Mark Penn, again knee-high in controversy… [not it]

News that Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist, Mark Penn, took a meeting with Columbian officials to talk about ways to advance a free trade deal is at once not surprising, given Penn’s refusal to step down from his position as CEO of Burson-Marsteller.

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One of the toughest tasks for a political journalist these days is to try and find someone in Clinton world who is willing to defend Mr. Penn or his sense of political optics.

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Incidentally, Penn has said that he has time for only two clients: Clinton and Microsoft. Now, perhaps, he has three.

Unclear as to which is more of a pain for Penn, Clinton’s exaggerated truths, or Microsoft’s wildly unpopular new operating system, Vista.