Hillary Clinton’s Full Statement on RFK: Regrets Making It
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, History, VideoI’ve updated this post with new video since the other one contained a bunch of stuff that didn’t matter to this conversation.
“I was discussing the Democratic primary history and in the course of that discussion mentioned the campaigns of both my husband and Senator (Robert) Kennedy waged in California in June in 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,” she said.“The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy,” she added, referring to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s recent diagnosis of a brain tumor. “I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and in particular 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 to our leaders who have inspired us, 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 Kennedy family,” she said.
I think it’s pretty clear that she screwed up, she knows it and she’s making amends. That’s enough for me, but it still doesn’t change the fact that she said it.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Hillary Caught in another lie.
Why did she say it? She is an intelligent calculated person that will do anything to win, including helping John McCain win, which would allow her to say, “I told you so. Elect me now.”
The media tonight are being much too kind.
Hillary Clinton made the same statement about Robert Kennedy’s assassination a few months ago, which further shows her apology was false. She did not know about Ted’s tumor the last time she said it.
“The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy,” she added, referring to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s recent diagnosis of a brain tumor. “I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and in particular the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that whatsoever.”
Keith Olbermann went through the different times she referred to Bobby Kennedy. He blasted her tonight, in my opinion, very much deserved, every word. Actually, I think Keith was still to nice in his word choices. Check out his site later for the video clip.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pa85uo1QyGw
Countdown: Special Comment May 23, 2008 Part 2
Part 1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sny8VfgcjaI
May 24th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Given all of the things throughout history which have happened in June, Hellary mentions the assassination of Bobby Kennedy? An unusually close parallel to Obama or wishful thinking or maybe instructions to the wack job racist out there?
“You guys aren’t doing your job!”
That’s what I hear Hellary saying!
Maybe that’s just me, …. we will find out at Barak’s wake.
May 25th, 2008 at 3:26 am
For some reason you, and a lot of other people completely misinterpreted what Hillary said. She was saying something completely innocuous and was actually making a very good point. She was reminding us that other candidates before her did not win the nomination until June, so she was wondering why people were expecting her to step down before June. RFK never won the nomination because he was assassinated. We all know this happened in June. Hillary’s point was to remind us that RFK was still campaigning in June at the time of his death. Therefore, why should she step down before June. She makes absolutely no mention or allusion to Obama.