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UPDATE: The Obama camp has offered the following response to Sen. Clinton's comments:

"Senator Clinton's statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.
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Hillary Clinton's argument for staying in the race took a disturbing turn today. While meeting with the editorial board of South Dakota's Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, she raised the specter of Obama's assassination as a reason to stay in the race:

"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."
The issue of assassination has been a sensitive one this election. Black voters have repeatedly expressed concern that Barack Obama would be assassinated during the race, sentiment that hearkens back to the murders of civil rights leaders, Bobby Kennedy's assassination included. Reports the Telegraph:

Mr Obama, 46, was given full Secret Service protection last May.

It was the earliest juncture for any presidential candidate since the practice was first introduced following the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy, two months after Dr King died from a shot fired by James Earl Ray, an escaped convict and racist.

The prospect of Mr Obama meeting a similar fate is etched deep in the collective psyche of many American blacks, particularly those old enough to remember the events of 1968, who overwhelmingly back the Illinois senator over his rival Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.

Earlier in the campaign, a Clinton surrogate also raised the issue of assassination, this time with a more direct reference to Obama. The Clinton camp immediately distanced itself from the suggestion:

Today, in Dover, Francine Torge, a former John Edwards supporter, said this while introducing Mrs. Clinton: "Some people compare one of the other candidates to John F. Kennedy. But he was assassinated. And Lyndon Baines Johnson was the one who actually" passed the civil rights legislation....

Phil Singer, a Clinton spokesman said: "We were not aware that this person was going to make those comments and disapprove of them completely. They were totally inappropriate."


Clinton Kennedy Assassination Reference: Raises Bobby's Death To Explain Why She Stays In Race - Politics on The Huffington Post

julia

Shocking.

Win ugly Clintons. Beautiful.

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Veronica

She is done. THere will be zero supers that can back this comment.

Way to fuck yourself out of VP spot. Hillary has out of her own mouth killed her last ditch effort. She also ran a horrible campaign. There could be no HIllary fan that can blame this on Obama mania, or his support base. She imploded on her own.

EvilMonkey

This is just unbelievable. It's very, very sad that she would even bring up such an appalling subject for her own political gain. At this point I have had it with that fucking bitch! Fuck her, I hope she sinks like a brick and is ruined because of this. A person this despicable doesn't deserve a job in politics what so ever. Fuck her!

HarperLee

I am just speechless. I am away from cable news for a few hours and she does this.

Poor Barack Obama has to say that it was an "unfortunate comment." Jesus Fucking Christ! Bill and Hillary Clinton are the Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg of the 21st Century -- with apologies to the Rosenbergs.

Recently Obama said that he admired Abraham
Lincoln because Lincoln was able to see the
humanity in his enemies. Look, Barack, the
Clintons have no humanity.

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julia

450 pending comments at HuPo...wow.

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Veronica

My sentiments exactly. She no longer deserves any respect. She needs to be humiliated. She is on now giving a comment live.

julia

Where....?

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HarperLee

It was 5 minutes ago on MSNBC. All she said was that she has the greatest respect for the Kennedy family.

If she is still in this race Monday, I don't know what I will do.

Bobby Kennedy announced his candidacy on March 16, 1968. He had been campaigning for 92 days when he was assassinated on June 6, 1968. Hillary has been campaigning for over 8 years.

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Oliver Stone on George W. Bush: "the banality of evil"

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home

HarperLee

I have never called her a "fucking bitch", but it feels good to hear you call her that.

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Oliver Stone on George W. Bush: "the banality of evil"

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home