Why I think Hillary inserted assassination into the public debate.
I know that Taylor Marsh and her guest bloggers have decided to do everything in their power to project every Clinton act as an inherently noble one, even as she brings up the suggestion of assassination during the Democratic search for a presidential nominee, but guest blogger Grey is surely pushing the boat out when describing Hillary's apology as "agonized".
My take on Hillary's apology was that she was blaming Obama for causing such an outrage over her comments, rather than truly accepting that what she said was unforgivable. Once again, Hillary chose to portray herself as the victim of an Obama led media attack, rather than apologising for taking this election into a truly despicable gutter.
There has been much written about what Clinton said, by people who I very much admire, although I have a slightly different take on why Hillary said what she said.
Firstly, as with Bill's comments regarding Jesse Jackson in South Carolina, I do not believe that the Clinton's make many slip ups and I think they often inject things into the political discourse because it suits their purposes for that subject to be discussed at that particular time.
However, where I slightly disagree with friends online is with the reasoning as to what Clinton hopes to gain by bringing this up now.
It has been suggested, by Keith Olmermann and many others, that Clinton is suggesting that she has to hang around in this contest in case Obama gets shot. I think that reading is too crude even for a game player like Hillary, who has so far showed herself capable of doing literally anything in an attempt to win the nomination, something which Marshians seem to see as her greatest strength, showing that Hillary is "a fighter".
I actually think that the message Hillary sought to convey is aimed at the same audience which Bill was aiming at during the South Carolina campaign when he made his infamous comments. I thought at the time that Bill was sending a subtle message to the super delegates, asking if they wanted a good guy who loses, or a Clinton, people who would take the fight into the gutter and beat the Republicans at their own game.
And I believe the super delegates remain Hillary's prime target with her not too subtle insertion of the possibility of assassination into the Democratic race.
I think she is sending a signal to the super delegates that the possibility of assassination is one of the reasons why they must choose her over Obama, unless they want that hideous responsibility on their own hands should such a grotesque event take place.
Hillary would have us believe that she was merely discussing RFK's demise simply to prove a dateline, which I regard as preposterous. She need not have mentioned the assassination in order to make that point. She could simply have have reminded us that RFK was still campaigning in June.
No, she wanted the subject of assassination to be part of the public debate, but not to justify her remaining in the race, as she's going to do that no matter what common sense or pledged delegates or the popular vote demands.
It's yet again another of her insane reasoning's as to why Obama can't possibly be the Democratic nominee. She wants all of us to know that, if anything were ever to happen to him, it would be all of our faults.
I've always said that Hillary will do or say anything - even contradicting herself in the process - to win this nomination, but with the assassination comment she has gone further than any of us could have predicted.
She's now arguing that if you love Obama, you should vote for her. For his own sake.
It is utterly without morals. And I agree with Mash that, at this point, American politics have truly entered, " a new low".
3 comments:
I'm with you, I dont think anything the Clinton camp does is unintended. Like Madison Avenue, they carefully plan everything they say, even the really stupid stuff (though this is not to say that they have a particularly good plan sometimes, but a plan nevertheless).
As for beating the Republicans at their own game, Hillary has even made the statement that if the Democratic primaries were run like the Republican ones, she'd already have the nomination. This statement totally misses the point, which is we dont want Republicans, including their sleazy tactics.
I'm with Dave, no one should even want those kinds of tactics. Even Republicans because I do know a fair number of people who are and who are not 'that way'.
Well written post Kel, as I expected! That said, even if you might disagree as to the reason of why she inserted the assassination comment, I do think that one cannot EVER say something like that in a country like the US. Never mind her reason, it was all about the fact that she did.
Kel, have you ever heard about the bilderberg group? It's a very secretive group and Hillary has been reported to have visited them. I am starting to be suspicious that at this point, the Clintonites are doing the bidding of a larger entity. But of course, for the average person, that's waaay too conspiracy like and too much to fathom..
still, just wonder if you had read anything about that..
hugs
Ingrid
As for beating the Republicans at their own game, Hillary has even made the statement that if the Democratic primaries were run like the Republican ones, she'd already have the nomination.
Hillary has a thousand ways in which she should have won the nomination, but unfortunately for her she is not winning according to the rules of the competition she is in. Which is all her own fault. She started this contest with a twenty point lead and a name recognition that other candidates would have given their right arm for.
If she ran the US as badly as she has run this campaign, the country would be in big trouble. Obama has shown that he can wisely handle big budgets, Hillary has shown herself as clueless. Obama deserves to be leading her.
Ingrid,
I agree that no-one, for whatever reason, should be allowed to invoke assassination given your country's bloody history in that area. It's a sign of her utter desperation that Hillary has dared to go there.
Kel, have you ever heard about the bilderberg group? It's a very secretive group and Hillary has been reported to have visited them.
No, I haven't Ingrid, though I'll start to look them up now that you've mentioned them. Any links would be appreciated.
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