How else is a rational person supposed to interpret this line:
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
What ? I can’t believe that even she is basing her increasingly insane campaign on the possibility that Barack Obama might get shot.
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
I JUST HOPE EVERYONE READS INTO WHAT SHE SAID ABOUT BOBBY KENNEDY DYING. I HAVE SAID ALL ALONG THAT IF SHE GETS DOWN TO THE WIRE OR IF SHE IS MR. OBAMA’S V.P. IN RUNNING, MR. OBAMA BETTER WATCH HIS BACK, I WOULDNT TRUST HER OR EVEN TURN MY BACK ON HER FOR ONE SECOND. HE JUST MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING BAD HAPPEN TO HIM, LOOK AT ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE THAT HAS DIED AROUND HER AND BILL. PEOPLE FORGET ABOUT THAT, WELL IF HE PICKS HER FOR HIS RUNNING MATE, I’M NOT VOTING FOR HIM, CAUSE SHE WILL SEE TO IT HE IS NOT AROUND FOR LONG. ONE WAY OR THE OTHER SHE WILL MAKE HER SELF PRESIDENT, REGARDLESS WHAT SHE HAS TO DO OR HURT TO BE THEIR. AND I’M NOT HELPING HER THATS FOR SURE. I WILL VOTE FOR MCCAIN AND THATS WHAT HE IS COUNTING ON, HE KNOW IF ITS MR.OBAMA HE DOESNT STAND A CHANCE,THATS WHY HE WANTS HILARY IN THEIR, PEOPLE DONT ALWAYS FORGET THE PAIN THEY (BILL AND HILARY AND MONICA) CAUSED AND THOSE POOR PEOPLE DYING AROUND THEM. SORRY I DONT LIKE MCCAIN BUT I WILL VOTE FOR HIM BEFORE I WOULD SEE HER IN THE WHITEHOUSE AGAIN. I WOULD VOTE FOR A JACKASS BEFORE HER.!!!!!!!!!!!
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:48 pm
SEEMS TO ME SHE HAS PUT THE WORD OUT FOR IT TO HAPPEN. OBAMA BETTER WATCH HIS BACK. ALL SHE DID WAS HINT TO ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A NAME FOR THEIR SELFS. SHE THINKS SHE IS SLICK LIKE HER HUBBY, WITH MONICA NO SORRY EVERYONE KNOWS THEY ARE EVIL, LOOK UP THE WORD AND YOU SEE HILARY AND BILL CLINTON.NOT VOTING FOR OBAMA IF SHE IS HIS RUNNING MATE, CAUSE HE WONT LAST LONG AFTER THAT.
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I think you’re reading a little too much into her comments. I think she was just trying to say that she shouldn’t be pressured to quit when other nomination races have lasted until June. Why don’t you anti-Hilary people just relax, at least out of respect for you fellow Democrats who voted for her.
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:26 pm
WOW ALL THESE CAPS COMMENTS ARE HURTING MY EYES
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
SUMMER, YOU HAVE THE CAPS ON AND YOU’RE CRAZY.
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
I think I’m going to read the whole article first…..
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:43 pm
NOTHING SAYS RATIONAL PERSON
LIKE ALL CAPS
ACROSS MULTIPLE POSTS
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
This is scary because, she is desperately letting us know that she NEEDS her turn in the BUSH CLINTON DYNASTY, and that the DYNASTY will keep their power whatever it takes. So now that Bush signed PDD51 and gave himself power to declare martial law in case of a national “emergency”, and become the dictator in chief, either obama will be assasinated or bush will stage a terror attack, declare martial law, and postpone the election. I pray to god i am wrong!
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:52 pm
I TOO HAVE HEARD OF THIS - “CAPS LOCK” THAT YOU SPEAK OF.
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:02 pm
I think I’ll read the whole article first….
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:04 pm
OK jerks, we will see if im wrong, bet im not and im sorry about that. You just remember what I said here and if it plays out like I think its going to then YOU will see Im right and no I will not listen to your reason why you didnt believe me. You wait and see, the Clintons are as evil as they come and you wait, if something happens to Mr.Obama she will be behind it, mark my work. I pray he has thought about that too. She will do whatever it takes to win, whatever it takes. She is a female Hitler and you can laugh all you want, look back at her and her sick husbands history. Also cry baby NO CAPS you happy now.
