Denial

By Patrick Appel
The Independent interviews Mark Penn:

So why did Penn say in a memo of March 2007 that Obama was unelectable? "Huh. No. It doesn’t say that at all." Yes it does, if the facsimile published by Atlantic Monthly magazine is correct. The great communicator appears thrown. "Those memos, right, that came out, were really … er, were really, I think, show you, you know, just a piece, because … a small part, a piece of how we were looking to, I think, set up or solve the fact that he was a very strong candidate."

Heh.