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To: Rambi who wrote (68375)	5/24/2008 9:58:17 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543358

<<<Personally, I think she just stuck her foot in it. It was an awkward comparison anyway, given that the primaries were held months later in 68 than they are nowadays. And there was no reason to use the trigger word- assassination- to make the point that some primaries have extended. >>> The Problem I take it then is that Hillary used the "trigger word" in putting her case in historic perspective and that is why she deserves all this invective. The fact that there are the same number of days between June 6, 1968 and election day in November, 1968 as there are days between June 6, 2008 until election day in November, 2008 does not matter. Also it doesn't matter that this race is much tighter than the race between Humphrey and Kennedy. It doesn't matter that the Democratic Party was deeply divided in 1968 and that Hillary should hand the nomination to Obama to make everyone happy in 2008. Well, at least you can make your case and not be totally embarassed by it but I can't see any other valid interpretations of Hillary's statement that has caused all this firestorm.