Assassination

When Hillary made this comment about the assassination of RFK I was incredulous. I wrote the email to some freinds below. Some of them responded that she was tired and didnt mean it. And I took that as likely. Now, it seems there is a major response to this event along the lines I first was impacted.

I think that there is a certain value in the length of the campaign. It has revealed the degree of Clintons’ political mind and tone deaf sense of impact of what she does and says. It is too familiar and similar to the current occupant. The length of this campaign seems to have pressured these qualities into the open.

I saw the video of the quote, and then of the apology in the grocery store. It is just as telling to look at her body language, and actually what she says.
My take on the original quote is that it actually does not fit the context. It can be construed, but it doesnt fit syntactically, and logically it doesnt seem to make sense. In what sense does the fact that RFK was killed in June have any relevance to her extending the campaign into this June?

Olbermann says it best, and most strenuously…
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Some links:
New York Times
This contains a couple of video links about this instance.
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(original thoughts)

That she would even think, much less say this is (see below)
at the least stupid beyond belief.

it is insufficient to me that she says “sorry” and especially the mealy mouth version of “if my …”. What do you mean IF!
such a weasel wording, that especially doesnt fit in this instance….

it makes me wonder if this isnt what she has been hinting at all this time when she says “… who knows what may happen …”

but to make it explicit what has been going around that B/O is a target is unexcusable to me.

some say the long campaign has been good as a way of toughening up Obama.
I say it has been good if it has the affect of showing the deeper stripes of who Clinton is.

She is increasingly showing herself to be unfit.
Not only for what she knowingly does and says. I dont know if it is better that she didnt intend it, if we take her at her word, or not. either way it reveals something. and it doesnt look good from my pov.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton quickly apologized Friday after citing the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy as a reason to remain in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination despite increasingly long odds.
“I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and in particular the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that whatsoever,” the former first lady said.The episode occurred as Clinton campaigned in advance of the June 3 South Dakota primary.

Responding to a question from the Sioux Falls Argus Leader editorial board about calls for her to drop out of the race, she said: “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. You know I just, I don’t understand it,” she said, dismissing the idea of abandoning the race.

Clinton said she didn’t understand why, given this history, some Democrats were calling for her to quit.

Her remark about an assassination during a primary campaign drew a quick response from aides to Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama.

“Senator Clinton’s statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign,” said Obama spokesman Bill Burton.