The Cancer That Is Hillary Clinton
Posted 5/24/2008 6:32 AM CDT
chron.com
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on Hillary Clinton’s remarks in South Dakota in which she referenced the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, I was appalled at the number of people who left comments excusing her comments as the result of fatigue or just an unfortunate choice of words.
So I did a little research and found out that this was the third time Hillary or a member of her campaign has made similar statements regarding the assassination of a Kennedy. I would hardly call that a momentary lapse in judgement, more like an obsessive thought, in my opinion.
On January 8, while introducing Hillary before a speech in New Hampshire, a retired teacher said this:
"If you look back, some people have been comparing one of the other candidates to JFK, and he was a wonderful leader. He gave us a lot of hope," the retired teacher said. "But he was assassinated, and Lyndon Baines Johnson actually did all of his work and got both the Republicans and Democrats to pass those measures."
How do those of you who claim Hillary was just making a historical reference explain that away? Saying that "people have been comparing one of the other candidates to JFK"? How can that be construed to be anything other than a direct correlation to Barack Obama?
The day after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries Hillary made this comment:
"Sometimes you gotta calm people down a little bit. But if you look at successful presidential campaigns, my husband did not get the nomination until June of 1992," she said. "I remember tragically when Senator Kennedy won California near the end of that process."
That is almost word for word what she said yesterday. However she did have the good sense not to include the word "assassination" on that occasion. Still, the inference is clear.
Then yesterday Hillary repeated virtually the same thing she said then without omitting the A-word:
"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."
Following the uproar over her remarks yesterday Hillary issued a lame excuse as an apology that really wasn’t an apology:
"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."
I don’t read the words "I’m sorry" in there anywhere. In my opinion, her intentions were crystal clear, to say that she needs to stay in the race in case some tragedy befalls Barack Obama.
The superdelegates need to convene NOW, not May 31 or June 3, TODAY. They need to throw their unanimous support behind Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee and put and end to this process NOW. They must rid their Party of the cancer that is Hillary Clinton before it spreads any further. Not just for the good of the Democratic Party, but for the country as a whole. |
