She is fracking crazy.
Hillary Clinton today brought up the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama.
“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it,” she said, dismissing calls to drop out.
Clinton made her comments at a meeting with the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader’s editorial board while campaigning in South Dakota, where she complained that, “People have been trying to push me out of this ever since Iowa.”
Obama, the first African-American to advance so far in the race for the White House, has faced threats, sources have said.
Seriously, who says this sort of thing? Your average person doesn’t say it, let alone somebody running for president. Hillary Clinton didn’t lose this race because she was a victim of sexism. She lost this race because people are tired of her clawing for power and running over everything to do it.
UPDATE: The Obama campaign responds: “Senator Clinton’s statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign”
Here is the video of Clinton’s assassination remark:
UPDATE: Clinton issues a non apology apology.
“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. I certainly had no intention of that whatsoever,” the former first lady said.
She may as well have said “If anyone was offended”, that’s such a lame response. It certainly not the sort of foot-in-the-mouth behavior we want in a running mate.
UPDATE: Like the Bosnia story, Clinton is less than truthful here. She claims that this is because Kennedy is on her mind due to his illness, but Sen. Kennedy was not publicly ill back in March when she made similar comments.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!
Could someone get this woman a whole
bottle of mood enhancers and a visit to a psychiatric
facility quiet room — or a ticket to the Bahamas for
a much needed rest on a beach?
Senator Clinton has sunk to the lowest of lows. I was willing to look past her flaws (believing they arose due to strict politics) to consider an Obama/Clinton ticket. However, given her continued disrespect for Senator Obama and her absolute willingness to do whatever she thinks it might take to win, I would not support an Obama/Clinton ticket. There must be someone else who would be able to help pick up Clinton supporters. I’m done with the Clintons.
I cannot under any circumstances imagine this woman saying, “I have decided to withdraw from this race.” She has already decided that she will not, so her filter is not working as she discusses all the various ways in which she could become president.
So she is staying in so she can win if something happens to Obama?
Can’t she fulfill that exact same role without tearing apart the party by suspending her campaign but not yet releasing her delegates?
Unbelievable!
Did she say this because, like John McBush’s medical records story, she is following the Rovian playbook? If this doesn’t become a huge story, I’ll indeed be shocked. Maybe the best thing Obama is doing is letting her hang herself by her own petard(so to speak).
Nice Calvin! I was worried that someone wouldn’t blame this on Bush!
What in the HELL is going on in this woman’s head?!?!?
Scratch - Calvin didn’t blame Bush. He blamed Rove. I know he gets referred to as the Brain, but they are in fact different people.
She didn’t even wear her leather jacket. She may have jumped that shark, but she didn’t look cool doing it.
Baloney.
She wasn’t making any reference to an assassination of Obama.
She was responding to a question about why there are so many calls for her to get out of the race. She said:
She was making the point that primary campaigns in the past have frequently lasted until…when? That’s right, June. Why is that such a vivid memory from the 1968 election?
Obama is going to win. I fail to see why some people feel such an urgent need to make stuff up about his rival.
Hillary: “That’s a nice little campaign you got goin there Barack. I’d hate to see anything happen to you. You remember what happened to Bobby Kennedy back in 1968 donchya? You might want to buy a little protection. Just sayin is all.”
Right, she’s saying Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June, so she should wait around, because who knows? Come on, gimme a break and lets quit making excuses for this woman.
Quaker, you’re kidding yourself if you don’t think this is a major gaffe. Also, her immediate apologies to the Kennedy family confirm that some of her people thought it was as well. You’re right, her intent was to demonstrate that the race technically lasts until June, she accomplished that point when she invoked the 1992 race. Bringing up the Kennedy assassination was at best tasteless, and at worst . . .
She was making the point that primary campaigns in the past have frequently lasted until…when? That’s right, June.
If that is the case, I can see no reason why she needed to throw that little tidbit of info in there.
Kinda like the “as far as I know” kerfluffle. Unnecessary, and makes her look, well, batshit crazy.
