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"I regret if you are offended" is NOT an apology.
Sociopaths don't apologize.
The people who could really bring her down and make her face her crassness are the Kennedys, but, they have to much class to for that. My guess is they probably hope Clinton will recognize she went too far... and my guess is that the Kennedy's are giving the classness Clinton's too much credit.
Clinton better start praying that Obama does not so much as get his foot stepped on.....
As for the VP spot or whatever else she is holding out for...yeah right. I hope Obama says "I don't negotiate with terrorists". Because that is what she is acting like. She's terrorizing her party, terrorizing her opponent and hell terrorizing me because I listen to her shit.
"Clinton better start praying that Obama does not so much as get his foot stepped on.....
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You're so right! Like Howard Fineman said, "you have to wonder what's in her mind". She knows exactly what she's doing. She has referenced this 3 times already!
Hillary is not fit to even be a senator! She need to be put out of the Democratic Party!
Is she trying to kill Teddy Kennedy and Barack Obama at the same time?
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The Levels of Wrong in Hillary Clinton’s RFK Remark
Submitted by jmeasley on Sat, 05/24/2008 - 00:51. 2008 election Barack Obama Hillary Clinton
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It may not have been the first time that she said it on the campaign trail, but Hillary Clinton’s remark about staying in the race because Barack Obama could be assassinated like Robert F. Kennedy was in 1968 was wrong on many different levels.
In a meeting with editorial board of the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, Clinton was asked if she bought the argument of many people in the Democratic Party that she should get out of the race in the name of party unity. “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. There's lots of speculation about why it is,” Clinton answered.
The first level of wrong in Clinton’s statement is her comparison with her husband. If I remember 1992 correctly, Bill Clinton was the delegate leader. He was not the person in second place who stayed in the race, even though he trailed in delegates and had no chance of catching up. Her comparison to 1992 is completely bogus.
The second level of wrong was bringing up the RFK assassination on the same week that Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with brain cancer. At least Clinton apologized for that, “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.”
The third, and most important, level of wrong is the idea that she needs to stay in the race in case somebody kills Barack Obama. Being that Obama is the first African-American presidential candidate to be poised to become the nominee from a major party, this is a very touchy subject. Clinton’s remark was demeaning to the American people by saying in effect, that she better stand by, and be ready in case somebody takes a shot at the black guy. She is inferring her belief that America isn’t ready for a black president. She should apologize to both Obama and the American people for thinking so little of both of them.
There are a lot of fair reasons that Hillary Clinton could have cited for staying in this race until the end. She could have said something like she feels that she owes it to the millions of people who voted for her to stay in the race until the end. She could have even said that sometimes things happen in long primary seasons so she wants to stick around until the Party has a nominee, but instead she chose to make a remark that revealed a great deal about the way she views the world.
The one element of Hillary Clinton that turned a lot of Democrats off was that she tends to view the political spectrum in negative terms. This is why she was never able to offer Democratic voters a message of hope.
Hillary Clinton is a tactical politician who along with her husband has always had success by running on negativity. The Bush/Cheney years have been negative to the extreme. Americans were ready for a positive message, but Hillary Clinton is hard wired to negative campaign, and this reason maybe more than any other is why Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee.
Hillary Clinton’s statement can be read here
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this piece shows it.
query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE0DE1F3FF933A15750C0A964958260
but it also shows how graciuosly tsongas opted out, saying: "the alternative was to play the role of spoiler." 'That Is Not Worthy'.
how low have we got since then!
that woman's being doing these things from the start. i cannot imagine what she'll come up with next, but i'm sure she hasn't touched bottom even yet.
maybe next week will be seeing her aiming at obama's wife and kids. maybe something like: "they are his kids, as far as i know!" she's so inventive.
somebody help us -and US- please. it's unbearable.
Sitting alone on a loveseat, with a bottle of Riesling in one hand, and stroking a Simese cat with the other is this woman. Dressed in a purple Bathrobe, with the embroidered Gold Letters on the left chest HRC...
She turns the TV to Fox news to discover there airing repeats. She turns to CNN to discover her once friendly station now has Wolf Blitzer and Campbell Brown throwing under the bus.
