The OTHER Big Problem With Hillary's Notorious Remarks

[WillyT]

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Hillary Clinton: "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it."

What a remarkably wrong-headed paragraph. The formerly inevitable Clinton got into obvious trouble for her assassination comment. (And is now trying desperately to spin her way out. Lotsa luck.) But the sentence before it is totally wrong as well, as I can tell you that the Clintons knew that they would have no trouble in the 1992 California primary.

In May 1992, I passed on a message to Bill Clinton's national campaign chairman, Los Angeles attorney Mickey Kantor, who later held two Cabinet posts in the Clinton Administration. The message? That Jerry Brown, the former California governor who emerged as Clinton's most persistent opponent, would run no TV ads in the California primary and would pull back from the sharp attacks he'd been leveling on the frontrunner.

The primary was not "in the middle of June," as Hillary said in the first part of her gross misstatement about it. It was on the first Tuesday in June, as it had been for decades to that point, on June 2nd. Clinton was way ahead in the race. There was no suspense about him getting the nomination. And Brown's decision not to run TV ads in California -- he had plenty of money for that -- and to refrain from the harsh attacks that had marked his campaign to that point made it very clear that the fight was over.

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More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-bradley/the-other-big-problem-wit_b_103478.html

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[WA98296]

1. She Self-OBLITERATED

[sandnsea]

2. The even bigger problem is 1968

When we were still choosing nominees through the state party machine process which 35 states used. There were only 15 primaries in 1968, that started in March. Johnson didn't announce he wasn't running until March 31, Bobby got in in April. The primary elections were only 2 months. And it was always going to go to the convention because that's the way nominees were chosen in 1968. There's no reason to even talk about it, except to be able to scare people about an assassination.

[WillyT]

4. Great Points !!!

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[Kber]

8. This deserves it's own OP, IMO

if you haven't already.

[sandnsea]

9. Oh several times

and about 20 times in threads and even a note to Juan Cole. I guess wiser minds think history is too complicated for the little people.

[Swamp Rat]

3. k&r

[Mme. Defarge]

5. "I don't understand it."

Give me a f*ing break!

[WillyT]

6. Exactly !!!

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[WillyT]

7. Kick !!!

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[ms liberty]

10. K&R n/t

[WillyT]

11. Kick !!!

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