Wow – I’m not sure what to say about these comments? This seems so inappropriate, to say the least. In addition, Clinton is being misleading in comparing her campaign to Bill’s or RFK’s campaign in June. I do believe this is the first time in history we started the primary process so year in the year. This year the primary started on January 3rd. In 1992 they started a month later February 3rd. RFK’s primary, in 1968, started on March 12th. So this is like comparing “apples to oranges”, all of them are democratic primaries but are different on the calendar.
Clinton Invokes RFK Assassination | The Trail | washingtonpost.com
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton invoked the memory of slain Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy as she explained her persistence in the Democratic race on Friday, saying that although the media and the Barack Obama campaign have been trying to usher her from the race, “historically, that makes no sense.”
“We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California,” Clinton said in a meeting with the editorial board of the Argus Leader, a newspaper in South Dakota.
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Will // May 23, 2008 at 5:30 pm |
I want to give Clinton the benefit of the doubt, but I am 100% sure she is aware of the fear among some Obama supporters, and especially in the black community, that Obama could be targeted. So I really don’t know what to make of this.
If she wasn’t actively trying to prove that she is more electable and that Obama is risky, I would give her the benefit of the doubt. But this sounds like another case of the “say questionable things and provoke a controversial reaction” game they played in SC. If Obama supporters complain, she’ll say they’re playing the race card like she did on meet the press before SC.
Dmitriy // May 24, 2008 at 6:10 pm |
OK, you need to see the video again. The question was “why?” why were they trying to push Clinton out “for the unity of the party”? Obamabots were trying to push her out back in March. That was after two months of primary elections. And the same story is still going on now. No one will have 2025 (that’s w/o Fla and Mich) needed to clinch the nomination.
Since super’s are free to change their mind at any time the only way to really secure their vote is … to take it to convention in Denver. So until then talks of Hillary getting out for the unity of the party are irrelevant.
Bridger // May 25, 2008 at 7:58 pm |
As it stand currently Obama has 1974 delegates total and needs 52 delegates to hit the magic number of 2026, and there are still 3 primaries left leaving about 86 delegates remaining. If Obama gets just 1/2 of that, he only needs about 10 more superdelegates.
He’s also currently beating Clinton by over 190 delegates.
I’m just tired of all of Clinton’s smear campaign crap. Clinton didn’t call fowl on suspending the delegates in Florida and Michigan until after the first few rounds of primaries. She found out they were suspended back in August, and didn’t complain until January.
I’m tired of seeing her stand by and try to legitimize stupid questions such as in one of the last debates.