http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/rfk/ en-us Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:12:58 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037660/posts With all the attention given to the 40th anniversary of Bobby Kennedy's assassination on June 5, let's remember one thing. It wasn't you and me that killed the Kennedys, or at least it wasn't me. A pair of leftists killed the Kennedys: Lee Harvey Oswald, a defector to the Soviet Union and a "Fair Play for Cuba" guy; and Sirhan Sirhan, a West Bank immigrant who wanted fair play for Palestinians. Go through The New York Times archives, even the archives of most Jewish newspapers, and you'll find more references to Yigal Amir being Orthodox than you will to Sirhan... The Jewish Week http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037660/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:12:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033093/posts NY's Triborough Bridge To Be Renamed For RFKReported by: Clyde Gray Last Update: 6/05 4:01 pm The bridge leading to New York's JFK Airport will soon be named for the former president's younger brother. Governor David Paterson is set to sign a measure to rename the Triborough Bridge after New York Senator "Bobby" Kennedy. At the time of his death, he was running for the democratic presidential nomination. WCPO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033093/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:54:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029307/posts Thomas says "Kennedy was a less polarizing figure than Nixon" which ignores the fact that Kennedy's decision to seek the Democratic nomination in 1968 only after Eugene McCarthy drew first-blood against LBJ in the New Hampshire primary caused outraged Liberals to consider Kennedy an opportunist who was splitting the anti-war vote, putting his personal ambition ahead of the need to end the Viet Nam war. In fact, in early 1968 Kennedy announced he would not oppose LBJ "under any foreseeable circumstances," further fueling the charge of opportunism when he "reassessed" his decision and jumped into the race a few days... http://stonezone.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029307/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:04:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027120/posts Politics is history in the present tense. And perhaps never more than at this moment. Barack Obama captured the Democratic nomination almost 40 years to the day after Robert F. Kennedy's assassination the night he won the California primary. RFK died on June 6th, 1968. And he will accept his party's nomination on another fateful day - the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. This coincidence of the calendar underscores the way in which Obama's candidacy symbolizes a step toward resolution of the shattered dreams of mid-1960s moderate liberalism.... RCP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027120/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 16:11:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026529/posts I REMEMBER how my father listened with rare empathy to everyone. He paid a lot of attention, for instance, to Putt, an old man who lived in a rest home at the end of Sea Street in Hyannis. A gas attack during World War I had left Putt unable to hear or speak. He spent most every day riding around Lewis Bay in a little rowboat with a five-horsepower engine. If Putt spotted us sailing to Egg Island for a picnic, he’d pull alongside, and my father would pass him a sandwich, a bag of chips and a beer. Putt... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026529/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 16:45:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2026276/posts hillary has announced that she will concede on Friday to Barack Hussein Obama. Why wait until friday? Once she has announced, hasn't she effectively conceded? Well, Friday is 6/6, the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. Given her previous comments, and the clinton's track record to date, do you think she's expecting some sort of salvation? Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2026276/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 03:49:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026198/posts Lenny Ben David on RFK - supporter of Israel murdered by Arab terrorist This Kennedy was our friend LENNY BEN-DAVID , THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 4, 2008 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1212041479954&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Hillary Clinton's horrible gaffe several weeks ago about Robert Kennedy's assassination served as a reminder that RFK was gunned down exactly 40 years ago as he left a primary victory celebration in California. Bobby generated great hope and enthusiasm among America's young, especially those who were opposed to the Vietnam war - not unlike the campaign of a young Illinois Senator today. RFK was a strong supporter of Israel, and that... THE JERUSALEM POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026198/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 01:01:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025326/posts The assassination was over in a few seconds. In the photograph of that moment, Bobby Kennedy, his eyes open and glazed, lies on his back on a hotel pantry floor, his head cradled by a busboy dressed starkly in white - a tableau that seems almost angelic were it not so brutal. Less than 26 hours after being shot early on June 5, 1968, right after winning the California presidential primary, Kennedy was dead. He was 42.Three major assassinations rocked America in the 1960s. Two of the assassins - Lee Harvey Oswald, the killer of John F. Kennedy, and James... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025326/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:54:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2025263/posts The Robert Kennedy campaign began in the ashes of Lyndon Johnson's re-election effort. Eugene McCarthy had spoiled LBJ, but if there was a favorite among anti-Johnson forces in the Democrat Party, it was Bobby Kennedy. He was warmly received at the 1964 convention and those who loved his brother always looked to him to bring back the Kennedy Administration. Lyndon Johnson did not bow to pressure to make Robert F. Kennedy his running mate in 1964. Instead, LBJ chose Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey, a man who proudly wore the label "liberal" and who would buckle under to Lyndon Johnson's leadership... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2025263/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 12:21:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2024733/posts The killing of Robert F. Kennedy has always been submerged in mythology spread by a liberal media and educational elite that has its own ideology and "theology" in mind. Kennedy's killing is bunched together with the assassinations of his brother John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King in a "Holy Trinity" of martyrdom that is an object of idolization and worship. It is ironic that all three men were far from deities, but all too human as has been evidenced by the details of their extramarital "relationships" that have emerged over the years. The other common mythology that was spread... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2024733/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:45:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2022120/posts http://www.evilsmilies.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2022120/posts#comment Tue, 27 May 2008 22:29:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2021398/posts Nearly 12,000 readers weighed in on an online poll that asked: Do you think Hillary's reference to the RFK assassination was appropriate? The results: YES = 16% NO = 84% The Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2021398/posts#comment Mon, 26 May 2008 12:50:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021360/posts 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... