Clinton Surrogate Makes Creepy Reference To JFK Assassination

With the chips down, we're still waiting for that vaunted Clinton discipline to kick in. This isn't helping:

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!

Comments

[MRb1000]

Let them try anything like this again and America would be in trouble. I would not joke with this.

[Transcendentobserver]

Linkins! Each comment you make seems to be exceeded in absurdity by the next. One can only imagine how low you can go in conclusions only a wannabee pundit without shame could conject.

That you could and did take an objectively accurate historical accurately and succinctly concluded by LBJ and scholars and biographers of both JFK and LBJ conjure some evil design to a recital of that conclusion does irreparable damage to the political process in general and lowers Huffpo to the plane of scandal sheets one finds at supermarket checkout counters.

[Elusive]

I'd love to stay around for more of you guys debating the history-i know i know it is important-but i'd like to go back to the future to check out why we are stuck with 2 candidates. because...anyone wanna go first?

[fariqabdulaziz]

The most important thing I believe history should remember of JFK was that he was a womanizing maniac, probably a borderline rapist.
I wasn't alive for his campaign or time in office, but if it's anything like today, it's all just media hype as corporations try to influence the sheep to focus on a single mouthpiece who goes out and dances like a monkey while behind the scenes the real work (by which I mean crimes against the people) get done.
If we're going to compare people to the past, I'd say Obama follows the George W Bush model, which is merely the newest update of the JFK model, as another pretty boy without any substance, who only talks in broad and sweeping generalities to cover up the same old BS. Unfortunately, Edwards is pretty much the same model, and Clinton just wants to get back in the WH with Bill so they can continue their own brand of disastrous corruption they began in '92. And the only things worse than these options are the Republican candidates.

[SouthernYankeeBelle]

Take a deep breathe everyone. I like Obama I would love to see him win. But I don't think he really can win the General Election therefore I will hold my nose and vote for Hillary because my guy dropped out (Biden) and I want a democrat to win. The republicans will hammer an untested Obama because he is nice. Plus I hate to say some people will never vote for him because he is black. On the other hand Hillary knows how to fight those republicans. I think everyone is counting her out to soon. But I do like Obama on his hope speech.

[rivrgrrl]

"Today, in Dover, Francine Torge, a former John Edwards supporter, ...."

It sounds like Ms Torge is still supporting Edwards.

[Coyote2]

Thank you Francine Torge for making that comment.

We understand in America that when it comes to political assassinations that only liberals -and popular liberals at that- are murdered. We also understand that Obama is currently riding a wave of popularity that has induced fear among the common folks that he too could be murdered for failing to fit into Cheney's blueprint for America.

By making this a newsworthy item, by publicly recalling the ghost of JFK, our security establishments and their black ops departments are put on notice by Americans that WE WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS.

[Beachrunner]

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. No, really, I'm not kidding--cough, cough--uh, no, no, of course we had no idea that this, uh, person was going to say that, I mean how could we, uh, know what they were going to say, before they said it?"

[realitytrumpsbull]

Are these people STONED?

I guess they'll say/do just about anything to get out of talking about the budget? LOL

[jogger]

Exactly, times thousands of votes.

When are the Clinton supporters going to understand that her reprehensible enabling of this bloody uncalled for war followed by her silence and lack of indignation is exactly why we end up here today with an otherwise intelligent woman losing priimary after primary. The Huffington Post is not the basis for votes in Iowa or New Hampshire, but simply one more unhappy outlet in the face of the entire Clinton entourage's political cynicism as it concerns politics in general, and our collective memory and intelligence.

[Mavin1620]

Jason Linkins' Clinton Surrogate Appears To Tie Obama To JFK Assassination should be pulled from the Huffington post. This is too thin, too low for further comment.

[apresdeluge]

This anti-Hillary stuff is way over the top. If I want to read this sort of crap, I will go to the Fox "news" site or some other right wing blog. Obama represents the illusion of change, "full of sound and fury signifying nothing". HE WILL NOT WIN THE GENERAL ELECTION because he is a "rock star" in an "empty suit" with NO EXERIENCE! Arianna, you are leading a charge to defeat for the Democrats....shame on you. Obama 2008 = Nader 2000.

[magen]

OBAMA NEEDS HIS OWN PRIVATE SECURITY FORCE!!!!!!!!!

If you think that the republiCONS haven't stashed a few racist wingnut christofacist crazies in the Secret Service, you're being naive.

o'LIElly is one, and if he had a gun, he was close enough to kill Obama.

All it takes is one. Let's be prepared. History shows us that they will try.

[ShockedSHOCKED]

RationalObserver (above) has this right. Charisma may motivate but experience gets things done.

I am sorry to see HuffPo twist the meaning. We expect more of you than this.

[Informit]

If Obama were to pick Hillary as his running mate...think what the odds would be that he'd be assassinated in office!