Hillary's "smear" about RFK a total crock

So the right-wing blogosphere is all aflutter of a comment that Hillary Clinton made earlier today about staying in the race. During a conversation with newspaper editors, she mentioned that her husband, President Clinton, locked up the nomination in June 1992. She then mentioned that Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968. Certainly it was a misstep and a gaffe, but only a moron (see Matt Drudge's screen capture from earlier today, above) would try to distort what she meant. It's obvious that if you take her remark in CONTEXT (a word that most of the press, and virtually all political pundits [esp. on the right] seem to have forgotten during this election), she was talking about her reasons for not withdrawing from the race.

Anyway, her comments are below - take a look and you be the judge.

Frankly, I don't even want to waste any more time on this, because it's such a non-story, but of course it will bounce around newscasts all weekend, with the implication that Hillary Clinton was somehow making light of RFK's assassination. Of course, right away she issued an apology to the Kennedy family, but few rational people, including I'm guessing anyone in the Kennedy family, probably thought that it was even necessary. But, Hillary is in the non-offending business right now, because she so desperately needs any support she can get in her fading campaign for the presidency.

What a difference a few days makes - just days ago, some on the far right were revisiting the Chappaquiddick incident and other misdeeds by Sen. Ted Kennedy in light of his brain cancer diagnosis. Now, all of a sudden, right-wing blowhards like Drudge are raking Hillary over the coals for allegedly making light of RFK's assassination. What a joke.

It's just another example of the scathingly critical, unspeakably moronic press that this woman has had to endure since she declared her candidacy about 18 months ago. There's no doubt that a portion of it has been self inflicted, but it certainly is a small percentage compared to the mindlessly stupid stories, name calling and slanders that have been run against her. I didn't vote for her in the Pennsylvania Primary, but someday I just might get the chance to proudly cast my vote for her in a national election, press coverage be damned.