Reply #79: Just a few of Hillary Clinton's "gaffes"

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“Dr King’s dream began to be realised when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It took a president to get it done.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3173652.ece

"You know, my husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right?" she said to the editorial board of South Dakota's Argus Leader. "We all remember, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped0528pagemay28,0,1984716.column


"For those unaware of Hillary's "plantation" remark, this is what she said at Al Sharpton's event to a predominantly black audience in Harlem:

When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation and you know what I'm talking about….."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/20/opinion/main1226117.shtml


"Hillary Clinton has been caught answering a planted question on global warming from a member of the audience during a supposedly spontaneous session with voters in the key first caucus state of Iowa.


The embarrassing disclosure is the latest campaign stumble for the Democratic presidential frontrunner who is involved in a heated fight in Iowa with rivals Barack Obama and John Edwards."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1569021/Hillary-Clinton%27s-planted-question-gaffe.html

"Sen. Hillary Clinton said she "misspoke" last week when she gave a dramatic description of her arrival in Bosnia 12 years ago, recounting a landing under sniper fire.

Clinton was responding to a question Monday from the Philadelphia Daily News' editorial board about video footage of the event that contradicted her assertion that her group "ran with our heads down" from the plane to avoid sniper fire at the Tuzla Air Base."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/25/campaign.wrap/index.html

"The way that amendment was drafted we would subordinate our judgment to the UN Security Council," Clinton said. "I didn't think that was a good idea. If I had known then what I know now I would never have given President Bush the authority" to use military force.

Obama seized upon Clinton's gaffe - cordially - by reminding the senator the legislation she voted in favor of in 2002 "had the title "Authorization to use force in Iraq."

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0802/S00036.htm

"I think that since we now know Sen. (John) McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that. And I think it's imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold," the New York senator told reporters crowded into an infant's bedroom-sized hotel conference room in Washington.

"I believe that I've done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that and you'll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy," she said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/06/clinton-mccain-and-i-hav_n_90310.html