Summary: Hillary makes reckless comment, gets criticized, blames Obama

[ProSense]

All seem to agree Hillary's comment was a gaffe, ill-advised, insensitive and reckless.

Some want to believe that it was not calculated by framing it as a comment about primary timing not assassination.

Still, if her comment was ill-advised, insensitive and reckless, why make it? Is her judgment that off?

Given the repeated "anything can happen" statements, such as this horrible one by McAuliffe, are those just coincidences? Why the attempts to portray Hillary's harshest critics as going overboard?

Video: Terry McAuliffe on Fox News Sunday

Hillary's response, blame:

Having made a gaffe -- not in her heart, but in her verbal formulation -- she embeds a political calculation in the way she frames and phrases her apology, avoiding the guy whose life might be put at risk. And then she uses it in the rest of the piece to turn her own mistake into an advertisement:

I'm historic! I'm a great leader! I wasn't brought up to be a quitter!

Anything but a straightforward, simple apology.

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[BlooInBloo]

1. No, it was not a gaffe. It was repeated over and over and over.

[dailykoff]

3. I don't think the outcry is a gaffe either.

The whole thing is getting scarier by the day. Is Hillary Rosemary's baby or what?

[BlooInBloo]

4. I don't know. Who's Rosemary and why is her baby a lying, bribing, race-baiting, warmonger...

waiting for Obama to be assassinated?

[dailykoff]

5. Rosemary's Baby

was a scary demon-seed movie from the seventies, kind of like the Exorcist only scarier. I don't remember too much about it except that it had Mia Farrow in and it was terrifying.

[BlooInBloo]

6. Oooh - gotcha! Hm - wonder how I missed that one?

[SwampG8r]

21. and

anton levay played Satan

[papapi]

16. and Hillary's comment stunk about as bad as tannis root. Phew! Hillary!

[dkf]

2. She blames Obama for everything. You'd think he was the one who cheated on her.

[blonndee]

7. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

[cbc5g]

8. She reminds me of Bush n/t

[libnnc]

Projection.

It's what we've been so used to seeing from Rove et al.

A tactic lifted directly from the GOP. Quite disturbing.

[ProSense]

15. Exactly. n/t

[Pisces]

9. Blame, blame, victim, victim - this is the only strategy she has. Disgusting is now her meme

[Douglas Carpenter]

10. yeah, that pretty much sums it up!

[Barack_America]

11. Being a "victim" means never having to say you're sorry...

Unfortunately, it also means you'd probably be a shitty President.

[madrchsod]

12. Terry McAuliffe is scum....

and hillary really is a "monster"

[lob1]

13. Rosemary's Baby was about a woman who had

Satan's baby. In other words, the third branch on the Bush family tree.

[PatGund]

18. Wow....

I didn't know Dick Chaney's mother's name was Rosemary

[papapi]

19. Chocolate mouse, anyone?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

20. I didn't know they made mice in chocolate?

[papapi]

22. tannis root laced chocolate mousse but Ruth Gordon called it a 'mouse'.

Great movie, that. Book even better. Roman Polanski directed.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

24. Thanks for the education.

:thumbsup:

[papapi]

25. Rosemary also suffers from an imagined 'mouse' bite. Received while...

...she was under the influence of the chocolate mousse.

[papapi]

26. Much as Hillary suffers from imagined 'bullying'.

[pnorman]

14. An earlier "gaffe"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk1k0nUWEQg

Forgive, but NEVER forget! For the good of the Democratic Party, the Nation, the entire World, Hillary must go! And NOW, not in 2012!

pnorman

[blogslut]

17. Here's what I think

Being that she has made this comparison multiple times before, she obviously thought about it. My guess is, she got with her consultants and decided to use historical incidents of June primaries as illustrative examples, in order to further her arguments. When making such a case, it is always wise to use more than one example, especially when that one example is one's own husband. She and her team possibly mulled it over and chose RFK's 1968 run because it would pluck the heartstrings of those listening. It would also conflate Bill Clinton with the Kennedy legacy. Callous? Calculating? That's marketing. That's politics.

My thinking is that, because she and her advisors were so single-minded, the possibility that such a comparison would cause anguish would be minimal to the overall effect of the statement.

They thought wrong.

[sfam]

23. Its all Obama's fault. It's always someone else's fault than hers...

haven't we already had enough of this passing the buck stuff for the last 8 years?

[papapi]

27. Hillary's paranoia knows no bounds. Calling Dr. Saperstein, Dr. Saperstein...

:dilemma: