It was bad enough when Mike Huckabee made a joke about Obama's being assassinated. But at least he had the moral courage to apologize in a straightforward way, resisting the passive, conditional, "if someone was offended" construction.
After Hilary Clinton offered the possibility of Obama's assassination as a reason to stay in the race (listen to Rachel Maddow and Gene Robinson), she apologized to the Kennedy's. No, she did not directly say that her opponent might be assassinated as her explanation. She instead referred to Bobby Kennedy's murder as toward the end of the 1968 campaign, literally minutes after he won the California primary and thus seemed to have broken through to capture the nomination.
And as Eugene Robinson pointed out, she apologized to the Kennedys, but to the Obamas. Well, at least she seems to know that it's over now. This is her at the time of her apology.
It's not as if many whites and damn near all blacks haven't been worried about the possibility. And it's not as if they don't have a reason to assume that somebody will take a shot at him. The talk may have been out of the media, but there's been plenty of it. Are Hilary and her campaign going to claim they haven't been aware of it? Or sensitive to it?
I'm not the only one reacting this way. Check here too (the volume of comments has been huge).
Despite her slogan, Hilary Clinton was not and is not "ready on day one." It's not about experience. It's about temperament, judgement, and discipline. And it's about a moral core that remains strong in the face of temptation. It's about a moral core that resists excessive compromise on the path to power. One can go only so far in seeking power to "do good" before whatever good that might be accomplished is not only diluted, it is drowned.
How ironic that Hilary Clinton made these remarks just as the rumor mill began chattering that she might be willing (read wanted) to be Obama's running mate. Her remarks disqualified her. Even more, they disqualified her to continue in Bobby Kennedy's Senate seat.
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Given all of the things throughout history which have happened in June, Hellary mentions the assassination of Bobby Kennedy? An unusually close parallel to Obama or wishful thinking or maybe instructions to the wack job racist out there?
"You guys aren't doing your job!"
That's what I hear Hellary saying!
Maybe that's just me, .... we will find out at Barak's wake.
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