The Atlantic magazine obtained over 200 old Hillary Clinton campaign staff memos, and what emerges is the Clintonistas (and especially Mark Penn's) wonderful respect for love, diversity, and tolerance:
"Former chief strategist Mark Penn, who has taken so much heat in the race, lays out in an early 2007 memo the exact coalition that ended up giving Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton a winning streak toward the end. "We are the candidate of people with needs," Penn wrote in March of 2007. "We win women, lower classes and Democrats." In the same note, Penn laid out his ideas for attacking Obama over his "lack of American roots" -- a fierce approach that caused a great deal of strife inside the Clinton campaign, as others warned that Clinton needed to build herself up rather than tear the first viable African American candidate down. "All of these articles about his boyhood in Indonesia and his life in Hawaii are geared towards showing his background is diverse, multicultural and putting that in a new light," Penn wrote. "Save it for 2050."
