The Clinton campaign’s chaotic, poorly planned, ill-managed organization suggests the Clintons have learned nothing since the structural chaos of their first two terms:
Clinton has overseen two major staff shake-ups in two months. She has left a trail of unpaid bills and unhappy vendors and had to loan her own campaign $5 million to keep it afloat in January. Her campaign badly underestimated her main adversary, Barack Obama, miscalculated the importance of organizing caucus states and was caught flat-footed after failing to lock up the nomination on Super Tuesday. It would be easy to dismiss all of this as fairly conventional political stumbling — if she hadn’t made her supreme readiness and managerial competence the central issue of her presidential campaign.
I think I’m behind on the Clinton compliments, aren’t I?
The Dish 