oh no, oh shit, I just... she said what?!

[thisficklemob]

Hillary Clinton mentioned Bobby Kennedy's June assassination as a reason it's too early for her to drop out in May. Don't believe me? Check the link, there's video.

Dear Senator Clinton

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[photosinensis]

See, I think at this point we can just say "bitch is crazy" and safely ignore her for the rest of the election cycle.

[thisficklemob]

Let's not call her gendered names. Meredith Brooks is a bitch. Hillary Clinton has just proven that she's an asshole.

[kimbari]

Asshole works for my black ass....

[thisficklemob]

I owe that word choice to Molly Ivins. *g*

[xiaomi]

My jaw dropped when she said that... and within a week of when Senator Kennedy was diagnosed with brain cancer?

I really have no respect for her anymore. She's living in her own little world, and said world no longer has frequent flights between Hillaryland and Realityville.

[thisficklemob]

Seriously! Teddy's all, "Doctor, you said to report any cognitive issues that might come up, well, I think I'm having hallucinations... Wait, you mean she really said that?"

Me neither. Although, I've thought that before, and I still managed to be shocked today.

She's living in her own little world, and said world no longer has frequent flights between Hillaryland and Realityville.

This made me giggle aloud. And it's true... it's seemed for awhile she's cut off from people who might tell her no, but now she seems cut off from any innate good sense she may have had.

[missmurchison]

I could have accepted the "I didn't mean it that way" defense if she hadn't been insisting Obama isn't electable past the point where it became creepy. But I thought she was talking about a possible scandal. (It can't be one she has evidence of because she'd have used it by now.) This just makes me wonder if what she's been implying all along is that he won't live long enough to be elected.

I don't believe she's behind a plot to kill Obama, as I've read in several places already. I don't believe she's trying to incite violence either. But I agree with you that she should have considered the second possibility, especially since she has said almost exactly the same thing before.

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/05/hillarys_bizarre_rfk_comment.html

[thisficklemob]

It can't be one she has evidence of because she'd have used it by now.

Exactly. At this point, she's just hoping for him to screw up. Or for somebody to find something on him, which considering the digging the press did in her and Bill's past is a leetle creepy.

This just makes me wonder if what she's been implying all along is that he won't live long enough to be elected.

And the thing is, the worries over his safety aren't without basis, but that only makes what she said today more wrong. You don't want to associate yourself with the people who would do something like that. You don't want to give them any sort of legitimacy. You sure as hell don't decide when to drop out based on them.

[missmurchison]

I've been worried about Obama for months now. It's something everyone should consider especially the Secret Service, but the idea of using it? Deeply creepy.

[thisficklemob]

As soon as he started doing well, I started reading blogs and columns by people who remembered JFK, RFK, and particularly MLK, talking about how they were worried about him. How they were afraid people wouldn't "let him" get it.

And the fact that she did it before is super-creepy. If she's not suggesting to the suggestible that he should be targeted, she's trying to scare people further into thinking he will be targeted... and that's a reason not to nominate him... and that's a different flavor of gross, but still pretty disgusting.

(Not to mention, you cannot tell me there aren't whackjobs out there with guns who don't want a woman to be president, either. Are they as many or as loony, who knows, but yeesh! As a woman and a Clinton, she should know better than to use the "some people will be hostile" rationale, dontchathink?)

[missmurchison]

We (M:TNG-1 and 1) have been cruising news sites and blogs to see how this is being reported and we are amused that so far only msnbc.com appears to be ignoring it. We decided that after Chris Matthews and various other stupidities, they're just too scared.

[kimbari]

I betcha Keith Olbermann will have something to say about it.

[missmurchison]

Yep! Only NBC ref I've seen to is that KO will have a special comment.

[xiaomi]

Keith Olbermann sure as hell had something to say about. The "special comment" was about 10 minutes long.

[delux_vivens]

Damn that sexist media! This is all their fault!

Oh wait...

[thisficklemob]

If by "sexist" you mean "camera rolling"... she did this herself.

[delux_vivens]

That's exactly what i meant, yes....

[thisficklemob]

I got that. *g*