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Robert F Kennedy, Jr. Says No One Should Be Offended at Hillary’s Assassination Comments
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€
And, no one should be surprised at Hillary’s comments because she made the same type of comment and inference in March.
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.
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Hillary Clinton Watch: The RFK Assassination Clarifying Remarks – But Why Did She Say It?
Shocker: Hillary apologizes for Robert Kennedy Assassination Comment
Hillary Clinton Watch: I am Not Dropping Out Because Obama Could Be Assassinated?
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Hillary Clinton Watch: The RFK Assassination Clarifying Remarks – But Why Did She Say It?
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.
Here are Hillary’s clarifying remarks over the Robert F. Kennedy assassination FLAP:
“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.
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Tooth Whitening Shops – Are They Practicing Dentistry?
Nicole Linker, left, an iSmile technician, checks on Katie Blood during her whitening treatment.
Why would anyone think this is NOT practicing dentistry, despite the lame excuses the iSmileXpress company gives?
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?
Flap is amazed at the fast buck artists in and around dentistry.
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Shocker: Hillary apologizes for Robert Kennedy Assassination Comment
What a shock! Hillary apologized.
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€
Ahhhhhh, the Clinton Cabal.
Has Obama had enough yet? As the Nutroots go wild.
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Hillary Clinton Watch: I am Not Dropping Out Because Obama Could Be Assassinated?
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Hillary Clinton Watch: I am Not Dropping Out Because Obama Could Be Assassinated?
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.
Holy cow! Hillary Clinton uses the Robert Kennedy assassination as a rationale to not drop out of the Presidential race against Barack Obama.
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.
And here:
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
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John McCain Blogger Conference Call with Carly Fiorina
RNC Victory Chairman Carly Fiorina comments on her new role with the Republican National Committee
Flap just finished up on a blogger conference call with former HP CEO Carly Fiorina. Today’s topic was the John McCain campaign and economic policy.
More to follow……..
Update:
The other bloggers on the call:
- Dan Bartlett – www.gaypatriot.net
- Josh Curtis – www.californiapatriot.org/
- Jon Fleishman – www.flashreport.org/
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.
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John McCain Watch: Cancer Free But Political Health?
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.
But, his POLITICAL health with the RIGHT took a turn for the worse when conservative blogger John Hawkins of Right Wing News withdrew his endorsement of McCain’s candidacy.
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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China and Russia Critical of U.S. Missile Defense
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev (R) and Chinese President Hu Jintao inspect the honour guard during an official welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square May 23, 2008. Medvedev arrived in Beijing on Friday, offering energy deals and military cooperation by seeking pledges of solidarity with resurgent China at a time when ties with the West are strained.
In a shocker, China and Russia are upset with the United States over its National Missile Defense program.
China and Russia jointly condemned a U.S. plan for a global missile defense system on Friday at the start of a highly symbolic visit by new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
More specific than previous joint criticisms, the statement from Medvedev and Chinese President Hu Jintao objected to the installation of missile defense components in “some regions,” an apparent reference to former Soviet bloc countries where the U.S. plans to deploy components of the system.
“The creation of global missile defense systems and their deployment in some regions of the world … does not help to maintain strategic balance and stability and hampers international efforts in arms control and nuclear nonproliferation,” Hu and Medvedev said.
Medvedev’s choice of China as the main destination of his first foreign trip reflected the two nations’ increasing closeness in recent years as part of their efforts to counterbalance what they have called Washington’s global dominance.
When his predecessor Vladimir Putin went abroad for the first time as president in 2000, he traveled to London — via Belarus — with a message Russia wanted closer ties to the West.
China and Russia also signed a $1 billion nuclear cooperation deal that strengthens Russia’s role as a supplier to China’s fast-growing nuclear power industry. It calls for Russia to build a $500 million nuclear fuel enrichment plant and supply semi-enriched uranium worth at least $500 million.
Russia is bitching about America placing interceptors in Eastern Europe and China needs Russia’s nuclear technology to build power plants. So, they are scratching each others backs.
Russia and China do not have the conventional military strength to intimidate/blackmail neighboring countries and must rely on their nuclear weapons to threaten. The United States Missile Defense program (in its various forms) can be used to neutralize their nuclear arsenals.
So, they bitch and moan.
Too bad. They lost the argument during the Reagan Administration over twenty years ago. The American missile defense shield is operational. Get over it.
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Shocker: Secret Launch Site for Iranian Long Range Missiles
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Chris Muir Watch: It PAYS to Comment for John McCain
Sienfeld – Soup Nazi – NO SOUP FOR YOU!
Michelle Malkin explains the background of Chris Muir’s Day By Day cartoon of today.
John McCain’s “point†system for blog comment trolls is now a running joke across both sides of the Internet. RedState skewers the program here.
Here is Chris Muir’s cartoon from this morning:
Well, so much for enthusiasm in the conservative blogosphere for McCain who prefers “SOCK PUPPETS” to discussion of policy – especially that which may be critical of him.
Didn’t we see the same when McCain “blew Up” at Senator John Cornyn over the illegal alien amnesty bill last May? Not a pretty display of class for McCain.
Guess it is better to be safe than criticized.
Get those points and sock puppets ready or NO SOUP for you.
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It PAYS to Comment for John McCain
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Day By Day by Chris Muir May 23, 2008
Team McCain’s reward program for becoming a “SOCK PUPPET” is not very encouraging for a GOP that needs a leader post George Bush.While Barack Obama is enjoying rock star status with massive turnouts with rock concerts preceding his speeches, the sad McCain folks want bloggers to comment at the Daily Kos.
Something is NOT RIGHT.
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