Ken Burch
1 min readAug 11, 2024

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Great article, I agree with very, very much of what you say here- it WAS unforgivably vile for Hillary to reference Bobby Kennedy's assassination as an implicit argument for Black voters to support her rather than Barack Obama in 2008-she and everyone who supported her still need to apologize to the Bobby's kids, most of whom endorsed her in 2008 for ever referencing that event in a campaign context-

There are people who use any detail to keep "chronology nerds" from picking it apart, there are a couple of tiny edits you might make- not the argument as a whole or the larger truths it contains, but on the dates you reference, since unusually uptight people would use these petty details against you:

1) Barry Goldwater ran for president in 1960(he failed to win the Republican nomination then) and 1964 (when he was nominated but lost badly). So the "Goldwater Girls" as a group would not have existed in the 1950s.

2) Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992 and 1996.

I only mention these things because there are people who would make a big deal about those things, even though they are unimportant in the larger scheme.

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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