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

[Ginzaman]

This is proof that the white power elite will never tolerate a person of color as President.

[lungfish]

oh for crying out loud..... watch as the Clinton Republicrat train derails.... pathetic...

[MNmommy]

This one is a stretch - at best. It's a distortion. But hell, it's more red meat!

Feeding frenzy.

[echeola]

Well now we know who to blame if he gets killed.

[Pjsandiego]

Here comes the party machine or worse.

IT'S TIME THAT THE CLINTONS GO AWAY.

[procrustes]

"...introducing Mrs. Clinton" ?!

WTF didn't she slap the stupid comment down right then and there?

The answer is obvious and the reason for building rejection of Sen. Clinton is also obvious.

[speakingtruth2power]

Obama will be safe as long as he follows his voting record and remains a corporate centrist. He'll be assassinated if he tries any populist crap like socialized medicine. His safest bet is to have Edwards as his VP and plays good cop to John's bad cop in dealing with Big Pharma, Big Oil and the MIC.

[KSH]

Now that is just ridiculous! Strange and very very idiotic!

[desertdweller]

It's called politics. This is nothing compared to the withering shitstorm that the Republicans and their surrogates will throw at Obama once he is the nominee. It will be relentless - "shock and awe." Remember what they did to Harold Ford in the last days of the 2006 campaign? That is nothing in comparison to what those country club racists are planning for Barack.

[lizardbox]

No, no, no. Before we talk about what her surrogates are saying, let us examine what HRC said yesterday:
"'I don’t think it was by accident that Al Qaeda decided to test the new [British] prime minister,' she said. 'They watch our elections as closely as we do, maybe more closely than some of our fellows citizens do…. Let’s not forget you’re hiring a president not just to do what a candidate says during the election, you want a president to be there when the chips are down.'"

I absolutely hate it when it comes down to this

[BluGuitar]

What does this headline:

"Clinton Surrogate Ties Obama To JFK Assassination"

Have to do with the article?

Or maybe I just can't stretch enough anymore.

[godlessclif]

So Obama should pick a Vice President who will do a good job when he is shot?

Only one choice: Joe Leiberman.

[Chocolate2008]

You know what? I have had enough of this shit. Yes. I spelled shit all the way because that's how sick of it I am.

The Clinton's are going to pay big time for what they are doing and no one better tell me this shit , there I go again , isn't coming from the campaign. They are going to pay dearly in South Carolina.

This is no longer politics. This is full blown Jim Crow Dixiecrat Racism and THIS Black woman is no longer taking it. They will pay for this.