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:12 pm
She’s signaling her supporters to kill Obama through the power of suggestion. Actually, Obama’s murder is the only way she can get the nomination at this point. I wouldn’t put it past her to pull the triger herself. I have never seen someone so desperate to be President. I can’t believe people support this sack of $h!t.
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:26 pm
maybe she can get bill to do it like lady macbeth did.
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Al least she is honest, blurting out her subconscious
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
This is being contorted to fit the anti-Hillary agenda. Granted I have no intention of voting for her but this line is being taken out of context. Please watch the video of the actual quote and you will see that this line was in reference to how long previous primaries took and that she shouldn’t be getting forced out when others have taken longer.
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:55 pm
@summer: Actually no, not happy now. All caps let my brain filter you out earlier. Please go back to all caps.
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:58 pm
America is heading for fascism no doubt
If Obama should accidently die in an accidental plane crash or accidently be killed in an accidental car wreck, the people will know why
You see……we have the internet!
They can try and bring fascism to America but the American people will see through the smoke this time and they know it.
Time is short ladies and gentleman and there’s very little time left to save America, freedom and liberty……..
So please folks….Don’t fekk up
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is a murder-suicide! (I wish I had thought that line up. I did not. But it is so true!)
She won’t win, and she won’t let him win. Consolidate the Party, my a$$! She is a liar, and is out for herself. She told NY that she would not run for president. NY was just a rung on her ladder to success. Now she is willing to risk the Democratic Party to archive her goals. I despise her.
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:12 pm
She meant that Bobby was killed in June before he even won the nomination, meaning that it isn’t even June yet, so why are people expecting her to give up.
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:15 pm
summer is right — she’s just as crazy, all-caps or no.
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:41 pm
I didn’t even read your all caps posts. I never do. It’s just noise to me.
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
What Whole Article? What more do you need to read? I Mean C’mon…Spin this as nothing offensive.
Also, Campaigns didn’t start 18 months before the election…Her Husband won California in June because it took place in June. It didn’t take place in Jan. and the delegates were only SAT in June.
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Democrats are hilarious.
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Summer……ur flippin nuts chill out captain conspiracy theory. Besides although I do support Obama completely, she does raise a somewhat interesting point, being that it has been relatively close if anything ever did happen then we know for sure who the other candidate it. The point is anything could happen and if she dropped out prior to this point and he for some reason dropped out etc then she would have to go through the process of becoming the nominee. But reading into it that much that she has planned for his assasination and is waiting until JUST BEFORE the nomination to knock him off is deranged you retarded chimpanzee.
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:16 pm
She is not saying that he will, she is saying she is going to fight to the end because drastic changes can happen. But, if you are against her than you disect every word and turn it negative. Like when Obama said his grandma is a typical white lady.. There is nothing wrong with that statement, we as society live on basing and comparing things in order to make a move and being stereotypical is not so wrong. I think she is evil but she also knows how to run things.
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:18 pm
i like how the crazy lady said “mark my work”….hehe
good luck
-G
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
I think she’s in this race so some nutzo freak doesn’t go through with hurting Barack; why hurt Barack and then have Mrs. Clinton there to take the nomination and, presumably, the president? She’s not an insurance policy, she’s a bulletproof vest.
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 pm
I like Obama, and like all of you I support him for2008 too. I saw the video, and think that to infer that she meant - Obama might die like Robert Kennedy - is an EFFING exaggeration!! It makes me feel that Reddit/Obama fans are super not neutral, and have dormant potential to behave like hillary-ites! No offense
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:16 pm
It’s called a freudian slip. Look it up.
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:05 pm
I am an Obama supporter and really dislike HRC but this is just silly.
What she is trying to say is that she is not quitting because you never know what is going to happen.
This is a stupid thing to make such a big deal about.
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:34 pm
I think I’ll read the whole article first….
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:44 pm
[...] Hillary puts foot in mouth again I am sure she didn’t mean she was staying in the race because she was hoping Obama would be shot, but it sure came out that way. Better check the family trees of both Hillary Clinton and George Bush. There is a common ancestor somewhere in there. LOL. Article is here. [...]
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:59 pm
I hoping some nut assasinates Hillery instead. Call it, poetic justice.
