Clinton Pays Price For Kennedy Remark

Hillary Clinton is paying a huge price for her ill-considered remarks to a newspaper editorial board on Friday in which she said a reason she is staying in the presidential race is because Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June. The implication of the remark has stirred a firestorm. The newspaper front page above is one example; below are other examples.

New York Newspaper Columnist ~ 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.

From Oklahoma's Peace Arena Blog ~ Hillary's Meltdown - On Countdown with Keith Olbermann today, he had on presidential historian Douglas Brinkley, who I thought said some very astute things about Hillary Clinton, particularly what her comments today (and previously) about possible assassinations of candidates suggest of her state of mind. His remarks reflect not so much an historian's eye, as a very humane sensitivity to emotional distress, which just happen to be on display now in a presidential campaign. At about 4:00 he says something about how she is in "depression or meltdown" and is not expressing the "best side of her nature." This comment really struck a chord with me. There are plenty of others who are saying what needs to be said about the abhorrent suggestion in Clinton's remarks -- they say it far better than I can.

"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?" ~ New York Daily News

From Oklahoma's Sooner Thought Blog ~ Having been born on the day Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, I have always taken a special interest in this great man and his times. Senator Clinton's dumb remark sullies his memory by using his murder as an election talking point. It is also tasteless when you consider that Sen. Kennedy's younger brother Edward just received a terminal illness diagnosis--I mean really, how crass can you get? Whether she meant to imply that Obama could also be assassinated or not, this is simply the point where she should fold up her tent. Apology is not enough. It is time for Sen. Clinton to stop embarrassing herself and our Party and go away.

Cable Television Website Story ~ BRANDON, SD - Another example of the power of the Drudge Report today, as a NY Post story pointing out that Clinton brought up the assassination of Robert F Kennedy in 1968 during an editorial board meeting sent reporters traveling with Clinton into a frenzy.

From AOL News ~ Clinton Remark Sparks Uproar.

From Oklahoma's The McCarville Report Online ~ Hillary Clinton's New Gaffe Worst Yet.

From The Hill ~ Her words quickly sparked a frenzy on the internet and on cable news networks.

From Blogger Michelle Malkin ~ Hillary’s foot-in-mouth moment: Will Bobby Kennedy assassination remarks be the final nail?

Rant By Keith Olbermann/MSNBC ~ 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?

From Oklahoma Blogger Stan Geiger ~ As everyone knows by now, Clinton made a public statement noting Bobby Kennedy, while running for president, wasn't murdered until June. If I were a nut case, a radical, passionate Hillary supporter that would do anything to see her elected president, I could easily take what she said as a suggestion. It's not too late. Obama might, kinda sorta, up and die---with the help of a couple of bullets from my gun. It's up to me. Hillary, my great leader, has called me to action. Clinton has lost it.

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