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

[fantagor]

I must concur with other disgruntled frequenters of this site. This story is the equivalent of passing notes in class. I know that dates me. Not everyone grew up with cell phones and text messaging.

Randy

[OhgReaTone]

Obama has the Disney quality of Bambi. Who wants to shoot Bambi?
Ohg.
http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/01/08/bambi-obama/

[way2muchsense]

That's why you pick a running mate so distasteful to your enemies that you may as well be wearing invisible-armor. Take Dick Cheney for example...­.

[Rubyfoo]

This seems like a totally innocent comment that pointed out it was not the charismatic JFK who actually got the legislation passed, it was the insider (like Hillary) LBJ who accomplished the task. True enough, but I'm still glad that JFK spent his three years in office.

[PerryWhite]

Actually the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by the Congress, and a greater percentage of Senate Republicans than Senate Democrats voted for it. Among the nays were Albert Gore (D-TN) and Clinton mentor William Fulbright (D-AR).

[xrayman]

Here's something: Obama surrogate (HuffPo) ties Hillary to Hilter (the Hitler pose two separate days on HuffPo frontpage).

[Wonderwheel]

What am I reading here? Did my browser connect me to The Onion by mistake?

[ae35unit]

Shouldn't you change the name of this blog to the AntiHillar­ingtonpost­?

[loki]

I guess next they will be saying Hillary is as great as Kennedy. I hate people saying how great Kennedy was almost, but not quite as much as I hate people claiming how great Reagan was.
Kennedy screwed up the majority of his time during his very short term as president. Just think if he kept up at the same rate for a whole term? But, his life was tragically ended short, so everyone claims he was wonderful. He did some good things, he did some bad things, but on the whole, he was at best average.

[bitabingbitabangbitaboom]

If Obama can get Assassinated how come it hasn`t happened to Bush or Cheney yet. Sounds like the SWIFTBOAT CREW realy has something up their sleeves this time?

Don`t try it; the militia will rise; risen, risen, keep on risen and the National Guard is in Iraq and this aint Chicago or Berkley all over again.....­.even the Rednecks are pissed off with Government­.....Iowa case in point.

I love the smell of Napalm in the morning...­.it smells like victory.

Viva Freedom of the Press.

[BluGuitar]

Seems to me that most people connect the infinite
number of dots according to their rigid and
arbitrary personal perspectives.

Remember Iraq?

[rh654]

LBJ - like Hillary - both went along with a war that turned into a disaster.

Is Hillary certain she wants to be spoken about in the same building as LBJ???

[InformedMisery]

HuffPO has now clearly lost its mind. The anti-Hillary sentiment has been seen many times before, but jeeze-louise. From that addmitedly retarded introduction of Senator Clinton you draw the headline that a Clinton surrogate was tying Obama to the JFK assasination? Unbelievable.

[julia06]

So glad that person is non longer with John Edwards.

What an embarassment.

[SamanthaJaneSalem]

But didn't Larry David just tie Clinton to the Spitting On Keith Hernandez Incident at Shea Stadium?