She sighs. Tells herself , "F*ck it, how much worse can it be"
She takes a long 20 second swig from the Riesling looks down at the cat and says "Hey, what can he possibly say that I havent already heard before. Ive been vetted"
All of a sudden she turns the channel to MSNBC to see Kieth Olbermann literally slicing her to bits.
She takes another swig. Then shouts Bill, Bill, I thought you said Maggie would fix this.
No response ..She simmering now. The cat in a last attempt of freedom tries to squirm free..
It cant move
She continues to pet the cat. Her Eyes squint even lower as Kieth is finishing up his Either like assault on her once good name...
She grabs her cell phone..Ring, Ring, Ring, Ring.."Hi youve reached Terry," she hurredly presses one.
Her voice low. Her tone sinnister. she leaves the following message to her campaign manager Terry
Terry its me Hillary AGAIN I know youre in that house you sonnovabitch. Ive called 8 times since 5. Its now, 3am, and im watching KO tear me to shreads on a fucking rebroacast..Help me spin this, or you never know something could you know.....happpen..click...
She takes another swig completing the bottle of Riesling. The cat uses this oppurtunity to finds his freedom in a place where a man with a southern draw in the other room can be seen laying down on the bed..
Hillary standing at the door saysI know you heard me why did you ignore me? Since 3 eveverybody has been ignoring me. I tried to call Terry, Howard, Maggie, no one answered.
He looks up and tells her "Babe, were just tryin to get you prepared for Tuesday. After what you just said, come Tuesday, NO ONE will care about what you have to say ever again..."
why does no one put Wright-gate, Hagee-gate & Parsley-gate into spatial relation to one another viewed in a time line? it would be come a lot clearer if it was done that way. and that is what I did today.
the corporate MSM should all be ashamed of themselves...
April 9 the most important date you do not know
any seemingly biased writing style can be taken out as the dates and the events are really the only things that matter.
Just cannot believe that (She) would use such references to explain her wanting to stay in the race..... this whole thing is absolutely incredible coming from a woman who is learned and intelligent.
A VP candidate, not! She has flipped too many times!
http://manchestersquare.blogspot.com
She has always claim to never count her out!
What an evil vile wicked bitch!
God doesn't like ugly. She has some really whack karma coming her way. And if one hair is damaged on Obama's head because of her fucked up comments, she better watch her back because a whole LOT of folks will be checking for her.
WHAT ARE HOWARD DEAN AND THE REST OF THE SUPERDELEGATES WAITING FOR?!
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they might already be doing so.
It was a statement of fact.
I just logged into the Hillary blog section because I was curious on how the supporters would respond to her comments made yesterday. I just have to say these people are a huge contributor to Hillary losing her natural mind. Here are some of the comments.
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True Americans and False Americans
I just heard Senator Clintons remarks on CNN and I am extremely ashamed at CNN and anyone who tries to defame Senator Clinton because of these remarks.
As far as I can see, the Senator was simply recalling the fact that many campaigns don't end before the convention period.
After this business, I will never vote for Obama and his spiteful friends, never, even if they gave me a million dollars.
by JKM at 5/23/2008 5:09:05 PM
I share your feelings, JKM
I just finished my messages to those CNN "know it alls" and questioned their rationale. Here's the link to say your piece, they need to hear from their audience:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/cnntv/
Let us light our candles of wisdom and courage for Hillary, say a prayer for those who remain in the dark:
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=...
by Normita at 5/23/2008 7:31:49 PM
They are getting plenty of exercise...
All of this jumping to conclusions and running their mouths is getting on my last nerve. Not everything Senator Clinton says has an ulterior motive. Sometimes she is just stating facts.
If Senator Obama really is that sensitive he surely can't take the pressure of the Republican Machine. And shame on the news media for making mountains out of mole hills and trying to find something sinister in everything she says.
I am sick of the media's tactics and Obama's and his team's constant whining. They are all acting so immature and childish. Maybe they all need a time out. If this whining continues I think I'll SCREAM! Get over it and get back to business. Other leaders of the world will not play nice so if he can't stand the heat, he needs to get out and stay out of the kitchen. Let someone who can take it get in there and cook. Hillary we want you to stay in our kitchen.
Go Hillary Go!!!!!
Never Give Up!!!!!
by jam63 at 5/23/2008 9:47:56 PM
Imagine: early January, Iowa is where the candidates are supposed to introduce themselves to the public, and suddenly, FLORIDA HOLDS ITS PRIMARY THE SAME DAY AS IOWA.
