Hillary Clinton Hints at a Barack Obama Assassination?

 To tell you the truth I wasn’t even planning to write about this. I thought the whole idea of Hillary Clinton hinting that Barack Obama may be assassinated was absurd. To me it seemed as if the Barack Obama campaign was just looking for any excuse to bash the Clinton campaign, but as I started to think about it, and read more about it I decided that I also had to write about it. Could it be possible that Hillary Clinton was either trying to play to a fear that Barack Obama could be assassinated if he was nominated? Could it be possible that Hillary Clinton was saying that she should stay in the race because you never know, Barack Obama could be assassinated? And if he was, she would be there to pick up the party?

 Let’s look at what she said when asked if she was fracturing the party by staying in the race so long:

 “my husband didn’t wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June.”

“We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California,” she continued. “You know i just dont understand it.”

 At first I found the comment to be benevolent, but I started thinking that it really was an odd way to answer the question. Why would she bring up the assassination of Robert Kennedy? First of all, during his presidential bid it was Bobby who was accused of fracturing the party by not dropping out. He was being urged to drop for the good of the party. So really, in today’s race Hillary is playing the RobertKennedy character. Despite the historical parallels that are more closely tied to Hillary, what point was Hillary trying to make with such a point that seems irrelevant to the question?

 Was she simply trying to use the example of Robert Kennedy’s assassination in June just to illustrate that Bobby was still running in June or was there more to it than that? Was she just siting examples of long running campaigns to justify hers?

 After reading her comments, and articles about her comments over and over again, I have come to the conclusion that she was simply referencing historical Democrat primaries to show that they have gone through June before and was not implying that Barack Obama may be assassinated.

BUT, there will always be that twinge of doubt because we are dealing with the Clinton’s here. I wouldn’t put anything past her when it came to regaining the white house. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this statement was uttered because they knew there was a way out of it. And that could be what the spin we are now hearing is, planned spin from the beginning because they knew how some would take the comment. Maybe they were counting on people taking this comment to hint at a Barack Obama assassination because they knew they could weasel out of it.

 I don’t think that is the case, but with the Clinton’s, you never know.