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Hillary Clinton was giving an interview with South Dakota newspaper the Argus Leader and she mentioned assassination as a reason to stay in the race. She was arguing that campaigns often go on all the way into June. Clinton said “my husband didn’t wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June. We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.” Then she added, “You know I just don’t understand it.” She doesn’t understand why everyone wants her to quit, and even calls it “unprecedented.” The blogs have already picked this one up saying she is insinuating Obama might get assassinated. The New York Post called it, “an odd comparison between the dead candidate and Barack Obama.” The Obama camp even felt as if they needed to respond to her comment saying, “Senator Clinton’s statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign.” Just like last week when a statement was made by President Bush that didn’t include Obama’s name. They just assumed it must be about Obama. I guess the world does turn around Barack Obama, and he is the cure all for all our ills. With all the blog noise Clinton felt she needed to apologize for the statement. At a later event she said, “earlier today, I was discussing the Democratic primary history and in the course of that discussion mentioned the campaigns that both my husband and Sen. Kennedy waged in California in June in 1992 and 1968, and I was referencing those to make the point that we have had nominating primary contests that go into June. That’s an historic fact.” She explained, “The Kennedys have been much on my mind in the last days because of Sen. [Edward] Kennedy, and I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and particularly for the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that whatsoever.”
Alan Cosgrove

Here is the video of Hillary Clinton;

Barack Obama and his wife Michelle were on ABC’s Good Morning America, and he told the Tennessee’s Republican party to “Lay off my wife.” He was responding to a question about a video the Tennessee GOP were running on the internet last week. The video plays on the comment she made campaigning in Wisconsin last February when she said, “For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country.” It was a pretty easy comment to attack. “The GOP, should I be the nominee, can say whatever they want to say about me, my track record,” Obama said on GMA. “If they think that they’re going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful because that I find unacceptable, the notion that you start attacking my wife or my family.” “Whoever is in charge of the Tennessee GOP needs to think long and hard about the kind of campaign they want to run, and I think that’s true for everybody, Democrat or Republican,” he said. Then he added, “These folks should lay off my wife.” Or else what? Obama claims Michelle “loves this country. For them to try to distort or to play snippets of her remarks in ways that are unflattering to her is, I think, just low class. I think that most of the American people would think that as well.” I wonder what most of the American people would think about her thesis project from college? This is just like the Rev. Wright stuff. The snippets say enough to get the whole picture from the person. There was no distortion is what the Tennessee GOP said. It was a quote directly from Michelle Obama. This isn’t the first time the Tennessee GOP has gotten slack for it’s treatment of Obama. Last March they were criticized for using his middle name “Hussein”. If Obama doesn’t want Michelle’s statement to become fodder for the news he should send her back to Illinois. Or he could tell her to lay off of the negative comments about our country. As long as she is speaking on his behalf, she should be fair game. There sure was no slack shown for Bill Clinton while Obama and his surrogates called him a racist. The first black president a racist? That really was a stretch, but they got away with it, and it hurt Hillary’s chances after South Carolina. That’s the kind of campaign Obama has run, so he better get used to it when it comes back at him. When you sling shit into a fan some of it comes back and hits you. Call it change or whatever you want, it is still the game of dirty politics, and that is how you get to the White House. Not with clean white gloves on.
Alan Cosgrove

Here is the video from the Tennessee GOP that Obama is talking about;

While Barack Obama spent some time in Michigan, the Kent County GOP (Grand Rapids, Michigan), released a new video ad that claims Obama will surrender the United States. The ad has a picture of old Glory blowing in the wind with a fife a drum in the background. As the narrator speaks the flag slowly changes to the flag of surrender. The narrator says, “Barack Obama believes that those of us from small towns in the Midwest… get bitter and cling to guns and religion… He will compromise America’s strength, mission and integrity.” Then he concludes as the flag goes white that the Hamas, “leadership is so excited about the prospect of Barack Obama becoming President that they have openly endorsed him and complimented his new vision for America.” They did this while Obama has decided to wear his flag pin again. Next thing you know they will show that video of Obama not saluting the flag during the national anthem while everyone else on the stage was.

Here is the video of the ad from the Kent County GOP, ‘Barack Obama show us YOUR flag’;