Well duh, in January, Clinton was the front-runner, and she would get lots of the popular vote in Florida.
That was the whole $%^&#ing point of "the rules": it's not fair to have your primaries too early, as a surprise, AFTER everyone has agreed on what the early states would be.
I mention this because I guarantee you, Hillary will push this "popular vote" argument to the cosmic limits of infinity. She wants to be on the ticket. As Vice President, she will be one bullet away from the Presidency.
Or, one SCANDAL away from the Presidency. Guess who will manufacture that scandal?
Sorry, I know how crazy this sounds... but she really may be crazy, in addition to being a psychopath.
She's getting charbroiled over there, and any Hillary supporter trying to defend her is getting thrown on the grill with her.
Enough already, Howard Dean. Put up or shut up with this nonsense; sit Senator Pantsuit down and tell her it's over - either she gets with the program or get out of the party and have her committee assignments stripped from her while she endures a recall campaign from the good voters of the Empire State.
How fun is this! Pass the popcorn.
***This is why I keep repeating myself: her popular vote argument is bogus, even if she blows out Puerto Rico: THE WHOLE POINT OF THE RULES was to let the "second-tier candidates" get noticed in 4 special EARLY STATES: Iowa, NH, NEV, SC. Hillary's wins in FL and MI must be seen in this context!!!
I am really, really worried that she will use the popular-vote argument to force her way onto the ticket as the VP. No one is pointing out how bogus this is!!! (and by the way, Puerto Rico isn't even a state).
As the party's nominee, Obama has to impose discipline on the party. He needs to put his foot down and tell Hillary NO.
It is clear that the media is determined to treat this as a one day story.
It will get mention on the Sunday morning talk shows, but nothing more.
I can not believe this. I can not believe how people constantly make excuses for this woman no matter what she says or does.
Her "assassination" comment was beyond disgusting. There is absolutely no way to spin what she said. . . so, instead, the media is fine with pretending it doesn't matter.
Mind you, Obama's "bitter" comment lasted for weeks. Hillary piled on. So did McCain.
"bitter"
But Hillary can imply the assassination of Obama and the media (save Olbermann) does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
She knows that there are crazy people out there. She knows what a statement like this can do. But she doesn't care.
And to think, it turns out that this wasn't the first time she said something like this.
Unreal. If the media let's her get away with this then there is nothing Hillary can do or say that would force people to hold her accountable.
I'm watching MSNBC and her comment got about 3 minutes worth of air time. 20 minutes later they spent TWICE as much time talking about Obama's "white voter problem."
And the thing that REALLY gets me. . .
She never has and never will apologize to Obama and his family.
OBAMA was the focus of her analogy. Obama is the focus of her "anything can happen" campaign. Obama was the focus of her assassination comment.
This is unbelievable. God help us if she gets into office because she preys on the gullibility and ignorance of the American people.
There will be NO change if she gets in office. . . just a switch in parties. Instead of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity defending every stupid Bush blunder, you'll have left-wing pundits do the same for Hillary. We will get into the same types of conflicts and blunders . . . same sh*t, different faces.
It makes me sick. . . absolutely sick to see "mainstream" media pundits claim to "know" her intentions; ignoring her words to go back to the same "poor hillary" narrative. It absolutely turns my stomach.
Well. . . I was raised to believe that "God don't like ugly." And, right now, Hillary is the ugliest person I've seen in some time. If there is any justice in the world . . . people will finally wake up and hold her accountable.
Here's my theory: I think that the press and pundits want this story to blow over, just as they have glossed over all her other statements, is that they don't want to think that Hillary Clinton may harbor racist thoughts and they don't want to think that Hillary has this dark, power consumed soul that is actively thinking about the demise of Barack Obama.
They don't want to think that way of Hillary because they don't want to think that way of themselves.
Keith O. recited his long list of Hillary antics last night and said they (the press) was at fault for not grilling her ass about all the other stuff. They all gave her a pass (although he did break his foot off in her and Gerry Ferraro's ass back in February for the race baiting).
Fox News DID NOT COVER THIS STORY last night AT ALL! They went to reruns!
