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authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Statement from Robert Kennedy, Jr., RFK's son: "It is clear from the context that Hillary was invoking a familiar political circumstance in order to support her decision to stay in the race through June. I have heard her make this reference before, also citing her husband's 1992 race, both of which were hard fought through June. I understand how highly charged the atmosphere is, but I think it is a mistake for people to take offense." Statement from the executive editor of the Argus Leader, Randell Beck, who led the interview in which she made the remark about RFK: "The context of the question and answer with Sen. Clinton was whether her continued candidacy jeopardized party unity this close to the Democratic convention. Her reference to Mr. Kennedy's assassination appeared to focus on the timeline of his primary candidacy and not the assassination itself." Anybody who hears a statement that can be interpreted two ways, one perfectly straightforward, reasonable, and unexceptionable, and the other as the statement of an inhuman monster, and chooses the second interpretation, needs to ask themselves whether that choice says more about them than about the person who made the statement. Again, as with so many of the deranged interpretations of Hillary's statements, plain common sense should tell you why the "monster" interpretation is a symptom of your inner state, and not hers: --If Hillary withdrew and Obama were to be assassinated, God forbid, she would still end up as the Democratic candidate, so it's not a reason for her not to withdraw. --She has made this same statement, in exactly the same context, back in March, and nobody blinked an eye. --If she *were* waiting around for Obama to be assassinated, what are the odds that she would say so to a roomful of newspaper editors and reporters? ------------------------------------ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
