Hillary Strikes Again
admin @ May 26
Hillary’s most recent “I can’t believe you think I meant what I said moment” was her invocation of Bobby Kennedy’s murder to justify staying in the Democratic race: “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June.”
The remark was bad enough on the surface. Dig deeper and it gets worse.
1968 was, of course, a year of chaos in American politics, and most everywhere else. After Kennedy was killed, the Democrats eventually chose Hubert Humphrey as their candidate under anything but democratic circumstances. The result was Richard Nixon’s election.
Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson’s vice president, entered the race too late to compete in any primaries. Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy had waged a long battle for the nomination, largely focused on stopping the Vietnam War. But the powers-that-be, led by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, wanted an establishment candidate, regardless of how people had voted in the primaries.
Looks like Clinton is trying to channel Hubert Humphrey forty years later. Who is her Dick Daley?