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021360/posts#comment Mon, 26 May 2008 11:01:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021326/posts Delusion reigns supreme in the Clinton camp these days. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any stranger, Terry McAuliffe appeared today on Fox News Sunday and blamed the Obama campaign for Hillary’s remarks about Bobby Kennedy. Yes, you read that right, it’s Obama’s fault. Here it is from the Washington Post: "Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign accused Sen. Barack Obama's campaign of fanning a controversy over her describing the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy late in the 1968 Democratic primary as one reason she is continuing to run for the presidency The Obama campaign tried to take these words... Houston Chronical http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021326/posts#comment Mon, 26 May 2008 05:41:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021325/posts Where did she go wrong?Clinton says her campaign's not over, but that hasn't stopped the post-mortems Sunday, May 25, 2008 By Mackenzie Carpenter, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Early on, she was too stodgy. Later on, she was too negative. She spent too much money in Iowa. She didn't spend enough money in Iowa. She should have campaigned on women's issues. Being a woman hurt her. Her campaign was stacked with experts on party rules -- who ignored the party's rules. She didn't catch on to small-donor fundraising until too late. She concentrated on a few big states and didn't try in smaller... Pittsburgh Post Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021325/posts#comment Mon, 26 May 2008 05:38:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021145/posts The latest case of foot-in-mouth disease by Hillary Clinton may not be that at all. Her remarks to a South Dakota newspaper regarding why she has decided to remain in the presidential race despite incredible odds may have been a case of wishful thinking. She cited the year of Robert Kennedy's assassination as an example of a long campaign season and why anything could possibly occur between now and the convention. She has since defended her comments in editorials in Sunday editions of the New York Daily News, saying they were taken out of context. She wrote: “I want to... America Talks http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021145/posts#comment Sun, 25 May 2008 20:14:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021171/posts Members of the Kennedy family are incensed over Hillary Rodham Clinton's invoking the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy to explain why she's staying in the race - and they think it could be the death knell of an increasingly desperate and sloppy campaign. "That comment may be the last nail in her campaign's coffin," a Kennedy relative told The Post. "How can Hillary even use the experience argument when she repeatedly pushes the wrong buttons in her comments?" An insider added, "I think people really felt that a line was crossed and that her campaign - and even her legitimacy... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021171/posts#comment Sun, 25 May 2008 21:10:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021201/posts (CNN) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday some people are using her controversial reference to Robert F. Kennedy's assassination to suggest that she meant something "completely unthinkable." Her campaign also accused the rival Obama campaign of "inflaming" the situation and purposely taking her words out of context. But the Obama campaign said it was not trying to "stir the issue up." CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021201/posts#comment Sun, 25 May 2008 22:26:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021011/posts "This past Friday, during a meeting with a newspaper editorial board, I was asked about whether I was going to continue in the presidential race. I made clear that I was - and that I thought the urgency to end the 2008 primary process was unprecedented. I pointed out, as I have before, that both my husband's primary campaign, and Sen. Robert Kennedy's, had continued into June. Almost immediately, some took my comments entirely out of context and interpreted them to mean something completely different - and completely unthinkable. I want to set the record straight: I was making the... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021011/posts#comment Sun, 25 May 2008 13:52:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020897/posts ABC News' Tahman Bradley and Kate McCarthy report: Sen. Barack Obama gives Hillary Clinton the benefit of the doubt that she had no hidden meaning when she invoked the assassination of Bobby Kennedy as an explanation for remaining in the Democratic presidential race. "I have learned that when you’re campaigning for as many months as myself and Sen. Clinton have been campaigning that, you know, sometimes you get careless in terms of the statements that you make. And I think that’s what happened here," Obama told the Puerto Rico radio station Isla Saturday. "Sen. Clinton says that she did not... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020897/posts#comment Sun, 25 May 2008 01:15:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020849/posts Senator Hillary Clinton just fell under the spell of Mike Huckabee's NRA joke, and mentioned that Robert Kennedy was assassinated on the campaign trail. Implication? Well, ya never know what could happen guys, I think it's a good thing I'm still in the race..... http://www.gather.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020849/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 21:34:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020841/posts WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday brought up the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama - drawing a furious reaction from the front-runner's camp. "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it," she said, dismissing calls to drop out. Clinton made her comments at a meeting with the editorial board of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, a paper in... New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020841/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 21:06:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020813/posts get your popocorn (video link) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020813/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 19:59:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020800/posts Everyone’s abuzz over Hillary Clinton saying she is staying in the race just in case Barack Obama gets assassinated. Or, something like that: “My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it,” she said, dismissing calls to drop out. A very angry John Aravosis has the blow-by-blow of the story breaking and the various reactions and counter-reactions as they played out on television. Marc Ambinder notes that the part about Bill... Outside the Beltway http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020800/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 19:23:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020796/posts Blogs across the left are cheering former Boston Market pitchman and sportscaster Keith Olbermann for his anti-Hillary jeremiad. But would you believe he's being more than a little hypocritical on this point? As everyone knows by now, Hillary Clinton discussed the assassination of RFK as a reason for her to stay in the Democratic race. Smooth move, Hills. But leave it to MSNBC's Ron Burgundy Olbermann to react in a comically over-the-top fashion. ExurbanLeague.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020796/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 19:20:21 GMT