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Clinton: RFK assassination reference unrelated to Obama
CNN ^ | May 25, 2008 | CNN

Posted on 05/25/2008 3:26:56 PM PDT by Old Phone Man

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Headline:

"Makes issue of state's name, too racist."
"Alabama" offends Obama. "Too much like Obama."
"The other 57 states' names are probably okay."

21 posted on 05/25/2008 4:39:56 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: topfile

It just shows that she’s creepy; RFK was the only person to take the fight to June. And even if he did, what did his assasination have to do with his contesting the CA primary?


22 posted on 05/25/2008 4:56:38 PM PDT by sobieski
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To: Alia
Can't argue that his rhetoric is more innuendo than intelligence; can't argue that he has "machinery" paving the way for him.

But he's gambling: the emotions he's stirring up oscillate in both directions. He came out of nowhere overnight and he can go back there just as fast.

But his machinery is very, very effective. Still, I think FR can be at least as effective.

I wish someone would keep posting that "Bamboozling" video compilation, that juxtaposes the Oman with all the previous people who's lines he's ripping off. It's chilling.

23 posted on 05/25/2008 5:06:25 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (The road to hell is paved with euphemisms.)
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To: sobieski
Chris Mattews, the Obamaphile of MSNBC, feels that Clinton was trying to insinuate that “something could happen” that's why she's staying in. That was the purpose of the assassination reference. I don't buy it. I think she honestly was trying to remind people how late the Dems process dragged out in 68’. November 1963 and June 1968 are clear points in time for many people.
24 posted on 05/25/2008 5:12:56 PM PDT by topfile
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To: topfile
Most nuclear bomb components are classified as having an industrial dual-use, allowing for plausible deniability. Regardless of the context pf when past nominating races lasted into the summer, the reason this one is continuing is that the loser is hoping for something to trip up the leader.

-PJ

25 posted on 05/25/2008 5:19:59 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
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To: Alia
She's studied law.

Do they teach to use words "I" and "you know" in just about every sentence in law school?

No wonder The Beast appeals to undereducated white "working class".

26 posted on 05/25/2008 5:27:44 PM PDT by Anticommie
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To: topfile; opineapple
You have perfectly captured the mind picture Obama’s supporter are painting of Clinton. LOL: Enjoyed it very much!

Yeah, I quite enjoy seeing Hillaroo melt down and watching as the press throws her under the bus. The problem is they are pulling out all the stops for Messiah Obama now. :(


Anyway, I have had fun making a few images of Hillary's brilliant observation.


27 posted on 05/25/2008 5:28:18 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Old Phone Man

Right ..............


28 posted on 05/25/2008 5:29:20 PM PDT by Republican Party Reptile
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To: Candor7
Rotten to the core...One shudders to think what America has in store if Obama were to be elected POTUS...

THE OBAMA FILE - LATEST NEWS:

Debbie Schussel wants to know why Barack Obama claims he's against HAMAS and Hezbollah, but is meeting with one of Hezbollah's most important imams and agents in America, Imam Hassan Qazwini?

And wants to know why is this open anti-Semite and supporter of Israel's annihilation getting to discuss "the Arab-Israeli conflict" in a private, one-on-one meeting with Obama? What was said? I think we can do the math.

Qazwini is an agent of the Iranian government, spreading its propaganda. He was sent to the U.S. by Iran to help radicalize his mosque, the Islamic Center of America, which -- at the time -- was becoming moderate with women not covering their hair and mixing with men. All that has changed, under Qazwini.

Qazwini is very open about his support for Palestinian homicide bombings, HAMAS, and Hezbollah, and he's a good friend of Hezbollah spiritual leader, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah -- the man who issued the fatwa to Hezbollah terrorists to murder over 300 U.S. Marines and U.S. Embassy civilians in cold blood. Qazwini's mosque has held rallies and celebrations in support of Hezbollah, and many of Hezbollah's biggest money-launderers and agents in America are his congregants.

More . . .

THE OBAMA FILE

29 posted on 05/25/2008 5:33:46 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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OK so your in the Chris Mattews camp on this one and
I’m defending Hillary. Suddenly I feel the need to take a bath.


