Friday, May 23, 2008

Lions and Tigers and Politicians, oh my!

I've tried to stay relatively quiet on political matters, but today a news story broke that absolutely ended that.

According to the New York Post, Hillary Clinton said in response to calls for her to drop out of the race... "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it," (This isn't the first time she has said this, Jacob just told me. Here is a link to a piece from Time.)

She literally said Obama's assassination would be a method of her winning the Democratic presidential nomination.

Bobby Kennedy and JFK pictures were framed and posted like saints on the walls of nearly every home, church, and school I ever went to as a child. My grandmother cried each time they were discussed. I can't imagine what she would do now.

The Clintons have profoundly offended me almost daily since this race began. The Jesse Jackson remark, the hard working white voter statement, and Hillary's response to "Do you think Sen Obama is a Muslim", as well all of their other continual, not so subtle attempts to strike fear into voter's hearts. These actions, on top of her continually deceit, have made me embarrassed to be a white woman.

Wanting to change the rules of a game with mere seconds left on the clock when it is most advantageous to her, touting her "35 years of experience" of being a hand waver and flower accepter in Sniper ridden countries, not leaving her husband after his affair brought her world wide shame (for the sake of her political career), and now this.

She has ripped from the hearts of generations before mine the sorrow of an assassinated Kennedy to use as her justification for her "Republimocrat", Nuclear War promising campaign. She does this only days after that man's younger brother was informed he has an inoperable, typically fatal brain tumor! I have feared for Obama's safety since January, to the point where I felt physically ill. I rarely ever say I hate someone, especially someone I do not know personally. I proudly say now, pardon my language, but I officially fucking hate this bitch.

Here is a reaction video Jacob just sent me that sums it up quite nicely. I eagerly await a Keith Olbermann "Special Comment" on this one.

1 comments:

jacob said...

well said. i wanted to believe she was capable of going out quietly and politely, she earned the right to stay in but not to invoke her opponents death in political expediency.