Mark Penn was in damage control mode Monday, despite getting severely kicked as a hypocrite on cable TV by Obama's strategist David Axelrod (see video), hosting a conference call with managing directors of Burson Marsteller - the British owned PR firm for which he is "Worldwide CEO" trying to persuade them that the media meltdown following his resignation would soon pass. The Huffington Post has the scoop as their reporter listened into 25 minutes of he phone call.
Penn made clear that his resignation is really a dodge. This was always in the cards as he is extremely close to Hillary. "I think you've heard that I made the decision to step down as chief strategist of the Clinton campaign. Penn Schoen and Berland (his polling company) is going to continue to poll for it and I'll continue to play a role advising Senator Clinton and former President Clinton as well as the rest of the leadership of the campaign," he said.
Later, he added: "The title, the position of chief strategist tended to be one that drew a tremendous amount of attention. And, number two, yes, I will have more time. We will continue - Penn and Schoen will continue to do the polling and I will be advising, but the net of it will still be that I will have more time than I otherwise would have had so that definitely is going to be the case."
I'm interested in this topic, and the headline seemed to promise something new and possibly interesting. I've puzzled over the first sentence for some time, trying to figure out what the subject could be of each of the many subordinate clauses, in order to try and tease out a meaning. Impossible!
Posted by: Rosalind Izard | 08 April 2008 at 01:36 PM