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May 28, 2008 at 09:07:09

Hillary's RFK Remark Is the Final Straw; Ex-First Lady Doesn't Deserve Presidency

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Still Don't Believe That Clinton Is Waging an All-Out 'Scorched-Earth' War to Stop Obama from Winning the White House? Then Why Is Her Campaign Still Insisting She's More Electable -- Even After Her Gaffe Over RFK's 1968 Assassination Costs Her More Superdelegates?

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By Skeeter Sanders

When this blogger warned last Friday that Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign was "transforming itself from a chase for the Democratic nomination into a full-scale 'Stop Obama' movement," little did I realize how quickly Friday's column would prove to be prophetic.

My article was online for only a few hours before Clinton touched off a political and media firestorm with her comments evoking the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 40 years ago next week as her reason for staying in the race for the Democratic nomination.

In an interview published Friday, Clinton, asked by editors the Argus Leader of Sioux Falls, South Dakota why she was staying in the race despite Barack Obama's increasing likelihood of clinching the nomination, made the following comment:

"My husband [Former President Bill Clinton] did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. You know I just, I don't understand it."

Say what?

That she made the remark at all -- implying that she's staying the race because of the possibility that Obama may become the target of racist assassins -- was disturbing enough. That she said it just days after Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) the lion of the Democrats' liberal wing, was diagnosed with a malignant cancerous brain tumor is as tasteless as it is shocking.

There was no public comment from the Kennedy family, but the New York Post reported Sunday that privately, they were shocked and outraged.

Obama Forgiving, But Clinton Determined to Screw Him Out of Winning White House

For his part, all Obama would say was that Clinton's remarks were “careless” and that he accepted Clinton’s explanation that she meant no offense.

The Illinois senator on Saturday invoked the memory of the slain senator to inspire graduates at a Connecticut commencement. Obama, filling in for the ailing Ted Kennedy and never once mentioning the controversy, instead invoked the Kennedy family's legacy of public service and called on young Americans to follow in their footsteps.

Obama’s campaign advisers mirrored the Democratic front-runner's forgiving mood on the Sunday talk shows, saying they were ready to end the discussion.

“As far as we’re concerned, this issue is done. It was an unfortunate statement, as we’ve said and she’s acknowledged. She’s apologized, the apology is accepted, let’s move forward,” Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod said on ABC’s “This Week.”

But this blogger isn't about let the matter rest. As far as I'm concerned, Clinton's remarks are the strongest evidence to date that the former first lady -- knowing that she has no mathematical chance of winning the Democratic nomination -- is embarking on a determined "scorched-earth" strategy to weaken Obama against Republican John McCain.

It's a racially insensitive strategy which is driving an already-deep divide between the Clinton campaign and African-American voters even deeper -- with Clinton fully aware that Obama's safety is of great concern to many black voters, particularly those of Clinton's generation and older who lived through the nightmares of the twin assassinations 40 years ago of Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I'm a native of New York City who's called the Green Mountain state of Vermont home since the summer of 1994. A former freelance journalist, I'm a fiercely independent freethinker who's highly skeptical of authority figures -- especially when they're on the wrong side of the issues I care about. But I'm not afraid to also call into question those with whom I would usually be "on the same page" if and when they, too, are on the wrong side of the issues I care about.

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I am an 82 year old widow. I have voted in every election since I was old enough. I am the Mother of 3 and Grandmother of 6. I am a Democrat, always have been and always will be. I have worked over 40 years and draw Social Security. My favorite sport, for myself is bowling. Started in 1948 bowled through 1995 when healthy enough. I love sports, football, basketball and bowling. My favorite quotation for years has been, "WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR, BUT FEAR ITSELF". I can just hear it in my...

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Margaret DensonI am an 82 year old widow. I have voted in every election since I was old enough. I am the Mother of 3 and Grandmother of 6. I am a Democrat, always have been and always will be. I have worked over 40 years and draw Social Security. My favorite sport, for myself is bowling. Started in 1948 bowled through 1995 when healthy enough. I love sports, football, basketball and bowling. My favorite quotation for years has been, "WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR, BUT FEAR ITSELF". I can just hear it in my...

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WHY?

THE MAIN THING SEN. CLINTON WAS TRYING TO TELL THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES WAS THAT SHE WILL CONTINUE IN THE RACE UNTIL A LEGITIMATE NOMINEE HAS BEEN NAMED. EVEN IF IT WON'T BE UNTIL JUNE 2008, AS IT TOOK HER HUSBAND UNTIL JUNE TO GET THE NOMINATION.

by Margaret Denson (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 20 comments) on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 4:00:22 PM

Hi,
I'm a 66 year old woman, married with 3 children, 4 grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren. I grew up in a family of 8 children. I work in Child Protective Services, with parents who either have abused or neglected their children or who are at risk of child abuse and neglect (generally due to such things as mental health issues, or abuse/neglect because of alcohol/drug use and/or abuse). I have worked in this field for the past 23 years. Poverty is a huge issue for families with wh...

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Crystal PurcellHi,
I'm a 66 year old woman, married with 3 children, 4 grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren. I grew up in a family of 8 children. I work in Child Protective Services, with parents who either have abused or neglected their children or who are at risk of child abuse and neglect (generally due to such things as mental health issues, or abuse/neglect because of alcohol/drug use and/or abuse). I have worked in this field for the past 23 years. Poverty is a huge issue for families with wh...

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Firestorm???

No, sorry, Hillary did not create the media firestorm, the media did. It's what they do to avoid the cost of doing actual news coverage and providing the public with real information as they are supposed to do.

Please note that the individual from the Argus Leader who interviewed Hillary stated that Hillary was not saying what the main stream insisted she was saying. "I was there", he said.

What do you do for fun? Watch small animals drown? Give it up!!!

by Crystal Purcell (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 47 comments) on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 10:06:18 PM