May 24th, 2008 at 1:33 am
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May 24th, 2008 at 3:03 am
But to even mention this at least implies the thought has crossed her mind as being possible.
The argument goes like, “Well, let’s see what happens.” He may be assassinated, get it on with some young intern (blow jobs & cigar-like non-sexual relations) or something “horrible” like that. Yeah, then she’ll swoop in and save the party from the ruin that Bill created.
Great logic. She’ll be our savior.
May 24th, 2008 at 3:25 am
I watched the entire video clip and she was making a historical reference. I don’t know about her subconscious or her inentions but, it seems an incredibly insensitive and stupid thing to say as the Kennedy family learns that one of their family members has a brain tumor. I always gave her credit for being intelligent, now she just looks desperate in a do anything say anything attempt to get to the white house.
May 24th, 2008 at 3:27 am
correction -intentions
May 24th, 2008 at 3:35 am
I wonder what Freud would say.
May 24th, 2008 at 3:39 am
Watch the full context of Hillary’s comment. Learn how the Media Bias Against Hillary Clinton Works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNd_fsTjq5k
1) Reporters REPEAT What the Obama Campaign SAY Hillary MEANT
2) The Public Easily Buys That a Woman Must be Evil (Eve) and Has Sinister Motives (sexism)
3) The Obama Campaign Fans the Flames Keeping the Story on Top: Cycle Repeats
May 24th, 2008 at 6:33 am
[...] Hillary Clinton: I’m Staying In The Race Because Barack Might Die Like RFK Hillary’s RFK Remarks: The Video [link] [...]
May 24th, 2008 at 6:34 am
[...] Hillary Clinton: I’m Staying In The Race Because Barack Might Die Like RFK [link] [...]
May 24th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Anyone telling people not to “read into” her comment, or to watch the “full context” is in denial. Take a breath, take some time, and then accept the reality.
Her close friends and supporters should be planning an intervention at this point, before she loses all credibility, and possibly her political future.
May 24th, 2008 at 8:49 am
The thing is, if the reference was to the 1968 Democratic race being still alive in June, why mention the assassination at all? When Bobby was killed, he had already clinched the nomination.
May 24th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Elections, like marketing, is all about optics. Regardless of how the Clinton campaign spins it, this looks bad. She spoke those words because she had thought of them. She apologizes by saying she was thinking of Ted. Huh ? She should say she misspoke. She made a mistake. What she should have said was :
” Presidential nomination campaigns often run into June. Just look at my husband’s win as well as Senator Robert Kennedy’s. They both won their respective California primaries in June.”
What was the point of mentioning the assassination ?
May 24th, 2008 at 9:33 am
HRC is so desperate to win she is willing to say anything. How can she say she is more capable than anyone else to be commander in chief ? Oh really ? This latest remark infers that her “opponent” may be assassinated before the campaign is over. ” So I might as well stay in”. Is she saying the American public is willing and able to possibly gun Obama down ? Is that why Obama has had secret service protection for the last 18 mths ? Does she know something we don’t ? What does that say about America and Americans ? America went through a very tough period with both the King and RFK assassinations. Why should they relive this terrible chapter? She should apologize not only to the Kennedys but to all Americans as well. As a private citizen, she can say whatever she wants. But as a public person, running for the highest office in the land, her comment was shameful.
May 24th, 2008 at 10:57 am
i dont care XD
May 24th, 2008 at 11:01 am
hILLART’S COMMENT, PEOPLE BETTER FACE FACTS, HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE THOUGHT IT, HOW MANY HAS SAID IT, YOU REALLY THINK IN THIS COUNTRY rACIAL IS GONE, THE bLACKS STILL PLAY IT, IT’S BEEN THEIR TICKET, THE wHITES ARE TIRED OF IT, THE POOR, AND I MEAN POOR PEOPLE PLAY THIS HATE GAME, VOTING, AND THE mEDIA HAS USED IT TO STIR IT UP, dEMS. HAVE USED IT TO WIN IN 2009, HOW COULD THEY NOT BACK oBAMA UP, hE’S bLACK IT’S BEEN THEIR tICKET..SHAME ON THEM, THE PEOPLE HAVE BACK hILLARY UP ALSO, HOW DO WE THROW HER UNDER THE BUS FOR WHAT WE WANT IN THE dEMS. PARTY, THIS COUNTRY NEEDS TO CHANGE VOTING RULES, FIRST PRES., SECOND v.p., BOTH PARTY’S, IT’S THE PEOPLE CHOICES, NOT CONGRESS, hILLARY’S COMMENT WILL BE PLAYED ON TO HELP oBAMA THIS WEEK, IF HE GETS TO BE PRESIDENT i hope we all don’t get thrown under the bus for this big change………
May 24th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Read/hear the remarks in context. Read the paper’s release about those comments. Read RFK Jr.’s remarks about those comments. It is beyond vile and despicable to even suggest that Hillary Clinton or anyone else would hope for an assassination of anyone, let alone someone as prominent as Barak Obama.
