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After her poorly received use of Robert Kennedy's 1968 assassination as why she is staying in the hunt, Hillary Clinton has written an editorial for the Daily News to apologize and re-assert why she's sticking it out.
She reiterates her apology, saying she was "making the simple point that given our history, the length of this year's primary contest is nothing unusual"--she has, at least twice, pointed out that her husband didn't clinch the 1992 nomination until June and that RFK was assassinated in June after the California primary.
However, some critics have argued this year's primaries have started much earlier than in years past, Bill Clinton was way ahead in 1992 by the time June rolled around, and wonder she didn't cite the long 1984 primary season, instead of recalling a tragedy. Still, a Daily News editorial from the paper says her remarks were simply "inartful": "The popular vote and delegate count margins are as narrow as they get. Clinton has every right, even a responsibility to her supporters, to continue to make the case that she would be the stronger general election candidate against John McCain."
Here's an excerpt of Clinton's editorial:
But I was deeply dismayed and disturbed that my comment would be construed in a way that flies in the face of everything I stand for - and everything I am fighting for in this election.In a column today, the NY Times' Maureen Dowd declares "something caused Hillary’s inner Eve Harrington to leap out in South Dakota" and calls her remarks "tasteless." The Daily News' Michael Goodwin says Clinton is "her own worst enemy" and writes, "She's now so toxic she's probably doomed any hope of being named Obama's running mate. He didn't want her to start with; now he won't have to take her. And, for the Wall Street Journal, former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan slams Clinton's excuse "that sexism did her in."And today, I would like to more fully answer the question I was asked: Why do I continue to run, even in the face of calls from pundits and politicians for me to leave this race?
I am running because I still believe I can win on the merits. Because, with our economy in crisis, our nation at war, the stakes have never been higher - and the need for real leadership has never been greater - and I believe I can provide that leadership.
And though RFK Jr. thought that Clinton's remark mentioning his father's death was a mistake, other Kennedys are upset.
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The pro-Obama biased media are in a frenzy whipping up a tempest out of the ether to sabotage Sen. Clinton's campaign. The complete lack of journalistic integrity continues unabated with a vengeance to hone in for a "kill" on Sen. Clinton, with distortion and malicious misrepresentation of an innocuous point mentioning a historical fact.
The pro-Obama biased media are now in a mode of commandeering the Democratic presidential nomination process to sink Sen. Clinton's candidacy.
Clearly, in her fight for the future of America and for all Americans, Sen. Clinton is engaged in a battle against media tyranny.
Media tyranny is our democracy's worse enemy.
Crat3, you don't sound like a real person: "continues unabated with a vengeance to hone in..." - are you one of those paid Hillbots?
Regardless, it'd be much less of a story if Hillary was capable of simply saying, "I was really tired/crazy/stressed the other day and I'm sorry." But you'll never find anything like that in the words of someone who is motivated only by entitlement.
She has repeatedly shown that she does not chose her words wisely. This and the "hard working white Americans" comment are great examples. She claims experience, but doesn't seem to know better than to bring up assassinations of presidential contenders.
Were her words taken out of context? Yes. However, there are so many better ways to say that Bobby Kennedy was still running for the nomination when he was killed in June of 1968.
Remember, she is referencing something that happened 40 years ago. I'd be willing to bet a fair majority of Americans under that age group were not aware that Bobby Kennedy was still campaigning for the nomination in June (I know that I was). It is fairly easy to see how this was misinterpreted.
crat3, surely your post was meant as sarcasm...
It's getting hard to tell these days...
So basically her apology was not an apology at all. She's saying everyone else is wrong and she is right.
What chutzpah.
I've said before and I'll say it again:
They're our own little slice of Rwanda, Congo, Zimbabwe, and Haiti with their little warlords and little war crimes.
Get all the Projects off the taxpayer's roll and put them out into the market and let the good tenants and bad tenants sort themselves out.
Think Twice, I think you commented on the wrong entry.
Maybe you should have Looked Twice.
At least the Daily News didn't hop on the "pile on Hillary" bandwagon. At least not today.
Hillary is an embarrassment to me as a feminist: she had every right to run, and it's great that she did so well (till she opened her big stupid mouth). But her lack of grace in failure -- the continual hope to change the rules after the game has begun only because now the rule change would suit her -- certainly makes her look like the petulant, naggy stereotypical kind of woman that sexists take such joy in pointing to at the drop of a hat. It's unfortunate that she's feeding the sharks.
I was for her at first, then Obama made more sense to me, and I wish she'd just go away now.
I never liked HRC, but by fighting "like a cornered racoon"(Dowd's own words) she has earned some grudging respect.
If she continues to annoy press, Kossacks, DUmmies & other Obamatrons, I may contribute to her campaign.
She said this three times. Once in TIME magazine in March, and earlier this month to supporters in West Virginia.
I guess the third time really is the charm.
She can't stop rationalizing her actions and justifying her words. She's so defensive right now that I think she quit running for President a while back and is now running for county clerk somewhere...in redneck Appalachia.