberg out of boycotting the Olympics as their “Overseas Artistic Director”.
It seems that Hillary, the presidential candidate, should have the last word on what comes out of her campaign, but, with people who claim to speak for her, coming out and contradicting what she says, one has to wonder if her presidency will be just as incoherent.
Nothing irks me more than when my husband speaks “for me” and I have to contradict him and essentially embarrass him and presumably, myself because we aren’t of one mind on an issue or an idea. This usually happens in a business context and it’s confusing to my customers to have these contradictions floating around so we had to come to an understanding. Only I speak for my business, so hubby has to be sure that whatever he says has been green-lighted (or red-lighted, as the case may be) in prior conversations or he’s supposed to say, “I’ll have to get back to you on that one” or “Call Dizzy, she would know more about that than I do”.
Shouldn’t presidential candidate Clinton be having that same conversation with her campaign staff?
I realize that Mark Penn wears many hats and Bill, well, he’s Bill…but, during this most tumultuous of primary races in the Democratic arena, you would think that with the public and the media, all eyes and ears being on “their” campaign, that maybe, just maybe, they all could speak with one voice and maybe sound more presidential.
I hate to think what would transpire if that 3AM phone call ever came through.
crossposted: Hypocrisy.com
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I think its good that she doesn’t agree with Bill on everything..but being the skeptic I am..I think its all bullshit and bravado anyway.
Politicians will say anything during the campaign..what only matter is what they do if and when they are elected.
Dusty’s last blog post..Conyers schedules hearing with Yoo as the star.
I agree that Hillary should definitely have her own opinions about things. It just concerns me that in a very public way, these serious disparities are coming to light. Is it impacting her campaign? I think it is, and negatively…when even her mouthpieces can be relied upon to contradict her how will “Madame President” react?
Put in context: When I first started my business, in very public ways, my husband would let people know that he didn’t really like me working certain places or for certain establishments. It got so bad that businesses would actually ask me “what did my husband think?” I’m like WTF? This is MY business, the first and final answer is MINE. So hubby and I had a little chat which went something to the effect that he could either get a grip or he could take a hike. He finally got a grip and then we had a new problem. He was accepting work for me from all sorts of comers without even asking me if my schedule was free. So I was getting calls from people telling me that my husband had scheduled me to host their party and I was like WTF? This is MY business…happy that you’re all gung-ho for it now and all, but um…the final answer is MINE. Even now, if he “knows” that I am “likely” available or that I am “unlikely” to even want the show, he says, “Ask Dizzy…” to be on the safe side. He might even ask me himself and then I inform him so that he can inform others using “my words”. That saves a lot of headaches. I don’t speak for him either, unless he has explicitly said something. I never say, “I think he would…”, I always say, “I’ll ask him and find out…”
But we are talking about a presidential candidate and even referencing some of the more outrageous things that Bill has said that Hillary has had to distance herself from or some of the outrageous things that Penn or Carville have said. They are acting as her spokesperson and then she is having to come out and go, “um…I don’t think he said what you think he meant…that’s not how I would have put it…”
I guess the question is then, who really does have Hillary’s best interest at heart and why doesn’t she send the other mooks on a long vacation until summer (or tell them to STFU)?…’jus sayin’…
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