Hillary Clinton's Gaffe Invokes Assassination of Robert Kennedy

Open mouth and insert foot is what Senator Hilary Clinton did in explaining her rationale for prolonging her campaign by inoking the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy during his presidential campaign in June 1968. What in the world was she thinking?

Now here's Senator Clinton's explanation for the remark.

Granted, the pace of the presidential campaign must be grueling. The added stress of not being the frontrunner and a campaign in financial crisis must have taken their toll on Senator Clinton. Since she insists on staying in the race; she needs to bring her 'A' game and this is not it. Otherwise, she's prolonging the inevitable and causing herself unneccessary mental anguish. As annoying as she has become, I still don't want to see her meltdown; it will not be pretty.

June...August...or whenever, as long as she's not on Obama's ticket, it's all good.

Comments

[Katherine]

Hillary: Why I Continue To Run

This past Friday, during a meeting with a newspaper editorial board, I was asked about whether I was going to continue in the presidential race.

I made clear that I was - and that I thought the urgency to end the 2008 primary process was unprecedented. I pointed out, as I have before, that both my husband’s primary campaign, and Sen. Robert Kennedy’s, had continued into June.

Almost immediately, some took my comments entirely out of context and interpreted them to mean something completely different - and completely unthinkable.

I want to set the record straight: I was making the simple point that given our history, the length of this year’s primary contest is nothing unusual. Both the executive editor of the newspaper where I made the remarks, and Sen. Kennedy’s son, Bobby Kennedy Jr., put out statements confirming that this was the clear meaning of my remarks. Bobby stated, “I understand how highly charged the atmosphere is, but I think it is a mistake for people to take offense.”

I realize that any reference to that traumatic moment for our nation can be deeply painful - particularly for members of the Kennedy family, who have been in my heart and prayers over this past week. And I expressed regret right away for any pain I caused.

But I was deeply dismayed and disturbed that my comment would be construed in a way that flies in the face of everything I stand for - and everything I am fighting for in this election.

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/25/why-we-continue-hillary-and-me/#more-2698

[Vanessa]

The Senator's comments above explicitly reveal how much she is out of touch with the way she is perceived by many Americans. She has a tremedous character problem that has not improved in several months and may have reached the tipping point.

Her RFK comment may be enough to push the majority of the uncommitted superdelegates over to Barack Obama; especially since she lied about why she referenced the RFK assassination in the first place.

As much as I abhor the way she has campaigned, I still get no pleasure from watching the trainwreck that is her political career.