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'You Get Careless': Obama Blames Clinton RFK Quip on Stress of Long Campaign
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| Last Edited | Monsieur May 25, 2008 07:30am |
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| News Date | Saturday, May 24, 2008 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Sen. Barack Obama gives Hillary Clinton the benefit of the doubt that she had no hidden meaning when she invoked the assassination of Bobby Kennedy as an explanation for remaining in the Democratic presidential race.
"I have learned that when you are campaigning for as many months as Sen. Clinton and I have been campaigning," he told the Puerto Rico radio station Isla, "sometimes you get careless in terms of the statements that you make. And I think that is what happened here.
"Sen. Clinton says that she did not intend any offense by it," he added, "and I would take her at her word on that."
Clinton's remarks to the editorial board at the Argus Leader in South Dakota Friday struck some nerves partly because it came in the wake of Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy's health problems and because of longstanding concerns about Obama's security.
"People have been trying to push me out of this ever since Iowa," Clinton said Friday. "I find it curious because it is unprecedented in history. I don't understand it. |
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