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Bill Clinton – Kendallville, Indiana

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Oh, be still, my heart. It is on the front page of the local paper: Bill Clinton will be in Kendallville this Saturday. Actually, I agree with the late David Brinkley.

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In the New York Times online obituary there is this paragraph:

In his final election night program, in 1996, Mr. Brinkley delivered some parting shots, calling President Clinton a bore and telling voters they could expect more ”goddamned nonsense” for the next four years.

There appear to be many people who believe Mr. Brinkley did not say “bore” but “boor”.

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I have been alerted in the comments section to a youtube video that shows Clinton staffer Mickey Kantor giving a negative opinion of Indiana citizens. The link to the video is HERE. Make of it what you will. UPDATE: Youtube has just pulled the video (1:07 pm). I watched it several times and definitely believe Kantor referred to Hoosiers by saying, “These people are s –t.”

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The former president is scheduled to be at the Drake Road Fire Station at 10:45 am  –  according to THIS SITE, it’s at 10:15 am. People are asked to park at Sunset Park and walk to the station. Maps below are from Google, clicking on them will enlarge and provide a zoom feature. Sunset Park is just off Morton Street on the other side of the road from the fire station.

Photos:

The is the fire station on Drake Road.

And below is the street map.

And here is the view of the fire station from the corner of Drake and Morton. (See my side mirror in the lower corner of the picture?)


And this is the aerial view.

5 thoughts on “Bill Clinton – Kendallville, Indiana”

  1. Okay, just what did Brinkley say? I’m clueless about it… of course I’m clueless about a lot of things, but this especially.

  2. Room in the cave if you fee the need to evacuate. Probably not safe to leave Summer there either.

  3. Ahhh…. I’m with Brinkley… bore or boor, whichever shoe fits for the day, I’m sure that they both do.

    Are the palpitations starting yet? lol

  5. http://corner.nationalreview.com/

    Re: Mickey Kantor [Byron York]

    Just to make a short version of my long post below, I think the Mickey Kantor YouTube clip that is zooming around today is inaccurate and a smear.

    05/02 12:36 PM

    Mickey Kantor Does Not Hold the People of Indiana in the Highest Esteem [Byron York]

    I’ve gotten a bunch of emails with a link to this clip on YouTube, a snippet of a scene from The War Room, the hagiographic documentary on the 1992 Clinton campaign team. In it, Mickey Kantor, one of the Clintons’ oldest friends and advisers, refers to the people of Indiana in some rather ugly, profane and uncomplimentary ways. From Hillary Clinton’s perspective, it’s not exactly a good thing to come out a few days before the Indiana primary.

    If anyone has a longer version of the scene, I would like to see it; the clip ends pretty abruptly. By the way, the other interesting thing about the clip is that Kantor utters his uncomplimentary words to none other than War Room star George Stephanopoulos, who, as it happens, will be moderating Sen. Clinton’s appearance on ABC’s This Week in Indiana on Sunday.

    UPDATE: Kantor spoke to the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein today. From Stein:

    Mickey Kantor, who served as campaign chairman during Clinton’s 1992 run for the White House and says he has offered help and advice to Sen. Clinton, insisted that the tape was a fraud and that he was exploring legal steps against the individual who posted it online.

    “I’ve never used that word [the n-word] in my entire life, ever, under any circumstance, ever,” an angry Kantor told The Huffington Post, citing his and his parent’s work fighting for civil rights. “I have listened to [the video] and so have you. You can’t tell what it is I’m saying in that second sentence, you can’t decipher that.”

    I will agree that the n-word part in the second sentence is hard to make out on the video. But the “those people are s—t” part in the first sentence seems pretty clear.

    UPDATE II: A longer clip of The War Room is here. The Kantor clip has been edited, but not in a way that changes anything, so he will need to explain what he meant by “Those people are s—t.” Kantor told Stein that “Indiana was not even on our radar screen, and I was talking about the polling and not the people…If you look at The War Room, this is not the way Carville or George interpreted my statement. This is frankly libelous.”

    UPDATE III: Ben Smith of Politico talked to D.A. Pennebaker, who made The War Room:

    “[Kantor] does not say that. He does not say that,” said Pennebaker, after viewing the clip.

    He said the initial expletive referred to the anticipated reaction in the Bush White House to the fact that Ross Perot’s polling numbers were holding strong.

    “What he says is he’s surprised Perot’s numbers are holding,” said Pennebaker in a brief phone interview. “He says they must be shi**ing in the White House.”

    The second expletive, he said, appeared to have been entirely fabricated, with new audio dubbed onto the original movie.

    UPDATE IV: After reviewing it again, I believe Kantor and Pennebaker.

    05/02 11:41 AM

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