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[Arachno-capitalist]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/clinton

Well. Glad that show is over. Next up: OBAMA VS. MCCAIN VS. BOB BARR VS. RALPH NADER

[Arachno-capitalist]

Less than an hour after the AP released her plans to concede, other operatives deny the plan and say she will go to the convention.
Because... you know... Robert Kennedy got shot, so anything can happen. (Obama immediately receives advance secret service protection)

[jough]

All serious presidential candidates get Secret Service protection.  Obama's had his for over a year now.

YES WE CAN HAS OBAMA

[KeithHernandez]

(I think he was saying that Clinton is going to take out Obama.)

[AlohaDawg]

For six months I've been saying that if anything happened to Obama, the number one person of interest would be Mrs. Clinton.

Since she made the Robert Kennedy comment, her getting on the ticket could be a little ironic. Hopefully we won't see any picture of her holding a beagle up by the ears.

Stranger things have happened. Oliver Stone is probably taking notes.

[Doc]

Given that he's working the change angle so hard and her main selling point seems to be 'I've been there, done it I know how to play the game' I can't see how they could make a convincing pair of running mates.

[CortJstr]

What's funny to me is back during the primaries I heard a bunch of republicans saying they were voting for Hilary in the primary, because Hilary as a candidate would ensure a republican win in November.

Now I keep hearing democrats saying that Obama has to take Hilary as a running mate because a ticket without Hilary on it would ensure a republican win in November.

[wombat]

Just please tell me that it's over.

I swear that there were at least two primaries prior to this week that they said on the news were the last one.  Was this really the last one, or are they lying again?  Or did I want it to be over so bad that those previous times, I was hallucinating?

[jaydub]

Hey, don't worry;  the dogs like it!

[Arachno-capitalist]

I can just see the internet conspiracy documentarys spinning now if clinton gets the veep and obama bites it.

[jay-ell]

Augh, people.  Am I the only one who initially interpreted the statement the way she says she meant it? 

[Arachno-capitalist]

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/police-shut-down-assassination-art-exhibition/

I guess free speech is cool as long as you don't make art about political figures getting killed. U.S.A, land of the free.
I'm not entirely convinced on how this exhibit is different from films about presidential assassination like Death of a President, or Vantage Point - which were great works of entertaining cinema.

[littlefallsmets]

I'm a looooong time Clinton supporter and I heard it as:

"He's black! He's black! They're gonna kill him because he's black, vote for me or the black dies!"

I mean. Christ help me, I hate to say it but... yeah.

That's what she said fifteen times before when she said it the other times and that's what she meant then too. She wanted to say it without having to admit that she was saying it. She's way way WAY too smart for anything else to be the case.

Jim Webb. Southern moderate. Large military experience but anti-the-war-against-the-Iraqi-people. It's the only thing that makes sense. Clinton threw her credibility out into the streets like the guts of a roadkill dog, hanging on way way way the fuck too long. Best to hide her for a few years.

A shame, too, as she really was the one with the best combination of issues and the ability to get shit done.

Total MacBeth clusterfuck.

[jough]

I just assumed that she was putting it out there as a "what if."

"I'm not saying anyone should take a shot at him - I'm just saying that if you're unstable and hate black people... well, don't let me get in your way." -- Hillary Clinton, paraphrased

[jay-ell]

See, when Pedro first told me what she said, I thought, What's the big deal?  She's invoking a cultural touchstone to point out that historically, the democratic candidacy has been decided much later in the year than it has been for the last few election cycles.  I mean, a lot of people remember RFK's assassination, so it makes sense that she'd use that as an example of someone who was still running for president well into the summer of an election year. 

I've heard people invoke the date of JFK's assassination to point out that presidential bids starting a year before the election is an old practice -- Kennedy was, after all, campaigning in Dallas on that fateful November day -- so it made sense to me that Clinton was doing the same thing with RFK's assassination.  I'm not Hillary's biggest fan or anything, but I just didn't read any malice into the statement whatsoever.  Pedro had to explain to me what all the fuss was about. 

Guess I'm in the minority, though.