by Jill Zuckman
By Jill Zuckman
Manchester, N.H. – With the New Hampshire primary looming and Sen. Hillary Clinton battling to hold onto her lead here against Sen. Barack Obama, her campaign has imported a top communications consultant from Boston to help out in the final days.
Doug Hattaway, the former spokesman for Vice President Al Gore's 2000 campaign in New Hampshire and then Nashville, will be spending the last couple weeks of the race in Clinton's Manchester headquarters backing up Communications director Kathleen Strand with media requests.
Hattaway is a longtime adviser to former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen and said he would be doing "anything I can to help during the crunch time. There's a lot to do."
In one bit of good news this morning, Clinton learned that she won the endorsement of the Foster's Daily Democrat, one of the first of the New Hampshire newspapers to pick a Democratic candidate to back.
"The field has been impressive, but it was Hillary Clinton who really impressed us as someone who is ready to lead - someone who is ready to be a consensus builder, not just in working with Republicans as well as the Democrats and the nonaligned, but someone who is ready to heal the wounds we have had to suffer," the editorial said.
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Comments
Jill Zuckman's comments on
the DR show this morning were absurd. The media and
the press have never been kind or fair to Hillary Clinton in this campaign. There is a "forcefield" around Barack Hussein Obama
(that is his real middle name) that embodies a kind
of reverse racism. Of course there is racism in
this campaign, as well as
sexism. We have a woman and a half black for candidates. How can there
not be racism and sexism?
when we have a woman and a
half black for candidates?
I'm tired of listening to
Obama emote on what is or is
not fair to question about
his associations and background, on the grounds
that racism is involved.
He speaks well but is an empty suit repeating "ideas"
containing no substance.
And the last time I looked
the candidates need 2025
delegates to win the nomination, He doesn't have
enough, she doesn't have
enough so why keep repeating
what SHE has to do to get
enough delegates, and acting
like all he has to do is
sit back and it's all his.
ENOUGH of the bias already.
Posted by: flora Hoffman | February 29, 2008 12:27 PM