Clinton Replaces Campaign Manager

Longtime Aide Maggie Williams Replaces Patti Solis Doyle As Head Of A Campaign In Crisis

(CBS/AP)  Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton replaced campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle with longtime aide Maggie Williams on Sunday, engineering a shake-up in a presidential campaign struggling to overcome rival Barack Obama's financial and political strengths.

The surprise announcement came hours after Obama's sweep of four contests Saturday. The Illinois senator also grabbed the lead in caucuses in Maine on Sunday.

Campaign aides said Solis Doyle made the decision to leave on her own and was not urged to do so by the former first lady or any other senior member of the team. But it comes as Clinton struggles to catch Obama in fundraising and momentum and faces the prospect of losing every voting contest yet to come in February.

Solis Doyle announced the shift in an e-mail to the staff on Sunday.

"I have been proud to manage this campaign and prouder still to call Hillary my friend for more than 16 years," Solis Doyle wrote. "Maggie is a remarkable person and I am confident that she will do a fabulous job."

Solis Doyle said she will serve as a senior adviser to Clinton and the campaign, and travel with Clinton from time to time.

Williams, who served as Clinton's White House chief of staff, is a longtime Clinton confidante who joined the campaign after the New York senator narrowly won the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 8. She will begin assuming the duties of campaign manager this week.

The staff shake-up caps a week in which Clinton grabbed the bigger prizes on Super Tuesday, winning New York, California and New Jersey, but Obama prevailed in more contests. Obama won the popular vote in 13 states, while Clinton won in eight states and American Samoa.

Both Clinton and Obama raised a stunning $100 million each last year, but Clinton recently has lagged behind Obama in money collected. He raised $32 million in January to her $13.5 million, forcing her to lend her campaign $5 million before Super Tuesday. The campaign said Saturday that it had raised $10 million since the beginning of February.

Obama enjoyed a three-state sweep Saturday night, winning the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Washington state and Nebraska, as well as caucuses in the Virgin Islands. He has the potential to pad his victories in contests Tuesday in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., as well as next week in Wisconsin and his native Hawaii.

CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds spoke with Democratic strategist Joe Trippi.

"It's really hard to see a place where the Clinton campaign is competitive until you get into March," Trippi said. "February's gonna belong to Obama."

Clinton is hoping to stem the tide on March 4 when Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont vote.

In a statement, Clinton praised Solis Doyle and said she looked forward to her continued advice in the coming months.

"Patti Solis Doyle has done an extraordinary job in getting us to this point - within reach of the nomination - and I am enormously grateful for her friendship and her outstanding work," Clinton said. "And, as Patti has said, this already has been the longest presidential campaign in history and one that has required enormous sacrifices of everyone and our families.

"I look forward to her continued advice in the months ahead," Clinton added.

Williams joined the campaign when Clinton brought aboard a new group of advisers.

"Patti and I have worked with Maggie Williams for more than a decade," Clinton said in the statement. "I am lucky to have Maggie on board and I know she will lead our campaign with great skill towards the nomination."

The Democratic Party's system of awarding pledged delegates proportionally and the oversized role of superdelegates, the 796 lawmakers, governors and party officials who are not bound by state votes, meant that no candidate had a commanding lead.

According to CBS News' latest survey, Clinton had 211 superdelegates and Obama had 137. However, Obama now appears to have won enough pledged delegates in caucuses and primaries to overcome Clinton's superdelegate edge. The latest tally gives Obama a narrow lead, with 1,134 delegates overall to Clinton's 1,131.

The delegate numbers increased the possibility of a protracted fight for the Democratic nomination, perhaps lasting through this summer's national convention in Denver.

[pilgrimsway-2009]

It is also in my view false to say that life in AMERICA today is solely determined by considerations of foreign policy, that the primacy of foreign policy governs today the whole of our domestic life. Certainly people can reach the point when foreign relations influence and determine completely its domestic life. But let no one say that such a CONDITION is from the first either natural or desirable. Rather the important thing is that people should CREATE the conditions for CHANGE in this state of affairs.

