Reply #98: RFK won the Calif. primary June, 1968 against a hotly contested race with McCarthy [View All]

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After Eugene McCarthy nearly defeated Johnson in the New Hampshire Primary in early 1968, Kennedy announced his own campaign for president, seeking the nomination of the Democratic Party. Kennedy defeated McCarthy in the critical California primary but was shot shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, dying on June 6.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy

It may interest you to know that McCarthy "angrily denounced Kennedy as an opportunist" for announcing his candidacy.

What HRC said was in reference to the fact that he (Kennedy) didn't drop out even after losing the primary in Oregon but went on to the California primary in June to win it. She compared her run to his for that reason. She decided to fight it out to the end of the primaries thereby giving people a chance to vote. She also referenced Bill Clinton's long fought primary against Paul Tsongas and then California governor Gerry Brown, which went on until the California primary in June. She expressed puzzlement over why, after these historically long primaries, she should bow out before the primaries are over in June.

That everybody jumped on this like flies to honey speaks to the paranoia factor amongst Obama supporters. Understandable for sure but in this case, uncalled for.

What you DO do by creating such a frenzy over what she said is to create an atmosphere wherein every bloody loony in the country will think that they might get as much media attention by actually committing such a crime, something these loons crave. I hope, pray I'm wrong here as I DID vote for him in the primaries and will vote for him in the election.

ITMT, methinks it's time we all calm down, take a deep breathe and maintain some sort of decorum on these forums which have pretty much berserk over her remarks and their unintended consequences.