Monday, May 26, 2008

Clinton Blames RFK Remark on Everyone But Herself

I am increasingly coming to believe that Hillary Clinton, a/k/a Akash, is as delusional as the Chimperator. Like the Chimperator, to Hillary reality is what she thinks it is regardless of the objective facts that indicate otherwise. Not only will she not accept the reality that she has lost and should graceful withdraw from the primary campaign and retain some tiny amount of class, but anytime she makes statements that reflect what she's really like, it's everyone else's fault that (1) she made the statement and (2) that people are outraged. Of course her designated mouthpieces likewise seem to be drinking the Kool-Aid in large quantities too. For all herfaux apologies, I think personally, Akasha opes something DOES happen to Obama. I hope he has very good security and a food taster. Today's Washingtom Post has a story that looks at the phenomenon of Hillary's refusal to accept responsibility for her vile remark. Here are some highlights:
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton tried again yesterday to explain her reference last week to Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, while her campaign aides accused Sen. Barack Obama's advisers of taking the comment out of context and exploiting it.
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Her campaign chairman, Terence R. McAuliffe, was more explicit in his criticism. "It's unfortunate -- a hyped-up press over Memorial Day weekend, the Obama campaign inflaming it, tried to take these words out of context," he said on "Fox News Sunday." On Friday, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, Bill Burton, said Clinton's statement was "unfortunate and has no place in this campaign." On Saturday, Obama told a Puerto Rican radio station that he took Clinton at her word when she said she meant no harm in invoking Kennedy's assassination.
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Neither Clinton nor McAuliffe -- nor Obama or his spokesmen -- mentioned the concern about his safety, particularly among African Americans, that the reference to Kennedy touched on. In a Washington Post-ABC News poll taken in March, nearly six in 10 Americans said they were worried that someone might try to harm Obama (Ill.) if he were the nominee -- more than double the percentage who said they were worried about the same for Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the presumptive Republican nominee.
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Some interesting comments at the Washington Post on Hillary's bizarre behavior can be found here (natuarlly, there are also few Hillary Kool-Aid drinker comments too).

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