Posted on 05/26/2008 4:01:36 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton tried again yesterday to explain her reference last week to Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, while her campaign aides accused Sen. Barack Obama's advisers of taking the comment out of context and exploiting it.
In an interview in South Dakota on Friday, Clinton was discussing why she is still seeking her party's presidential nomination when she referred to the assassination of Kennedy -- then, like her, a senator from New York -- on June 5, 1968, as he celebrated his victory in the California primary. She used the June date to illustrate how long the Democratic race has gone on in past cycles, and she apologized after it caused an immediate furor. But yesterday she said the remarks had been misinterpreted.
"Almost immediately, some took my comments entirely out of context and interpreted them to mean something completely different -- and completely unthinkable," Clinton wrote in an article published in the New York Daily News, whose publisher, Mort Zuckerman, is a longtime friend of the Clintons.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Here are a couple:
On Friday, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, Bill Burton, said Clinton's statement was "unfortunate and has no place in this campaign."
Bill thew Hillary under the bus! Holy cow. Hide the lamps and sharp objects in Chappaqua.
She ticked off seven reasons, including her belief that she can still win, that she owes it to older women who have told her they want to see a woman in the White House, and that staying in the race will help unite the Democratic Party.
She could care less about the clueless "older women" who are still dumb enough to support her. Hillary cares about herself - period.
I am amazed there are people in this nation so easily duped.
The coffee maker just went off. Whew. I need it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/25/AR2008052502685_Comments.html
Very entertaining.
sorry was out of town - what did Hillary say re: rfk Jr exactly? thanks
KROFT: This is a tough question to ask, but a number of years ago, Colin Powell was thinking about running for president, and his wife, Alma, really did not want him to run.
MICHELLE OBAMA: Mm-hmm.
KROFT: She was worried about some crazy person with a gun.
MICHELLE OBAMA: Mm-hmm.
KROFT: Is that something that you think about?
MICHELLE OBAMA: I don't lose sleep over it, because the realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know. So, you know, you can't -- you know, you can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. We just weren't raised that way.
Hillary: "It's not my fault. It's a VRWC."
Welcome back! You must have been on the moon to miss this story.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&resnum=0&q=hillary%20assassination&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn
That's ok, it was STILL great to read - LOL!
“..that she owes it to older women who have told her they want to see a woman in the White House,”
My favorite part :-)
This can’t help but work to our favor.
Bill's not that dumb. The bus would flip if it tried to run over his thighs.
her...
My FRiend, go fill up your coffee cup and prepare to laugh yourself silly for a few hours.
There are loads of threads on FR, here's DUh's reaction:
I’ve decided that the ONLY reason the media defended the clintons during Monica was because he was a democrat. They probably hated having to continually defend his Oval Office sex romps. Evidently they’re just as sick of the clintons and their scandals as we are because now that they have a better dem, the clintons are toast...
She meant what she said
And said what she meant
A mean vicious woman
One hundred per cent!

This is the final torpedo to sink the USS Hillary.

The problem is, we now have the unassailable Messiah Obama to contend with. I cannot criticize him because I am white, and to do so would confirm that I am an evil RACIST!
Yes, but its great seeing the media go after one of their own like they’ve always gone after conservatives. Bill and Hillary are getting a real education now.
Obama is such a weak character it just magnifies the ineptness of the Democrats’ philosophy.
Campaign for what?
Fla and Mi in or out will not change the fact that on June 4 she will be second and he first in delegates. That has been a fact since the end of February. Since then it has been the super coward delegates who will decide who the nominee will be. Get at it and get it over with.
as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
When was last time Barack went to a gas station.
ping to link
This came from my 13 year old son:
Senator Clinton: “This could go all the way till June, and there may possibly be a guy named Wally with one eye, a peg-leg, a mole on this nose and a sniper rifle, that may possibly be gunning for Obama, but ofcourse I know nothing about that”
ROTFL!
“When was last time Barack went to a gas station.”
You know.
Well, you know, Michelle, when have we ever heard, you know, of people routinely getting shot at gas stations simply taking care of their cars?
There was one series of shootings:
1. October 3, 2002: Fifty four year-old Premkumar Walekar was shot dead while pumping gasoline at a Mobil station.
2. October 3, 2002: Twenty five year-old Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera was shot dead while vacuuming her car at a Shell station.
3. October 9, 2002: Fifty three year-old Dean Harold Meyers was shot dead while pumping fuel at a Sunoco station.
4. October 11, 2002: Fifty three year-old Kenneth Bridges was shot dead while pumping fuel at an Exxon station
Of all the people that were killed simply attending to their cars at gas stations, Walekar (ninth in photo), Lewis-Rivera (fifth in photo), Meyers (seventh in photo) and Bridges (first in photo), only Bridges was black.

They were are killed deliberately killed by this man who happened to be black.
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Other victims were killed in cold blood while mowing the grass or going food shopping or reading a book at a bus bench. The color of the victims he killed in cold blood ranged from white to mestizo to East Indian to black.
So, you know, Michelle, as far as I'm concerned, you know, you can take your "blacks against everybody else in America" racism and you can, you know, cram it up your tail pipe.
Have a nice day.
Hillary will use an executive order to rename the White House — Menopause Mansion.
Ironically, I thought of Chief Moose and his two-white-guys-in-a-white-van wild goose chase when I was posting about Michelle O and the gas station.
LOL - great graphic....
On the video in which Hitlery makes this threat against Obama....she is going on and on and on about the WATER NEEDS OF THIS COUNTRY and how basically the federal government needs to take full control of ALL the water “issues” between the states.....
She is soooooooo anxious to get her Stalinist hands on the basic necessities of life for people living in this country in order to follow her role model’s use of food (and water it seems) to control and force her way on the poor suffering people of this country.....
She can TASTE the power and the misery she is longing to deliver to so many.....
well - sort of -— was in New England.....made a point to not take in anything on the news while there.....except re: Sen. Kennedy’s brain tumor - that was discussed.....
OH MY!
The msm has NOT talked about this ASTOUNDING statement by HRC today - during the time I have been trying to watch Memorial Day events on tV - which are few and far between to be found...in between catching up on FR, washing clothes, and cleaining up....
I was also on vacation in the midwest and MISSED what Hillay actually SAID, all I heard is that she said SOMETHING! Even WIKIPEDIA doesn’t SAY what she SAID! WHAT THE HELL DID SHE SAY??
OK....WHAT DID SHE SAY??????
some here are beginning to “feel sorry for her”?????
Not possible.
Hillary Clinton said it and that means she has thought about it as a viable reason. She is ghoulish and morbid and without conscienceness of her callous and icy remarks especially knowing that her opponent Obama, has had to have Secret Service protection earlier than most candidates have had to because of threats.
It is remarkable the woman can casually speak of such gruesome matters and has done so several times without even considering how her words hurt as they bring back the awful memories of the terrible insanity of that violent era.
Shame on you Hillary Clinton, this is not a reason to voice when there are so many other other reasons for you to say why you stay in the primary race.
some here are beginning to feel sorry for her?????
Not possible...
...really? Have you listened to el rushbo lately, or read some posts on this forum from some of his devoted dittoheads...?
That is not the way her husband tells it - from Chapter One of My Life by Bill Clinton:
At the end of my presidency, I picked a few special places to say goodbye and thanks to the American people. One of them was Chicago, where Hillary was born; where I all but clinched the Democratic nomination on St. Patrick's Day 1992;
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