30 posted on 05/25/2008 5:46:14 PM PDT by topfile
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To: Old Phone Man

Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton called Clinton’s remarks “ominous” and “completely inappropriate.” “We will not be intimidated by Senator Clinton’s thinly-veiled threats,” Burton proclaimed. “We will say, though, that these remarks provide further support for the Senator’s deterimination to limit access to guns by persons who are demonstrably unstable or mentally unbalanced.”

Senator Clinton denied making any threat, “thinly-veiled or otherwise.” She went on to characterize her remarks as “hypothetical,” and “just a bit of friendly advice.”

read more...

http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm


31 posted on 05/25/2008 5:50:14 PM PDT by John Semmens
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To: Old Phone Man

Hillary Clinton is either stupid or naive enough to believe that her reference to the RFK assassination would not mean something “completely unthinkable”. It is obvious that her intellect is highly overrated.


32 posted on 05/25/2008 6:02:34 PM PDT by windsorknot
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33 posted on 05/25/2008 6:05:54 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©® - CTHULHU/SHOGGOTH '08 = Nothing LESS!)
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Hillary Clinton is either stupid or naive enough to believe that her reference to the RFK assassination would not mean something “completely unthinkable”. It is obvious that her intellect is highly overrated

Hillary says nothing that is not on the script.

34 posted on 05/25/2008 6:13:02 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: topfile
I have no idea what camp Chris Matthews is in. I'm in the camp that says that Clinton should have been taken out at the first opportunity.

-PJ

35 posted on 05/25/2008 6:18:14 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
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To: Old Phone Man

Maybe she just misspoke. She can’t recall tho.


36 posted on 05/25/2008 6:49:14 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Alia
She's studied law. She knew exactly what she was saying and to what purpose. This was no mere "slip of the tongue" or attempt to "jog memories".

I watched the whole long and dull interview, the money quote not yet having been extracted and YouTubed. It was mostly tedious policy wonkery about ethanol and Indian reservations and such. Towards the end, the editors asked her why she was staying in the race. The assassination reference was merely a note in the context of a standard-issue Clinton deception, namely that the fact that Bobby was still running when he was murdered in June meant that campaigns lasting into June is normal (and a justification for her continuing on). The deception lies in the fact that forty years ago the campaign season got a much later start. The editors didn't call her on her distortion of history. Nor did they react perceptibly to her use of the a-word.

So, intentional? I think not. She's plenty smart enough to know use of the assassination word in the Obama context would be a gaffe.

No, this was a classic thoughtless Freudian slip. She carelessly gave us a glimpse of what's in her head. Assassination is the one sure thing on the ever shorter list of ways she can still win it. She just let it out because it happened to be germane to the historical event she was deceptively adducing.

37 posted on 05/25/2008 7:18:05 PM PDT by cynwoody
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"Obama’s wife said he could get shot at a gas station."

True if some Muslim madman sniper with a rifle were still running free - due to the stupid black racist Montgomery County Police Chief Moose -- who was STILL looking for WHITE men in a WHITE van...

38 posted on 05/25/2008 7:50:45 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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39 posted on 05/25/2008 10:08:46 PM PDT by cyberella
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To: cynwoody
Cogent response.

The deception lies in the fact that forty years ago the campaign season got a much later start. The editors didn't call her on her distortion of history. Nor did they react perceptibly to her use of the a-word.

You've made my point here. Referencing RFK's (and BClinton's) campaigning as yet in CA in June would have been sufficient to make the point. If she had left her comments right at that point, it is possible others might have brought up your fact -- that campaign seasons got a much later start, then.

I've read elsewhere her recent assertion that she had Ted Kennedy's ailment on her mind which is what sparked (as a cause) for her JFK "assassination" sentence (which immediately followed the "campaign in June" issue) in addendum.

So, intentional? I think not. She's plenty smart enough to know use of the assassination word in the Obama context would be a gaffe.

If she is plenty smart enough to know use of the assassination word in the Obama context would be a gaffe, then perhaps indeed she was being utterly senseless in bringing up "assassination" in re June campaigning.

No, this was a classic thoughtless Freudian slip. She carelessly gave us a glimpse of what's in her head. Assassination is the one sure thing on the ever shorter list of ways she can still win it. She just let it out because it happened to be germane to the historical event she was deceptively adducing.

I concede to this point you make, and well. I have never asserted she "gaffe'd". Thoughtless Freudian slip might cover the matter. Looks like that's how she's currently spinning it.

40 posted on 05/26/2008 3:54:11 AM PDT by Alia
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