Hillary hires new Campaign manager
 

Politico.com's, Ben smith, is reporting Clinton's campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, left the position today, to be replaced by Clinton's former top White House aide, Maggie Williams. The change formalizes a shift in the campaign's power structure that began to set in after Clinton's win in New Hampshire. More HERE All of this while, CBS News, reports Obama Says Clinton Presidency Could Be Another '94. “Keep in mind we had Bill Clinton as president when in ’94 we lost the House, we lost the Senate, we lost the governorship, we lost state houses and so regardless of what policies they wanted to promote, they didn’t have a working majority to bring change about.” Obama told this to a crowd estimated by CBS News of over 3,000.

The Team Clinton Family is campaigning hard for black votes in Maryland, VA and DC. even bill Clinton has admitted a 'mistake' in Obama criticism saying yesterday it was a "mistake" for him to go after his wife's rival.


The Washington Times reports, Mr. Obama, bolstered by polls showing him better positioned to beat Mr. McCain, said he can reach out to independents in a way Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton cannot. He also repeated that he believes the Republican attack machine would take aim at the Clintons, should she be the nominee. Mr. Clinton, who has a packed campaign schedule in rural parts of Virginia this weekend, said he had learned a lesson about how he should conduct himself in his efforts to support Mrs. Clinton.


"I think the mistake that I made is to think that I was a spouse, like any other spouse, who could defend his candidate," he said in an interview with NBC News at a campaign stop in Portland, Maine. "I think I can promote Hillary but not defend her, because I was president. I have to let her defend herself or have someone else defend her."

Voter exit polls showed Mr. Clinton's focus on Mr. Obama in campaign speeches hurt his wife's candidacy in South Carolina. For several weeks on the trail, the former president went after Mr. Obama's voting record on Iraq, and said the press has given his wife's opponent a pass, prompting top Democrats to warn him he could damage the party and another to say he needs to "chill."

Now, as reported by USA Today, Bill Clinton told African-American church congregations Sunday that he understands the desire to elect the nation's first black president but he urged them to consider his wife's candidacy.
"All my life I have wanted to vote for a woman for president," Clinton told 800 parishioners at the Temple of Praise congregation in Washington. "All my life I have wanted to vote for an African-American for president. ... I wonder why God gave us this dilemma."

Clinton cited his wife's experience and policy initiatives in housing, education, heath care and voting rights for the District of Columbia and called Hillary Clinton "the best qualified person to be president I've had an opportunity to vote for."


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I personally think it is probably too late to change the momentum towards Obama. And from this article and others I've read, it doesn't sound like this was a change that will really change the campaign since Maggie Williams has been taking the lead on campaign advising since Clinton's Iowa loss.

As an Obama supporter, and also a fairly young democrat, I can't remember a time when I felt my own political beliefs so validated by a nationwide political movement. I was never that into Gore or Kerry (I just knew they were more attractive than the alternative), and I was a republican pre-teen and teenager during the Clinton years. It is kind of weird to find my #1 choice candidate that I believe in ... in the lead!

skylark, peas in a pod you and I are. :)

I think it's pretty foolish for the Clinton campaign to do a "shakeup." It's not the strategists behind the scenes... it's the candidate herself that is the cause for the losses. She's polarizing. There's nothing she can do about that. The Clintons have a history they cannot run from. I've seen her on several media outlets attempting to soften her image, but those predisposed to disliking her will not be swayed, I fear.

If half the tales of how Hillary behaves behind the scenes are true, I am very glad I am not riding around the US in the Clinton bus right now.

There's a posting by a Latino Superdelegate in Texas that he isn't pleased by the replacement of Patti Solis Doyle and it could, though only could, lead to some problems for Clinton both among the superdelegates she's counting on and the Latino votes she's also counting on.

I've got to agree with scbelle. Any changes at this point are too little and too late. I like Hillary but I think the Clintons simply have too much baggage. It's a shame really because as an individual she's as sharp as they come and a very astute politician (which I don't see as a bad thing.)

It's been a confusing season for me. I usually have an initial favorite and stick with them. Unfortunately, my favorite from the beginning was Senator Biden. I've changed my mind on who to support since he left the race so many times that I practically don't care anymore.

The thing is that at this point I think Obama has a much better chance at beating McCain than Hillary does.

I just read a story from AP today that said a few black superdelegates are rethinking their support of Clinton as well. I'll see if I can find the link and post it.