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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: Right_in_Virginia on August 14, 2019, 03:52:29 pm
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Pete Buttigieg's question to woman who shook RFK's hand takes awkward turn
MSN, Aug 14, 2019, Fox News
The Democrat was campaigning at the Iowa State Fair when a woman approached him and said she met Kennedy in 1968, according to a tweet from a CNN producer.
“I shook Robert Kennedy’s hand in 1968,†the woman told him.
Buttigieg responded: “So you’re good luck?â€
“Not really— he was shot a month later,†the woman said.
Kennedy, the former senator and attorney general beloved by liberals, was assassinated in California in 1968 while seeking the Democratic nomination for president. His brother, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963.
Buttigieg is among the Democratics who have been campaigning over the last few days at the Iowa State Fair.
"I'm running for president because it's time to have somebody in the Oval Office who will stick up for American values," Buttigieg said during a speech at the fair Tuesday.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pete-buttigiegs-question-to-woman-who-shook-rfks-hand-takes-awkward-turn/ar-AAFL9eg?li=BBnb7Kz&OCID=U457DHP (http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pete-buttigiegs-question-to-woman-who-shook-rfks-hand-takes-awkward-turn/ar-AAFL9eg?li=BBnb7Kz&OCID=U457DHP)
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Sounds like something Biden would say. :thud:
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Sounds like something Biden would say. :thud:
Biden would say he was in the room with RFK when he was shot and he, Rafer Johnson, and Rosey Grier disarmed Sirhan.
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Dennis Prager wrote an editorial recently in one of the paywall outfits, NYT, WSJ, WAPO, I forget what, but he talked about how back then, when MLK Jr. was assassinated, RFK was in Indianapolis and RFK spoke about the injustices but how we need to remain peaceful and come together. Sebastian Gorka was summarizing it on his show, I know Prager wrote that but Prager talked about how nowadays, the Dems just can not be unifying in something like this. Division all the time.
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Biden would say he was in the room with RFK when he was shot and he, Rafer Johnson, and Rosey Grier disarmed Sirhan.
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The Democrat was campaigning at the Iowa State Fair when a woman approached him and said she met Kennedy in 1968, according to a tweet from a CNN producer.
“I shook Robert Kennedy’s hand in 1968,†the woman told him.
Buttigieg responded: “So you’re good luck?â€
“Not really— he was shot a month later,†the woman said.
Sounds like something Biden would say. :thud:
:silly: Rural people and older people (the lady is probably over 70, not OLD, but definitely older) often are a bit direct or even blunt. :silly: It says a lot about Buttigieg's knowledge and understanding of normal ordinary people that he walked into that awkward moment.