Tuesday, May 27, 2008

She Meant, "Assassination" not "Assassination Assassination"

Regarding the RFK Assassnation comment,watching the video of Clinton's remark is highly recommended. Reading the transcript or listening to others read it just before expressing their commentary can be misleading. Hillary Clinton has made some earlier comments that were disgusting, so much so that my respect and admiration of her (and her Mr. Man) has been evaporating slowly but surely through out this primary season. Maybe I'll talk about those later. The short version; Hillary is getting a raw deal. I don't believe she meant to suggest she can't drop out before the first assassination attempt on Obama's life occurs.
Mrs. Hillary has an encyclopedic knowledge of various policies and political platforms and can deftly explain every minute detail on command. I suspect she already had a concise and applicable list of previous primary nominees not selected before June, making her decision to forge ahead seem unremarkable. Unofficially attached to the list was the " Shoot em up" scenario. Editing that list on the fly is what tripped her up. If you notice, after she mentioned RFK assassination, pauses says another phrase hesitates again and then gets back to her conversational rhythm. Realizing she just said this out loud caused her to pause, "oops wrong list." In the next split second she was mentally rummaging through her " Public speaking first aid kit" while trying to assess the damage in real time. Not finding a tourniquet she went on auto pilot and pushed right through regaining her composure and conversational tone.

Her apology strongly suggests she couldn't have meant what she implied. The "Ted Kennedy tumor made me say it" apology really stunk up the place. For her, the impact of her words still hadn't registered she had no clue as to why she needs to apologize. She didn't include Obama or McCain in her apology because they weren't even on her radar. Thoughtless assassination references from a candidate could potentially put all contenders in danger. Remember this is the country whose citizens would pack a lunch to watch a lynching. According to me, this speaks to the scope and depth of her vision. It suggest she cannot truly see those in her orbit much less those outside of her world to govern effectively. Couple this with her short sighted and sometimes divisive campaign strategy and you've got ...well, a hot mess.

UPDATE:
Okay, there's documentation showing Mrs. Hillary has referenced the RFK murder on three other occasions since March of 2008. I'll take the high road and say it illustrates the point I was making earlier regarding her inability to see past her nose. Just because she has now mentioned a particular June assassination four times (?) in three months does not a pattern make. Never mind that Robert Kennedy just entered the race having decided to run just six weeks earlier. And never mind the fact that up to that point only 12 primaries had been held leaving plenty more primaries ahead. BTW, the primary season started in March that year not January like this year. If you remove those minor points Robert Kennedy's primary totally mirrors Hillary Clinton's current predicament. Well, maybe not. This view from my "high road" isn't very pretty.