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In an op-ed in the New York Daily News, Hillary Clinton addressed the latest kerfuffle:
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."
As to why she's still running, Clinton has a simple response. The race isn't over:
I am not unaware of the challenges or the odds of my securing the nomination - but this race remains extraordinarily close, and hundreds of thousands of people in upcoming primaries are still waiting to vote. As I have said so many times over the course of this primary, if Sen. Obama wins the nomination, I will support him and work my heart out for him against John McCain. But that has not happened yet.And to the haters naysayers:
I believe I won a 40-point victory two weeks ago in West Virginia and a 35-point victory in Kentucky this past week - despite voters being repeatedly told this race is over - because I'm standing up for them. I'm standing up for the deepest principles of our party and for an America that values the middle class and rewards hard work.Clinton hopes the Puerto Rico primary, which she is expected to win, will improve her fuzzy popular vote math.
Finally, I am running because I believe I'm the strongest candidate to stand toe-to-toe with Sen. McCain. Delegate math might be complicated - but electoral math is not. Our campaign is winning the popular vote - and we've been winning the swing states we need to get 270 electoral votes and take back the White House: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Arkansas, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, Michigan, Florida and West Virginia.
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By: star on 5/28/2008 4:32PM
WOW! HillARY and Bill Have been working hard to fool the people on Black voices... People Do not buy it! They are desperate and now proven racist.. They will say or do anything to get back in the Whitehouse not to help the country, but to regain the power and the title! Wake up People!
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By: Geneva Hill on 5/28/2008 6:42PM
GO OBAMA 2008!
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By: Ira Col on 5/28/2008 7:40PM
FoxNews is ProHillary. No matter what she says, it is ok with Hannity. Orielly seems to have a fair point when it comes to both hillary and Obama. Hannity keeps going over the same old Obama Stuff, and ignores all of Hillary's bad stuff. Hillary is very educated woman, when she made those comments about RFK (sublinqual message) she new exactly what she was saying. Hillary appears to feel that she can say and do anything due to entitlement (success on the heels of Bill Clinton). Without Ex President Bill Clinton, she would have been out of this rate. I will never vote for her after all the race baiting she has done and the angry hateful comments! She is a poor and spiteful looser (purposely trying to divide the Dems). Comments that made me sway my vote, hardworking Whites, Hispanic votes, RFK comments, Florida and Michigan (position change) baiting (wants the votes in michigan with none for obama, just herself), exagerated Bosnia and other stories. So What king of president would she make? I am a women, sorry hillary you lost my vote. What's with Bill clintons conspiracy theory and her new I am a women sexist blames, Hillary has her very own reality. Very Sad Hillary.
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By: Rollie Settles on 5/29/2008 8:34AM
Wake up Everybody,stop Sleeping,we need a Change of
Goverment,Hilary Clinton want do it.
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By: Sandra Weathersby on 5/29/2008 3:39PM
Go!! Obama!!!! It's time for Hillary to step aside, gracefully.
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By: James Kasey on 5/29/2008 8:01PM
Hello everyone, this whole thing with the democrats and politics period is making me sick to my stomach. The fact remains that the rich get richer and the poor don't get shit. Hillary Clinton is a liar plain and simple. The only way for these rich people to continue the oppression of minorities, especially blacks, is to keep the political process in disarray. I don't buy her statement about not meaning anything when she spoke on JFK, that was a no no statement in any instance. Hillary is railroading the democratic party with her antics because Obama is black and ahead of her, not expected to happen in her eyes. Besides, she thinks because Bill was president that she is entitled to the nomination, how tasteless. And to talk about clips of Michele Obama in church shows how desparate most white people are, not all. The bottom line is this,the democrats probably could have won the white house back if Hillary would have just conceded and stopped this mockery of the democratic process. I would'nt put it past her to be in kahootze with the republicans and John McCain. Truth be told I loved Bill as president but I have serious doubts about Hillary. And one last thing, America will put Obama in before Hillary because the US is not ready for a woman president, no matter how much experience she has. And besides why is experience even an issue when the president has all kinds of advisors, its ludacris. So quite frankly, If you do win the nomination Hillary you will be handing over the white house to McCain, so how smart is that? Let's stop this nonsense about race and let's try and fix America, it really needs fixing. And I am a black man and no I am not to thrilled with my country, I don't blame Michele Obama and neither should white people, we have been put in this bad situation in America and trying to make the best of it.
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By: BERNICE on 5/29/2008 9:34PM
HELL, NO. HILLARY IS NOT THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE - - THE BLACK AMERICAN'S CHOICE. SHE IS ARROGANT, EVIL AND CONDESCENDING AND DOESN'T HAVE CHARACTER. WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS? SHE MAKES UP HER OWN RULES AND WAS COCKY AND ARROGANT ABOUT THINKING SHE WAS ENTITLED TO AND GOING TO AUTOMATICALLY HAVE THE NOMINATION ANYWAY. BUT GOD IS SAYING SOMETHING DIFFERENT!!
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By: Again on 5/30/2008 12:55AM
The USA Today/Gallup survey clearly explains why Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is losing. Asked whether the candidates were "honest and trustworthy," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won with 67 percent, with Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) right behind him at 63. Hillary scored only 44 percent, the lowest rating for any candidate for any attribute in the poll.
Hillary simply cannot tell the truth. Here's her scorecard:
Admitted Lies
Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)
She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)
She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn't cover the market back then.)
Whoppers She Won't Confess To
She didn't know about the FALN pardons.
She didn't know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.
Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.
She didn't know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
She didn't know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.
She opposed NAFTA at the time.
She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.
She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
She played a role in the '90s economic recovery.
The billing records showed up on their own.
She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.
She was always a Yankees fan.
She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White House about the pardons).
She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).
With a record like that, is it any wonder that we suspect her of being less than honest and straightforward?
Why has McCain jumped out to a nine-point lead over Obama and a seven-point lead over Hillary in the latest Rasmussen poll? OK, Obama has had the Rev. Wright mess on his hands. And Hillary has come in for her share of negatives, like the Richardson endorsement of Obama and the denouement of her latest lie -- that she endured sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia. But why has McCain gained so much in so short a period of time? Most polls had the general election tied two weeks ago.
McCain's virtues require a contrast in order to stand out. His strength, integrity, solidity and dependability all are essentially passive virtues, which shine only by contrast with others. Now that Obama and Hillary are offering images that are much weaker, less honest, and less solid and dependable, good old John McCain looks that much better as he tours Iraq and Israel while the Democrats rip one another apart.
It took Nixon for us to appreciate Jimmy Carter's simple honesty. It took Clinton and Monica for us to value George W. Bush's personal character. And it takes the unseemly battle among the Democrats for us to give John McCain his due.
When Obama faces McCain in the general election (not if but when) the legacy of the Wright scandal will not be to question Obama's patriotism or love of America. It will be to ask if he has the right stuff (pardon the pun).
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