Clinton staffer on comparing Obama to Kennedy: Kennedy was assassinated, remember

Really?  That's what it's come down to? "Sure, Obama has hope, and he has good ideas, and he's a good speaker - but remember, Kennedy was assasinated! It took a real boring president like Johnson to get civil rights passed!"

It's getting really weird in the Hilary camp out there. Here's the quote:

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.

Source: New York Times

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