A pre-convention memo to Hillary Clinton
Ignore your sniping campaign team. Smart advisors would tell you to give Barack Obama your undivided support from now until Election Day.
By Joe Conason
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Aug. 15, 2008 | As a candidate in the primaries, you received a lot of truly useless advice from your high-priced helpers -- a situation highlighted this week by the embarrassing release of some of their confidential memorandums in the Atlantic magazine. From the beginning, your campaign seems to have been impervious to wise counsel -- even your own.