Now imagine if Obama had said something like this. You can bet O'Reilly, Hannity and Sustern would have been live on the air dissecting this, calling him disgusting, wanting him drummed out of the race for suggesting the murder of a fellow political candidate, wondering if Rev. Wright had poisoned his soul with hatred, blaming Michelle Obama's hatred of Whitey for Barack's statements, etc. If O'Reilly, Hannity and Sustern were unavailable to host, you best believe Fox would have dragged up Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, etc. to put those shows live on the air to blast Obama!
The pundits are saying "this is no big deal." Hillary supporters are saying "Hmm, this is no big deal."
It is a big deal because as one blogger has said, it's an X-ray into Hillary's soul. This woman is using Barack Obama's death as a campaign strategy!
And then when you add it up with all the dogwhistling she's done in the past 2 months, it's downright chilling.
Nobody wants to think that someone they work with, or cover for the press harbors thoughts and feelings like that so they'll gloss it over.
Except it can't be glossed over because this is the YouTube generation where people can watch and remix your statements over and over again.
If ya don't believe me, just ask George Allen how YouTube and Macaca remixed his political career.
The genie is out of the bottle. The press, the pundits and the DNC may try to ignore it but it's out there now -- we know that Hillary Clinton has been actively thinking about the demise of Barack Obama and is counting on it to clinch the nomination.
Frankly, the Secret Service needs to haul Hillary, Bill and Chelsea in for investigation. Yeah, I said Chelsea, because she's complicit in the lies, too.
Here is one from Donna Brazile as seen at Kos
"The reaction of uncommitted superdelgate (and DNC Rules Committee member) Donna Brazile to Hillary's remarks perhaps says it all:
Al Gore's 2000 campaign manager Donna Brazile, an uncommitted superdelegate who has been complimentary to Obama, told Newsday: "I am numb."
Also, I read that James Clyburn is quoted as saying Hillary's comments were "beyond the pale."
I wish they would act by endorsing!
Is there anyone in Congress or anywhere in the universe--hell, maybe even Bill--who can stop this. If not, McCain will be our next President. Hillary has poisoned the well and the Democrats have proven yet again that they lack the will to govern. I include Barack there. If you believe in something and you have the mind to carry it through, you also should be so pre-occupied with image and personal style that you don't DEMAND that this mess end. Again, he shows he is a lightweight whilst McCain comes off as a wise granddad with an occasional mean streak.
babyming, i repeat myself as well about the popular vote ruse. a primary system that features caucuses can not use popular vote because it devalues caucus states. obama recieved no votes from the large african american and college town populations of michigan. puerto rico is not a state and puerto ricans are not citizens. it is not that complicated.
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Just a quick point of clarification- Puerto Ricans ARE indeed citizens of the US. For example our passports are BLUE and we need not file for citizenship or for a greencard in order to travel to live in any of 48 contiguous states or work.
Also, where it is true we cannot vote in the general Presidential election we DO vote in the primaries. Why I have no idea.
Expect big numbers to post up in PR. Like many Latin American countries, politics is discussed round the clock (by kids and adults) and taken very seriously.
Hillary is banking on the switching the rules...But get this- in using the Puerto Rican numbers she is trying to inflate her numbers in "anticipation" of general election because people on the island cannot vote in the general.
By the way, there are many Puerto Ricans who have already mailed in their votes from states already visited... we know our votes won't count if we our attempt to register with a Puerto Rican address, so we use our state side address.
Look into to Andy if you don't believe me. I live and vote in Brooklyn,too.
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He wants his father's seat in the US Senate. The same seat Hillary Rodham Nixon holds as we speak.
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Christopher Chambers, Obama is not a lightweight. In fact, he's just the opposite.
He has more courage than we can imagine.
Sharpshooters on the roof
She is not fit to be president, or even to be a citizen.
Thanks, Craig. Now it makes sense.
It will be June next week and this Hillary mess will all be over. Every
half way intelligent person knows exactly what Hillary meant--and that includes ALL the pundits. She is DONE!! It truly is better to stop talking about it because we DEFINITELY do NOT want to get her white ethnic voters riled up to the point that one of them actually believes they need to do something (if you get my drift) about Obama.
Don't worry--IT IS OVER!!
I need suggestions...
To that anonymous who is crowing that the Democrats will be divided: we will be united at Denver.Behind Obama. We're just going through the process of kicking that nasty, evil beyotch off the Unity bus right now. She'll be lucky if she gets reelected in 2012 to her Senate seat.