We know by the charisma who said this!

Answer

Hit-lers quote Jan 27 1932

[shanev137]

When fantasy collides with reality, there always has to be a scapegoat.

[pilgrimsway-2009]

It is also in my view false to say that life in AMERICA today is solely determined by considerations of foreign policy, that the primacy of foreign policy governs today the whole of our domestic life. Certainly people can reach the point when foreign relations influence and determine completely its domestic life. But let no one say that such a CONDITION is from the first either natural or desirable. Rather the important thing is that people should CREATE the conditions for CHANGE in this state of affairs.

We know by the charisma who said this!

Answer

Hit-lers quote Jan 27 1932

[kennedy19106]

The witch loaned her campaign $5 million and now she has a new campaign manager. Could the Clintons possibly be in trouble...could they possibly lose the nomination. Why don''t you both simply do us all a big favor and go back to Arkanasas and retire in Whitewater!

[pilgrimsway-2009]

WE the Taliban, the cells in America, know who to vote for! We will vote for change!

[rfcrtl]

Hill, you can count on PA being yours!!! We love you here and want to add to the long list of endorsements that includes our governor, Ed Rendell! We can''t wait to see you here; we love you to death!
PA for HILLARY!

[nothappyatall]

"Both Clinton and Obama raised a stunning $100 million each last year, but Clinton recently has lagged behind Obama in money collected."

I guess the more amazing thing is how we dumb sheeple collectively can spend this ungodly amount of cash on a stupid presidental advertising campaign for someone to be in office 4 years!

$200 million dollars and there''s 9 MONTHS left to go before November.

[mygramma]

pilgrimsway... I''m well educated and not stupid, but I have trouble figuring out how the nonsense in your quote relates to anything having to do with the Clinton campaign.

[rebelscout]

So Hill fires her campaign manager. Why? Her manager didn''t make her who she is. If she want''s to blame someone, she should fire herself!

[croft777]

So Hill fires her campaign manager. Why? Her manager didn''''t make her who she is. If she want''''s to blame someone, she should fire herself!rebelscout

Hillary didn''t fire her, if you read the story correctly, she left. DUH!!

[croft777]

Hill, you can count on PA being yours!!! We love you here and want to add to the long list of endorsements that includes our governor, Ed Rendell! We can''''t wait to see you here; we love you to death!
PA for HILLARY! RFCRTL

Hillary you can count on us in Ohio also. People are more realistic here, and they can spot out a good lier when they see one, like Obama.

[croft777]

Add Texas to that list. Thats a sure thing.

[eddynewhope]

Hahahah Croft77 - You''re right. That was the "story" as it was written in the article. But this is the same campaign manager that almost "left" (got fired) after Iowa too. They may have said she left, but she got fired. :)

[pensacola88]

Patti Doyle would have gotten more votes than Hillary.

[shanev137]

It looks like all the women in this country are going to get out voted.

[user168-2009]

Never underestimate sincerity, Hillary, never reinvent truth.

[pilgrimsway-2009]

mygramma,
The quote was not implying anything to do with Hillary.

[gkc99]

Everyone knows, when your team is losing, fire the manager.

After all, it couldn''t be the candidate--could it?

Is the globalization promoted by Hilly and Billy that sent so many good paying jobs overseas finally catching up with them? Are people realizing that the Clintons are a lot like the Bushes?

Maybe...

[gkc99]

"Hillary you can count on us in Ohio also. People are more realistic here, and they can spot out a good lier when they see one, like Obama. "--Posted by croft777


If Ohio people vote as well as they spell, Obama will be Prez, for sure.

[eddynewhope]

Croft77 - You''re calling Senator Obama a "good liar"??? Are you serious? You''re advocating on behalf of two of the biggest B Sers in history. Do you recall Bill wagging his finger at you: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Or "I''ve been against the war since the beginning.", "Obama''s position on the war is a fairy tale", etc. etc. etc. Show me one instance of Senator Obama lying.

