Let's get a few things straight regarding Hillary's comments

[JMDEM]

Let's get a few things straight regarding Hillary's comments.

First, this is not the first time she has said the exact same thing. She said it on March 6th:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6110571

Per the discussion on Countdown last night, she was apparently then pulled aside by someone, and told to CAN the a-talk, because from that point on, until yesterday, she did not mention RFK's assassination again, even though she continually brought up other justifications for staying in the race, including the 1968 primary.

This justification is completely flawed in the first place. Hillary could easily suspend her campaign, and if something bad happened to Obama (sickness, death, huge scandal, whatever) she would STILL be the nominee in August. She knows this... just about everyone knows this. She is NOT hanging around for this reason -- she is hanging around to try to do as much damage as possible to Obama and to win that way.

Now, were the comments planned, or were they a slip of the tongue? Was she not talking off a prepared speech? Actually I'm not sure. However, she HAD been (apparently) vigorously scolded by someone after the March 6th comment NOT to use this approach ever again.

But she did.

Now, the thing is -- when I'm around kids, I will sometimes call a boy "boy". But if I am addressing a black kid, something immediately clicks in my brain that this could easily be considered offensive, so I use the term "son" instead (assuming I don't know the child's name).

Hillary should have been equally INSTINCTIVELY aware of how bad it was to make her comment. It should have been knee-jerk with her -- DON'T GO THERE.

But she went there. Not once, but twice, the second time after obviously being warned by someone not to go there.

Now when things continually surface in my speech that I don't really intend to say, it usually means they are swirling around somewhere in the back of my brain. In other words, they are on my mind.

And whether or not Hillary's comments were planned, I think her repeated pattern of uttering them shows that they are on her mind. And to me that provides a window into a very dark corner of her soul, and I don't like what I see.

[patrice]

1. It all goes back to instinct/judgement and what has been revealed about her instincts ever since IWR

[judy]

2. And please, don't forget the

we'll obliterate Iran comment. That one really got me.

[williesgirl]

3. k&r