What is it about this election that has everyone talking about assassination? I don't know about you, but I haven't the faintest idea of what it could be. But for whatever reason, people keep on bringing it up! Good ol' Mike Huckabee made a joke about gun-toting NRA members shooting down Barack Obama. He later apologized.
Friday, Hillary Clinton referenced the June 1968 assassination of Bobby Kennedy as a reason why she should stay in the race. "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June," she told the editorial board of South Dakota's Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. "We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it." Some people thought she was suggesting that she needs to stay in the race just in case somebody gets assassinated before it's over.
Of course, her campaign immediately sent out a statement that said she was simply using historical facts to show that many nomination races have stretched into June, and that any misreading of her words is "outrageous." When that didn't quell the shit storm, HRC released a personal statement, saying, "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." In case you were confused, that's not an apology, and the editorial board of the New York Times, which was once quite pro-Clinton, has called an "inexcusable outburst." Even if she meant what she said she meant (and due to the horrible alternative, I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt here — although, based on her behavior, I don't fault people who won't do the same), it was a terrible choice on her part.
Lastly, a completely transparent Fox News pundit, who was speaking about the Hillary Clinton assassination quote, "accidentally" called Obama Osama and then completely on purpose implied that she would be happy if both Obama and Osama were killed. Then she laughed. Then she apologized. Of course.
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This really has gotten to the point of being tedious. Clinton says somethng outrageous and then issues a non-apology and then tries to pass the blame to the Obama campaign. The fact that she said this on more than one occasion doesn't help her cause.
I doubt, in spite of the fact that I am rapiding growing to hate all things Clintonian, that she actively hopes someone will kill Obama. She would, of course, exploit the circumstances if someone did, but she isn't praying at night the someone goes all James Earl Ray on him. But this continued drumbeat, first Huckabee, then Clinton and then Trotta, is really beginning to sound ominous for me, a child of the 60's. They keep putting it out there, creating some cultural zeigeist wind that can blow it into some lunatic's brain. I am more scared now for Obama than I was.
I'm speechless. Very surprised with the Huckabee comments; he was actually a cool Republican. Also, shocked with Hillary Clinton's account and flimsy apology afterwards.
HRC is showing her true colors - her desperation at her current situation and her true venom toward Obama and his supporters (the Kennedys). She managed to insult them both with one remark. If this gaffe as well as her other "misspeaks" are what experience brings, then I'll pass!
How do you spell "Freudian Slip"?
khia, are we reading the same story? she needed to clarify the statement, not apologize for it. if they put it into context to begin with, an explanation wouldn't be necessary but that wouldn't make for good news, would it? granted, the democrats lost in 68, but the impatience with her decision to stay in the race means she has to justify it and back it up. annoying as it is, it's not "late" as some are suggesting. I assumed it would hurt the Dems come November but thanks to the way the media has framed this entire election, making McCain a side note for the most part, has actually helped the Dems. Thank you Bill O'Reilly & pundits-jesters for pretty much making McCain seem like a 100 year old senile invalid that he is not.
I can not believe she said that.
Appalling. I'd never vote for her.
Sorry. You are wron. I have never posted here. Hillary is an abomination and she well knows it. The occult?
I'd like to be able to give Senator Clinton the benefit of the doubt.
But then I recall her discussion of Senator Obama's faith earlier in the campaign, and her need to qualify the "He's not a Muslim …" statement with "… as far as I know."
So I've gotta doubt her bona fides.
I think Clinton did not mean to say what is honestly in her heart . I think she spoke what is in her heart and not what was on her mind . I also think she and Bill are afraid of what will happen to them if she is not able to deliver what her rich backers have already paid for