[likeitis5050]

What''s that smell? Fear? Anger? Embarrassment? What happened to the media blitz just 3 months ago that had Hillary skating passed everyone? Looks like people are just determined to let the media know they aren''t in control of squat, and that they know what they want without being spoon fed by the media''s machine. Let the best PERSON win.

[libra127]

"They may have said she left, but she got fired."

Posted by EddyNewHope at 08:02 PM : Feb 10, 2008

And you know this, how ? Your evidence, please.

[globalfishin]

What did World War 2 American Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison say in his book "THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE" about conquests of this magnitude not seen since Hernando Cortes 1513 conquering of the Aztec power?

"These conquests put a new face on Spanish America. Mexico, Peru, and New Granada were far more valuable than anything Columbus had found: rich, populous native empires with a small ruling class which the Spaniards had merely to supplant in order to exploit the masses and extract the wealth. Labor was there, already organized. It was as if Chinese invaders should move in on General Motors, kill all the top executives, and force the technicians and artisans to work for them."

I say Obama''s conquest of the USA will historically beat all conquests before, now, and after for a long time. And the many voters will not even understand the magnitude of it all because Obamas main supporters are children of voting age without any scholastic ability to understand the meaning of what they cry out for, that being "change", and so as the comic once said, "it will be like taking candy from a baby" this election.

It''s a win win for the true native Americans either way.

[von_marko]

Too bad Obama''s supporters didn''t vote the same way he does.... "NV" He wouldn''t have gotten many votes. ha ha I keep waiting for this loser to try and sell me a motivational Real Estate course. The naive sheep always follow their shepard. Baaaah Baaah Obaaaama

[von_marko]

"If you are 20 and not a Liberal, you have no heart. If you are 40 and not a Conservative, you have no brain. If you are 18 and enrolled in Junior College, you must be an O''Bama supporter" - Von_Marko 2008

[von_marko]

330 million people in American and Obama and Hillary are the best the Dems could come up with??? ha ha hee ha. Surely there is an illegal immagrant or two that could be a better candidate. This is why the dems will loose another one this fall. Al Gore, John Kerry and now Barrack Clinton. 3 strikes youuuurre OUT!

[luigi999-2009]

How dumb does one have to be to actually live in Ohio? When the media mentions Ohio the only reference is "blue collar workers." So Hillary is counting on the ditch digger vote?

[l00ker]

Playing the race card again it appears, she dumped the hispanic manager, and replaced her with a black one, in order to stop her bleeding of the black vote, especially on the Potomac. She''ll probably replace the black with an hispanic one again, before she gets to Texas.

[eddynewhope]

Bwaaaaaah! "Hill needs to get Billy back out campaigning for her. Watching that idiot blowin'' holes in her boat was almost as funny as watchin'' the three stooges." lexluthor5. OMG - That''s good stuff. Wow - I laughed so hard I almost fell out of my seat. Kudos lexluthor.

[von_marko]

Here''s a solution: Change the voting age to 19 and 50% of Obama''s supporters are now underage. ha

Change the voting rules to prohibit enemy sympathezers from voting and 50% of Hillary''s voters are gone.

[libra127]

"They may have said she left, but she got fired."

Posted by EddyNewHope at 08:02 PM : Feb 10, 2008

And you know this, how ? Your evidence, please.

Your failure to answer indicates you just made it up. LOL

[screwclinton]

Hillary supporter, Alonzo Cantu from Mcallen-Texas, has been bundling "supposed" donations of hundreds of Hidalgo County residents, to the tune of $Millions$ of dollars. This in a county where the median household income is well under $30,000.

Cantu is now asking Hidalgo County elected officials and even County & State courthouse Judges to have their names placed as donors for Hillary at a private fund-raiser in Cantu''s house on Wednesday, February 13, 2008. The FBI in conjunction with the FEC are investigating Alonzo Cantu for money laundry into a presidential race and all while using the names of elected officials who clearly cannot afford such donations.

