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Obama to Pass Clinton in Money Raised, Her Aide Says

Eager to cast its fundraising total for the second quarter in a positive light, the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said it expects to report raising less than Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), taking in about $27 million, roughly equivalent to what Clinton drew in the first…

Possibly more interesting than the fact the Queen of Cringe’s campaign announced she will be outdone in fund raising by the Obama campaign this quarter is the fact her Communications Director’s top resume item is crisis management. And it is funny that the Dems will not debate on Fox yet Howard Wolfson’s association with The Glover Park Group featured NewsCorp as a client. You know, Rupert Murdoch, NewsCorp, Fox News, Fox Broadcasting, etc. And the connections to Rupert Murdoch are just the beginning of Hillary Rodham Clintons’s contradiction in alliances. Glover Park Group has much to do with that.

Her Communications Director, Howard Wolfson, a New York native who started in politics working for his hometown Congresswoman Nita Lowey. He has worked for Chuck Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton before as well as the DCCC. But HRC’s association with Glover Park and the firm’s history in politics and business runs counter to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s contrived image, liberal appeal and strengthen claims of her dark side.

“She’s got a deeper bench of big money and corporate supporters than her competitors,” says Eli Attie, a former speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore. Not only is Hillary more reliant on large donations and corporate money than her Democratic rivals, but advisers in her inner circle are closely affiliated with unionbusters, GOP operatives, conservative media and other Democratic Party antagonists.

Dick Morris introduced the Clinton’s to a couple of pollsters named Doug Schoen and Mark Penn. Their firm, PSB, introduced to consulting the concept of “inoculation”: shielding corporations from scandal through clever advertising and marketing. Hillary Rodham Clinton has been associated with them ever since. But even Al Gore would not risk a continued relationship with Penn. He didn’t trust him and fired him during the 2000 campaign.

It is not that much different with Wolfson and principles and Hillary’s indifference to them. Glover Park’s clients have included standard liberal groups like the United Federation of Teachers and the ACLU. Yet the Clinton ties have also helped the firm make an alliance with Rupert Murdoch. Hillary started cozying up to Murdoch after her 2000 Senate victory, in a calculated attempt to defang his conservative media empire, News Corp. In 2004 the billionaire required a favor of his own: Nielsen was preparing to change the way it measured viewership in US TV markets, a plan that Murdoch’s Fox network feared would cost it millions in ad revenue. So Murdoch called on Glover Park. Wolfson secured a $200,000 contract and unveiled a PR blitz under the guise of a supposedly independent minority front group called Don’t Count Us Out.

The typical opposition research and tactics are not unfamiliar to Glover Park, Wolfson or Hillary Rodham Clinton as plenty of ‘bad news’, right or wrong, gets distributed to anyone interested in publishing it. Whether media outlets, bloggers or rivals of the target of the campaign.

The not so subtle predictions that Hillary Rodham Clinton is the default Democratic candidate for 2008 is largely a product of people like Penn and Wolfson or others linked to the Clinton crew. Stay on message, cultivate the middle of the road liberal appearance, speak to the concerns of the Democratic base and lie your way to the White House.

Stanford Matthews
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