The fight in Hillary's camp

Michelle linked to this soft-focus WSJ profile of Hillary's "Latina Queena" (their words) Patti Solis Doyle and the tension between her "friends of Hillary" with the white-boy camp.

I thought this was an interesting exchange:

Ms. Solis Doyle blew up two weeks ago when a campaign official in New Hampshire was quoted as questioning Sen. Obama's electability, given his acknowledged cocaine use as a young man. "I won't put up with this. It's inappropriate," Ms. Solis Doyle said, accepting the official's resignation. She frowned when Mr. Penn stepped out to talk to the media after the final Iowa debate Dec. 13 and ended up referring to the cocaine issue again.

That video of Mark Penn, former employer of Ms. Solis Doyle's husband and leader of the white-boy camp, is here. I think that cocaine-rumor tactic blew up in in the Hillary campaign's face, just like the oh-so-smooth attempts to remind the world about DICK CHENEY'S GAY DAUGHTER bit Kerry-Edwards in the rump in 04. (Plus it opened Cypress Hillary up to the same line of questioning.) So it wouldn't surprise me if PSD's star were suddenly rising at the expense of the melanin-challenged conclave and all their visibly dirty fighting.

If that article is accurate she seems much more interested in making the candidate likeable than grinding down the opposition, so I'll expect a profusion of frothy Hillary photo-ops if she succeeds in getting her way.

I can't wait. More cackles, more hokey quotes and awkward posing like this :

Clinton met two dogs on her walk through town. The first one was named "Samantha." Clinton said to the dog, "Samantha, I will be a good president for dogs." The second dog, "Wolfgang," barked Clinton off the steps of a house.