Monday, February 11, 2008

Hillaryland


Hillaryland is a place of secrecy, discipline and control, and it has become the only world that presidential election frontrunner Hillary Clinton knows. It consists of a dozen or so strategists and fixers, nearly all of them women, and it is increasingly impenetrable to outsiders.

Political professionals say she needs to operate from within a fortress if she is to make it through the multiple minefields of the White House campaign.

Hillaryland is remarkably similar to the inner-circle surrounding George Bush, the loyalty-first group led by Karl Rove which took an unlikely Texas governor all the way to the top job. "Both operations make the papal

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/?storyID=8081
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/