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let me explain why her remarks (each time she used this example) were so out of place. I was a teenager in the 60's and even today, when there is a bulletin on TV, my stomach sinks and fear rises in my throat. Suddenly you see a confused scene, bodies of men grappling for a gun or vehicles speeding away in a hopeless dash to a hospital. Stunned onlookers, screams, blood. Men of goodness, taken away just when hope had started to rise that maybe, just maybe, things could be better. Instead, shattered dreams and fear to hope take over the national landscape for years. Just as 9/11 shook this nation to its core, assassination also took a piece of its soul.
Hillary is a lawyer, senator, and former First Lady. No one has a finer appreciation of the language and its nuance than she. She is old enough that she too remembers the price we paid for those deaths. Do I think she wants him dead, no, but I do think she was calling to that hidden fear that lives in the back of our brains and that is unacceptable.
The person who answered the phone said they had gotte a lot of calls on this but that the information is incorrect and he is not supporting amnesty for the telecoms. I can't help but wonder if this is some kind of double-speak from his office but maybe they got the message. I sure hope so.
Call the Republicans and ask them if they would be comfortable granting all this power to the next President if that person is a Democrat. Maybe they will think twice. No President should be able to do this.
