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.



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