History lesson for Obamabots: RFK was assassinated in June, 1968.

[Darth_Kitten]

It's on a lot of people's minds......people who don't wish ANYBODY hurt.

SAYING that is NOT a crime. WHY not say something POSITIVE about your candidate? Why is it ALWAYS dumping on Hillary? I've never known any poltical campaign so full of crazed righteousness and vitriol tossed at people for little to no reason.

Nothing more pitiful than people who don't know when to just shut up a bit.

[Kittycat]

1. Wasn't the first, or second time.

You know... Staying in - Just in case something happens. Anything can happen.

[K Gardner]

51. Who else has campaigned on "assassination".. anybody? Anytime?

[marmar]

2. "Nothing more pitiful than people who don't know when to just shut up a bit."

People in glass houses..... :eyes:

[Pisces]

3. Take you own advice and shut up. Let the people vent genuine outrage.

[JoFerret]

36. And damage the chances of unity

at the same time.
I think some of the upset is genuine. Very little. Most of it is borrowed emotion from the TV bloviators and the "opinion leaders" in the media. As we know - they love this stuff.

And it seems many people need to be taught what to feel and think. that is what is actually alearming about this "tempest".

[MrsT]

4. During bittergate, sweeetiegate, snubgate and fingerscratch gate did you post

"Hey Hillbots, why not say something POSITIVE about your candidate? Why is it ALWAYS dumping on Obama?"

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. Wasn't there a pull my finger gate somewhere in there?? I seem to

remember catching a whiff of it.... heh.

[Joe the Revelator]

22. You forgot Handshake-gate

[hokies4ever]

30. ZING!

How dare you bring facts, logic, and previous posts into this thread! :rofl:

[Warren Stupidity]

5. flamebait headline

[JVS]

6. And that justifies HRC continuing her campaign how?

Hitler died in his bunker in May. So obviously HRC should call it quits. :crazy:

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. It's not necessary to say 'Obamabots'; you're an offensive jackass.

[gizmo1979]

8. I've seen equal amounts

of anger and bitterness from both sides.It's a bit old.Hilary is running a standard republican campaign though.

[neverforget]

9. Some candidates have dropped out in June while one has been killed

in June. Why chose the assassinated one?

[mcctatas]

11. This is the best defense ya got?

and I agree, nothing is more "pitiful than people who don't know when to just shut up a bit.", which is why Hillary should have stopped after referencing Bill not clinching it until June of '92 (even if it is a lie)....

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. You know what is sad.. partisanship has blinded people

she put her feet in her mouth and drove them in, hard... and earlier on, so did others

Hey did you approve of the Huckster's so-called joke?

It is in the air

So instead of you insulting many folks who looked at HER statement and went WTF? You should be asking why is it that she's said this before? Why is it that the Huckster made that joke in front of the NRA? and other such things

And in the US POLITICAL assassination did not start with Bobby, or Malcolm X or JFK... it has a long history... that is why HER choice of words was poor to say the least

What is sad is that blind partisans cannot see why this is a problem, REGARDLESS of who says it.

[ampad]

13. Obamabots?

Oh this gonna be good. :popcorn:

[Bluerthanblue]

14. UNRECOMMENDED

priceless quote of yours:

"Nothing more pitiful than people who don't know when to just shut up a bit."

:shrug:

peace~

[BlooInBloo]

18. I'm still waiting for someone to say the truly *magic* words again. heh.

[dkf]

15. Its a gratuitous use of someone's death. It was and is crass.

[DevonRex]

16. So it was on her mind in March? And how about January when

she was introduced by a woman who invoked the assassination of JFK?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

17. She picked the absolute worst way to phrase her point since she had successfully made the same point

w/o using the word "assassination" before. A lot of it is people who already have bad views of Clinton just like a lot of the worst outrage about "sweetie" and "bitter" came from people who have bad views of Obama. In this case, it's just a matter of numbers. There are many more Obama supporters here. It would be like going to Hillaryis44 and telling them to get over "sweetie".

[Jazzgirl]

19. Because she has said it before.

It was not necessary to mention assassination. She could've just said Kennedy was still campaigning in June.

[ima_sinnic]

20. I don't think I have ever seen you post anything here that wasn't nasty

I wonder why a nasty Canadian would want to spend so much time sticking her nose in another country's election? Why don't you go work on some Canadian politics, in your own nasty way?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

27. Seconded.

[Ichingcarpenter]

31. ...

"Hobbies: Messing with conventions."

[slinkerwink]

21. why even cite it as a reason to stay in?

[graycem]

23. Why not just admit

it was a VERY poor choice of words? And that though many of us do NOT believe she meant anything bad to happen to Senator Obama, it sounds pretty morbid? I think the defense of the words are helping fuel the anger. Because there is no defense of it other than, she made a mistake. God help us if the shoe were on the other foot.

[Lady-Damai]

24. Kumbaya, my lord,, KUMBAYA....

:popcorn:

[Skrelnick]

25. And we nuked Hiroshima on August 6, 1945

Would it be appropriate to use is as a time-marker or reference point when speaking to Japanese-Americans?

I MEAN C'MON, AFTER ALL I'M JUST QUOTING A HISTORICAL FACT! STOP BEING SO SENSITIVE.

