Oooh, this week has been a fun one, hasn’t it?
Hillary stuck her foot in her mouth with a comment that seemed to imply she would stay in the race just in case someone offed Obama the same way they did RFK. Contextually, she spoke about her husband securing the nomination in June, and then mentioned RFK’s assassination in June, presumably as another primary lasting until then. The Clinton Machine acted quickly to diffuse the immediate uproar over the remark. Obama accepted her version of the story.
Personally, I smell a bit of courtroom stank. A lawyer says something out of line to plant a seed in the jury’s mind. The judge tells them to forget it, but how can they really erase that from all conscious thought. The Clintons have played the underhanded race card a few times during this campaign, why stop now? Obama getting sniped by some rifle-toting white extremist isn’t a new idea. His chief rival alluding to the thought publicly does give it a bit more credence, though.
The real question to Hillary: why say it at all? G-Dub didn’t wrap up his nomination in 2000 until the summer. Wrong party but a much less controversial example, mmmm-kay?
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Speaking of controversy and off-handed assassination remarks…
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