“letting her hang herself by her own petard”
Pedantry warning. Grammar trolling to follow.
One cannot “hang” by a petard. A petard is a bomb. What you have written means: “letting her hang herself by her own bomb.”
The phrase originated with Shakespeare, who was being humorous. In Hamlet, Act III, Shakespeare has Hamlet make this remark about those who are plotting to kill him:
(Note that even Shakespeare misspelled ‘petard’).
He was saying, “Their plot will backfire. I’ll see to it that it blows up in their faces so badly that they’re blasted to the moon.” He is using “hoist” in a figurative and humorous sense–the plotters will find themselves blown high above the earth by their own devices.
Pedantry off.
“Quaker, you’re kidding yourself if you don’t think this is a major gaffe.”
I argued that she wasn’t talking about anyone assassinating Mr. Obama.
“she’s saying Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June, so she should wait around, because who knows?”
I repeat: baloney.
I agree it was a horribly inartful statement, but I also agree with Quaker and in fact, was going to post comments similar to his before I saw he beat me to it. To suggest that Senator Clinton is hoping or waiting for someone to assassinate Obama or that it might happen is the reason she’s staying in the race is simply ludicrous.
Senator Clinton elaborates:
“Earlier today I was discussing the Democratic primary history and in the course of that discussion mentioned the campaigns that both my husband and Senator Kennedy waged in California in June 1992 and 1968 and I was referencing those to make the point that we have had nomination primary contests that go into June. That’s a historic fact. The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy and I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation, and particularly for the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that, whatsoever. My view is that we have to look to the past and to our leaders who have inspired us and give us a lot to live up to, and I’m honored to hold Senator Kennedy’s seat in the United States Senate from the state of New York and have the highest regard for the entire Kennedy family.”
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So, “he can’t win because he’s black” became “he can’t win because if it looks like he will someone will shoot him, so I’m hanging in there”.
It’s either a coded message, in which case she should not only quit the race but also resign from the Senate, or it’s a braindead gaffe, in which case she should merely apologize profusely and directly to Obama and quit the race forthwith.
But of course she won’t do any of that, regardless of her intent.
One cannot “hang” by a petard. A petard is a bomb. What you have written means: “letting her hang herself by her own bomb.”
Indeed. But one can be “hoist by their own petard”, as the saying is more correctly and frequently used. The original quote in this thread just got the verb wrong.
The meaning still stands, tho. Somewhat similar to giving a person enough rope to hang themselves.
Whatever her intent it was pointless to mention it and does nothing to move the ball downfield. In fact, I would call a penalty on that play.*
*I am not a football guy, so that’s as far as that analogy is gonna go.
Oliver says:
“she’s saying Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June, so she should wait around, because who knows?”
Quaker says:
I repeat: baloney.
No, Quaker, it’s not ‘baloney’ it’s complete and utter ‘bullshit’.
Anyone who was alive at that time and has two brain cells to rub together knows what Hillary meant: she meant Humphrey didn’t have the nomination wrapped up in ‘68 until after RFK was assassinated in June.
Her whole point was that primary battles frequently last as late as June, and so arguments that she is destroying the party by sticking it out through May are premature.
The notion that she was saying “maybe Obama will be assassinated in June and the nomination will fall into my lap” is, to coin a phrase, ‘batshit crazy’; that is, if something so utterly stupid can be dignified by the term ‘crazy’.
I speak as a former Hillary supporter. After witnessing some of the Clinton camp tactics over the last few months I am now solidly behind Obama, but this sort of smear is far worse than any of the crap that the Clinton’s produced. Get a grip, people.
Say anything. Anything at all. It doesn’t have to make sense as long as you’re saying it about a Clinton.
You’re inventing again. Ms. Clinton is saying that the Kennedy’s have been on her mind because of Ted Kennedy’s illness, and that’s why she’s sorry about the fuss this statement has caused.
You have to be actively trying to twist her words to interpret her statement to mean she brought up Bobby Kennedy because she has been thinking about the Kennedys.
