Happiness is a warm gun
May 23rd, 2008 4:48 pm · 11 comments
Hillary Clinton defends her decision to stay in the race because…
“We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California,” Clinton told the editorial board of a South Dakota newspaper. “ I don’t understand it,” Clinton added, alluding to the calls for her to quit.
Hey - bang bang, shoot shoot - maybe somebody’s gonna gun down Obama! And then it’s all about me me me. As if it hasn’t been up to now.
There was a piece earlier this week - can’t find it or I’d link it - about how Hillary’s staying in the race is about more than just her desire to be president. The fact is that - until now - the Democratic Party has been the Clintons’. He, the ex-president; she, the rising candidate.
But if Obama gets the nod - it’s his party. The Clinton era is officially over. Not sure what that means for them personally, because certainly both could and should have a role within the party. But it won’t be theirs. And you get the idea Hillary is fighting as much to forestall that as to win the White House.
But this - this is just inexcusable. To even say it is to almost legitimize it. Hey - Hillary can understand why someone might want to gun Obama down.
Right, she didn’t mean it that way.
Then why raise the issue at all?
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There are currently 11 comments on this blog postView Topic | Comment on this blogdragonrider
5/23/08
5:16 PM | QUOTE(Lancaster Online @ May 23 2008, 04:50 PM) [snapback]393125[/snapback]
Post your thoughts and comments about this blog post. Does Hillary have any shame? |
dragonrider
5/23/08
6:54 PM | Hillary apologized but then lied. She said she was thinking about the Kennedy's becuase of Ted's illness, but she made this comment the first time 2 months ago. Second her allusion to her husbands primary is also false the primary then was essentially over by March in his case. |
Save-the-Land
5/23/08
8:37 PM | Hillary has no shame. I'm so glad she is staying in the race. I enjoy seeing her prolong the inevitable and twist in the wind. Her sense of entitlement has blinded her to reality. We all know she'll lose.....we just get to enjoy seeing her lose over and over again.
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Rural Conservative
5/23/08
9:41 PM | Bah...and here I thought this was an actual gun thread...
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Nativeson
5/23/08
11:26 PM | QUOTE(Rural Conservative @ May 23 2008, 09:41 PM) [snapback]393179[/snapback] Bah...and here I thought this was an actual gun thread...
I know, what's up with that? It's interesting to hear people discuss her comments because it could be taken to mean several very different things. She also wears a target on her back as a presidential candidate but something about her ambition makes people think she was thinking Obama while recalling the assasination.
Personally I don't think a deal should be made of this; It really came down to justification for staying in the race and being ready to strike when the opportunity presents itself. The Clintons are even capable of creating opportunity even if one doesn't present itself.
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ctravel
5/24/08
7:32 AM | Michael Goodwin writes:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/0...r_simply-2.html
Hillary Clinton's colossal blunder simply the last straw
Saturday, May 24th 2008, 4:00 AM
QUOTE 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.
QUOTE 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.
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Alyssarah1
5/24/08
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dragonrider
5/24/08
10:55 AM | What is it with these pseudo aplologies anymore, I regret if I offended anyone. How about I regret that I was offensive and I am sorry for my hurtful words. |
citydweller
5/24/08
11:17 AM | Heard this on NPR yesterday on the way home from auction. Didn't sound to me that she was raising a possibility so much as making a suggestion.  |
charlie_crystle
5/24/08
11:19 AM | Disclosure: I back Obama and don't like the Clinton campaign, and I would hate to see Hillary Clinton win, though it's time for a woman in the Oval office. Ok. So.
I don't think that's what she meant. I think she was referencing June, not the assassination, and wasn't saying that she's sticking around in case he gets knocked off, she was saying there's plenty of precedence for long campaigns, and dropping out isn't something she's going to do.
The Robert Kennedy family endorsed her and are big supporters of the Clintons. And the Clintons are very big supporters of the RFK family, raising millions for the RFK memorial, Riverkeepers, and Speak Truth to Power, Kerry Kennedy's human rights nonprofit.
I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt. We're tired of this campaign, and I'm tired of the Clintons, but really, this was just a bungled point about how late campaigns can run, just like Barack's mangled relgion and guns comments. We know what he meant, he just said it wrong.
Campaigns are in real time. SO much of it is scripted, so much is repeated, and it takes a toll. These folks are human.
That said, it's time for her to stop insisting on her campaign and just wrap it up as gacefully as possible. She's only got 10 days left. I hope she and the interests she represents recognize that it's time to shift toward supporting Barack. The first thing she can do is close out respectfully, and the next is to tell him she doesn't want the VP slot. In exchange for what, I don't know, but this isn't a shared win, and I doubt Clinton and her people are going to be anywhere near the Obama administration in January.
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dragonrider
5/24/08
4:57 PM | Perhaps he should offer her HHR so she can work on the Health Care Initiative. It would have helped if she had truely apologized and also not distorted the facts again to make herself look better. Her pseudo apology really got on my nerve. Yep a stupid blunder it was, a mistake from being overtired. But how about a real apology. |
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