This past Friday, during a meeting with a newspaper editorial board, I was asked about whether I was going to continue in the presidential race.
I made clear that I was - and that I thought the urgency to end the 2008 primary process was unprecedented. I pointed out, as I have before, that both my husband's primary campaign, and Sen. Robert Kennedy's, had continued into June.
Almost immediately, some took my comments entirely out of context and interpreted them to mean something completely different - and completely unthinkable.
We took her comments "out of context"?
I saw the video, heard the question asked, and watched her give her disgusting response. How is that "out of context"?
And if that wasn't enough you can see the Special Comment by Keith Olbermann here (the first part) and here (the second part) where he lays out quite clearly that this is an old tactic that Hillary and her staff have brought up many times before.
Here let me give the proper context that existed when she made this horrible comment. Two weeks before the anniversary of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, and only days after Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with brain cancer, Hillary Clinton brings up the murder of RFK in June to illustrate to her audience that "anything" can happen to remove the front runner in a campaign for President. Even assassination.
That was the fucking "context". Nobody is overreacting here. We are simply drawing back in disgust at the words coming out of the mouth of a person that many of us once admired.
But that was before we saw Ms. Clinton truly vetted. And now we have. Now we have.
I am confused WHAT did we take out of context ? watching Bobby get killed? watching the Angst of the summer of 1968 ? His Death? and what we lost that year ? WHAT WAS ASSASSINATED IN THAT MOMENT????
ReplyDeleteDid we take HER Statement out of context- millions of us? and her "explanation" ????which was NO apology..and then she writes an editorial ??? that is basicaly Blaming Everyone BUT herself...
HOW can she even think of being president if she blames Everyone for Everything....( How Nixonian of her..) okay I am trying to be calm...but really..unreal....so confounded..( I just read the editorial over at Chris's, I had NO idea...)
Okay.....deep breath....wow.....great write up as ever....
thank you....