[DAGDA56]

44. We didn't just nuke Hiroshima...we "obliterated" Hiroshima...

[Deja Q]

26. It's days like this when the only response would be

[DAGDA56]

28. Darth, for many of us, June 5, 1968 isn't just history...it's a memory.

This may partially account for our visceral reaction to the statement. If you were alive then, you know what I mean.

[martymar64]

29. You need professional help for stalking me via PM's

You've sent Ad Hominem attacks to me via PM twice. That's called stalking.
If you want to fight me, then do it in public. Better yet, let's meet in person and we'll take this into the ring. Mano a mano. We'll even let Skinner referee.
Or are you just letting your mouth write checks that your fists can't cash?

[hokies4ever]

34. "are you just letting your mouth write checks that your fists can't cash?"

LOL! :rofl:

[martymar64]

54. I know, it's a little extreme

But godammit, I get pissed when people start pulling that shit. And she's not even an American! She's in Canada! What the fuck business does she have interfering in OUR elections?

[ampad]

35. OMG she sent you a PM

:rofl: She sen me one last week calling me honey and trying to start internet beef. She has her account set up where she is not allowed to receive PM's. Ha crazy nut! I had to get into one of her threads and tell her to never PM me again she hasn't sent me one since then. OMG, Darth Kitty you are a nut ball!

[JVS]

37. alert it

[ampad]

41. I didn't know that you could alert PM's

I deleted the PM she sent me but if it happens again I will alert it.

[martymar64]

53. Already did

[Ichingcarpenter]

40. All of you that have had that happen you need to Alert that to Administration

seems someone has some major issues.

[ima_sinnic]

48. I did alert when I got mine -- I don't know why this disgusting thing hasn't been TS'ed yet (nt)

[ima_sinnic]

47. oh, she did that to you, too? when is this POS going to be TS'ed??

this is one of the nastiest posters here, and she makes it a practice to stalk people via PM. I have never seen anything but nasty, disagreeable posts from her. and she's not even from the United States. Plus I believe just about everyone in this thread is on her ignore list--she can dish it out, but can't take it, a real juvenile 4th-grader. A truly despicable, worthless non-contributor to anything useful.

Yeah, I got a PM too that was basically "you're an idiot." Like, duh, I guess SHE TOLD ME! :rofl:

[ampad]

52. You too!

Darth Kitten you are fucking nuts! So far that makes three people on this one thread that she has stalked via PM. She did it to me as well but I had no idea you could alert PM's. What the fuck is wrong with this person?

[City Lights]

32. Nothing more pitiful, indeed.

Nothing more pitiful than people who don't know when to just shut up a bit.

Might wanna look in the nearest mirror.

[hfojvt]

33. Mark Shields pointed out a history lesson for Hillary

the first primary in that campaign was May 1968. It was not an endless campaign like this one which began in January.

Not to mention the fact that Bill had wrapped up the nomination by mid-March and finalized it on April 7th when he won the New York primary and his only remaining rival, Jerry Brown came in 3rd behind a candidate who had already withdrawn, Paul Tsongas.

[Swamp Rat]

38. You desesrve the responses to this flamebait.

I have never seen you post anything positive at DU.

[Raine]

39. "Obamabots" WHY the fuck should I seriously

read anything that starts out with an insult? SCREW your F'ing post!

[azmouse]

45. I'll second what you said.

The OP is a hypocrite of the worst kind.

[still_one]

42. Her campaign has been the most divisive campaign that I can remember

regarding attacking one Democrat over another.

This inane comment she made in South Dakota, is just a long line of idiotic statements that have come from her camp

From comparing she and mccain as qualified to be president, but Obama "just a speech"

to playing the race card in a most overt and blatant way, has demonstrated to me who the Clinton's are

Even if she didn't mean that she wished Obama ill with her assasination comment, so she would be the nominee, it was a stupid thing to justify an argument why she should stay in the race

Justifying it on the grounds that every vote must count, or that the primaries must run there course are all legitimate, but throwing crap like this into the pot, indicates to me that she isn't a very clear thinker

In a similar way when Obama critisizes mccain because he didn't vote for the GI bill, mccain's response is to attack Obama because he didn't serve. How does that justify mccain's vote?

[NEDem]

43. "Obamabots"

Go f' yourself

[Garbo 2004]

46. History lesson: Hubert Humphrey became the nominee in 68 without competing in any primary election.

There's no valid comparison of the primary/caucus calendar and nominating process of the 1960's to that of 2008.

[ShortnFiery]

49. Saying that as "an excuse" to say in the race as The Opponent ... is a more than a little CREEPY if

not GHOULISH. Like, "I'm staying and waiting around because my opponent just may get ASSASSINATED." :wow: :puke: :wow: :thumbsdown:

[stray cat]

50. Hillary should get out of the race because RFK was behind in June and he was assasinated

Is that an ok statement? After all 1968 is on my mind and it is a true statement

[benddem]

55. I know the history

probably better than you...I came home from VN the day he was assassinated..so it is forever etched in my memory. BUT just what does this have to do with Hillary staying on to fight...except that "accidents do happen." Hillary has run one of the most undisciplined campaigns in history. She is frequently off message. People who aspire to be president don't say stuff like this...and the biggie "I have no reason to believe he is a muslim." Please don't go away mad...just go away.

[Elspeth]

56. That's right. It's 40 years ago this June.

Anniversaries always bring up memories.

[ampad]

57. No response from the OP