Hillary pinning hopes on assassination!

[KD in CA]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

 

Seriously, for Obama's sake I really hope he isn't considering putting her on his ticket. If he does I'll put the odds of him living to the end of his term at about 50/50. You know Billary & Co. have already drawn up the Vince Foster plans on this guy and are just debating whether or not to pull the trigger, so to speak.

[VABills]

I think yet again, the media, has nothing better to do especially when someone is opposing their annointed savior.

[Albany,n.y.]

I'll give her a pass on this one because she said something similar before & it wasn't taken in the same context because she phrased it much better:

 

She has said much the same thing before. In a March interview with Time magazine, she said: "Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn't wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June, also in California. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual."

 

Clinton said something similar the day after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries. "Sometimes you gotta calm people down a little bit. But if you look at successful presidential campaigns, my husband did not get the nomination until June of 1992," she said. "I remember tragically when Senator Kennedy won California near the end of that process."

[X. Benedict]

Reading between the lines....

 

This country is filled with crazy bigots who just might be crack shots, so my campaign still has better odds than the Megamillions.

[ajzepp]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyf811vluHg...feature=related

 

I love the part when he gives a laundry list of about twenty items as to why her campaign is one big train wreck.

[UConn James]

She can't coordinate friggin' campaign messages, yet she says she's the best qualified to coordinate the free world.

 

The fact that she's brought it up... well, it's always a present reality (Obama was the first to receive Secret Service protection, and you'd think that was b/c of perceived or actual threats) but for pols to actively bring it up in almost any context --- especially to broadly explain why she's staying in the race despite it being all but over --- is a pretty big faux pas.

 

Any chance she had of being the VP selection --- and it was b/w slim and none before --- just went out the window. Everyone, including RFK Jr., is backing away from criticizing her for this b/c they don't want to diminish hold on a Dem Senate seat, but what she said was just....

 

Assassination is like Fight Club. First rule is you don't talk about Fight Club.

[In space no one can hear]

I like Michael Goodwin's coloumn in the New York Daily News:

 

Link

 

 

 

 

SICK. Disgusting. And yet revealing. Hillary Clinton is staying in the race in the event some nut kills Barack Obama.

 

It could happen, but what definitely has happened is that Clinton has killed her own chances of being vice president. She doesn't deserve to be elected dog catcher anywhere now.

 

Her shocking comment to a South Dakota newspaper might qualify as the dumbest thing ever said in American politics.

 

Her lame explanation that she brought up the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy because his brother Ted's illness was on her mind doesn't cut it. Not even close.

 

We have seen an X-ray of a very dark soul. One consumed by raw ambition to where the possible assassination of an opponent is something to ponder in a strategic way. Otherwise, why is murder on her mind?

 

It's like Tanya Harding's kneecapping has come to politics. Only the senator from New York has more lethal fantasies than that nutty skater.

 

We could have seen it coming, if only we had realized Clinton's thinking could be so cold. She has grown increasingly wild in her imagery lately, invoking everything from slavery to the political killings in Zimbabwe in making her argument for the Florida and Michigan delegations. She claimed to be the victim of sexism, despite winning the votes of white men.

 

But none of it was moving the nomination needle, with Obama, despite recent dents, still on course to be the victor.

 

So she kept digging deeper, looking for the magic button. Instead, she pushed the eject button, lifting herself right out of consideration.

 

Giving voice to such a vile thought is all the more horrible because fears Obama would be killed have been an undercurrent to his astonishing rise. Republican Mike Huckabee made a stupid joke about it recently. Many black Americans have talked of it, reflecting their assumption that racists would never tolerate a black President and that Obama would be taken from them.

 

Clinton has now fed that fear. She needs a very long vacation. And we need one from her.

 

Say good night, Hillary. And go away

[In-A-Gadda-Levitre]

The most amazing part of this is her pseudo apology. She doesn't say she's sorry to anyone except maybe if she offended someone to the Kennedy family. Freaking amazing what this woman thinks and says.

[Chilly]

That article might just be one of the biggest overreactions I've ever seen.

 

Poor choice of examples for showing that anything can happen, but really, come on.

