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May 23, 2008
Hillary's gunning for the win.
Hillary Clinton, Des Moines, today:
People have been trying to push me out of this ever since Iowa...between my opponent, and his camp, and some in the media, there has been this urgency to end this...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.
You certainly don't, Hill.
I'll just let David Rees take it from here:
She has a point: June is a great month for political assassinations.Why drop out of the race before all the assassins have had their say?
After all, we know Barack Obama has received multiple death threats -- because he is black, of course, and because some of our fellow citizens think he's a secret Muslim terrorist who is going to take the oath of office on the Koran and make us all pray to Mecca five times a day with that screechy music coming over the loudspeakers(?) and then he'll fly Air Force One into the White House(?).
And the truth is, Obama has consistently failed to win over those voters who want to see him murdered.
In the interest of fairness, I should note that Hillary has since apologized for her curious statement. That is, she has apologized to the Kennedys.
Not to be missed: David Rees' amazing Get Your War On.
UPDATE (now with more invective!):
In her series of non-apologies, Hillary has been using the excuse that the Kennedys have been "much on my mind these days", due to Ted Kennedy's illness. How does she explain this exchange with Richard Stengel of Time, published March 6th?
TIME: Can you envision a point at which--if the race stays this close--Democratic Party elders would step in and say, "This is now hurting the party and whoever will be the nominee in the fall"?CLINTON: No, I really can't. I think people have short memories. 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. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual.
By the way, her endless repetitions of "my husband's campaign wasn't wrapped up until June" are themselves patently false, as a quick look back at a 3/20/92 NY Times article shows:
Get out, step down, exit, withdraw, leave. Pick one. Now.
