Barack Obama Elected President!

[Soapsuds]

Roman to move on....Right!

[DevotedToAMC]

LOL Ron you are bad

[Wales2004]

I've done it before and when I did I meant I didn't say anything wrong but since you think I did then let me placate you so ITA about that. Now I just flat out say I'm sorry and that it wasn't my intention because I'm trying to be more mature and recognize that people may be more sensitive about some things than I am and I should be respectful of that.

[DevotedToAMC]

Well hey, Wales, you are one who truly does care to not offend anyone. That is good

[Roman]

Some don't see it that way.

Some just say stupid [!@#$%^&*] and then think that everything should be overlooked.

[Ryan]

You know I'm just going to say this as an admin......

There's only so many times people will allow you to say slick comments before they go off on you. Moderators are people too and if you keep pushing their buttons, they're going to go off. And given the evidence leading up to the possible situation, the administration may not take the action you want.

[DevotedToAMC]

Like Scarecrow

Yep just make sure no slick comments go to me or I will go off and I get really nasty when I go off

[Ryan]

I remember your comments Thankfully they weren't directed at me, but still nasty, lol.

[Wales2004]

I'm going to veer off topic here to say that I'm not interested in playing any sort of personal games or deciphering anything. If it's pointed out to me that I offended anyone then I'll apologize plain and simple.

If someone feels I've insulted the candidate they support I'm not going to apologize for it unless I said something that's factually false. I try to be mindful of the rules and if I'm not and it's pointed out then I will respect that.

I think it's silly to see these petty posts about Roman or anyone else because they don't like the candidate someone else likes or don't say things the way someone else likes.

[DevotedToAMC]

Ooooh yes that is so water under the bridge LOL

[Roman]

From The New York Post:

BRANDON, S.D. — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton defended staying in the Democratic nominating contest on Friday by pointing out that her husband had not wrapped up the nomination until June 1992, adding, “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.”

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Election GuideMore Politics NewsHer remarks were met with quick criticism from the campaign of Senator Barack Obama, and within hours of making them Mrs. Clinton expressed regret, saying, “The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy,” referring to the recent diagnosis of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s brain tumor. She added, “And I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and in particular the Kennedy family was in any way offensive.”

Still, the comments touched on one of the most sensitive aspects of the current presidential campaign — concern for Mr. Obama’s safety. And they come as Democrats have been talking increasingly of an Obama/Clinton ticket, with friends of the Clintons saying that Bill Clinton is musing about the possibility that the vice presidency might be his wife’s best path to the presidency if she loses the nomination.

It was in the context of discussions about her political future that Mrs. Clinton made the remarks on Friday to the editorial board of The Sioux Falls Argus Leader. She had said that some people whom she did not name were trying to push her out of the race, but she noted that historically many races had gone on longer than hers.

“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. “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.”

Bill Burton, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, which has refrained from engaging Mrs. Clinton in recent days, said her statement “was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign.”

Privately, aides to Mr. Obama were furious about the remark.

Concerns about Mr. Obama’s safety led the Secret Service to give him protection last May, before it was afforded to any other presidential candidate, although Mrs. Clinton had protection, too, in her capacity as a former first lady. Mr. Obama’s wife, Michelle, voiced concerns about his safety before he was elected to the Senate, and some black voters have even said such fears weighed on their decision of whether to vote for him.

It was against that backdrop that Mrs. Clinton’s mentioning the Kennedy assassination in the same breath as her own political fate struck some as going too far. Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, an uncommitted superdelegate, said through a spokeswoman that the comments were “beyond the pale.”

The speed at which the remarks were transmitted and reacted to illustrated the new reality candidates are grappling with in this year’s campaign, in which Mr. Obama’s own remarks about “bitter” small-town voters ricocheted around the Internet.

Mrs. Clinton’s remarks were initially reported online by The New York Post, whose reporters were not traveling with the Clinton campaign but were instead watching a live video feed of the meeting with newspaper editors. Its report quickly jumped to the Drudge Report, then whipped around the Internet and on television, with outraged comments piling up on Web sites.

Campaign aides were taken aback by the quick reaction to her remarks, but then quickly realized that Mrs. Clinton had to backpedal. She then spoke to the traveling press corps for the first time in more than a week, at a supermarket here.

“Earlier today I was discussing the Democratic primary history and in the course of that discussion mentioned the campaigns that both my husband and Senator Kennedy waged in California in June, in 1992 and 1968,” she said. “And I was referencing those to make the point that we have had nomination primary contests that go into June. That’s a historic fact.”

The remarks overshadowed a campaign trip to South Dakota in which Mrs. Clinton has increasingly been dealing with a new thematic landscape: a campaign that is more consumed by questions about its own future, rather than by Mrs. Clinton talking about issues like health care.

During the editorial board meeting Friday, Mrs. Clinton also denied reports of any contact with the Obama camp regarding an exit strategy for her. “It’s flatly, completely untrue,” she said.

Mrs. Clinton has cited her husband’s 1992 nominating battle in discussing her decision to stay in the race. While she said that he only wrapped up the nomination in June of that year, he was viewed as having secured it in March, when his last serious opponent dropped out.

Friday was not the first time Mrs. Clinton referred to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in such a context. In March, she told Time magazine: “Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn’t wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, defended her remarks in a telephone interview on Friday evening.

“I’ve heard her make that argument before,” Mr. Kennedy said, speaking on his cellphone as he drove to the family compound in Hyannis Port, Mass. “It sounds like she was invoking a familiar historical circumstance in support of her argument for continuing her campaign.”

Julie Bosman contributed reporting from New York, and Jeff Zeleny from Miami.

[Southofnowhere]

First off he was killed in May not Jone and second off is Hillary sending out messages to one off her crazy supporters to kill Obama or what?

The woman is in need of professionl help.

third off what would happen if God Forbid some sick nutjob killed Obama was he has the Nom but before November?

Do the Dems have to do another Primary.

One last thing Bill's Primary started alot later than this won!

[Roman]

I had looked it up on Wikipedia. It said June 4th, 1968.

[DevotedToAMC]

Dream on...she would not do this

[Roman]

I don't know about another primary. She may then get the nom by default.......but who would vote for her, really, if something DID happen to him?

That's the thing. I can't and won't say that it was her motive, but some crackpot may take it that way. I pray it doesn't happen.

I hope she hasn't now gone down a road she can't come back from.