Maureen Dowd on recent Hillary RFK gaffe.

As usual Dowd does a great job of making pithy observations and painfully true characterizations that shine a bright light on the facts that many would rather remained hidden from scrutiny.

I think the sentence that I agree with the most is this one:

Maybe a tired, stressed Hillary was giving an unfiltered version of a blunt conversation that she’s had with her husband and advisers about staying in the race, using R.F.K. as an anything-can-happen example, in the same way she fantasizes about Sean Hannity breaking a story that would demolish Obama.

Because isn't that really what most of us kind of assumed? I mean who would mention this historically painful assassination out loud unless you had been talking about it privately? And then why would you be discussing it privately? In what context would it come up?

I think most of us can easily imagine in what context it would come up.

And that is why we felt stung and horrified that she actually made this statement in front of the camera. It simply reinforces the idea that she is wishing for some horrible catastrophe to befall Obama and get him out of her damn way!

But hey, she is not actually SAYING she wants anything to happen. At least not in front of the camera.