Over a year ago Hillary launched her campaign for President.Her announcement began a historic effort that has inspired millions and brought hundreds of thousands to their feet all across this nation.
I have been proud to manage this campaign, and prouder still to call Hillary my friend for more than sixteen years. I know that she will make a great President.
This has already been the longest Presidential campaign in the history of our nation, and one that has required enormous sacrifices from all of us and our families.
During the last month I have been working closely with my longtime friend, Maggie Williams.
This week Maggie will begin to assume the duties of campaign manager. I will serve as a senior adviser to Hillary and the campaign and travel with Hillary from time to time on the road. Maggie is a remarkable person and I am confident that she will do a fabulous job.
Although I will continue to see you all at headquarters, I would be remiss if I didn’t thank each of you for your dedication, excellence, and passion over the last year.
You are the best campaign staff in the history of Presidential politics and I am grateful to each of you for your hard work and friendship.
« Maine Caucuses | Main | Obama Wins Maine » Patti Solis Doyle's Letter10 Feb 2008 05:17 pm Comments (19)
Myeehh....Just a meaningless title shuffle at Clinton HQ to steal a bit of the news cycle from the QUASI RELIGIOUS CULT LEADER. Also to underline the fact that Hillary's campaign is run by ethnic minorities and females while the CULT LEADER is PROGRAMMED by a bunch of CORRUPT OLD SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO WHITE GUYS. Led by Adolph Hitler look alike, David Axelrod, whose drunken son is famous for HARRASSING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN WIFE OF NBA PLAYER ANTONIO DAVIS at a basketball game. Then suing the Davis family for $1 MILLION afterwards. Nice family, nice friends over there at THE CULT COMPOUND. 
For all the media narrative of HIllary as experienced and Obama as a newbie, it is amazing how chaotic of a campaign she has run, and how nearly flawless Obama has run his campiagn. It is a reflection into their management skills, which "35 years of experience" has not seemed to have helped much.
robert ethan, Don't ever change. You're priceless just as you are. *pats robert on the head* Obama'08
This thing is the biggest fairy tale I have heard. Give me a break.
Obviously this is to do with the string of defeats Hillary Clinton has faced recently (including Maine today). Hillary should also fire her chief fundraiser for putting her in an embarrassing position of having to admit that she loaned $5m from her pocket.
So:Senator Clinton begins the campaign as the prohibitive favorite, with near universal name recognition, teeming with money, and endorsed and supported by an enormous network of party insiders. She enjoys 12 or so months of daunting, double-digit leads in polls all across the country. More than a year after launching and leading this campaign, she has been overtaken by a far better run campaign that has more delegates, more money, excited crowds, and far better leadership at the top. And based on her performance as the leader of a front-running campaign for president, what voter in this country thinks she would be able to run the executive branch at a crucial time in our history?
RKA, I've worked on a presidential campaign, and I have many friends who have, too. Win or lose, all are chaotic. Sometimes winning ones are more so. Because of this and so many other reasons, they are not any kind of indicator as to whether a candidate will be successful in office.
Marc Ambinder: Clinton campaign stenographer? We report, you decide. At least give us some damn analysis of the letter.
John McCain fired all of his campaign staff last summer, went broke and had to take out a life insurance policy to fund his campaign. He is now the GOP nominee. Some of you are embarrasing yourselves with your naivete about the way in which campaigns work. Per usual, it is the Obama supporters.
This strikes me as a truly odd move. Doyle has never been considered a leading strategist for message, political or field organization or fundraising; she's basically a chief of staff to keep everyone on schedule. At most Clinton events, she has appeared to function as a body person; sticking close to the candidate. Her greatest attribute has been her close personal relationship with the candidate. So why does replacing her, with another long-time operational rather than strategic aid, send any message that the Clinton campaign needs or wants to send? It doesn't suggest "everything's going fine"; it doesn't suggest "we'll get back in front on money"; it doesn't suggest "we've got a new messgae coming; it doesn't suggest "we're going to take field organization seriously now." I think it suggests first and foremost "wow, we better make some news today" to push back on what is going to be 7 big losses in 4 days. I think the ship is going down, slowly but surely.
Marc Ambinder: (Ordinarily, this would be a firing offense -- how dare they let a state go uncontested?) Clearly, it was.
This doesn't seem smart. Poor Hillary, her only advantage right now is American's of Latin/Spanish ancestry and she gets rid of the one who is her campaign manager to hire a black woman to catch up on the African American loss. She'll lose the Latin's for that, I think to some degree. And blacks aren't not voting for Hillary because she's white, they're voting for Obama because he won't bring special intereste baggage into the whitehouse, his financing strategy is brilliant, he has proven his healthcare plan worked, he hasn't compromised, he voted no on Iraq and he happens to be black. Hillary has done some wonderful things for African Americans who have been very loyal to the Clintons and Hillary. It must be very painful for her. But it's not about race, it's about character and change-- turning this rig around!
Is Hillary really bringing back the ERA Amendment? Sounds like a smart move. I'm also hoping for an amendment backing Latino immigrants.
lol, Axelrod doesn't look at all like Hitler. He does sort of look like "Walter" from the TV show "Maude" though.
Yo Hispanics, you aRe Blacks and Indians that speak spanish, who are you fooling, where do you think you come from trully, hispanics is a language no a race, you are ex slaves jus like blacks in america, join us, you are the Afrikan (Alkebulan) Dispora to, your Curly/Wholly Nappy Hair, Dark beautiful skin, your Rrythm, your Full Lips, Butt, all afrikan gifts, unify....Division is the oldest trick in the book for people in power, black against black, black against Black hispanic or Indian Hispanic, unify, hillary is driving you apart just like slave masters an all other racist people of the past, look beyond the box, outside the matrix, think 3 Deminsional....be a one peoples from afrika....stop the self hate, love each other as family...hillary is no differant than your masters, shes use race trickery, dont be fooled my latino brothas! VOTE Barack Obama 08....
very true, finally some one says the truth!....like Paul Mooney stated..."EveryOne Wants to Be Black, But Dont Wanna Be Black"
Yo Hispanics, you aRe Blacks and Indians that speak spanish, who are you fooling, where do you think you come from trully, hispanics is a language no a race, you are ex slaves jus like blacks in america, join us, you are the Afrikan (Alkebulan) Dispora to, your Curly/Wholly Nappy Hair, Dark beautiful skin, your Rrythm, your Full Lips, Butt, all afrikan gifts, unify....Division is the oldest trick in the book for people in power, black against black, black against Black hispanic or Indian Hispanic, unify, hillary is driving you apart just like slave masters an all other racist people of the past, look beyond the box, outside the matrix, think 3 Deminsional....be a one peoples from afrika....stop the self hate, love each other as family...hillary is no differant than your masters, shes use race trickery, dont be fooled my latino brothas!
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she's got the Latinos; it's time to get the Af-Ams
Posted by jay | February 10, 2008 5:27 PM