Just stop it.
Yes, damn me for repeating her own words.
she meant Humphrey didn’t have the nomination wrapped up in ‘68 until after RFK was assassinated in June.
And you don’t see the connection? Whether she was thinking about Ted Kennedy’s illness or not, she could have left that bit out. Should have.
Yes, damn me for repeating her own words.
No, you’re not “repeating her own words,” you’re mindreading. You’re telling us what she “meant” by her words.
She did not say anything about anyone assassinating Obama. Those were not her words, that’s the meaning you attributed to her words. She did not say she brought up Bobby Kennedy because Teddy has been ill. Those were not her words. That was your interpretation of her words.
Leave the perpetual outrage to Malkin, willya?
Shorter Hillary: “Who will rid me of this meddlesome candidate?” (with apologies to King Henry II).
This was the mother of all Freudian slips. You don’t say something like that unless the possibility has been playing in your mind (probably ever since Barack told her she would not be his running mate, according to Time magazine).
This should end all VP talk. It was David Gergen of all people who said (some time ago) if Hillary were Barack’s vice president he would need a food taster!
Poor Hillary…her Freudian slip is showing…AGAIN!
She’s mentioned several times previously, when defending her decision to stay in a race she cannot and will not win, that
(paraphrasing) “you never know what can happen between now and the covention so I’m staying in…just in case”.
She cares not one whit for the Democratic party OR the United States of America.
She cares only about HERSELF and fullfilling her blind ambition.
She is a despicable human being. Maybe the reverse will happen within her depraved little assassination fantasy. “You never know”-HRC
“It was David Gergen of all people who said (some time ago) if Hillary were Barack’s vice president he would need a food taster!”
Excellent point, Jim. Up until very recently, the Clinton Death Count lunacy has been strictly the property of Republican hacks like Gergen. It’s embarrassing to see Democrats traffic in the same fantasies.
I think this is being blown waaaay out of proportion. If you cannot handle someone stating historical facts in a primary, you will not be prepared for the GOP attack machine. She was not saying that she was staying in the race because Obama might get shot! She was referencing the fact that there USED to be a time when primaries ran until the very end. It’s about time people actually got to vote in this so-called democracy! Chill out! Gees!
Hilliary is appealing to the lowest common denominator of our society. It is obvious that she is making racist, sexist, and now violent appeals to legitimize her continuing of this race. She is disgraceful. I am ashamed of the entire Clinton family, her financial supporters, and those that encourage her “say anything to get elected” attitude.
Ultimately, I believe her words are criminal.
Quaker, you seem like an intelligent person. It’s such a shame that you insist on being so willfully thick. Her intent is actually besides the point, as the statement was so poorly worded that it’s open to all sorts of terrible interpretations . . . and few good ones.
Her intent is actually besides the point, as the statement was so poorly worded that it’s open to all sorts of terrible interpretations . . . and few good ones.
Our host is not accusing her of poor wording. It is his divination of her intent that I choose to discuss. If you wish to declare her inartful, do so.
Any statement, well formed or otherwise is “open to all sorts of terrible interpretations.” Reasoning people typically go with the one that is most likely. Those who are telling yarns invent interpretations they like.
“Ultimately, I believe her words are criminal.”
If anyone in federal law enforcement agrees with you, then maybe she will be arrested. Obversely, if no one in federal law enforecement agrees with you, she will remain free.
I think…repeat THINK….the coffin lid has been thrown aside and the sunlight is shining into the crypt. Nothing can save Dracula now.
But I’m still gonna keep my wooden stakes and garlic necklace until the credits roll.
link to david rees take.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-rees/hillary-clinton-why-would_b_103332.html
If anyone in federal law enforcement agrees with you, then maybe she will be arrested. Obversely, if no one in federal law enforecement agrees with you, she will remain free
Nonsense. High ranking politicians do not get arrested for what they say no matter how blatantly they do it. The name escapes me, but there was a senator who was on record of threatening Bill Clinton (something along the lines of “He better not come down here if he wants to stay alive”)) and nothing happened to him at all.
