"We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."Clinton’s refusal to drop out of the race is now bordering on embarrassment. Her excuse? "We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California." … Is she equating this fate with that of Obama? Some commentators have labeled the assassination comment as “tasteless” and “ghoulish,” but Clinton aides claim that the point was still legitimate in referring to the lengths of past campaigns and criticized the New York Times article on Saturday “She Said WHAT?” for blowing the comment out of proportion. Clinton also added that her husband did not win the nomination until mid-June. But still, come on now, did she really have to refer to an assassination to make a point? It's the end of the line, she put a good fight, but Obama's chance at winning the race against McCain is being damaged by another Democrat--not a Republican.
Although polls taken of white voters and their preference between Obama or Clinton v. McCain showed that Obama lagged behind Clinton, overall voting polls showed that Obama would tie with McCain. In terms of wrapping up the democratic nomination, Obama currently has 1,974 super-delegates and pledged delegates to Clinton’s 1,799 with a goal of 2,026 to win the nomination. That said, Obama’s chief strategist has predicted that Obama will be nominated as the democratic presidential contestant by the first week of June.
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I think the comment was blown way out of proportion. Was it dumb. UM... YES. Should she invoke one of the most tragic deaths in American history in order to stay in the primary. UM.... NO. But was she in anyway suggesting that Obama be killed. NO.
In short, it was dumb, but not that dumb.
I agree with Shauhin; the comment was blown out of proportion. She should have known better than to make such a statement that can be so easily misconstrued, but I honestly don't think she meant to insinuate that Obama may be assassinated. She merely meant to say that it's not officially over til it's over. Clinton haters are going to see what they want to see in the comment. Obama himself addressed the outrage over Clinton's comment, stating that the stress of constant campaigning could have led to her lack of good judgment in choice of words.
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I really wish the news would stop re-reporting it already.
I agree with both Shauhin and Evonne. Granted that her comment held a certain level of irrelevance- or rather a complicated cryptic logic- but its announcement was unnecessarily magnified.
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