... is an "epic collapse"?

O-h-k-a-a-a-y...

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

Just lather, rinse, and repeat.

Because saying it DOES make it so, don't it?

Once again, everything Hillary does is wrong and not helping Obama. Her campaign sucked, she sucks and she will continue to suck as long as The Village and Dean & Co. say so.

Interesting that they (Dean & Co.) don't see the obvious. If they didn't mention her name and focused on their candidate, they'd have a much better chance at success. How we define success is another story.

I love this job!

more centrist ones, like Gore, Kerry, Clinton. Sheesh. Step out of the Villagers' circle of thinking, and, ipso facto, a mad person.

Ha. You got their number.

Also, interesting on the timing, that this stuff comes out before the convention so that the Chicago gang can go in looking like they are the tops. Edwards collapse seemed timely as well. ( I know...I know) but these things happen for a reason. He can pride himself in being the "clean one".

…I approached a number of current and former Clinton staffers and outside consultants . . .

He approached "a number" but he doesn't say who and how many gave him anything.

From the way it's worded, it could all have come from one disgruntled person, like Patty Solis-Doyle.

And I'm sure there was lots more that what was published, but he still couldn't find a smouldering pea-shooter in the pile.

I didn't see any evidence of an effort to make race and issue either.

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“But hysteria is all the rage these days, I guess” - gqm

When I'm working on projects I can easily send and receive 25-50 subject specific emails a day. In 10 days that would be 250-500 just for me. Now I imagine that a presidential campaign has a good 5-10 "groups" (yeah, we know its probably much more), which means that there would be 1250-5000 emails every 10 days. This campaign went on 10+ months which is over 40 weeks. That would be about 50,000-200,000 emails. How many did the Atlantic use to draw their conclusions from?

that when the media was through taking Hillary down, they'd set their sights on Obama. I just didn't see at the time that they'd try to use Hillary for the purpose.
The groundwork is being set in the media to blame Hillary for Obama's upcoming loss. We know the Obamabots and 95% of the Liberal blogs have already started with this meme.

From the way it’s worded, it could all have come from one disgruntled person, like Patty Solis-Doyle.

approached a number, but didn't say how many responded. well done.

or reporters that Hillary Clinton would win California, NY, OH, TX, MI, FL, MA, NJ, PA, and NH, they would've said she would win the nomination. It was only through gaming caucus states and the proportional representation system that Obama was even in a place to "win" it.

And let's please note again that Obama didn't win it. Neither of them did, so it was decided by SDs. Had the SDs gone the other way, which was within their right, he could be writing a piece about how the Obama campaign blew all the big states except Illinois. Something that should also worry Democrats for the fall is that, despite all the talk about Obama's vaunted turnout machine and new voters, in states where demographics didn't overwhelmingly favor him (e.g. states where he didn't start out with 30% of the vote because of AAs) and Hillary actually contested them (e.g. not Utah caucuses or places where she decided to go late), Obama lost almost every one except Iowa and his home state. He was not able to reproduce Iowa in NH or elsewhere. California is a good example, his late surge did him no good because Clinton had already banked the absentee vote and had locked down asians and hispanics.

But, of course, VL's right, the entire purpose of this piece is to re-write history as one where Obama didn't get weaker over time and didn't need SDs. He convincingly beat the inevitable favorite when her campaign collapsed due to her poor management (nevermind that the "poor management" claim seems mostly based on the fact that not all of her advisors agreed, quelle surprise, and that Mark Penn repeatedly encouraged her to run a more negative campaign and she didn't (see, she's "indecisive", you know how women are)).

And, of course, what will not be addressed is that for a woman who has been portrayed as Satan, these emails and memos (even Penn's, which are probably the most negative) are awfully tame for a hard-fought campaign. The reason for all the psychoanalyzing is that there isn't any NEWS in them. If there were you wouldn't need this bullshit telling you about the portrait they create, they'd simply quote the offending documents.

If this is the best you can do boys, it's pretty pathetic.

I keep going back to what DCBlogger said about how nobody seems to understand the more they stomp the Clintons, the stronger the Clintons get (I may have gotten it slightly wrong). This is an example why. The media are never content to criticize the Clintons for what they actually do, they have to overreach, which makes the media look worse than the Clintons. But come to think of it, the media are worse than the Clintons (and almost everybody else).

Some of it sounds like typical organizational stuff (This is a reminder that all pencil requisitions must go through X, please don't bother Y with these requests) and some of it sounds like bouncing ideas around (Let's build a time machine so we can go back and start over)

Everything didn't work perfectly as planned, so they had to regroup and make adjustments. They considered options they didn't use. BFD

I'm sure Obamanation has some similar emails that went around after New Hampshire, Super Tuesday, Rev. Wright, etc.

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“But hysteria is all the rage these days, I guess” - gqm

I'd love to see the internal memos of the Obama campaign. Not. Really, the stuff that is written internally is usually disgusting stuff; that they "found" some of Clinton's really doesn't change anything, for me.

BTW, by:

...I approached a number of current and former Clinton staffers and outside consultants and asked them to share memos, e-mails, meeting minutes, diaries—anything that would offer a contemporaneous account.

did he really mean to write:

...I dug through the garbage at Clinton campaign headquarters, as well as the garbage of outside consultants, to find anything that would offer a contemporaneous account.

Oh yeah, or simply Patti Solis Doyle. lol BTW, I wonder if we're going to see an Atlantic expose on internal memos from Obama's campaign showing how brilliantly his campaign was run? Actually, I really don't wonder.

Q: If the witch is dead, why is The Atlantic trying to drown her?

A: Because they can.