To the Hillary apologists, if Hillary was simply trying to make the point that the primaries were still going in June, then why would she specifically bring up Kennedy’s ASSASSINATION? It’s irrelevant to her point, if her point is indeed what you claim. And she did it TWICE, so it wasn’t just an off-the-cuff remark either.
Why did she only apoligize to the Kennedy family?
Why didn’t she apoligize to Senator Obama’s daughters?
What are they to think of Hillary’s statements concerning assassination?
Look, whenever I am referring to a long summer or to the month of June, I always refer to Robert Kennedy’s assassination.
Don’t you?
I hope “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated” wasn’t Hillary’s code for “get the snipers in place.” We Do remember Vince Foster and a trail of unfortuneate deaths during Bill’s administration. Hillary, you are simply toxic.
Remember this is the SECOND time she has made these comments. This wasn’t a mistake it was calculated and part of her message.
Unfreaking-believable.
Sean: the person who made that remark was then-NC senator Jesse Helms (no surprise), warning BC to stay away from military bases there.
Everyone: It has now become painfully obvious that Kathleen Gingrich was absolutely right about Hillary.
To the Hillary apologists, if Hillary was simply trying to make the point that the primaries were still going in June, then why would she specifically bring up Kennedy’s ASSASSINATION? It’s irrelevant to her point, if her point is indeed what you claim.
Oh gee, I guess you’re right. What she should have said was “The 1968 primary battle lasted till June, and would have lasted even longer if Senator Kennedy hadn’t dropped out for….um….. health-related reasons.”
Yes indeed, you all have shown me the error of my ways. Hillary Clinton is plotting the assassination of Barack Obama. And she did murder Vince Foster with her bare hands when he threatened to expose her lesbian affair with his female cat. And by the way, John Kerry really did mean that all the soldiers stuck in Iraq were there because they were stupid. Doesn’t matter what he says he meant, we know what he really meant, don’t we?
As for ‘Hillary Clinton apologist’, fuck you. I’m an Obama supporter.
Hillary is toast, but if you pukes don’t wake up and realize who the real enemy is, you can say hello to President McSame next January.
Note that even Shakespeare misspelled ‘petard’)
So much for pedantry. Shakespeare of course did not misspell anything here, what an absurdity. (At most one might think that it’s a printer error.) It’s a pun, “petar” being a term for a fart.
Wilber, girlfriend- you’re fabulous!
Look, whenever I am referring to a long summer or to the month of June, I always refer to Robert Kennedy’s assassination.
As a very strong Obama supporter and critic of Clinton, I must say that you folks are being very dishonest and/or dimwitted. If I’m going to remind people that primaries often last until June and am looking for some memorable historical fact that supports that, RFK’s assassination in June certainly qualifies, him having been running to be the Democratic candidate and all.
It’s quite another matter that doing so shows poor judgment and lack of tact, especially if she truly didn’t mean to refer to the possibility of Obama being shot. And I don’t believe she did, I think she’s just a bit dim.
“Oh gee, I guess you’re right. What she should have said was “The 1968 primary battle lasted till June, and would have lasted even longer if Senator Kennedy hadn’t dropped out for….um….. health-related reasons.”
If you were her speech writer, maybe. But she could have simply stopped at ‘June’ and it would have made her point. Or she could have picked any of the other primaries that lasted that long without invoking the one in which RFK was shot and killed. No, I guess that’s too much to ask.
Oh, and she might also have mentioned that the primaries in 1968 started two months later, so June today would be the equivalent of August back then. Also, too much to ask apparently.
“Hillary Clinton is plotting the assassination of Barack Obama.”
At BEST, Hillary’s comment was astoundingly tone deaf and a demonstration of her lack of judgment (there are many, many others). So no hyperbole is needed in recognizing this gaffe for what it is.
