kennedy Jr.s remarks on Hogs may not do Clinton favors with endorsement

[illinoisprogressive]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for president today, and headed out to campaign for her in Iowa — a state where he once told residents, “large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.”

Mr. Kennedy, a fellow New Yorker, is a longtime environmental lawyer and the chairman of Waterkeeper Alliance, a non-profit that supports global clean water programs.

According to news accounts at the time, in April 2002, in the Des Moines Register and the New York Post, Mr. Kennedy made the comparison during a Waterkeeper rally in Iowa on hog farm issues. The group has long raised concerns about the environmental fall-out from large-scale animal raising enterprises.

A Register editorial denounced his comments as “idiotic” and “ridiculous,” and the paper’s leading political columnist, David Yepsen — who Mrs. Clinton and other candidates now eagerly court — said that Mr. Kennedy’s comments were “one of the crudest things ever said in Iowa politics.”

A Clinton campaign spokesman, Phil Singer, said yesterday, “We aren’t going to agree with everything that every one of our supporters has said.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/rfk-jr-endorses-clinton/

[Art_from_Ark]

1. Looking at the capitalized "Hogs",

I thought it had something to do with the University of Arkansas football team :crazy:

[flvegan]

2. And? He's right.

Hope Hillary earns his endorsement.

[ChiciB1]

3. I Guess This Comment Is Worse Than The One I Posted Earlier...

I had a thought run through my mind and posted it, and "pop" I got hit!!

No matter, I have thick skin!! I'm not happy with RFK Jr's support and feel a little betrayed, but I suppose he does want to become a Senator. That's all I can figure from this and it actually hurts me because RFK was one of my heroes! And I've supported RFK Jr's environmental causes for so long now I kind of feel like I got slapped in the face.

Guess I'll do my "green thing" on my own and spread the word to others by my actions!

[sandnsea]

4. Iowa Democrats tend to agree

A statement like that would only hurt a Democrat in the GE. Small organic farmers, who tend to be Democrats, dont like the large hog producers at all. If Yepsen doesn't know that, then I guess he isn't as smart as I thought he was.