Clinton's Civil Rights Lesson (Death threat from Clinton Campaign?)

The New York times BLog ^ | January 7, 2008 | Sarah Wheaton

[MuttTheHoople]

DOVER, N.H. — As they barnstorm through New Hampshire, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband are often introduced by supporters who once backed another candidate but converted to her cause. Today, in Dover, Francine Torge, a former John Edwards supporter, said this while introducing Mrs. Clinton: “Some people compare one of the other candidates to John F. Kennedy. But he was assassinated. And Lyndon Baines Johnson was the one who actually” passed the civil rights legislation. The comment, an apparent reference to Senator Barack Obama, is particularly striking given documented fears among blacks that Mr. Obama will be assassinated if elected. Phil Singer, a Clinton spokesman said: “We were not aware that this person was going to make those comments and disapprove of them completely. They were totally inappropriate.”

Mrs. Clinton’s expression did not change noticeably when Ms. Torge made the comment.

[MuttTheHoople]

You may say this is ridiculous, but I don't put anything past the Clinton Campaign Team, especially when it looks like their best-laid plans, along with $100 million, is going down the crapper.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=Clinton%92s%20Civil%20Rights%20Lesson

[MuttTheHoople]

Sorry, just jumped onto FR with this article without reading on down first.

[dinoparty]

We should be fair. This person didn’t mean to imply anything sinister with the assasination remark.

[MuttTheHoople]

I still don’t think you should put anything past the clintons. NOTHING they say is by accident.

[Sig Sauer P220]

I could see the Clinton’s ordering some of their thugs to finish off the Magic Man, just out of vindictiveness, if nothing else. Its not like they haven’t done it many times before.

[Judges Gone Wild]

Right. And it took Stalin to finish the job of collectivization that Lenin started.

[crazydad]

Yes they will do it and blame the republicans some how...And then it will get very ugly.

[Bruinator]

LBJ signed not wanting to, nor did the Dem party. The republicans put the civil rights act through congress, not the dems.

[KarlInOhio]

Even if you don't take this as a death threat (which I don't), the fact that they are willing to counter Obama being compared to JFK by figuratively peeing on Kennedy's grave shows how desparate they are.

[farmer18th]

NOTHING they say is by accident.

Are you trying to say that Hillary's show of emotion yesterday was all just a calculated, political maneuver? That's awful. Simply awful. I'm shocked.

Not.

[shiva]

I'm not naive enough to doubt Hillary's fingerprints are all over this. Who would let an outsider get up on the stage to introduce you without your knowledge of what they would say? On the day before an election that would make you or break you...I don't think so

[crz]

Here we go again!

[Dionysius]

Hillary’s versions of the Reichstag Fire and Kristallnacht?

[top 2 toe red]

Someone posted on another thread yesterday..."Hillary won't let 35 years of her life's ambition go down the drain without killing someone first."

Then they added, "Without killing everybody first."

I agree with them.