May 23 2008
Hillary going downhill fast
This needs to end now.
Clinton cites Kennedy assassination in primaries
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Sen. Hillary Clinton referred Friday to the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968 Democratic campaign as a reason she should continue to campaign despite increasingly long odds.
Clinton was responding to a question from the Sioux Falls Argus Leader editorial board about calls for her to drop out of the race.
“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. You know I just, I don’t understand it,” she said, dismissing the idea of dropping out.
Clinton said she didn’t understand why, given this history, some Democrats were calling for her to quit.
She later apologized…
“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,” the former first lady said.
She knew exactly what she was saying, how it would be interpreted and what her intentions were in saying it. (To believe otherwise is a direct insult to her intelligence.) Hillary Clinton has proven beyond doubt that she is not temperamentally fit to be Commander in Chief. This has to end and it has to end now. Who knows what desperate measures tomorrow will bring?
I’ve heard many Clinton supporters say that they would vote for McCain over Obama. I am almost to the point of returning the favor. Almost. I would still, at this point, choose Hillary over Johnny. It’s getting to be a close call, though. (And I have never voted for a Republican in my life!)
UPDATE: Keith Olbermann…
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One Response to “Hillary going downhill fast”
It’s ok, I’ve heard a few Republicans say they’d rather vote Obama.. it all balances out..