Subject: HRC reactions
From: Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
To: Robby Mook <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Kristina Schake <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Cc: Huma Abedin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 10:11:09 -0400

HRC just called me and expressed a fair amount of frustration with how
things are going.  She said we've given a series of very good policy
speeches and in between we just keep giving her poll-tested lines that
don't work, like make the middle class mean something. She emphatically did
not want to lose the Four Fights, or at least a similar construction, and
the link to Four Freedoms, saying she picked this location for a reason and
the Four Fights is the one thing she feels like is actually working out
there on the trail -- oh, and by the way, she had to come up with it
herself because we didn't give her anything better.  Also, she prefers "our
time" to "your time" and agrees that we need to build a stronger
scaffolding for "unlocking potential" if its going to mean anything to
people.  And she's eager to see the next draft.

I am working on that now, along the lines we discussed on our call last
night. I think I can probably graft on a light "four fights" structure onto
the second half without actually changing much at all.  The front half is
the challenge as was evident on the call last night when there was still so
little consensus. But i'm hopeful that rearranging the order, as Robby
suggested, can help us get there.