Evidently someone introducing Hillary at an event used comments she would later utter to Fox but the campaign distanced itself from a portion of them at the time. And now she's claiming on the stump that Barack Obama is comparing himself to Martin Luther King? I'm unaware of his ever having done that.
Either she's nuts, or she's taken the Bill as the first Black president nonsense to heart. Another stupid line of attack destined to back fire on Hillary, especially among the Black community. She's trying to take down a rising Black political star by invoking MLK? She doesn't genuinely have the cred, or experience to make it work. Geesh! How desperate can she get?
“You know, today Senator Obama used President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to criticize me. He basically compared himself to our greatest heroes because they gave great speeches.
Today, in Dover, Francine Torge, a former John Edwards supporter, said this while introducing Mrs. Clinton: “Some people compare one of the other candidates to John F. Kennedy. But he was assassinated. And Lyndon Baines Johnson was the one who actually” passed the civil rights legislation.
The comment, an apparent reference to Senator Barack Obama, is particularly striking given documented fears among blacks that Mr. Obama will be assassinated if elected.
Phil Singer, a Clinton spokesman said: “We were not aware that this person was going to make those comments and disapprove of them completely. They were totally inappropriate.”
Mrs. Clinton’s expression did not change noticeably when Ms. Torge made the comment.
Only a few hours later, she brought up the civil rights legislation herself in remarks to a Fox News correspondent.
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