HILL BLOGS BACK AT ONLINE LEFTIES

Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:02:27 -0400
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HILL BLOGS BACK AT ONLINE LEFTIES
By IAN BISHOP
NY Post

June 27, 2006 -- WASHINGTON - After months of
fierce attacks against her on the Internet, Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is ready to meet her Web
enemies head-on - by hiring a political-blog guru
who worked on John Kerry's presidential campaign.

Clinton tapped Peter Daou, Kerry's director of
blog outreach and online rapid response, to rehab
her battered image among left-wing Internet surfers.

Clinton has been pummeled in the liberal
blogosphere for her centrist stance on the Iraq
war, for backing a pro-life Democratic Senate
candidate in Pennsylvania and for being the
co-sponsor of a GOP measure to ban flag-burning
without amending the Constitution.
Daou is a political operative who runs the Daou
Report, a Web log that tracks political blogs and
news organizations to chronicle the latest Beltway buzz.

His stated goal is to build connections between
the party establishment, the media and the
blogosphere. He did not respond to an e-mail
request for comment from The Post.

On his blog, Daou wrote that he's "joining
Senator Clinton's team as a blog adviser to
facilitate and expand her relationship with the netroots."

Netroots refers to politically oriented Internet bloggers.

"There are endless possibilities for
Clinton-netroots collaborations, from Net
Neutrality to the Privacy Bill of Rights to
voting reform to so many other critical issues," he added.
Daou is working for Clinton's Senate re-election
committee, Friends of Hillary, to help the
campaign better "communicate" with supporters on
Democratic blogs, said campaign spokeswoman Ann Lewis.

His enlistment comes as the former first lady's
support on the Web founders while the stock of
likely 2008 Democratic White House rivals Kerry
and Sen. Russ Feingold soars for their aggressive anti-war stances.

The announcement of his arrival also comes four
days after the DailyKos.com's influential
founder, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, reported on his
site that Clinton had not "reached out" to the netroots.

"So how would Hillary ingratiate herself to the
netroots if she was so inclined? Here's how, and
this applies not to just Hillary, but every
single politician seeking netroots love and
respect: 1. Be a leader. 2. Get people involved.
It's that simple," Zúniga said.

Lewis said Daou's role as a blog adviser is a new
position in the Clinton campaign army - already a
staff of more than 40 political pros.

Experts say Clinton's massing of top-rate
political operatives, despite facing no serious
re-election challengers, is a tip-off of her Oval Office ambitions.
Her political staff, spread between her
re-election committee and her HillPAC political
action committee, dwarfs that of any other
potential 2008 White House hopeful on either side of the aisle.

Daou will be rolling up his sleeves to undo the
netroots damage Clinton caused by her vote last
week against a plan to pull U.S. troops out of
Iraq by July 1, 2007 - a measure that won Kerry
and Feingold the praise of party liberals.

bishop@nypost.com
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