She should never hold office again ever. I will never vote for her ever, ever, ever. I would rather endure McCain first. I know. But at least that evil is simple and honest evil. And as old as he is, shortlived most likely.
It is clear that the media is determined to treat this as a one day story.
It will get mention on the Sunday morning talk shows, but nothing more.
b-serious,
I'm more inclined to agree with town.
In a way, it's a blessing. Instead of this being a 'dump' story, THIS will be the story at every gathering this Memorial Day Weekend. THIS will be what people will be talking about. I agree with you b-serious, about this is what the MSM will attempt, but the bottom line brilliance of Keith Olbermann's comment last night was that he listed a good portion of the Clinton Attacks Obama Wiki.
As I said, when Isolated Incidents are neither ISOLATED nor INCIDENTAL they form a pattern.
THIS WAS NOT ISOLATED.
This is part of a PATTERN.
b-serious, I do hear you, but I'm more inclined to agree with town on this.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/23/212159/634/53/521670
If there'd been any doubt remaining about the need to utterly destroy the Clintons' political career, then Hillary just removed it with this criminal remark.
I still don't get why so many people are treating the Clintons with kid gloves. You treat people with respect when they earn respect. The Clintons have earned only contempt and anger.
Specific things we need to be doing:
1. The Clintons have stiffed an awful lot of vendors throughout their campaign with their unpaid bills-- so much for caring about "White working-class voters." Point this out in letters to the editor and calls to radio shows, but even more importantly, try to contact these vendors and encourage them to sue the Clintons in court for unpaid bills and delinquency of payment. Obviously, a lot of negative press will arrive and humiliate the Clintons further, working-class whites in places like Kentucky and West Virginia will be shown that the Clintons were just using them-- plus, as an added benefit, the bleeding from a thousand small cuts, from numerous angry vendors suing the Clintons for non-payment, will bankrupt them.
2. Place tremendous and crushing pressure on the Senators and Congresspeople who are still stonewalling on the Congressional legislation, that would require the Clintons to open up the donor list on the Clinton Foundation library files. There was legislation before Congress to require such foundations to disclose their donors, yet a few Senators (mostly Democrats, shamefully enough) have been stonewalling on the bill, as a sense of political favors.
Enough! For reasons of basic political integrity, indeed of basic national integrity, it is essential to disclose the donor list. It is an outrage that some members of Congress have become so corrupt that they refuse even such basic transparency.
Such members of Congress, even Democrats, need to be harshly targeted for their stonewalling. No financial support for them, no votes, weekly public humiliation in the media for their affronts to even a basic sense of fairness, and for their obvious corruption. They need to feel rough treatment and humiliation for allowing the Clintons to continue to conceal their criminal activities with the Clinton Foundation library files!
We need to foreclose upon all the Clintons now, no political career for any of them. Nothing for Hillary, nothing for Chelsea, certainly nothing, ever, anymore, for Bill. Get these corrupt fools out of the political arena!
I think hillbilly has put a hit out on Obama as well. Now we REALLY know and understand the meaning of "anything," as in "she will do *anything* to win the nomination. And in light of the kkklinton death list, we need to take her veiled threats with the utmost seriousness. On the positive side, she killed (excuse the pun)any chance of "forcing" Obama to offer her a vice-presidency, so we no longer have to worry about that.
I don't like the feelings of hatred that I feel for them. My feelings are so intense, and I seldom have that much negative passion. I also feel it for that MSNBC resident klansman, pat buchanan.
If we haven't been previously convinced, this political episode really illustrates how desperately we need our own tv media outlet(s). I saw a Black politician on tv a few months ago, and I think his name is JC Watts, from Oklahoma. He is a Black republican. He said he was going to start a Black Political tv station. I wish we could put our dollars together and have a People's tv station. I hardly ever watch BET and I forbid my children from watching it. And even while I can get a little raw, I do not consider myself to be in or have much in common with the ghetto demographic. I also think we need to financially secede from all the institutions that show bias against us, especially the msm. I feel that their blatantly biased/racist spin on local and national events wages an assult on our mental health, which is what racism does. Everyone I know is so upset and drained, unless they are totally apolitical. Racism creates an environment where we are called dysfunctional for having the temerity to call something racist. We are dismissed and convinced that we don't see what we see, hear what we hear, or feel what we feel, and that WE are the ones who are racist for bringing it up. We need to hear from our Black psychologists about now because we are being assulted on a daily basis. On the positive side, the hardcore racists are dying out more & more with each generation.
