Will No One Rid Me of This Meddlesome Presidential Candidate?

May 23, 2008 2:08 PM

Oh No She Di'n't! 'We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it,' [Senator Clinton] said, dismissing calls to drop out."

Yeah, it's the New York Post, but there's video.

posted by kirkaracha (6 comments total)

No wonder Don Imus calls her "Satan".
posted by Xurando at 2:10 PM on May 23

We appear to be heading directly at a LOLHILLARY tag.
posted by iamabot at 2:11 PM on May 23

I dunno -- I'm a big Obama supporter, but I think that if you look at the context of this remark, she really didn't mean anything bad. I think what she was trying to say was: "we [political junkies] all know that RFK was killed in June, at the height of the Dem campaign -- so why are people trying to push me out in late May?"
posted by TheWash at 2:14 PM on May 23 [1 favorite]

(i.e., she was just making a point about the calendar)
posted by TheWash at 2:14 PM on May 23

"My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it."

You have to work awfully hard to construe that as a "veiled threat".
posted by moxiedoll at 2:16 PM on May 23

Oh, cut Hillary some slack. She's forced to take this route only because her backup plan, codenamed "LBJ," seems in doubt now.
posted by felix betachat at 2:16 PM on May 23