To date, I feel I have been as fair as I possibly could with Hillary Clinton, for whom I used to work and for whom I used to have a great deal of respect. She mathematically lost the Democratic nomination days ago, and the whole contest, in actuality, much earlier.
Senator Clinton crossed a line a few weeks ago saying that she was the candidate of "hard-working Americans, white Americans," and everybody was up in arms for a time. People were almost more shocked that she didn't have the decency to go away then.
Now she has crossed yet another line that makes that first line -- and all the lines before that -- seem like they were set in a whole different universe.
She has gone on the record to state that the reason she remains in the race is that it would be premature for her to leave before Barack Obama is assassinated.
The horrible quote:
"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. I don't understand it."
Well I do understand it. Senator Clinton, you will do or say anything to get the nomination, including openly and publicy contemplating the very death of your opponent. Of course, your awful and cynical "apology" issued later only proves the point that you wouldn't mind so much if your opponent were to, you know, no longer be available to serve, wink, wink.
"Earlier today I was discussing the Democratic primary history and in the course of that discussion mentioned the campaigns that both my husband and Senator Kennedy waged in California in June 1992 and 1968 and I was referencing those to make the point that we have had nomination primary contests that go into June. That's a historic fact.
The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy and I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation, and particularly for the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that, whatsoever. My view is that we have to look to the past and to our leaders who have inspired us and give us a lot to live up to, and I'm honored to hold Senator Kennedy's seat in the United States Senate from the state of New York and have the highest regard for the entire Kennedy family."
The apology actually reveals the sick, twisted and pathetic truth of your vindictive, dark wish, because you don't even bother to apologize directly to the man you're really talking about. Nor did you apologize to his wife -- the would-be widow, one supposes. Or his little girls. How do you suppose Senator and Mrs. Obama will explain the events and your comments of today to those girls, Senator Clinton?
You apologize to the Kennedy family, as you should. Your sickening insult made all the worse given Senator Ted Kennedy's horrible diagnosis.
Furthermore, it's not the first time you've done this, Senator Clinton. BarbinMD has done the homework for us. You made similar comments in March of this year, and as BarbinMD says in her post, "Once might be a mistake, twice and it’s a tactic."
I'd call on you to feel shame, Senator Clinton, but I honestly don't think you know how.
That is absolutely it. I don't want to hear any more over-the-top, pathetic, whiny screeds from those who say that Hillary's political demise is all about sexism -- not when she says stuff like this. You don't get to make comments like this and then play the victim.
No more, Hillary Clinton. You tried painting him as inexperienced, and he beat you. You tried painting him as "the black candidate," and he beat you. Now you're trying to paint him as the guy that will inevitably get killed.
Hillary, you're beat. Hang it up before you embarrass yourself, your party and your country any more.