Sen. Hillary Clinton said Friday that she regretted comments that evoked the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy as part of her explanation for why she was staying in the presidential race late into the primary season.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who has endorsed the Hillary Clinton quest for the Presidency has said no one should be offended at her comments about his father.
In a statement, Kennedy Jr. said: “It is clear from the context that Hillary was invoking a familiar political circumstance in order to support her decision to stay in the race through June. I have heard her make this reference before, also citing her husband’s 1992 race, both of which were hard fought through June. I understand how highly charged the atmosphere is, but I think it is a mistake for people to take offense.â€
TIME: Can you envision a point at which–if the race stays this close–Democratic Party elders would step in and say, “This is now hurting the party and whoever will be the nominee in the fall”?
CLINTON: No, I really can’t. I think people have short memories. Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn’t wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual.
Watching MSNBC, the left wing bag boys for Obama, Oddball and Obbieone say Hillary is through.
Wishful thinking because Hillary has more damage to inflict.
Sen. Hillary Clinton said Friday that she regretted comments that evoked the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy as part of her explanation for why she was staying in the presidential race late into the primary season.
“Earlier today I was discussing the Democratic primary history and in the course of that discussion mentioned the campaigns that both my husband and Senator Kennedy waged in California in June 1992 and 1968 and I was referencing those to make the point that we have had nomination primary contests that go into June. That’s a historic fact. The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy and I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation, and particularly for the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that, whatsoever. My view is that we have to look to the past and to our leaders who have inspired us and give us a lot to live up to, and I’m honored to hold Senator Kennedy’s seat in the United States Senate from the state of New York and have the highest regard for the entire Kennedy family.â€
Flap’s Take:
1. Hillary and Bill Clinton do NOTHING that is NOT calculated and planned. this was.
2. Hillary and Bill know that she will NOT win the nomination this year but they do NOT want the upstart Obama to win the Presidency.
3. Hillary does NOT want to be Vice President nor does she want to have to turn the position down.
4. Hillary and Bill want to sink Obama while preserving both of their legacies for his speaking fees and her run for the Presidency in 2012 when Obama loses to McCain.
5. What better way to achieve all of your objectives above, but to make a gaffe the likes that would hurt Obama, and the Democrat Party that did not nominate her.
A PERFECT STORM via the Clinton Cabal.
Hillary is out and the Democrats look like fools. White working class women will hold Obama responsible for defeating the first woman President of the United States and vote McCain.
Flap and the GOP are smiling.
Now, Senator McCain, don’t screw it up and pick Mitt Romney as your Vice President.
The California Dental Board will currently go out of business on July 1 of this year, thanks to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger so the enforcement of California law has probably been lax. Also, Jerry Brown, the uber liberal former Governor ond now the Attorney General is too busy suing county governments and President Bush over global warming to bother.
Let’s see why should these companies be regulated?
1. The treatment is worthless – mostly dehydration of the teeth and hence a fraud
2. A patient actually may be harmed by the materials and how would the technicians (who ain’t dentists) know anyway?
Hillary Clinton said Friday she regretted comments that evoked the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy as part of her explanation for why she was staying in the presidential race late into the primary season.
“Earlier today, I was discussing the Democratic primary history and in the course of that discussion mentioned the campaigns that both my husband and Senator Kennedy waged in California in June in 1992 and 1968, and I was referencing those to make the point that we have had nominating primary contests that go into June. That’s an historic fact,†she told reporters.
“The Kennedys have been much on my mind in the last days because of Senator [Ted] Kennedy, and I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and particularly for the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that whatsoever,†she added.
Earlier Friday afternoon, she told the editorial board of the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader 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,” complaining that “people have been trying to push me out of this ever since Iowa,” saying that that position “historically… makes no sense.â€
Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement that “Senator Clinton’s statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign.”
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., walks to her vehicle accompanied by her secret service detail upon arrival at the airport in Sioux Falls, S.D., Friday, May 23, 2008.
Hillary Clinton today brought up the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama.
“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.
This profound statement was made while Hillary was being interviewed by the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader’s editorial board while campaigning in South Dakota.
Flap has mentioned before that many California voters have told Flap they expect Obama to be assassinated because he is blackand/or a left-wing radical.
Damn, now Hillary?
The Clinton Cabal will sow the seeds of doubt anyway they can.
But……
Flap supposes these talks to have Hillary as Vice President did not go so well:
Suzanne Malveaux reports on CNN’s American Morning, May 23, 2008
Flap Question: There are going to be a number of battleground states in the campaign. How do you and the campaign plan to tailor your economic message to the desperate type of markets like Indiana and Ohio versus the Far West, say Utah or the battleground state of New Mexico?
Carly Fiorini: First, it is an obvious statement to make that his election may be in many ways be of the economy. The economy encompasses many things – the high price of fuel, the plan for energy independence which McCain will be talking about next month, health care because health care costs are a huge part of an employer’s bill these days. And, fundamentally encompasses free trade. But, fundamentally the economy is an important message. And, clearly while Americans all over the country are hurting there are particular issues in each state.