“As for ‘Hillary Clinton apologist’, fuck you. I’m an Obama supporter.”
Are the two mutually exclusive in your opinion? That’s very telling if so.
To the Hillary apologists, if Hillary was simply trying to make the point that the primaries were still going in June, then why would she specifically bring up Kennedy’s ASSASSINATION? It’s irrelevant to her point, if her point is indeed what you claim.
Its only irrelevant to people so dim that they can’t grasp the relevance of the fact that RFK had just won a Democratic Party state primary when he was shot. Or maybe you’re just a child, and don’t remember the scene at the Ambassador Hotel. It follows directly as a matter of logic that if a person who was assassinated in June had just won a DP state primary, that the contest for DP nominee was still going on in June. Sheesh. Just stick with how tacky her illustration is, and stop being so bloody stupid about it.
The name escapes me, but there was a senator who was on record of threatening Bill Clinton (something along the lines of “He better not come down here if he wants to stay alive”)) and nothing happened to him at all.
Jesse Helms. What’s wrong with people who can’t remember such things? And it’s not an actionable, as it was a warning, not a threat. Retards, the bunch of you.
I think we can all agree that Clinton better hope to hell that Obama does NOT get assassinated before the election.
Furthermore, I recall, following my twenty minutes research on wikipedia this afternoon, that her two example races were legitimate races to the winning delegate count. In this case, it’s been many weeks since Clinton lost any reasonable chance to win without something extremely unusual happening. As I said in another thread, it’s no different than continuing to campaign after losing the general election, in the hopes that the electoral college will “do the right thing” and elect you when they meet in mid-December It’s legal, and possible, and yet…batshit crazy.
I believe the only major event left in this race is when Clinton gets run over by her own petard at the convention.
Yes, damn me for repeating her own words.
One repeats someone’s words by quoting them; you did not. You’re really have no more integrity than the Clintons. Nor Pistol Pete for claiming that Quaker insist on being willfully thick, when Quaker is one of the few here demonstrating integrity and intelligence.
Look, whenever I am referring to a long summer or to the month of June, I always refer to Robert Kennedy’s assassination.
Truth machine, El Cid was being snarky. I believe he has a PhD. in snark. Adding the fact that RFK was killed during the primary season is/was irrelevant to her point, just as “as far as I know” was irrelevant.
Poor choice of words. REALLY poor.
The Obama campaign responds: “Senator Clinton’s statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign”
And that’s all that really needs to be said.
If you cannot convince voters with your policies, EXAGGERATED “experience” etc., SCARE them — or SCARE the guy you are running against and his supporters.
SHAME on you BILLARY!
Truth machine, El Cid was being snarky.
I didn’t refer to any statement by El Cid, it was megamoze, moron. And saying that something is “snarky” (which that wasn’t) doesn’t change the fact that it, and the person who said, is fucking stupid.
And
Adding the fact that RFK was killed during the primary season is/was irrelevant to her point
As I just explained, it wasn’t irrelevant, and only a cretin could think so. Yes it was a really poor choice of words and, as I said shows very bad judgment, but to claim it was irrelevant is so so so so stupid.
Settle down, Beavis.
P.S. Perhaps, Duros62, you meant that it was redundant and are so stupid that you can’t understand the difference in meaning of the two words.
Wait, I get it … you think that she should have said “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was still running in the primary in June in California”, and that mentioning the assassination is “irrelevant”. That’s mighty darn retarded.
I agree with Megamoze and Quaker, and I am also a die-hard Obama supporter.
you think that she should have said “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was still running in the primary in June in California”, and that mentioning the assassination is “irrelevant”. That’s mighty darn retarded.
Now you’re just pissing me off.
How is that “retarded?” Mentioning that the front runner and presumed nominee of the 1968 Democratic Primary lost his position by getting killed has no place in this race.
And no, it’s not redundant.
Also, as Quaker has said in the past, please refrain from using the term “retarded.” Some folks find it offensive. I don’t, but some do.
Play nice.
Brad nails it.