One must wonder how many of these instances of unexplainable masses of high-dollar contributions "bundled" from poor and lower middle class populations will actually reach Hillary Clinton before serious arrests are undertaken by the Feds.

%u201CMr. Cantu, I hope it was worth the ride. Your life is about to be turned upside down. Sleep tight while you still can; for now!%u201D

[hawksprings]

"Change the voting rules to prohibit enemy sympathezers from voting and 50% of Hillary''''s voters are gone."
Posted by von_marko

Good one!
And prohibit her from accepting campaign contributions from Chinese Communists and 50% of her money is gone.

[eddynewhope]

Libra - "Democrat Hillary Clinton shook up her campaign Sunday after a string of staggering losses in a bid to stem a groundswell of support for rival Barack Obama in their bitter White House race.

The Clinton campaign announced that campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle was being replaced, a day after Obama trounced the former first lady in a clutch of presidential nominating contests, beating her by margins of two to one."

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hcDC59haLkOQ9cTAjuNQK_akosSA

OK - maybe "fired" was a bit harsh. Does "replaced" work for you?

[tazmjam]

Show me one instance of Senator Obama lying.

Posted by EddyNewHope

Lets just say Obama PLAYS with the truth. Would some people consider this lying? Maybe.

Criticizes Hillary over NAFTA. Then says he supports a NAFTA expansion to include Peru. The Peruvian trade agreement.(He missed the vote)

Said he was against taking money from PACs and lobbyist, even criticized Edwards(you don%u2019t get much more sincere then Edwards) NOTE: Obama just meant Washington lobbyist. State based lobbyists are OK because we all know they%u2019re not affiliated with the Washington lobbyist.(And pigs fly too) He%u2019s even got some big lobbyist working for him.

Said he represents CHANGE. However, when you compare Hillary and his ideas for change they are pretty similar, with a few differences. His supporters often say the Clinton admin. was mediocre; well they better inform Obama, because old Clinton advisers surround him. The CHANGE he is referring to is a page right out of GWB%u2019s 2000 playbook. New face, no past(truck load of dirt) Maybe that%u2019s what he meant when he said the Rep%u2019s were the party of ideas for the past 10-15years, after all he%u2019s using one of their ideas.:)

He%u2019s a politician (a slick one at that) just like all the others. He''s the liberal media%u2019s Golden Boy so they%u2019re not questioning anything he says. The conservative media are waiting to see if he gets the nom and then they will descend like a pack of wolves.

[eddynewhope]

No, your interpretation of "playing" with the truth is your opinion. Show me a bona fide lie from Senator Obama like the Clinton''s "I''ve been against the war from the beginning." or even the ugly inuendos from the Clinton camp such as the suggestion by Mark Penn (Clinton staffer) that Obama was a "drug-dealer" Those are bone fide lies. Show me a bona fide lie from Senator Obama.

[libra127]

"OK - maybe "fired" was a bit harsh. Does "replaced" work for you? "

Posted by EddyNewHope at 10:50 PM : Feb 10, 2008

The article you reference gives no indication that Doyle did not step aside voluntarily.

The article does seem rather biased, however (like most news sources when dealing with Hillary). It claims "Obama....shredded Clinton''s lead" and then goes on to admit that Hillary is STILL AHEAD IN DELEGATES. LOL

Go Hillary.

[libra127]

"...Clinton''s "I''ve been against the war from the beginning." "
Posted by EddyNewHope at 11:00 PM : Feb 10, 2008

Hillary has never made that claim. She has ALWAYS acknowledged that she was one of the 77 Senators who voted for the resolution in 2002.

[eddynewhope]

Uuuuh - Not ahead in delegates any more and that includes the super delegates. As of today, Senator Obama has more delegates. Not to mention, he''s won 18 states including 5 in a row just this weekend. You are correct though. Her manager may have stepped down voluntarily - just like she almost stepped down (replaced) after Iowa.

