on May 24th, 2008Robert Kennedy’s assassination
Now it’s on to Chicago and let’s win there.
Those were among the last words we heard Bobby Kennedy speak.
Hillary Clinton has apologized for invoking his 1968 assassination yesterday and Robert F Kennedy, Jr., who has endorsed her, issued a statement that said: “It is clear from the context that Hillary was invoking a familiar political circumstance in order to support her decision to stay in the race through June. . . . I understand how highly charged the atmosphere is, but I think it is a mistake for people to take offense.”
The Hillary story is everywhere; recapping it here would be superfluous. Instead, I offer that bit of history from that June night in Los Angeles all those years ago.
First, though, let me correct two other things Hillary said Friday in the same conversation and which were not challenged by the editors in Sioux Falls, SD with whom she was speaking. Shame on them. That’s not journalism. That’s being small-town starstruck.
SPIN: She said she is ahead in the popular vote. TRUTH: Only if Michigan and Florida are added in, which they are not. They don’t count. According to the tally at Real Clear Politics, Barack Obama leads by 456,880 votes.
SPIN: Yet again she claimed her husband didn’t wrap up the nomination until mid-June of 1992. TRUTH: As I wrote May 8 in Barry!, He effectively became the nominee about three months earlier. On March 20, 1992, The Washington Post reported that Clinton “effectively locked up the Democratic presidential nomination yesterday when former Massachusetts Gov. Paul Tsongas suspended his campaign.
Whether you loved or hated Bobby Kennedy — or weren’t even born yet – his murder was a horrible moment in American history. One that ought to be above politics.
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I guess he said the wrong thing.
She makes me ill. Seriously.
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She’s had the effect on so many people for so many years. From what I’ve seen over the past 17 years, she will say anything and do anything to ensure a victory. Hers or her husband’s.
Bobby Kennedy wasn’t a perfect human being — who is? I’m not, not by a long shot — but when it came to public service, the emphasis was on service. I think his brother’s description of him in his eulogy was accurate: A good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.
Given all of the things throughout history which have happened in June, Hellary mentions the assassination of Bobby Kennedy? An unusually close parallel to Obama or wishful thinking or maybe instructions to the wack job racist out there?
“You guys aren’t doing your job!”
That’s what I hear Hellary saying!
Maybe that’s just me, …. we will find out at Barak’s wake.
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Word, steveballmer. And given the not-often-spoken-about-openly concerns for Obama’s safety — do you know he has had Secret Service protection for 18 months now? — and given Hillary’s extremely good brain and sharp intellect, I am inclined to believe she knew exactly what she was saying.
She said it in March too, to either Time or Newsweek, I forget which, and got a pass. Not this time. And if you watched the video I linked to, those bumpkins in South Dakota just let her get away with everything. I’ll say it again - shame on them.
And shame on her.