Who went on to win that 1968 election anyway?
Qusan: I think this is being blown waaaay out of proportion.
I’m having to agree with that. Having now watched the clip OW provides (I don’t get sound at work so couldn’t hear it earlier) it is obvious to me that she stressed the word June after mentioning RFK’s assassination. She made the point very badly and included a reference which should have been left out, but the point she was making was the nominating process used to take until June.
If she had said “We all remember Bobby Kennedy winning the primary in June in California.” it would have been better phrased. But I can’t honestly see this as her making any kind of suggestion that Obama should be or is at particular risk for or she wishes he were assassinated.
And the hypocrisy in some of the postings here is just amazing. People who would objected to teh mis-characterization of Obama’s “bitter” comment are all over her for this.
If she had said “We all remember Bobby Kennedy winning the primary in June in California.” it would have been better phrased. But I can’t honestly see this as her making any kind of suggestion that Obama should be or is at particular risk for or she wishes he were assassinated.
Agree.
Still waiting for that direct apology to Obama.
He’s very classy to let her implode like this. Maybe he’ll even bail her out tomorrow when the media asks him (relentlessly, I would imagine) for his reaction to this.
But she’s still toast. It would be nice if someone close to her campaign told her to quit the race now.
One word: Monster.
Time for a lot of people to apologize to Samantha Power.
Someone is clearly funneling Hillary supporters into every blog that makes a negative comment against her.
Seriously, do these people think they are being subtle? This blog never gets 70 comments, and neither do half of the other blogs they have invaded.
Soullite burbles:
Someone is clearly funneling Hillary supporters into every blog that makes a negative comment against her.
Goodness! Could the fact that Lord Kos, over at The Obama 527 Formerly Known As The Kos Community, front-paged this post have anything to do with this?
Teh stupid! It b-u-u-u-u-r-n-s!
NOTE Doesn’t the OFB ever get tired of lying? Serious question.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, defended her remarks in a telephone interview Friday evening. “I’ve heard her make that argument before,” Mr. Kennedy said, speaking on his cell phone as he drove to the family compound in Hyannis for the holiday weekend. “It sounds like she was invoking a familiar historical circumstance in support of her argument for continuing her campaign.”
Mr. Kennedy said he has been traveling and had not seen the video or read Mrs. Clinton’s comments, but said his support of Mrs. Clinton has not wavered.
But he added that the protracted fight for the Democratic nomination would only last “two more weeks.”
“The candidate’s going to emerge within the next two weeks, and the party will get behind them,” Mr. Kennedy said.
Disgusting. Unbelievable that she will probably continue to be an influential politician. Time was that would have been the end of a career.
She thinks that he might be shot (subtext: because he’s black)? Has she considered that someone might fly a plane into her (subtext: because she’s a New Yorker)?
I’m glad my career doesn’t pivot on a hate-filled highly-improbable totally-hypothetical global tragedy to see me past November.
Obama FTW.
As an ardent supporter of Barak Obama I only have on thing to say:
If the son of RFK does not have a problem with her comments and if Obama does not have a problem with it, IMHO, it’s time for the hyperventilating to stop on both sides. After all this is Memorial Day weekend. Over 4000 of our brave American troops have died in a needless war in Iraq, which I want to STOP NOW!
End of Story.
That, TX, is precisely why Hillary’s destructive campaign needs to STOP NOW.
TX, you need to understand that there is a set of words that are spoken to the press and a set reserved for private conversation. I assure you that whatever argument Clinton supporters have made these last couple weeks about her being on the ticket are now strongly rebuked by Obama aids. I would also not find it odd to hear that either Robert Kennedy Jr. or Kathleen Kennedy Townsend has contacted Hillary personally to show their distaste.
David Rees on HuffPo:
“Why Would I Drop Out Before Barack Obama Is Assassinated?”
