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There is no Proper Context for Senator Clinton's RFK Comments
The Clinton's are master manipulator's and when they make a mistake of gross proportion they deny, obfuscate and blame everyone else. No matter what the contaxt of her statements regarding RFK's assasination, there is no place for them in this campaign. The timeline excuse is rediculous as the campaign season was totally different in 1968 . When RFK was assasinated in June of 1968 the Democrats were in the middle of the campaign whereas this campaign ends June 3rd and Obama already has a majority of elected delegates.
This is the same tactic the Clinton's used when Senator Clinton repeatedly lied about the Bosnia bullet dodging trip. At first they tried to discredit Sinbad and others who were also on the trip and then once they were caught red handed on tape Senator Clinton said she was tired and remembered incorrectly. Unfortunately, that excuse was also a lie as she had told the same story months earlier in Iowa and again prior to the prepared remarks on St Patrick's day.
The excuse Senator Clinton gave for the RFK comment was that the Kennedy's were on her mind because of Ted Kennedy's illness.( Please, one can only imagine how much Senator Clinton despises Senator Kennedy for his stalwart support of Senator Obama) Again , the problem with that excuse is that she made the same exact comment regarding RFK to Time Magazine before Ted Kennedy was known to have a tumor.
There is no place for Senator Clinton's comments and her non apology is par for the course. Fortunately, this sad season in Democratic politics is alamost over and hopefully the Clinton's lies and manipulations will then be back page news or part of political courses as to how a political campaigns should not be run.












Comments (2)
Indeed the Clinton's defense against the inexcusable always has been to accuse the accuser. It is Alice in Wonderland, calling black white unabashedly, and so often and convincingly that people are actually swayed.
To criticize the RFK comment is "offensive".
There has been no racism in the Democratic campaign, only sexism.
Hillary has lashed out against Obama, with almost no negative statements the other direction, and she is the victim.
Only those few and distorted metrics that suggest she is ahead of Obama are worth focussing on.
White racist voters who support her are worth more than Obama voters.
She stays in the race to fight for blue collar workers and older women, as though Obama had not been fighting for these people all his adult life (see his Wesleyan commencement address today on YouTube).
The Clintons are living by the oft repeated lies.
May 25, 2008 11:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
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