Vilsack: "Clinton didn't understand the whole notion of relationship building."

By this week, the Clinton campaign had completed opening 34 offices across the state, arriving in many cities more than two months behind the local operatives for Mr. Obama or Mr. Edwards.

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With new anxieties about Iowa and a sense of heightened importance in the vote’s outcome, the Clinton campaign sent several senior strategists here, including Karen Hicks, who is known as one of the party’s top get-out-the-vote specialists. To compete with the strong organizations of Mr. Edwards and Mr. Obama, the Clinton campaign held a job fair in Washington to recruit many of the 100 new workers, but it remains an open question whether the late influx of young aides will be able to build the relationships with Iowa voters that other campaigns have been working on for months.

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“At the beginning, she didn’t understand the whole notion of relationship building,” said Mr. Vilsack, the former Iowa governor, who often travels the state with Mrs. Clinton and introduces her to voters.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/us/politics/18dems.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=politics

Gosh, distortion is easy. The point of the story: Hillary adapts and LEARNS.

My goodness, what an awful thing for a president. Certainly not what we're used to.

Guess I was mistaken. She was never a community organizer, clearly.

And yes, I certainly agree that the ability to learn is a wonderful thing.

is another symptom of one of Hillary's fundamental flaws: she lacks warmth.

because she is hillary. she`s led a charmed life so far and now she actually has to earn something..

I think it has taken a while for some people to understand
that Americans get up each day and at some point spend a little
time on the Net. Some visit and read sites and never join the site
but they pick up information. This has emprowered them to be
probing with thir Congressperson.

Our party has given the impression--fairly or unfairly they show
up at Campaign time, do a speech, catch a plane to next stop.

The very idea that we have to wait until an election to find
out what our platform is going to be. The Campaign is quickly
showing you haf better have positions which you can address with
conviction and passion. Conviction and Passion.

story. x(

He wasn't the most approachable Governor.