For months now, over and over again, you would hear people whisper in private, "I like Obama, but I'm afraid they'll shoot him." Parnoid? Overly fearful? Well, turns out that's also the buzz over at his lunatic rival camp! Today, Hillary Clinton made the outrageous statement that she might still become president if Barack Obama is assassinated this year, like Robert Kennedy was in 1968, right before he would have clenched the nomination.
This is not just a tacky comment or an unfortunate gaffe Senator Clinton made today. It was a Freudian slip that shows that she and her cronies are well aware that assassination is their only means of winning the Democratic nomination. It's on their minds day and night: "We're one bullet away from stealing this thing!" Well, fuck them all, and shame on Hillary Clinton! She has earned every ounce of vituperation directed at her, and more. Assassination is not a valid path to the presidency!
There are enough nuts and racists out there that a comment like Clinton's could give one of them the idea to actually assassinate Obama, or it could switch on a dormant Manchurian Candidate. Many, many skeptics assert that Sirhan Sirhan was indeed that, a programmed patsy. (Let's not forget: RFK died from shots fired behind his head, while Sirhan was standing in front of him the entire time, and none of his bullets actually hit Kennedy. Every one of us has a duty to thoroughly investigate that mysterious tragedy.)
I demand that Hillary Clinton go out immediately and promise not to accept the nomination if Barack Obama is assassinated (or "dies in a tragic accident"). Let her thus demonstrate that her campaign hasn't in fact wargamed such scenarios.
And we can't stop there. Now is the time to defeat the spirit of fear that has lingered over this democracy since the 1960s, the fear that we cannot reform the system, that if anyone changes too much they'll just get shot. Guess what? It's time for change, and the looming threat of political assassination is the first thing we're going to do away with, right now!
If something happens to Obama, we must refuse to believe it's an accident.
If something happens to Obama, we must blame Hillary Clinton, at least in part, after her inexcusable remarks.
If something happens to Obama, we must not sit back and let it happen like our parents did when the Kennedys were liquidated.
If something happens to Obama, we must take to the streets and have a good, old-fashioned general strike, where we occupy all the important buildings and shut this country down.
If something happens to Obama, we must demand a citizens' tribunal, not another god-damned blue ribbon coverup panel stacked with pliant lackeys.
If something happens to Obama, we must take it as a sign that the Old Order is weak and desperate, and nearing collapse.
If something happens to Obama, we must remember: they can't kill us all.
They can't kill us all!
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One bright side of her evil statement is that Hillary Clinton admitted that she sure as shit ain't no threat to the system like Bobby Kennedy was. I love that she just cast herself in the role of that incompetent establishmentarian stand-in, Hubert Humphrey!
Another positive side-effect is that she has deep-sixed any chance she had for the Vice Presidential slot. Good riddance there! The last thing a bold reformer like Obama needs is the reincarnation of Lyndon Johnson crouching behind him, rubbing her hands and waiting for her chance to usurp the throne.