[hawksprings]

The country has Clinton Fatigue.
And it will only get worse until Bill and Hillary go away. Changing the deck chairs on the Clintanic will do nothing.

Leave us, Mr. & Mrs Clinton.
Go home to Arkansas to your Presidential Library and Massage Parlor, where Bill can bang all the women he wants to, and Hillary can bake cookies.

Do it for the children.

[eddynewhope]

Deligate Count as of today
Obama: 1134
Clinton: 1131

That''s including a super deligate advantage for Clinton of almost 200 and they can change their mind up until the convention. That is a staggering reversal of fortunes considering the "inevitable Clinton machine" that we read so much about last year.

[libra127]

CNN.com reports (as of a few minutes ago):

Clinton: 1148
Obama: 1121

[libra127]

"The country has Clinton Fatigue."

Posted by hawksprings at 11:09 PM : Feb 10, 2008

Oh, I don''t think so, Hawk. Hillary has raised over $10 million dollars, from 100,000 donors, since Super Tuesday (Feb. 5). Pretty impressive, I''d say.

[hawksprings]

libra,
Are you counting her $5 million in that $10 million?

I would imagine the other $5 million came from her Chinese Communist contributors again, don''t you?

[eddynewhope]

Obama: 1137
Clinton: 1134

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/democratic_delegate_count.html

Suffice to say, Clinton does not seem quite so inevitable now. I do concede that the numbers seem to vary pretty wildly and both of us can find counts that suit our argument.

[andersenme]

It is doubtful that the media-saavy public in the upcoming "Crabcake primary" states will buy into the faltering Clinton campaign.

Too many questions about why Hillary won''t release her taxes until after she becomes the Democratic nominee--if that happens.

(Doesn''t she trust Democratic voters to make informed decisions?)

A lot of anxiety out there, too, about her plan to garnish workers'' wages as part of her mandatory medical insurance plan.

Parents in particular would probably like to know what Bill and Hillary have to offer young people in terms of messages about the importance of honesty and integrity--given all the scandals surrounding the former First Family.

And of course there is still a lot of anger out there how the Clintons engaged in racial coding on the eve of the celebration of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Finally, the metro area is home to a lot of human rights activists as well as recent immigrants who came to the United States fleeing political oppression, many of whom are likely to be less than impressed with Hillary''s flip flopping on the issue of torture.

With such fundamental questions hanging in the balance, what Democrat worth the name will buy a bridge back to the 20th Century?

MARTIN EDWIN "MICK" ANDERSEN

[tazmjam]

No, your interpretation of "playing" with the truth is your opinion. Show me a bona fide lie
Posted by EddyNewHope

I call them as I see them. A half-truth is an exclusion of the full truth. Which in turn creates a false assumption. Statements such as, %u201CI%u2019m against NAFTA%u201D leads people to the conclusion he is against free trade. (He%u2019s not against free trade agreements.) Statements such as, %u201CI%u2019m against candidates taking money from PAC and lobbyist%u201D leads people to believe he%u2019s not taking any. (He is, from the state based ones)
I cannot speak on your moral codes, but as far as I%u2019m concerned if someone tells me only half the truth, and the half they omitted conflicts with what they told me, they are most definitely playing with the truth. And to many people they are lying. The liberal media by not calling him out on these half-truths are allowing him to present a false view of where he actually stands on these issues. In other words they%u2019re not doing their job. The conservative media and the Reps are biding their time.

[libra127]

"Are you counting her $5 million in that $10 million?"

Nope.

[ontheleft]

Hillary Clinton has fallen into a tailspin from which she can not recover. She was the frontrunner from the very beginning and needed to clinch the deal by Super Tuesday. She didn''t. Meanwhile, Obama has surged ahead of her in the polls. He''s now ahead of her in delegates, even counting all the superdelegates.

[barbjc1]

I keep wondering how come there isn''t any "dirt" being said or published about Obama? Is the news media afraid the blacks might riot?
Come on Americans nobody is as great as the media is portraying Obama. I really thought the American people were smarter than this but I guess not.