[blzrul]

Stupid media. I thought the Rev Wright thing was stupid and so is this. Hillary put her foot in her mouth is all. It does tend to show that she's really clutching at straws to come up with excuses as to why she won't give up. She ought to take a page from Obama's book and stop trying to make excuses. She has a legal right to stay in the race to the bitter end. End of discussion.

 

Granted - her words were clearly thoughtless, what with Teddy Kennedy facing death and many people worried that some skinhead will take a shot at Obama because of his skin color. So the question IS, do YOU want someone this thoughtless to answer the red phone at 3 am?

[Kelly the Dog]

The most amazing part of this is her pseudo apology. She doesn't say she's sorry to anyone except maybe if she offended someone to the Kennedy family. Freaking amazing what this woman thinks and says.

I don't really think she intentionally meant real harm or offense to anyone. It was terrible wording, but she had said something similar at least a couple times before and no one got all upset about it. She just said it bad.

 

The problem for me, however, is it's another in an endless series of saying anything to make an appeal, and being utterly disingenuous. Both of the comparisons she made were stupid and baseless. Bill Clinton had wrapped up the nomination by March, April at the very latest. He had seven times the number of delegates than Jerry Brown had by then. There was zero question in anyone's mind that Bill would be the party nominee months before June, he simply didn't mathematically sew it up until then. But that's like saying a team with no timeouts and down three touchdowns without the ball with a minute to go in the game didn't officially lose yet. Unless, of course, the NFL decides to change the rules of the game right then and makes it official before the end of the game.

 

In the Kennedy instance, RFK didn't even announce his candidacy until March 16th of 1968. So it's a completely baseless comparison.

[BillsWatch]

There was zero question in anyone's mind that Bill would be the party nominee months before June, he simply didn't mathematically sew it up until then. But that's like saying a team with no timeouts and down three touchdowns without the ball with a minute to go in the game didn't officially lose yet. Unless, of course, the NFL decides to change the rules of the game right then and makes it official before the end of the game.

 

In the Kennedy instance, RFK didn't even announce his candidacy until March 16th of 1968. So it's a completely baseless comparison.

 

 

It is closer to the game where Patriots receiver caught the ball and only got nine yards but referees said "give it to them". NFL (country, democratic party) has not changed the rules but she is hoping the zebras (rules committee) will just give it to her.

[ExiledInIllinois]

So the question IS, do YOU want someone this thoughtless to answer the red phone at 3 am?

 

I think we already have one office... Yet, he knows how to hide it well... Who's the dude with the Christian Science Monitor that follwed GWB? I am pretty sure he commented on GDub's disposition... At least he (GW) is a showman (well sort of, if you like the Sonny Bono act) in the public eye!

 

[Kelly the Dog]

It is closer to the game where Patriots receiver caught the ball and only got nine yards but referees said "give it to them". NFL (country, democratic party) has not changed the rules but she is hoping the zebras (rules committee) will just give it to her.

They would have to change the rules to give it to her. It's possible that they will change the rules as long as she doesn't win, in some kind of plea bargain. There is zero chance IMO that they change the rules and "just give it to her".

[In-A-Gadda-Levitre]

I don't really think she intentionally meant real harm or offense to anyone. It was terrible wording, but she had said something similar at least a couple times before and no one got all upset about it. She just said it bad.

I totally agree with all this. Of course she didn't mean any harm. But at this stage of her life, she needs to start having accountability over her own actions and how they're perceived. A more genuine response would have worked wonders in the Damage Control department.

[blzrul]

I think we already have one office... Yet, he knows how to hide it well... Who's the dude with the Christian Science Monitor that follwed GWB? I am pretty sure he commented on GDub's disposition... At least he (GW) is a showman (well sort of, if you like the Sonny Bono act) in the public eye!

 

I have a feeling that the red phone was rewired to ring at Uncle Dick's house. GW's stupidity and foot-in-mouth is far worse than Hillary's. I guess the difference is from him you expect it - she's arguably a whole lot smarter. But geez Louise she could have said ANY number of things to get her point across. I would have more respect for her if she had said "Hey - this is a free country and I don't have to justify anything to you people, I'm in until it's over. End of discussion". I know she's made some statements to that effect before but to bother to explain or justify it is stupid - it brings to mind "methinks thou dost protest too much" ... with apologies to the Bard.