If you thought the Bill Clinton White House was a disorganized, dysfunctional place, it will seem like the model of decorum and efficiency after you read this account of the Hillary Clinton campaign, which is starting to look like a den of thieves. There is a good argument to be made that “experience”–in this case a botched and secretive health care task force and her inability to straighten out her campaign team–should figure greatly in voters’ minds when deciding who will sit in the Oval Office. It is amazing that she has won anything with this gang, and it’s even more remarkable that she has tolerated, ignored, or been blind to the circus surrounding her. Keep this in mind the next time she berates the cronyism and incompetence of the current administration.
Now that reporters (apparently rooting for Clinton to fail so they could get off the campaign trail?) have delivered some powerful evidence, let’s see if the Obama team is nimble enough to make the argument that he’s the competent one.