Bitter America Furious at Hillary's RFK Statement

Not Obama's bitter America that clings to God and guns, but the bitter America that clings to liberals and Democrats. Those folks are ticked that Hillary referred to the assassination of Robert Kennedy as a reason to stay in the race. Many think this is the end for Hillary, or should be. Michael Goodwin has a pretty scathing piece in the New York Daily-News:

SICK. Disgusting. And yet revealing. Hillary Clinton is staying in the race in the event some nut kills Barack Obama.

It could happen, but what definitely has happened is that Clinton has killed her own chances of being vice president. She doesn't deserve to be elected dog catcher anywhere now.

Her shocking comment to a South Dakota newspaper might qualify as the dumbest thing ever said in American politics.

Her lame explanation that she brought up the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy because his brother Ted's illness was on her mind doesn't cut it. Not even close.

We have seen an X-ray of a very dark soul. One consumed by raw ambition to where the possible assassination of an opponent is something to ponder in a strategic way. Otherwise, why is murder on her mind?

It's like Tanya Harding's kneecapping has come to politics. Only the senator from New York has more lethal fantasies than that nutty skater.

We could have seen it coming, if only we had realized Clinton's thinking could be so cold. She has grown increasingly wild in her imagery lately, invoking everything from slavery to the political killings in Zimbabwe in making her argument for the Florida and Michigan delegations. She claimed to be the victim of sexism, despite winning the votes of white men.

But none of it was moving the nomination needle, with Obama, despite recent dents, still on course to be the victor.

So she kept digging deeper, looking for the magic button. Instead, she pushed the eject button, lifting herself right out of consideration.

Giving voice to such a vile thought is all the more horrible because fears Obama would be killed have been an undercurrent to his astonishing rise. Republican Mike Huckabee made a stupid joke about it recently. Many black Americans have talked of it, reflecting their assumption that racists would never tolerate a black President and that Obama would be taken from them.

Clinton has now fed that fear. She needs a very long vacation. And we need one from her.

Say good night, Hillary. And go away.

And don't think the conspiracy theory nuts aren't all over this. Just look at one of the first comments on the Goodwin piece:

The GOP has done its job and done it well, first they firgured out that theres no way they beat Hillary in the general ellection, so they covertly finance this black guy to run against Hillary to sabotage her campaign, knowing the party will divide and when it looks like this black guy has it all but wrapped up they sic their media dogs on the democrats to further divide them, all the whille knowing that all this is going to do is ensure that she wont be on the ticket at all, and that Hillary supporters wont vote for the black guy in November. Game over.

This guy clearly hasn't been paying attention because anyone who has observed the GOP for the last couple of years knows they're not possibly smart enough to pull off something like that.

The question is why would Hillary make such a statement? Just too tired, or did she intentionally bring the "A" word into the conversation to make the superdelegates pause before jumping on the Obama bandwagon? Given the cynical way the Clintons operate, nothing would surprise me.

Obama should consider a restraining order against Bill and Hillary. If either of them get too close to him at the convention, anything could happen. Oh, and I think this will pretty much end all the "dream team" talk. Since Hillary would clearly benefit from Obama's demise, having her on the ticket could be a career-ending (and life-shortening) move for Obama.

However, there may yet be a VP slot for Hillary, according to this item in a Mark Steyn post at the Corner:

If McCain wants to neutralize the novelty value of the Obama candidacy, he can do it with a Jindal or a Palin more easily than a Lieberman.

On the other hand, if he wanted to do the grand bipartisan gesture Jonah's arguing for, he'd be better to go all the way and put Hillary on the ticket. I tremble even to make that suggestion because McCain's such a contrarian old coot he's just nutty enough to do it.

Scary. With McCain's age Hillary would have a better chance to make it look like natural causes.