Rump Defense: "Hillary Wanted Obama Dead, Like Bobby Kennedy"

[Grassy Knoll]

Un-Fuckin-Real.
She Paid Dearly for saying that,But the fucking nut jobs
think the media gave her a pass, so we're even?

[misterhighwasted]

1. Trump says a lot of things. Lies, half truths. But where are his policy plans

He's run his campaign solely on slander.

Why is this even relevant?
We know what he is.

[grossproffit]

2. Trump = unstable, unfit and full of chit!

[MoonRiver]

3. I don't even know what she said.

But I did hear she apologized, unlike Tiny Hands, Tiny Whatever.

[LisaM]

4. It was silliness, an overreaction to what she said

People wanted her to drop out of the race before she did, and she pointed out that things can happen to candidates before a convention or election. She could have come up with any number of examples. Her choice of Bobby Kennedy was probably not the best, but there was a lot of deliberate mis-reading of her remark and a lot of it was here on DU.

[MoonRiver]

5. Ok, that is ringing a bell now. It clearly was NOT incitement to violence,unlike Tiny's comment.

[LisaM]

6. No, she could have picked a better example though.

I love Hillary, but it was a tad uncomfortable. I think the second it came out of her mouth, she re-thought it. There are plenty of people who had to drop out of races for various reasons.

[MoonRiver]

8. Yes, it was an unfortunate gaff. But it was long ago, and nobody cares anymore.

[StevieM]

11. Actually, Hillary wasn't referring to the possibility of anything bad happening to Obama.

She was answering a question about whether it was damaging to the party to have the race still going on in June. They weren't talking about whether she could win, only whether it was unreasonable for the party to not have the race over.

She responded that there had been lots of races that went that late. She mentioned 1980, 1984, and her husband's race in 1992. She also mentioned the 1968 race, which went into June. Hillary only mentioned RFK in the context of the assassination having happened in June. She accented the word June.

The conversation she had with the South Dakota editorial board was (at that part of the interview) about how late a primary race can reasonably go. It had nothing to do with whether or not or how she could win the Democratic primary.

[Blue Idaho]

7. False Equivalence"

Everybody... And I mean Everybody understands what "2nd Ammentment remedy" refers to. Trump is not the first, and I doubt he will be the last republican to dog whistle a call for an assassination to solve one of their political problems.

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. I'm sure Obama is all warm & fuzzy at "Rump's" newfound concern for his well being.

[democrattotheend]

10. I was wondering how long it would take for him to dig up that quote

And draw some sort of false equivalence. As unfortunate as the RFK comment was, no reasonable person could have interpreted that as a call for Obama to be assassinated.

Plus, the media did not give her a pass on it. They made a huge deal out of it, bigger than warranted, IMO. And I was an Obama supporter!