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05.23.2008 3:55 pm

Hillary’s unfortunate assassination remark

WASHINGTON _ If Hillary Clinton has any desire to become Barack Obama’s running mate, she might want to refrain from further comments like she uttered today in South Dakota.

Referring to pressures to abandon her candidacy for the Democrats’ presidential nomination, Clinton told the Sioux Falls Argus Leader editorial board: “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.

A lot of people probably don’t understand why she would raise the potential of assassination with regard to Obama’s candidacy.

The Illinois senator, who needs fewer than 60 delegates to wrap up the Democratic nomination, has been the target of threats in the past.

Bobby Kennedy, brother of assassinated president John F. Kennedy and Sen. Edward Kennedy, was murdered in Los Angeles’s Ambassador Hotel a few hours after winning the California primary in Jund 1968. (The late Tom Ottenad of the Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau was among reporters who witnessed the shooting.)

Back then, presidential aspirants did not have Secret Service protection. 

Mike Huckabee, who ran for the GOP nomination this year, made an awkward remark in a similar vein while speaking at a National Rifle Association convention two weeks ago. When he heard a loud noise in the background, Huckabee said: “That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair … Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.” Huckabee later apologized.

A few minutes ago, Obama spokesman Bill Burton responded to Clinton thusly: “Senator Clinton’s statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign.”

Clinton also put out a statement later, saying she didn’t mean to offend any one. 

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Here are Obama’s gaffes which you will never read about in the PD. Especially note Obama’s gaffe in Cape Girardeau this month which was never mentioned by the PD: http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=296255421620661

— A CENTRIST
5:17 pm May 23rd, 2008

Centrist (in what reality?)-
I read the article you so gleefully referred to. So? Where is the equivalency between mistating and correcting immediately Sioux City for Sioux Falls, and, talking about the assassination in California of Senator Robert Kennedy?

Senator Clinton really should have remembered that Senator Robert Kennedy was the senator from New York.

I am sorry, but talking about assassination in an election cycle is not a smart thing to do at any time. It is on a whole different level from other misstatements.

— RHarnack
5:44 pm May 23rd, 2008

Dear Superdelegates:

Please END HILLARY’S REIGN OF TERROR.

— zelduh
7:37 pm May 23rd, 2008

I must extend an apology to “ACentrist” for my snide aside regarding his choice of nom de guerre, it is a bad habit I have that most times I can keep under control.

— RHarnack
9:08 am May 24th, 2008

If Hillary was MY vice president, the first cabinet post I’d fill would be “Food Taster”.

— unpaidbill
9:39 am May 24th, 2008

RH- I don’t recall where I equated gaffes. I was merely pointing out that the PD, which has endorsed Obama, have been short on publishing any of his gaffes whereas Hillary doesn’t seem to get the same generisity in the press.

Having said that, she had can only pray, with the Clintons track record of people dying and people that have gone missing, that nothing even close to that happens to Sen. Obama. I am glad he asked for security.

— A CENTRIST
1:44 pm May 24th, 2008

All day long on the radios of over the road truck drivers, for some time now, many make reference about murdering Obama, saying such things as, “it has been a long time since we lynched a N-word”, etc…

People can pretend to be so naive or those others who are truly so naive can give Hillary Clinton all the benefit of the doubt that they want, but Mrs. Hillary knew exactly the effect that her statement would have.

Hillary appears to be a very unstable individual and extremely unstately and desperate, all because she can’t accept the fact that she is losing this battle or more factually, she has lost this battle. She is truly becoming an embarrassment, she playing the wounded woman role, drawing pity for herself, all at the expense of her party, the Democrats. She is truly a selfish woman. No man would ever in a million years pull such crap as Hillary Clinton is pulling. And she want to play ball with men? She is causing woman to look pathetic.

She certainly has no place in American politics in this day when so many of us want change and reject such unnecessary drama, dark actions and thoughts.

She certainly isn’t competent to handle foreign affairs if she can’t get something as simple as it being extremely unacceptable and inappropriate and dark to mention assassination as an example of what could occur during an election year, as a reason for her not getting out of the race.

Not to mention the reality of the difficulty she as a woman will have dealing with Middle Eastern leaders no matter how much she or her many feminist followers refuse to understand this fact or the Middle Eastern culture and the culture of many other countries who we are forced to deal with no matter how much we disagree with their ways. We must deal with them out of necessity now and must play ball to their tune to a certain extent.

— D. Walker
6:26 pm May 24th, 2008

Do you normally monitor CB traffic or was that a generalization of your image of truck drivers?

— slamfist
4:11 pm May 25th, 2008