One of the things, as an example of what you are talking about is talking in local specifics about free trade. An example, is a McCain speech this past Monday in Illinois. And, McCain talked very specifically about the number of dollars Illinois exports and the number of jobs tht are dependent upon free and open trade. One of the tings the campaign must continue to do is to speak about economic issues in very local terms notwithstanding the fact there are some economic issues that are common across the United States.
Another example, because we are in California, is to take the example of entrepreneurialism, access to capital and job creation. California, particularly in Silicon Valley, trying to apply some of those lessons to other areas of the country which you will be seeing him do as time goes on. in other words small business counts for 75% of job growth in this country – obviously we need to get our economy growing again and creating jobs. How do we make sure small businesses have access to capital that they need? And, continue to grow? That we are lowering the tax burden on small businesses and encouraging investment in technology because we know all of those things work and work better now in a state like California.
And, finally, McCain talks alot about the tax burden on the stump. And, uses as an example, the reality that governments matter – different business tax rates in different states. You can save auto jobs leaving Michigan and going to South Carolina in part because of the differentiated tax structures in those two states.
More to follow…….
Update:
Ok, James Richardson, over at the RNC has graciously put up the entire blogger conference on audio here.
Flap can stop his VERY poor transcription skills and you can listen to Flap’s and the other blogger’s questions and Carly Fiorina’s answers.
Most Striking to Flap:
John McCain favors a bi-partisan commission to solve Social Security and Medicare insolvency problems and will NOT be making specific piecemeal proposals of his own during the campaign. This may be wise from a policy perspective but Obama and the Democrat Party surrogates will continue to demagogue the issue and wage some class warfare in portraying the GOP as a “DO NOTHING” party.
Flap’s suggestion: Prepare a White Paper on what McCain would recommend to the bipartisan commission.
In this Feb. 11, 2002 file photo, a bandaged Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., takes part in a Washington news conference to discuss campaign finance. Three-time melanoma survivor John McCain appears cancer-free, has a strong heart and is in otherwise general good health, according to eight years of medical records reviewed by The Associated Press
A review of Senator John MCCain’s medical records reveal the presumptive GOP Presidential nominee free of cancer and healthy.
Three-time melanoma survivor John McCain appears cancer-free, has a strong heart and is in otherwise general good health, according to eight years of medical records reviewed by The Associated Press.
The Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting remains at risk for developing new skin cancers, and gets a thorough check by a Mayo Clinic dermatologist every few months.
“I do not see any worrisome lesions,” Dr. Suzanne Connolly concluded after McCain’s most recent exam, on May 12.
The details of McCain’s health are contained in 1,173 pages of medical documents spanning 2000 to 2008 that his campaign made available to the AP to make the case that he’s healthy enough to serve as president, as well as to counter the notion that he’s too old. The Arizona senator will turn 72 in August and would be the oldest elected first-term president.
Like many aging Americans, McCain takes medicine to keep his cholesterol in check.
But Mayo internist Dr. John Eckstein, his longtime personal physician, lauded McCain’s performance on a heart stress test — sweating it out for 10 minutes when Eckstein routinely sees patients decades younger quit at five or seven minutes.
“I think physiologically he is considerably younger than his chronologic age based on his cardiovascular fitness,” Eckstein said in an interview Thursday. “I got a call from the cardiologist who said that he had not seen anyone that age exercise for that long in a long time.”
McCain’s most recent exams show a range of health issues common in aging: He frequently has precancerous skin lesions removed, and in February had an early stage squamous cell carcinoma, an easily cured skin cancer, removed. He had benign colon growths called polyps taken out during a routine colonoscopy in March.
Put very simply: John McCain is a liar. He’s a man without honor, without integrity, who could not have captured the Republican nomination had he run on making comprehensive immigration a top priority of his administration. Quite frankly, this is little different from George Bush, Sr. breaking his “Read my lips, no new taxes pledge,” except that Bush’s father was at least smart enough to wait until he got elected before letting all of his supporters know that he was lying to them.
Under these circumstances, I simply cannot continue to support a man like John McCain for the presidency. Since that is the case, I have already written the campaign and asked them to take me off of their mailing list and to no longer send me invitations to their teleconferences. I see no point in asking questions to a man who has no compunction about lying through his teeth on one of the most crucial election issues and then changing his position the first time he believes he can get away with it.
John McCain is NOT a conservative. McCain is a pro-life moderate Republican that supports a comprehensive “Shamnesty” approach to illegal immigrtion. This is not a surprise. But, does John Hawkins rather have a moderate Republican or a radical left-wing Democrat making the appointments to the next Supreme Court, the federal appellate courts, the federal district courts? These appointments will live on for decades.
Flap was disappointed that Rudy Giuliani was not nominated by the party. John Hawkins did not like him either, writing excoriating pieces about his pro-choice positions on abortion and personal baggage. However, Giuliani would have been the best leader this country could have elected this Presidential cycle. He had a record of achievement and accomplishment using conservative, free market principles.
Elections are choices that occur every few years.
When Flap has to decide between Barack Obama and John McCain in the polling booth, he may not be enthusiastic and may be suspect of some of the man’s positions on issues, but will vote for him.
An Obama Presidency is just too hard to swallow.
However, Flap is afraid others will stay home and it may be a very rough year for the GOP.
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