Hillary Clinton made a comment during an interview that she was staying in the presidential race because Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June. Some political pundits are calling her assassination remark a "gaffe" and are deliberately trying to downplay her statement. MSNBC host Keith Olbermann offered his own special commentary on Hillary Clinton's statement about Barack Obama getting assassinated. He also uncovers information that the Argus interview was not the first time but at least the fourth time she made assassination remarks about her political opponent Barack Obama. source
Hillary later explained the “assassination” remark by claiming, “The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days” because of Senator Ted Kennedy’s brain cancer diagnosis. Yet she said more or less the same thing in March, to Time magazine, when Senator Kennedy was not, presumably, on her mind.
“Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn’t wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June,” she told Time.
“Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual,” she said.
But when you look closer again, the remarks are not true, again. Bill Clinton’s primary race was essentially over in March, when Paul Tsongas dropped out and Clinton faced no serious opposition. As for RFK’s candidacy, it was not a long national soap opera. No, RFK won his first primary May 7 and was murdered four weeks later. source
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