In Defense of Hillary Clinton

The headline of the New York Post states that Mrs. Clinton "links prez race with RFK assassination." Matt Drudge has officially shat a chicken. The media is going to have a field day, and all in all, Mrs. Clinton will probably stay in the race for a little bit longer. Of course, she should drop out, but I don't think she will. She still feels, for some odd reason, that she deserves the nomination. She's been trying to make her case for staying in so long, and when she made the RFK gaffe, that's exactly what she was doing.

While the woman makes me physically ill and I cannot wait until the day when she disappears from the realm of politics forever, I do not think she was suggesting that she should stay in the race "in case Barack Obama gets assassinated." She was simply making the case that election battles going well into June are not unique. She cited her husband's race to the nomination (he officially wrapped it up in June) and reminded us all that we were mourning Robert Kennedy's assassination in June when he was competing for the Democratic nomination. Here's what she said in March to Time Magazine:

"I think people have short memories. Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn't wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual."

While she is correct that primaray contests have stretched into the month of June, RFK's primary season did not start until March and her husband had the nomination effectively wrapped up as soon as March of that year. Regardless, in neither of her examples did the primary season start more than a year before the general election and we were not voting a few moments after New Year's. This election has dragged on far too long and for her to pretend otherwise leaves me nonplussed. For someone who is supposed to have the political swagger of President James Bond, Hildabeast really needs to work on her delivery and making sure her cited examples make sense. Has it not occurred to her that she could be destroying her political career by staying in the race this long? The assassination comment is my case in point: why would you ever talk about the "a" word when, for the first time in history, a black man looks likely to become President?

Not smart Hill. Not smart at all.