I wasn't gonna mention Hellary's comment about RFK's assassination...

.... 'cause I reckoned it would be on every front page in the country! Two reasons why I am giving it space here --First, because I think in historical terms, it will be the defining stupid-ass blunder of this campaign. Right up there with Ford declaring Poland free, and Carter confessing that he gets his nuclear proliferation advice from nine-year-old daughter Amy.
Secondly, because my home town rag, the uber-liberal San Antonio Excuse-News chose to bury it on page 21... and others might do so as well!

The big BIG difference with this verbal faux pas is the underlying viciousness of the thought, and most probably Freudian in nature -- best described by this editorial in todays Daily News:


Hillary Clinton's colossal blunder simply the last straw
May 24th 2008,
Neel/AP

Hillary Clinton apologized Friday after citing the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (below) in defending her decision to keep running for the Democratic presidential nomination.

SICK. Disgusting. And yet revealing. Hillary Clinton is staying in the race in the event some nut kills Barack Obama.
It could happen, but what definitely has happened is that Clinton has killed her own chances of being vice president. She doesn't deserve to be elected dog catcher anywhere now.

Her shocking comment to a South Dakota newspaper might qualify as the dumbest thing ever said in American politics.
Her lame explanation that she brought up the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy because his brother Ted's illness was on her mind doesn't cut it. Not even close.

We have seen an X-ray of a very dark soul. One consumed by raw ambition to where the possible assassination of an opponent is something to ponder in a strategic way. Otherwise, why is murder on her mind?

It's like
Tanya Harding's kneecapping has come to politics. Only the senator from New York has more lethal fantasies than that nutty skater.
We could have seen it coming, if only we had realized Clinton's thinking could be so cold. She has grown increasingly wild in her imagery lately, invoking everything from slavery to the political killings in Zimbabwe in making her argument for the Florida and Michigan delegations. She claimed to be the victim of sexism, despite winning the votes of white men.

But none of it was moving the nomination needle, with Obama, despite recent dents, still on course to be the victor.
So she kept digging deeper, looking for the magic button. Instead, she pushed the eject button, lifting herself right out of consideration.

Giving voice to such a vile thought is all the more horrible because fears Obama would be killed have been an undercurrent to his astonishing rise.
Republican Mike Huckabee made a stupid joke about it recently. Many black Americans have talked of it, reflecting their assumption that racists would never tolerate a black President and that Obama would be taken from them.
Clinton has now fed that fear. She needs a very long vacation. And we need one from her.

Say good night, Hillary. And go away.



As that famous wordsmith from my youth, Elmer Fudd, would say; "She is a vewy, vewy scawy woman!!!"