Thread: Campaign call reveals Clinton debate concern

Campaign call reveals Clinton debate concern
By Sam Youngman
November 01, 2007

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) top advisers, doing damage control after the candidate’s debate performance Tuesday, told supporters on a conference call Wednesday that the campaign needed more money to fight back.

Mark Penn, Clinton’s senior strategist and pollster, and Jonathan Mantz, the campaign’s finance director, told the supporters on the call, which The Hill listened to in its entirety, that they expect attacks from Clinton’s rivals to continue, and she will need the financial resources to deflect their attacks.

Clinton came under withering assault in the Philadelphia debate, and some supporters on the call agreed with analysts that she stumbled.

“I wouldn’t say she lost her cool,â€

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) top advisers, doing damage control after the candidate’s debate performance Tuesday, told supporters on a conference call Wednesday that the campaign needed more money to fight back.

and to sew her mouth shut.

I didn't hear her cackle when confronted with a tough question! Did I miss it??

I'm still waiting to hear for her to tell me how her thirty-five years of experience as a child advocate can help her straighten out the mess this country has gotten into!!

Originally Posted by ourcountrynottheirs

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) top advisers, doing damage control after the candidate’s debate performance Tuesday, told supporters on a conference call Wednesday that the campaign needed more money to fight back.

and to sew her mouth shut.

I heard the clinton machine had more money than God so what I think she needs is more integrity as she had none.