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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (68177)	5/24/2008 3:56:42 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) of 543424

>>Robert F. Kennedy had just won the California primaries when he was assassinted on June 6, 1968. At the time of his assassination in June, he was still far behind Senator Humbert Humphrey's in delegate votes. There was no hint that he was going to gave the nomination to Humphrey's. That was all that Hillary wanted to contrast.<< Mary - I would say that far more people remember RFK's assassination than would remember what was going on in the presidential race when it happened. If she had said what you just did, it would have been fine. Then it would have been clear that she saw herself as being in RFKs position. (Of course, there's a big difference right now, since there are no big upcoming primaries, and she has no hope of overtaking Obama's lead in delegates.) There are plenty of other precedents to primary campaigns going on into June, and even all the way to the convention. She could have used one of those. The way she put it, it was wide open to a lot of negative interpretations, and the innocuous interpretation you put on it takes a lot of work to get to. Whatever she meant, what she said was still a huge gaffe. - Allen

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