No it was live blogged by the NY post, and then straight to Drudge.  There is no evidence whatsoever that the Obama campaign pushed it.

But someone in the Obama camp did respond to it, in a purely perfunctory manner as any campaign should (I have no qualms with that) and then got word from those higher up and Obama himself that this was not to be made an issue, because it isn't an issue. I don't doubt that Obama's reason for speaking well of Clinton or saying what he has said is anything but good will, intelligence and a solid take on what actually does take place in America when people get whipped up into a frenzy and start acting like a mob. It's why Drudge traffics in the sewer he does.

I 'm still not seeing where anyone is implicating Obama, but maybe showing a willingness to listen to why some think so will help heal some shell shocked Obama supporters.

Except for a few people looking for vengeance, pay back,or a therapeutic release, everyone else really has appeared to have moved on. Thanks for helping that to happen.

And if anyone is interested Obama made two significant foreign policy speeches yesterday that are at his website. He gets my vote for calling Chavez the "demagogue" and tyrant that he is. He also reminds us that Iran is not a benign country whose actions can just be ignored (especially since the people of Iran are not running their own country) And he stomps on the current not speaking with Cuba policy that has hurt the Cuban people for so long.

No, I meant something that said that the Obama campaign sent messages around to the news, pointing to her comment and saying it was a Bad Thing (TM) for her to say.

If you wanted, by the way, to tell me that the Obama campaign wasn't involved in getting it out there, fine.  But to follow that up with a smear on the Clinton campaign... well, you continue to do harm to your own candidate's side.

She never said that. She stated a historical fact. What you are saying is pure Obama trash.

HR'd because this is absolutely not what she said.  You have to twist it to make that claim, and that's the typical abuse that I've grown weary of seeing this entire primary season from Obama supporters.  It's the key reason I am not a supporter of his.

just out of curiosity?  why do you think that was reported?

the missing word in that quote you posted was 'publicly'

You know what?  I might have gone looking around for the link, but some of your fellow Obama folks TR'd me and told me to shut up and told me I was passing around gutter smears.

So no dice.  If someone had asked nicely, I would have looked around, and if I didn't find it, would have admitted that.  My memory's not perfect or I may have misread while scanning news sites in a hurry.

This place is turning into the Big Orange Satan. Thankfully the moderators are better than Markos, but the comments lately are just fucking over the top and massively offensive and totally divisive (ironic as that may be), which is how it got at DKos because I left for good months ago.  I am more convinced than ever that, with supporters like these, Obama's chances of winning a GE, already very low, have dropped to abysmal.

You didn't get the reference... it was a reference back to when Hillary was asked if Obama was a Muslim, and she answered, "As far as I know.  We'll have to take him at his word on that."

She's gone to prayer breakfasts with him, so she knows better, but it helped her campaign in Ohio, so she equivocated.

"doctrine" of assassination?

Raising the spector of assassintation does not require hoop-jumping.  I never thought she was threatening Obama or anything.  But at the beginning of this primary season there were people in the AA community and elsewhere specifically not voting for Obama because they thought he could get assassinated.  To raise that fear again, and to say that you are still in because it could happen is baffling.

I'll give her that it was a gaffe.  What concerns me is that these gaffes always have consequences for Obama.  Obama's "bitter" statement just affected him.  When Clinton talks about "hardworking whites" or raises the possibility of assassination it effects Obama.  It effects people's perceptions and can effect their voting decision.  SO then she gets to say "Oops, didn't mean it." but the damage is already done.

1. The assassination remark re: RFK was not the first time. She said it in March as well.

2. The person who said "monster" was fired.

perhaps because there is a real suspicion that the assassination was done at the behest of a republican cabal, might that be why it would not be appropriate for any of them to talk about it? Oh, wait, you probably still think she killed Vince Foster and pimps out their daughter...

I agree, this site is full of bitter Obama supporters.

Prove to me that he was joking about 57 states.  I don't get that at all from the video.

do you read? do you pay attention when the news comes on? did you bother to see when RFK Jr. (obviously an HRC agent of something or other in you tiny mind) said there was nothing to be offended about in that statement?

If she was using the '68 campaign (and I would say "if") as an example of how long the process can take, then it was a weak argument since the first primary in '68 took place in May.

I will give her the benefit of the doubt on her motivation, but she deserves no small amount of disdain for making a terrible analogy. We don't need any more leaders making stupid remarks on a regular basis.

I believe the calendar started later, too.

Yeah, ending with her fumbling for the phone before screaming into it "I'm trying to fucking sleep here!!"

Here's a news bit about how Clinton handled bitter-gate, if you are convinced that Obama's handling of this situation was really mean-spirited and "outrageous."

For Clinton, whose once formidable lead in Pennsylvania had dwindled to just 6 percentage points in a Quinnipiac University poll last week, Obama's comments were a gift, and she pounced. The campaign has devoted more than half a dozen press releases to Obama's "bitter" comment, held a weekend conference call with five Pennsylvania mayors, and is responding to Obama's every word on the controversy in an effort to keep the story alive.

So you want to talk honesty?  How about honestly saying that the Obama camp's small and mild statement, followed by dismissals of the story by Obama and Axelrod, is incredible.  If the shoe was on the other foot it WOULD NOT have gone down this way.  Hillary would have made hay with this comment for sure.  So don't get outraged at Obama and PLEASE don't act like I'm the one with my head in the sand.

Brillian snark.

No. That's all that's been reported in the press. Have a link?

It's one thing to support your candidate. It's another thing altogether to lie.

Obama did not "respond immediately" after the NY Post story. His press spokesman Bill Burton gave a statement when ASKED by reporters about the NY Post story. Burton called it "unfortunate" and stated it "has no place in this campaign."

Stop lying. It does a disservice to your candidate. Any decent human being would know that.