“Why drop out of the race before all the assassins have had their say?”
hard even to mock, at this point. but thanks for trying.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-rees/hillary-clinton-why-would_b_103332.html
i told you guys and gals a few weeks ago that hilary was waiting for something really bad to happen to obama or his campaign.
with every passing day, hilary sinks to a new low. i think hilary’s assassination comment was more freudian slip than it was badly chosen words. i honestly believe that hilary would welcome such tragic events, and her invocation of bobby kennedy’s shooting in june of ‘68 as proof that she still has a chance is just downright disturbing.
her comments are more damning than huckabee’s recent NRA commentary/joke. between huckabee and clinton (and some of their supporters) you can just see the racism oozing out of their pores. it’s not as direct as it may have been 20 or 30 years ago, but even a blind man can clearly see that this campaign season is bringing certain politician’s true hidden personality traits front and center.
you know if it wasn’t for barack obama, we’d still love hilary and consider huckabee just sort of a dorky arkansas religiously tempered dude. instead, now we see them as they really are: tired, groveling and completely out of touch.
to add further insult to injury, hilary’s use of the middle of june as a historical reason to stay in the race is just plain misinformation.
bill clinton tied up the nomination after the New York primary in EARLY APRIL. his only remaining opponent (after Tsongas dropped out) was Gov. Jerry Brown who was mathematically eliminated months before. bill tied up the nomination in APRIL. that’s a fact. hilary’s version of reality is just a lie.
back in the day, the primaries didn’t start until February…so using 1968’s primary play as historical evidence to stay in the campaign is also very misleading.
hilary clinton: liar and manipulator
Where’d Mr. Truth Machine go? Back to Taylor Marsh?
I’ll accept that Hillary’s intent was to give examples of the contest going into June; but that’s not what she said. From any common-sense understanding of her statement it’s clear that she referenced Kennedy’s assassination as a reason for staying in the race.
“between my opponent and his camp and some in the media, there has been this urgency to end this and you know historically that makes no sense… Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June”
Shameful. Disgraceful.
In spite of whatever “plausible deniability” she will claim due to her vague phrasing in this statement, anyone who looks at it for more than a nanosecond will realize that she is (not so) subtly trying to send a message to voters that they should vote for her because, well, hey, there’s a lot of crazy racist people out there, and one of them might get upset and go off on the other candidate…
The nice way that I like to put it is that I am not a fan of dynastic politics.
The really mean, nasty way that I could put it is…well, I won’t.
Let’s just say that with this idiocy she shut the door on an Obama/Clinton ticket.
Beyond Hillary’s stupidity, what is really worried is the possibility that a solitary killer is taking seriously Hillary’s “suggestion” or “will”. Solitary deer hunters (if you want to believe this instead of a plot scenario) still out there just waiting for the right time and the “right” comment. If something happen to Obama, directly or indirectly will be Clinton’s responsibility. She claim political experience and we believe it. So I don’t believe that her comments were naive. She did drop an idea and someone is going to catch it and realize it. That is why we can’t just forgive and forget Clinton’s comments. There weren’t casual as the early Time interview demonstrated. They were meant, they were designed to affect the unconsciousness of the people. She could list many many other arguments and examples why she should stay until June. Instead she did mention RFK assassination no one but twice!! Or perhaps even more times…She means her words but she is so stupid that still to figure out the gigantic implications if something happen.
Now the Clintons are a threat no only to Dems, also to the whole country!
What people say are not accidental, when you are under pressure your true personality stands out. The Clinton’s are lions coming in sheep’s clothes. They are real meat eaters, Shame on you,,,,
so… someone just answer me this.. I DONT CARE IF YOU THINK IM RETARDED… but above where it says obama’s has faced threates, “sources have said” what sources are we talking about.. where can we as a public see that this sort of thing has actually become a possibilty… we CAN’T! to me this sounds like nothing but persuasive manipulation… if you’re gunna claim that SOURCES HAVE SAID… then prove it…it only gets the people thinking and worrying about the actual possibility of soemthing like this happening…
i can’t believe she’s pushing her efforts this far! i just can’t … i thought she was a democrat!