Just publish the list of Clinton's debts, we'll decide which ones to retire.

[billyoc]

I'm terrified that I might be giving money to Mark Penn. :shrug:

[hisownpetard]

1. Ditto.

[beac]

2. Good idea!

The honest vendors who got stiffed should be paid, but Penn should have to write off his "work" as "bad debt."

[Fleshdancer]

3. I hope I don't regret asking this, but....

since I stayed away from GD-P during the primaries, I honestly don't know the back story on whoever Mark Penn is. Who is he and why is it a problem to retire any debt associated with him?

:shrug:

[madwivoter]

4. He was the chief strategist for Clinton's campaign

Who was really bad at his job and got paid bajillions of dollars.

Here's a recent article on HuffPo:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-tasini/paying-off-clintons-debt_b_111595.html

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From the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/10/barackobama.hillaryclinton

<snip>
Stein reports that Obama wants his people to donate to Clinton so that her people will donate to him. This has proven difficult so far. In part, feelings are still a little raw on both sides. In part, Obama people don't want any of their money to go through Clinton to Mark Penn, her chief consultant through most of the campaign who is still owed millions in fees and who is, ah, how to say it, regarded with suspicion by Obama people (and no small percentage of Clinton people).

Penn has not helped matters by choosing this week to announce that he's launching a new "corporate crisis" partnership with Bush loyalist Karen Hughes (no word yet on whether the new group's goal is to get companies out of crises or into them.) In any case, if I were a Democratic moneybags, no matter how badly I ached for intra-party peace, I'd have to think at least twice if I suspected that 30 cents or whatever of every dollar I sent to Clinton was going to end up in Penn's bank account. And, of course, I'd recall that the Clintons themselves are worth $100m. My sympathy would have limits.
<snip>

[billyoc]

5. Why, I'm glad you asked.

Mark Penn hates you. Everything Penn believes in -- or, at least, everything he does to make money -- runs counter to the very change that millions of Americans are thirsting for. Barack Obama has signaled to his top contributors that they should help retire Sen. Clinton's campaign debt. There should be one demand by those willing to make such a contribution -- not a dime for Mark Penn.

It has been widely reported that Penn is owed several millions of dollars for his failed work for Sen. Clinton. Let's be clear: he will rake in millions more shilling for some of the most powerful corporate interests in the world. And, today, we know he has a new partner.

Today, The Wall Street Journal reports that Penn is teaming up with Bush advisor Karen Hughes:

Two hard-charging political operatives are teaming up to create a bipartisan consulting organization to advise corporations in crisis -- as they work to burnish their own reputations as well.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-tasini/paying-off-clintons-debt_b_111595.html

[Fleshdancer]

6. oh bloody hell. Karen Hughes??? WTF?

How did Clinton find this guy? Is this a DLC connection?

Ok, I'm intrigued enough to go on a google hunt. Thanks for the info!