Clinton Chair Blames Obama Camp for RFK Flap
Clinton campaign chair Terry MacAuliffe told "Fox News Sunday" that the Obama campaign was responsible for stirring controversy over Hillary Clinton's assassination remark. MacAuliffe also challenged the basis for uproar: "If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn't find offense to it, why is it that everybody else should?"
Clinton campaign chair Terry MacAuliffe told “Fox News Sunday” that the Obama campaign was responsible for stirring controversy over Hillary Clinton’s assassination remark. MacAuliffe also challenged the basis for uproar: “If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t find offense to it, why is it that everybody else should?”
Come on, Terry. People aren’t upset because they think the Kennedy family has been offended.
Barack Obama seemed to dismiss the controversy, telling reporters “when you’re on the campaign trail for 15 months, you’re going to make some mistakes. I don’t think Sen. Clinton intended anything by it, and I think we should put it behind us.” However, his campaign has, as MacAuliffe suggested, distributed commentaries criticizing Clinton’s remark.
Watch MacAuliffe on “Fox News Sunday” here.
WAIT BEFORE YOU GO...Washington Post:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign accused Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign of fanning a controversy over her describing the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy late in the 1968 Democratic primary as one reason she is continuing to run for the presidency.
“The Obama campaign … tried to take these words out of context,” Clinton campaign chairman Terence R. McAuliffe said on “Fox News Sunday.” “She was making a point merely about the time line.”
The issue is particularly sensitive given longstanding concerns about Obama’s safety as a presidential candidate. (He first received Secret Service protection last May.) The Obama campaign called Clinton’s words unfortunate and circulated a TV commentary criticizing them, although Obama himself said Saturday that he took Clinton at her word that she meant no harm.
This year, the ground feels uncertain — facts are buried and those in power are working to keep them hidden. Now more than ever, independent journalism must go beneath the surface.
At Truthdig, we don’t just report what's happening — we investigate how and why. We follow the threads others leave behind and uncover the forces shaping our future.
Your tax-deductible donation fuels journalism that asks harder questions and digs where others won’t.
Don’t settle for surface-level coverage.
Unearth what matters. Help dig deeper.
Donate now.
Media
Displaying complete ignorance about Minnesota politics, Mike Cernovich and others dumped lies and rumor into the immediate wake of the shootings.
The president and his administration repeatedly fail to provide any evidence of the imminence of any threat the Iranian general posed.
She violated the terms of her lifetime parole by leaving the country without permission.
The civil rights icon's courageous call for peace and criticism of his government in a time of war must not be lost to history.
In Honduras, the deadliest country for environmentalists, the indigenous leader fought tirelessly for her people and their land. Her murder must not go unpunished.
You need to be a supporter to comment.
There are currently no responses to this article.
Be the first to respond.