Does Hillary know something that we don’t know? Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Senator from New York noted today “I think people have short memories,” she said then. “Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn’t wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual.”
Earlier during the day, she told the editorial board of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader that “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,” she said. Sen. Clinton complained that “people have been trying to push me out of this ever since Iowa” and said that position “historically … makes no sense.”
Sen. Hillary Clinton has already said that she regretted the comments that evoked the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy as part of her explanation for why she was staying in the presidential race late into the primary season. Sen. Hillary Clinton apologized for comments made to a newspaper on Friday.
Later at an event in Brandon, South Dakota, she said, “earlier today, I was discussing the Democratic primary history and in the course of that discussion mentioned the campaigns that both my husband and Sen. Kennedy waged in California in June in 1992 and 1968, and I was referencing those to make the point that we have had nominating primary contests that go into June. That’s an historic fact.
“The Kennedys have been much on my mind in the last days because of Sen. [Edward] Kennedy, and I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and particularly for the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that whatsoever,” she added.
Although Sen. Clinton said “The Kennedys have been much on my mind in the last days because of Sen. Kennedy,” she made a similar reference to Robert Kennedy in a March interview with Time magazine, saying she could not envision a scenario in which party leaders would step in and call for the race to end.
The Obama campaign reacted quickly. “Sen. Clinton’s statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign,” it said in a statement.
Some are wondering if Sen. Clinton is indirectly saying that she is staying in the race, because Obama could get shot in June like Robert Kennedy.
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