I lived during those times. I remember the back-to-back shocks of losing MLK, Jr and RFK within two months. I worked on Kennedy’s campaign and was devastated at the horrible loss of what I thought then and think now to have been the last best hope of our country. Had he not been killed in California, history - ours and the world’s - would have been different and hopefully better.
To think that anyone, even if you don’t like her, would advocate or invite the killing of a political opponent is beyond me. Those who are so full of hate and so project that hate onto others are the real dangers to our society. And that Obama was quick out of the gate to exploit comments that his campaign clearly hadn’t heard, read or vetted is even more despicable.
So much for the high-minded idealism of the Obama campaign. Oh wait, they don’t play that “old Washington game”! I forgot. My bad.
May 24th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
[...] trees of both Hillary Clinton and George Bush. There is a common ancestor somewhere in there. LOL. Article is here. Last edited by danarhea; Yesterday at 07:45 [...]
May 24th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
It just goes to show that what they say is true: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!!!!
May 24th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Wow, You are all Hysterical. You are Ripe for a Fascist leader to guide you all to the Fascism. Yes, that is correct. Fascism begins with a Charismatic leader of a grassroots movement bankrolled by banks. In your case - Wall Street. Ya, you will ignore the warning signs. You will name call. You will make threats. Yet, the majority of Americans recognize the signs. It is not healthy for groups of people to believe that their leader has not faults while he continuously lies. That is referred to as denial.
May 24th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Hillary Assassinates Her Campaign…
Like a vulture, Hillary is staying in the race hoping some unfortunate event knocks Obama out of the race where she can step in. Knowing how many fatal “accidents” and “suicides” have occurred with people associated with the Clinton’s you never kn…
May 25th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
LE, thanks for the link to the longer video clip. That clip helped me sort out my thoughts on this situation better. Before her RFK comment, she said that people in SD want to vote. That’s all she needed to say and maybe that she wanted to give SD voters a chance to hear her views about issues important to them, and maybe even to hear from them. In the interview, she addressed a couple of good SD issues.
The rest was unnecessary and defensive. Her RFK remark helps me, however, by providing me information about her that I need. When I email the DLC, DNC, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and others about the nominating process or the nominee, I have evidence that she doesn’t know when to stop, she keeps talking, she introduces a for-instance like the RFK assassination, and then she is surprised that she gets pushback. That informs me that her judgment is weak.
My guess is that she was surprised because she had not gotten pushback from a virtually identical comment in Time Magazine, on March 6th. That also suggests that she is not media-savvy. If she were media-savvy, she’d recognize that she can make exactly the same comment in print and on TV, but she’ll get much more response on TV.
In that sense, she was like Obama, who seems not to have gotten much pushback from making a comment about clinging to guns to Charlie Rose in 2004. At that time, Obama was not a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president and Rose is on late at night, so there wasn’t any urgency to put it up on YouTube. (In 2004, was there a lot of political activity on YouTube?)
May 25th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
OK, I’m going to take back my suggestion that HRC’s not “media-savvy.” It may be correct, but it may not. Just got this info through Drudge: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/05/24/how-clintons-comments-didnt-then-did-catch-fire/.
This story concludes that the firestorm is about competition among journalists. A faraway NYPost journalist with a “better internet connection” scooped the journalists in Sioux Falls. How that gets us to the burning story still doesn’t make sense to me, so I think that my “lack-of-pushback” from the Time Mag quote makes sense.
May 27th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
[...] Along with the assassination of Robert Kennedy, the other reason for staying in the race that Hillary Clinton gave on Friday was the idea that her husband didn’t clinch the 1992 Democratic nomination until June. [...]