Carville’s Book “40 More Years” Offers Inside Glimpse of Clinton Campaign

Clinton and Obama at the debates

Former Bill Clinton adviser-turned-pundit, James Carville, apparently has a book in the works and it’s about, you guessed it…the 2008 presidential campaign and how it helped create the democratic majority not only now, but possibly for decades to come.

One person Carville takes aim at is Mark Penn:

In a forthcoming book, top Hillary supporter James Carville reveals that Bill Clinton was privately shocked and infuriated by the Hillary campaign’s awful financial mismanagement, and he serves up scorching criticism of the campaign, singling out polling guru Mark Penn for “suffering fatal confusion” about delegate strategy.

I share Carville’s disgust with Mark Penn, which I wrote about, here.

Based on what I have seen and heard so far, this book is not any sort of anti-Clinton hit-job. Far from it. In fact, some are saying that Carville is essentially saying some things that the Clintons themselves may not be able to say publicly, although that is merely speculation at this point.

One thing is clear, this book will likely open a lot of recently-closed wounds, particularly among some Hillary supporters (of which I am one) who believe she lost the election almost solely due to the super-delegate process.  I personally think that process is indeed messed up and responsible for causing problems, I think that Hillary Clinton’s top campaign advisers were responsible for what was, at times, a flawed campaign strategy and Mark Penn in particular did not serve his boss/client well.  That Hillary still owes him approximately two million dollars for his political negligence, is a bitter pill to swallow for those of us who supported her during the campaign.

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