Hillary is Out of Control: Invokes the Assasination of RFK into Her Argument

May 23, 2008

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Well it’s official; Hillary Clinton has gone off the deep end, and it doesn’t look as though there is any coming back too reality for the former first lady and current Senator from New York. Just days ago she was comparing the struggle for her too get the MI and FL delegates seated, too that of the fight to abolish slavery, which is laughable at best, and maniacal at worst. However, today she crossed the line yet again, and this time it was nothing short of egregious and sickening. While talking too the Argus Leader editorial board Hilary managed to bring up the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy (Bobby) in arguing her decision to remain a part of the Democratic primary process, one which she has already lost.

The New York Post was one of the first media outlets too pick up on this heinous act, and in breaking the story they use the exact quote that Hillary Clinton used in her conversation the people of the Argus Leader editorial board. The Post writes:

Hillary Clinton today brought up the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama.

“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

The Obama campaign, upon receiving word of what their former, yes I said former, opponent was saying quickly released a statement of their own which read:

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

The Sioux Falls Argus-Leader is located in Sioux Falls, SD and was one of Clinton’s campaign stops for the day, it was during this stop that Clinton met with the editorial board and subsequently made one of the more (at least in my opinion) offensive remarks of the primary season. Aside from making a complete fool out herself Hillary did a lot of complaining as well, or what I refer too as “whining”:

“People have been trying to push me out of this ever since Iowa.”

Which is another statement that just isn’t true. Now, if she were to have said; “people have been ready for me to drop out since Obama went on a 11 contest winning streak,” then I might have to agree with her. But for her to say she has been pressured to exit since her third place finish in Iowa, please, give me a break.

Here is video of Hillary with the Argus-Leader editorial board, the footage contains both her asinine complaints as well as her reference to “Bobby’s” assassination back in 1968:

Now I know there are going to be the usual outlast that this was taken out of context mainly echoing from Hillary’s “feminist” movement that claims that just about everything that has taken place during the primary is either a) Barack Obama’s fault, or b) flat out “sexism”, whether it be coming from the mainstream media, her challengers, the debate moderators, SNL, etc.

But they are wrong, just as they have been wrong so many other times throughout the past 4-5 months of the Democratic Party. However this situation is even more serious, and it’s not just because it shows horrible taste on the part Hillary’s be-half, but rather because the implications that surround the people involved in the race, specifically Barack Obama:

“Obama, the first African-American to advance so far in the race for the White House, has faced threats, sources have said.”

“Robert Kennedy, the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy, was gunned down in 1968 after winning the California primary. He had been a hero on the left for his civil rights agenda and calls to end the war in Vietnam.”

“Barack Obama, who leads Clinton by nearly 200 delegates and has already secured a majority of pledged delegates, has been the subject of threats. Early in the campaign, the Secret Service gave him a security detail…”

As the fallout from her hare brained comments began to build, Hillary, being the shrewd and pandering politician that she is went into damage control, and immediately made an “apology” for making the historically obsolete comparison between her dropping out and the assassination of RFK:

“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.

You might be saying to yourself, “well she made a mistake, showed bad judgement, but apoligized for it. Everyone makes mistakes from time to time.” And that’s a satement I agree 100% with, however in this instance it simply does not apply.

Let us look back at an interview that Hillary Clinton gave TIME Magazine’s Managing Editor Richard Stengel, which was published way back on March 6th of this year. It appears as though Hillary just loves to make comparisons between Bobby Kennedy and both her and her husbands experiences as a nominee in the Democratic primary:

TIME: Can you envision a point at which–if the race stays this close–Democratic Party elders would step in and say, “This is now hurting the party and whoever will be the nominee in the fall”?

HILLARY CLINTON: No, I really can’t. I think people have short memories. Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn’t wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual.

This folks is why I can say, without a shadow of a doubt, or a rational argument against, the fact that Hillary Clinton is nothing more then a pandering, divisive, ego centric, status-quo muckraker of a politician.

It saddens me to finally realize now, what I couldn’t understand for so many years, and that is the anger, and dislike of the Clinton’s so many people in this country had solely based on their political strategies and tactics. Usually I will not allow a gaffe, simple misstatement, or bad lapse of judgment to define that person because it’s true, we all make mistakes from time to time, we’re human. However this is unforgivable, not to mention the fact it was not a simple mistake, or misstatement, as you can see with the example from the March 6th TIME edition Hillary has repeated this on multiple occasions; in a similar manner in which she repeatedly recanted the Bosnian “landing under gunfire,” fairy tale on more then one occasion.

At this point Sen. Barack Obama and his campaign, along with the DNC leadership need to move on with or without Hillary. She is visibly out of control and it is becoming ever so apparent that she has no interest in bettering the Democratic party if in fact she is not the nominee, which she won’t be. And as far as her “army of supporters” refusal to support Obama goes; well, all I have to say about that is they have the right to back anyone they choose, however if McCain gets elected in November they better not think of opening their mouths and complaining about health care costs, womens rights in the workplace, federal court appointments, and the one, with a good chance of tow, supreme court justice appointments. As long as they realize that then they are free to do whatever their little hearts desire, I am not going to tell them, ask them, and definitely not beg them to support the candidate who unequivocally has their interests in mind in comparison to the GOP nominee.