Hillary raises the specter of assassinations changing presidential races
Friday, May 23, 2008 at 3:25 pm
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We pointed out here a month ago that Hillary Clinton’s remaining chance at the Democratic nomination depended on either a catastrophic scandal or a bullet. Today she brought up the assassination scenario herself in a meeting with the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader editorial board. From the New York Post:
“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.”
Update: Hillary Clinton has made a statement — not really an apology — on her reference to the Robert Kennedy assassination. But it’s the Kennedy family, weirdly, that she purports to be apologizing to. Text is below the jump.
Last week Mike Huckabee made a reference to Obama ducking a gunman (previous item) — and yes, that’s what Clinton did by implication — but at least he issued a real apology afterward.
Continued: Click “Read More”“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.”
4 Comments
Comment posted May 25, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
It’s an old house. Been there a long time…and She knows it’s a fixer-upper. She’s lived there before and knows every nook and cranny; knows every pantry mouse by first name. Even knows which windows leak and which carpets are worn like a cow path straight to the Oval Office. She wants to go back so badly that she overstated her case in South Dakota when asked was she getting out of the race…her answer, suggesting what? Does anybody really think she could possibly mean what she sort of said and maybe didn’t intend to say?
I’m afraid so, Hillary. Some do. Almost sounded like wishful thinking that ordinarily she wouldn’t have aired in public?
Why didn’t you just say, “over my dead body!”. At least you would have kept any volent suggestions in-the-family?
I suppose ‘White House, white woman presidency’ is a lot of ambition to keep in check when you’re “tired” and exhausted”; and feeling a little mean at that moment? Just be glad no sympathetic follower didn’t excuse you by calling it a ‘menopausal moment’, hey? Or you could have just said
” don’t count me out until my pants suits are sold on E-Bay”; then wink like McCain when he tries to be funny…but isn’t.
I’ll tell you what worries me is someday if H.C. ever made the Oval Office home, and a crisis of superlative proportions came up like somebody wanted to ” obliterate” us. Picture the CIA, the Pentagon, State Department standing, waiting Hillary’s judgment call…in this most “unfortunate and highly charged atmosphere” where she’s “exhausted, tired” and there the little red phone sits…could She, should She, would She? Hillary’s hand moves slowly toward the glowing red dial.
But H.C., you can’t just apologize this time…too late, too late…
Comment posted May 25, 2008 @ 10:19 am
It's an old house. Been there a long time…and She knows it's a fixer-upper. She's lived there before and knows every nook and cranny; knows every pantry mouse by first name. Even knows which windows leak and which carpets are worn like a cow path straight to the Oval Office. She wants to go back so badly that she overstated her case in South Dakota when asked was she getting out of the race…her answer, suggesting what? Does anybody really think she could possibly mean what she sort of said and maybe didn't intend to say?
I'm afraid so, Hillary. Some do. Almost sounded like wishful thinking that ordinarily she wouldn't have aired in public?
Why didn't you just say, “over my dead body!”. At least you would have kept any volent suggestions in-the-family?
I suppose 'White House, white woman presidency' is a lot of ambition to keep in check when you're “tired” and exhausted”; and feeling a little mean at that moment? Just be glad no sympathetic follower didn't excuse you by calling it a 'menopausal moment', hey? Or you could have just said
” don't count me out until my pants suits are sold on E-Bay”; then wink like McCain when he tries to be funny…but isn't.
I'll tell you what worries me is someday if H.C. ever made the Oval Office home, and a crisis of superlative proportions came up like somebody wanted to ” obliterate” us. Picture the CIA, the Pentagon, State Department standing, waiting Hillary's judgment call…in this most “unfortunate and highly charged atmosphere” where she's “exhausted, tired” and there the little red phone sits…could She, should She, would She? Hillary's hand moves slowly toward the glowing red dial.
But H.C., you can't just apologize this time…too late, too late…
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