Clinton rejects rumor of an exit
Hillary Rodham Clinton is denying rumors that her presidential campaign has been discussing her exit strategy from the presidential campaign with Barack Obama’s campaign.
“That’s flatly untrue. Flatly. Completely,’’ Clinton told members of the editorial board of the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Argus Leader this afternoon. “I am still vigorously campaigning.’’
Earlier in the day, CNN reported that insiders from Clinton’s campaign had approached the Obama campaign about an exit strategy in which he would offer the vice presidential position on the ticket.
Clinton made reference to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s June 1968 assassination while he was running for the presidential nomination as part of her explanation of why she refuses to drop out of the race.
Responding to questions about why she’s being pressured to get out, Clinton said she couldn’t understand it. She noted that her husband did not wrap up the Democratic nomination in 1992 until the California primary was held in mid-June.
“And we all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California,’’ she added.
Her offhanded comment – which indirectly raised the possibility that Barack Obama, the Democratic front-runner, might also be assassinated – drew a quick rebuke from Obama’s campaign.
“Sen. Clinton’s statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign,’’ stated Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.
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Hillary keeps putting her foot in her mouth, with remarks like that Bobby Kennedy crack, and then she wonders why a lot of Dems have had it with her.
this woman knows no bounds of decency in her quest for
what she believes has been taken from her….if he puts
he on the ticket he is just asking for trouble
HILLARY the most ‘klutzy’/icky-prepared pol of the last twenty years – even including ‘ARGENTIFEROUS’ DENNIS KUCINICH the ‘true’ ALIEN’S CANDIDATE!!!
There are 20 million reasons she’s staying in until the bitter end. And this woman accused Nixon of being corrupt. Are you laughing as much as I am?
I am thanking God, in whom I do believe, for the end to the last Sixties “Liberal” (a contradiction: they were statists, and not open-minded).
Even the Black Panthers wised up (Eldridge Cleaver became a Republican, and ran in California’s 1982 GOP US Senatorial Primary), but the armpit-hair laden confused fems of the ‘70s, such as Sen. Clinton, strived on, only to be repudiated at long last. Thankfully.
Senator Clinton: Good advice for you from Shakespeare (Macbeth): “Stand not on the order of your going, but go at once.”