The difference between 2008 and 1992 or 1968? In June 1992, Bill Clinton was still able to win the nomination. In June 1968, Robert Kennedy was still able to win the nomination. In 2008, there is only one way for Hillary Clinton to win the nomination by sticking around until June.
So, while I believe Hillary slipped up badly with her talk of the 1968 assassination of Bobby Kennedy, and didn’t mean to suggest that was what she was waiting for… she is waiting for something. Some kind of miracle. Possibly another Jeremiah Wright story. An assassination would be convenient, too. Not wished for, of course.
That is abhorrent.
The country is badly divided. Anything happening to Barack Obama, or Hillary Clinton, or John McCain, now would tear it apart. Here’s Keith Olbermann on the same subject, and while he is over the top as usual, he’s also correct. This exposes Hillary Clinton as unfit to serve as President of the United States. Or Vice President. This is a reason for her to drop out, now.
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I am not a Hillary fan; I am an Olbermann fan. He is dead wrong, assasinatedly wrong, in this vid. Bobby got his brains blow out, can we just get TF over it? Are we not allowed to talk about it? You all can just KISS MY PC!
She was relating a string of people who’s campaigns extended into June. She can’t mention Bobby because it strikes the fear in us that we all feel; that when we see OB speaking we all think he looks like a guy who is about to be murdered? Well he looks like that to me, always has….doesn’t he look like that to you? Has that thought never ocured to you? Its heartbreaking, it sucks, its Amerika.
All this backlash is bogus; its born from people who want to hide a dirty little secret from themselves; that BO looks like a guy who is about to be assassinated, anyone who denies that thought has ever occured to them is either lying or very young.
Hillary’s comment brought that dirty little secret to the front and thus she must be damned for it….abhorrent indeed!
A little off topic but this has been on my mind.
Just a little bit of history. Incredible but true, it has only been 88 years since all women in the U.S. have had the right to vote. Here is some Suffrage History:
1756 – Lydia Chapin (Taft) was a forerunner of women’s suffrage in Colonial America. She was the first legal woman voter in colonial America. She was granted this right by the town meeting of Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
1776-1866 – First women’s rights convention to the historic formation of the American Equal Rights Association.
1868-1895 – Feminist newspaper The Revolution is founded along with the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
1903-1923 – Alice Paul and Lucy Burns form the National Woman’s Party and begin a campaign of non-violent protest resulting in the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920.
Interestingly, beginning in 1980 women began to outnumber men at the ballot box, a trend that has endured, despite the overall drop in voter turnout. Women represent a huge voting population but one of the most puzzling outcomes of the 2008 Democratic contests is that Black voters of all socioeconomic classes are voting for the black candidate. Men are voting for the male candidate regardless of race or class. But even though this is a year with the first major female presidential candidate, women are split every which way. They’re the only voting bloc not voting their bloc.
Seems like many are thinking…YES! AWOMAN! JUST NOT THAT WOMAN!
Amen. Go Olbermann.
Ok, il2sopc who can resist a joke now and then, ask yourself, ” Are you better off than you were 88 years ago?”
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