Hillary Clinton - When All Else Fails, Kill the SOB!

Let me start by saying that we should all have some minimum expectations of our leaders.  How these leaders meet our expectations is the measuring stick by which we can evaluate them.  If our expectations are low – then we don’t expect much (ie – George Bush).  If our expectations are high, especially during a political season such as this, we expect a lot, and justifiably so.  We expect a lot because of the promises they make, the superior judgment they purport, and the emotional investment that we make in the ideal that somehow our hopes will intersect with their vision for our future.

Another expectation I have is simply this:  If you are campaigning to convince people that you are best suited to occupy the highest office of the most powerful nation on the planet, and to be the leader of the free world……then you’ve got to have a tight reign on your lips……and have an intuitive understanding about how things will sound or be interpreted BEFORE YOU SAY THEM.

How does someone who’s been campaigning for President use the example of the un-expected assassination of an opponent as a justification for staying in the race?  How that could ever be political acceptable in a democracy like America?

HRC is no dummy.  She is shrewd, articulate, calculating, aggressive, determined, well-educated, politically savvy, and confident.  I really believe that she exemplifies each of these qualities.  But at the same time, she lacks temperance in some of these same qualities which pull the covers back on probably the most un-harnessed quality of all – ambition.

HRC has lived through the tumultuous run-up and aftermath of Evers, JFK, Malcolm, MLK, and RFK.  She’s touts here political experience, so she knows the gravity of invoking that memory.  In her feeble attempt at an explanation of the statement, she said the “Kennedy’s had been on here mind” due to the recent announcement of Ted Kennedy’s bleak diagnosis.  Damn!  That’s what you think about when you think of Ted Kennedy? Try again, HRC.

Here is something more sobering.  HRC has always talked about her connection to the Black community and how it has been a major pillar of support for her and Bill throughout the last 15+ years.  Since Obama has come on the scene however, obviously that support is not as “guaranteed” as it once seemed.  But, given her affinity to the Black community, wouldn’t she intuitively know how this would be interpreted.  Given the history of our country, wouldn’t she know how this analogy would sound?  This might be one of the most insensitive things ever perpetrated in this campaign.

The threat of assassination is one of those “un-spoken” but very real understandings shared by African-Americans who know the history of this country, and who know the power of a very, very few but highly corrosive elements in American society. This fear has always been there, just below the surface.  It started when Obama’s campaign reached that critical mass of viability and probability as the party nominee.  Some of us take it so seriously that we feared voting for Obama because we didn’t want to contribute to placing him in a sniper’s crosshairs.  This tragic dread of assassination is seldom spoken about because no one wants to bear having even a whiff of responsibility for planting this idea, much less any part in speaking it into a reality. 

Regardless of HRC’s true intent, this transgression is very hard to get over.  There are some likely reasons this happened.  Maybe:

1 – She wasn’t thinking and it just blurted out.

2 – The long grueling schedule of the campaign has made her fatigued.

3 – It was a Freudian slip revealing her real expectations or desires

4 – She’s desperate to win and will say anything at this point

5 – She’s just stating facts and sometimes facts are harsh

The way I see it, none of these reasons are acceptable because:

1 – A presidential candidate should be able to think on her feet better than that!

2 – If the campaign schedule is hard, just take a look at the before and after photos of presidents from inauguration day to their last day.  This is the easy part!

3 – If that is what she really wants or expects, then she’s not the candidate she claims to be

4 – Desperation will take you to your lowest point almost every time.

5 – Just because it’s a fact doesn’t make it applicable or appropriate.

Clinton should be ashamed of using such a despicable idea as a supporting reason for her to continue her lame campaign.

Here is Keith Olbermann’s Op-Ed piece on the topic.

 

Fox news co-signs the idea - by letting this woman get away with this remark....