Hillary! to Obama--'No More False Hopes For My Victims'

the Clinton campaign has been in full damage-control mode in New Hampshire to maintain the status quo and keep the poor minorities in line...at the debate saturday night the only real time she demonstrated she had a pulse was when she sensed that Barack was beginning to sound uplifting...and she scolded him for raising "false hope".

according to this piece in the New York Times, her "strategy" in response is edging closer and closer to overt racially-motivated fear-mongering:

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.

the writer points out that some hack on the Clinton campaign tried to distance them from Torge's comments, but the candidate herself did not seem to flinch at all when the comment was made.

then, Saint Hillary demonstrated that she must not have gotten the talking points memo when she spoke to FOX News. responding to questions about Obama's comparing his message of hope to MLK, Jr., and JFK, Hillary chimed in:

“Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act...It took a president to get it done.”

SEE? it took the good white liberals to get this stuff done! she went on to sharpen her message later, at another campaign stop

“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.
“President Kennedy was in Congress for 14 years. He was a war hero. He was a man of great accomplishments and readiness to be president. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a movement. He was gassed. He was beaten. He was jailed. And he gave a speech that was one of the most beautifully, profoundly important speeches ever written in America, the “I have a dream” speech.
“And then he worked with President Johnson to get the civil rights laws passed, because the dream couldn’t be realized until finally it was legally permissible for people of all colors and backgrounds and races and ethnicities to be accepted as citizens."

here she goofed. she forgot to mention that King was assassinated.