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.
The comment, an apparent reference to Senator Barack Obama, is particularly striking given documented fears among blacks that Mr. Obama will be assassinated if elected.
How to describe this? Desperate? Weird? Uhm...a squeaky frame? [Rimshot!] Hopefully, Torge meant to merely draw a comparison between Clinton and a president who escalated wildly unpopular wars, and not with an assassin.
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."
If only there was some way to, say, vet a speaker's remarks in advance or something!
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There is new information about the JFK assassination in Gerald Ford's last book. It seems like reasonable news watchers are not eager to research whats there and the media is so emotionally conneted to pop-culture that few dare to care. I was the publisher of Fords final book and it has new information but I became a believer in some of the theories after working with Ford.
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