Hillary's Offensive, Dangerous Comment

Subject: RE: Hillary's Offensive, Dangerous Comment
From: Azizi
Date: 24 May 08 - 10:07 AM

Excerpts from Keith Olbermann's Special Comment-May 23, 2008:

"Clinton, you invoked a nightmare
May 23 [2008]: In a Countdown Special Comment, Keith Olbermann reviews how many times Hillary Clinton has referenced Robert F. Kennedy in her campaign – and how the most recent mention of him and his assassination was inexcusable.
Countdown

SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
MSNBC
updated 9:29 p.m. ET, Fri., May. 23, 2008

Asked if her continuing fight for the nomination against Senator Obama hurts the Democratic party, Sen. Hillary Clinton replied, "I don't. Because again, I've been around long enough. You know, 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 don't understand it. You know, there's lots of speculation about why it is. "

The comments were recorded and we showed them to you earlier and they are online as we speak.

She actually said those words.

Those words, Senator?

You actually invoked the nightmare of political assassination.

You actually invoked the specter of an inspirational leader, at the seeming moment of triumph, for himself and a battered nation yearning to breathe free, silenced forever.

You actually used the word "assassination" in the middle of a campaign with a loud undertone of racial hatred - and gender hatred - and political hatred.

You actually used the word "assassination" in a time when there is a fear, unspoken but vivid and terrible, that our again-troubled land and fractured political landscape might target a black man running for president.

Or a white man.

Or a white woman!

You actually used those words, in this America, Senator, while running against an African-American against whom the death threats started the moment he declared his campaign?

You actually used those words, in this America, Senator, while running to break your "greatest glass ceiling" and claiming there are people who would do anything to stop you?

You!

Senator - never mind the implications of using the word "assassination" in any connection to Senator Obama...

What about you?

You cannot say this!...

Not for a moment does any rational person believe Senator Clinton is actually hoping for the worst of all political calamities.

Yet the outrage belongs, not to Senator Clinton or her supporters, but to every other American...

There is no good time to recall the awful events of June 5th, 1968, of Senator Bobby Kennedy, happy and alive - perhaps, for the first time since his own brother's death in Dallas in 1963... Galvanized to try to lead this nation back from one of its darkest eras... Only to fall victim to the same surge that took that brother, and Martin Luther King... There is no good time to recall this. But certainly to invoke it, two weeks before the exact 40th anniversary of the assassination, is an insensitive and heartless thing.

And certainly to invoke it, three days after the awful diagnosis, and heart-breaking prognosis, for Senator Ted Kennedy, is just as insensitive, and just as heartless. And both actions, open a door wide into the soul of somebody who seeks the highest office in this country, and through that door shows something not merely troubling, but frightening. And politically inexplicable"...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24797758/

Subject: RE: Hillary's Offensive, Dangerous Comment
From: Deckman
Date: 24 May 08 - 09:59 AM

I know longer feel that "Bill" runs her "mean, bad ass comment" dept. She does a very good job of it all by herself. Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: Hillary's Offensive, Dangerous Comment
From: bobad
Date: 24 May 08 - 09:56 AM

I don't believe she meant that she was waiting to see if Obama was to be assasinated, I mean she can't be that insensitive or stupid, can she?

Subject: RE: Hillary's Offensive, Dangerous Comment
From: Azizi
Date: 24 May 08 - 09:56 AM

Mudcat moderators:

I meant for this thread to be placed in the BS section. My apologies for failing to put a "BS" prefix before this thread's title. I would appreciate it if you would move this thread to its appropriate section.

Thanks.

Subject: Hillary's Offensive, Dangerous Comment
From: Azizi
Date: 24 May 08 - 09:53 AM

"Responding to a question from the Sioux Falls Argus Leader editorial board about calls for her to drop out of the race, she said: "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 abandoning the race.

Clinton said she didn't understand why, given this history, some Democrats were calling for her to quit.

Her remark about an assassination during a primary campaign drew a quick response from aides to Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama.

"Senator Clinton's statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton.

Clinton spokesman Mo Elleithee said the senator was only referring to her husband and Kennedy "as historical examples of the nominating process going well into the summer and any reading into it beyond that would be inaccurate and outrageous."

She has said much the same thing before In a March interview with Time magazine, she said: "Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn't wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June, also in California. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080524/ap_on_el_pr/clinton

[my italics for emphasis]

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I'm aware that this Mudcat thread "Voting For Hillary?" contains some comments about Senator Clinton's latest statement about Bobbie Kennedy's assassination in June 1968 as somehow being a reason for her remaining in the race for Democratic nomination for USA president. However, I believe that a separate Mudcat thread is needed for a discussion about those comments, since that discussion need not be in the context of whether a person would vote or not for Hillary Clinton. Even before her latest offensive, and dangerous comment, as a result of how she has run her primary campaign, I would not have even thought of about voting for Hillary Clinton as dog catcher of the smallest USA town.

I'll be posting exerpts of comments on this topic that were made by other people, since sometimes people express what I want to say much better than I could.

Of course, you may post to this thread-or that other Mudcat thread whose link I provided or any other Mudcat political thread -if you feel the need to express yourself on this topic.