 WELCOME TO HILLARY'S ASSASSINATION NATION
Right upfront, I'd like to apologize to Dewey in Toronto. She's one of my favorite readers and I know that she's tired of reading "about the Hilary, Obama, OR John McCain." Unfortunately, I have a headache and I can't think of anything new and adorable to say about my penis right now.
Besides, Hillary is having a great week of making news for insanely stupid statements.
It all started out innocently enough when Senator Clinton spoke to the Washington Post and blamed her continuing humiliation on misogyny. You see, people named Clinton don't lose, there are conspiracies that spring up and take what is rightfully theirs.
In an interview after church services in Bowling Green on Sunday, Clinton for the first time addressed what women have been talking about for months, what she refers to as the "sexist" treatment she has endured at the hands of the pundits, media and others. The lewd T-shirts. The man who shouted "Iron my shirt" at a campaign event. The references to her cleavage and her cackle.
"It's been deeply offensive to millions of women," Clinton said. "I believe this campaign has been a groundbreaker in a lot of ways. But it certainly has been challenging given some of the attitudes in the press, and I regret that, because I think it's been really not worthy of the seriousness of the campaign and the historical nature of the two candidacies we have here."
Later, when asked if she thinks this campaign has been racist, she says she does not. And she circles back to the sexism. "The manifestation of some of the sexism that has gone on in this campaign is somehow more respectable, or at least more accepted, and . . . there should be equal rejection of the sexism and the racism when it raises its ugly head," she said. "It does seem as though the press at least is not as bothered by the incredible vitriol that has been engendered by the comments by people who are nothing but misogynists." Let's see, Hillary has had a former president of the United States compare Barack Obama's campaign to that of Jesse Jackson, despite the fact that all the two have in common is skin color, and had the governor of Pennsylvania say "You've got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate." She herself has said that she has the support of "hard-working Americans, white Americans." Yet, this race is just as much about sexism as it is about racism. Right. If some dickhead yelling "Iron my shirt" is "deeply offensive to millions of women," then millions of women are fucking retarded. "Iron my shirt" and comments about the former First Lady's cackle and floppy titties had nothing to do with either the Obama or Republican campaigns. Every controversial statement about race has come from either Hillary herself or her closest supporters. If nothing else, and she now has zero chance of being elected president this fall, Hillary Clinton has made George Orwell proud. The black man has an unfair advantage and her use of the race card has been trumped by some vague, untraceable sexism. All Hillary needs now is an endorsement from O.J. Simpson and her candidacy will have been made complete. Now that all of her other cards have been played, Senator Clinton is now publicly musing about her rival being fucking murdered.Precisely what does pointing out Bobby Kennedy's assassination have to with anything in 2008? Other than being a particularly nasty "get well soon" card to Ted Kennedy, not much. Essentially, she's saying "Hey, Ted, sorry to hear that you've got 'the flu,' but things don't generally end well for your favored presidential candidates. Just sayin'. "
Senator Clinton likes to hide behind the history of Democratic primary politics. In 1968 and 1992, the California primary was in June. In June of 2008, the Democratic primaries will be over. Furthermore, RFK announced his candidacy on March 16, 1968 - four days after the New Hampshire primary. His campaign lasted a full 82 days. Clinton and Obama announced for president in February 2007, a full 11 months before New Hampshire.
Hillary lost the presidency in February and she knows it. If she doesn't, she's far too stupid to even work at McDonald's, let alone become the leader of the free world.
 But the fortieth anniversary of Robert Kennedy's murder is coming up in less than two weeks. To your right, you'll see the cover of the current issue of Vanity Fair, which lauds Kennedy's ill-fated campaign. Inside its pages is an almost hallucinatory sycophantic excerpt of a forthcoming book.
Before I go further, I should explain my views on Robert Francis Kennedy. He was perhaps the most evil man in American history. He was a soulless Nazi dressed up in liberal clothing, no more and no less. The only moral objection that any student of history can have with his shooting is that it wasn't immediately preceded by a trial before a jury of his peers.
People forget that Kennedy was a supplicant of the monstrous Joseph McCarthy and isn't remembered as such only because he was bettered in bureaucratic warfare by that hateful pervert, Roy Cohn. Even after McCarthy was denounced by the United States Senate and his bloated, drunken corpse was lowered into the ground, RFK was the only national figure to attend his funeral.
People forget that Bobby was the go-between for his brother's 1960 campaign and the murderous Sam Giancana's crime family to secure the support of the United Mine Workers in the West Virginia primary. Kennedy then turned on Giancana in particular, even as he was co-operating with the Kennedy administration's illegal plans to murder Fidel Castro.
If there was a conspiracy in the murder of John F. Kennedy, it almost certainly involved either Cuba or the mob, both of whom his brother and attorney general betrayed. You'll remember that the Cuban Missile Crisis ended with an American pledge not to invade Cuba. Instead, the Kennedys accelerated plans to assassinate Castro, using the Mafia for plausible deniability.
 People forget that Bobby was a prime planner in the Vietnam war and instrumental in the coup against, and murder of, Ngo Dinh Diem, just 20 days before President Kennedy's own assassination in Dallas. Once Diem had been dispatched to the great beyond, American humiliation in Vietnam became unavoidable.
Kennedy made President Johnson's life a nightmare for following the very policies that he was responsible for in his brother's White House. That made his self-righteousness all the more galling and explained why Johnson hated him with such intensity.
People astonishingly like to remember Robert Kennedy as a champion of civil rights, but they forget that he resisted his brother mentioning it very much and had authorized wiretapping Martin Luther King, Jr. Kennedy never bothered to disabuse his perverted dwarf of a minion, J.Edgar Hoover, that King was a communist and a traitor.
People remember Kennedy's '68 campaign as some kind of act of courage, but forget that he only announced his candidacy after Eugene McCarthy softened President Johnson up in New Hampshire. The only thing that RFK accomplished in running was ensuring the nomination of Hubert Humphrey. Primaries accounted for only a third of the convention delegates in 1968 and the party establishment, particularly LBJ and Richard Daley, would never have tolerated a Kennedy nomination. All he did was deny the nomination to McCarthy.
And he was murdered in June, which is somehow Hillary Clinton's reason for staying in a race that she lost months ago. Indeed, the only way she can win the Democratic presidential nomination is if someone shoots Barack Obama to death.
Like most Clintonian clarifications, Hillary's doesn't hold water. She was discussing why she hasn't suspended her campaign yet and said "We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California." There are few other things that a remark like that can mean. She's counting on that uniquely American penchant for political assassination to save her career. Remember, the Clintons never say anything by accident.
Granted, I think her motives are more subtle than do most commentators. I think that if enough people are reminded that a President Obama faces the very real prospect of being murdered, they might not vote for him. A number of primary voters have already said that they have considered his personal safety in deciding who to vote for. If Obama loses in the fall, the nomination is hers in 2012.
But the nomination was supposed to hers in 2008, wasn't it? She had all of the money, all of the institutional support and that made her the prohibitive favorite. And she threw it all away. And in doing so, she managed to reinforce every negative perception people ever had of her. I started saying four years ago on this blog that Hillary Clinton would never be the nominee for precisely those reasons. I just happened to think that she would have lost to Al Gore.
Worse still, she even allowed Keith Olbermann to be right about something for once.
Robert Francis Kennedy was sleazy in a way only approached by his early mentor, Joseph McCarthy. But Hillary Clinton is RFK's natural heir in that she, too, will do anything to win. Like Bobby, Hillary is utterly without an ounce of decency.
And she might well yet win.
Easy Listening of the Day: Man in the Box By: Alice in Chains From: Facelift
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