Honest question. I paid little attention to the 2008 primary.

[roody]

I was registered Green. Were people this snotty and insulting on DU during Obama-Clinton race? I was on DU but never went to primary forum or candidate forum.

[MadBadger]

1. Yes

[JustinL]

2. yes

I actually seem to remember it being worse.

[joshcryer]

3. the candidates were worse to each other than supporters

but we didn't have the jury system that allows us to bash each other

[Raster]

4. We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/us/politics/24clinton.html

BRANDON, S.D. — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton defended staying in the Democratic nominating contest on Friday by pointing out that her husband had not wrapped up the nomination until June 1992, adding, “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.”

Her remarks were met with quick criticism from the campaign of Senator Barack Obama, and within hours of making them Mrs. Clinton expressed regret, saying, “The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy,” referring to the recent diagnosis of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s brain tumor. She added, “And I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and in particular the Kennedy family was in any way offensive.”

Still, the comments touched on one of the most sensitive aspects of the current presidential campaign — concern for Mr. Obama’s safety. And they come as Democrats have been talking increasingly of an Obama/Clinton ticket, with friends of the Clintons saying that Bill Clinton is musing about the possibility that the vice presidency might be his wife’s best path to the presidency if she loses the nomination.