Hillary's Analogy- Apples to Oranges

[theFrankFactor]

Kennedy didn’t even declare his candidacy for President until March 16, 1968, four days after President Lyndon Johnson narrowly defeated anti-Vietnam War senator, Eugene McCarthy, in New Hampshire.

Kennedy therefore, on the night of the California primary, was still a candidate for president little more than three months into his campaign and just three months after the first contest. By contrast, Senator Clinton announced her candidacy on January 22. 2007!

The date of the California primary in 1968 would, if put in an analogous position on this year’s election calendar, fall on April 3, a date that’s already two-and-a-half months past.

See full article here:

http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/democratic-party/19879/historical-inquiry-what-about-clintons-apparent-point/">The Moderate Voice

[TexasObserver]

1. Good point. RFK was 7 weeks into the campaign.

[quantass]

2. thanks for the info..didnt know that

[godai]

3. And in 2008, how long ago was the California primary?

Clinton's reference to the California primary in both examples fails to make her case. If the California primary is the benchmark, she should have stopped her campaign a long time ago. Her whole argument is bogus. She's just buying time hoping, I thought, for a new Obama scandal but apparently she sees other options which might get her the nomination. I never ever thought of harm coming to Obama as a way to her nomination but it seems, perhaps subconsciously, she has.