If you feel bus tire tread marks on your ass, it's because the DNC & the supers are trying to protect their jobs from the ire,backlash & revenge of white, female kkklinton supporters. These are the people she is sending to storm the May 31st meeting. That said, I do think there is a flurry of activity going on behind the scenes that we aren't privy to at this time. I have the greatest confidence in Obama & his crew to have a brilliant plan. I will hold on to this belief until June 4th. If everything isn't tied up & packaged by then, I'll freak out again.
The high point of my day yesterday was hearing Keith Olbermann rip hillbilly a new asshole, and hearing Janet Napolitano say "beat down the strawman." Aside from that, I envisioned a video game where the players are snipers shooting @ hillary clinton. She can hide behind bill, chelsea, women's organizations & various lies. She can start out in a dark pants suit, and as the player gets more points, her pants suits get lighter, and she becomes an easier target. If the player stops her before she gets to the white house, her head explodes... Then she grows a new one and keeps running, because she won't quit.
"According to a recent Los Angeles Times report, the Clinton campaign is more than $21 million in debt to vendors and service providers throughout the country."
And no, I'm not talking about lame 503 ads. The fact is, Hillary is 30 million dollars in debt and she still hasn't paid a large number of her vendors-- the details AFAIK came in one of the financial reports to the FEC.
This is very much fair game, b/c Hillary claims herself as the defender of working-class whites, but then she hypocritically turns around and screws them by using their services and not paying for them.
The hypocrisy of Hillary on this is enough to hit her on it.
But beyond that-- if you offered a service to somebody, especially a rich somebody like Hillary Clinton with over $100 million in assets, and then they turned around and refused to pay you, wouldn't you be pissed? This is a matter of basic fairness and respect for other people, something the Clintons seem utterly incapable of. So yes, we should be pointing this out, not in the form of 503's but rather, in the form of letters to the editor and calls to radio shows.
Again, the list of unpaid vendors is public, so if anyone knows the vendors, that they should be encouraged to sue in court. As I said, this goes well beyond the political angle-- it's basic fairness. Unpaid vendors are hesitant to file suit against the Clintons b/c they're so powerful-- is this something we want to allow? I say, heck no. The Clintons screw over the little people, but then pretend like they're defenders of them.
Even if this had nothing to do with politics, I'd say the same thing. The Clintons have no excuse, considering their assets, for not paying hard-pressed vendors around the country. As long as they remain in arrears, the vendors should indeed be encouraged to file suit, so as to, at the very least, discourage other politicians from pulling the same crap. I have some close friends who have their own small businesses, so yes, I do feel very strongly about this.
The right-wing columnist Westbrook Pegler, who had also been a ferocious critic of F.D.R. and the New Deal, welcomed the possibility that, as he put it, "some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his [Kennedy's] spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies," and J. Edgar Hoover's deputy Clyde Tolson remarked offhandedly, "I hope that someone shoots and kills the son of a bitch."
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This issue has been on the newsstands for the last three weeks (or more) and since it's the June 2008 edition, it will be on the shelves for at least another few weeks.
Hillary Rodham Nixon knows exactly what she's saying. She couldn't be as explicit as the quotes above (emphasis mine), but she knows exactly what she's doing.
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 simple point that given our history, the length of this year’s primary contest is nothing unusual. Both the executive editor of the newspaper where I made the remarks, and Sen. Kennedy’s son, Bobby Kennedy Jr., put out statements confirming that this was the clear meaning of my remarks. Bobby stated, “I understand how highly charged the atmosphere is, but I think it is a mistake for people to take offense.”
I realize that any reference to that traumatic moment for our nation can be deeply painful - particularly for members of the Kennedy family, who have been in my heart and prayers over this past week. And I expressed regret right away for any pain I caused.
But I was deeply dismayed and disturbed that my comment would be construed in a way that flies in the face of everything I stand for - and everything I am fighting for in this election.
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/25/why-we-continue-hillary-and-me/#more-2698