Master Blaster
Clearly Hillary Clinton was not calling for the assassination of Barack Obama, as all the haters are trying to claim. She doesn’t consider Obama an "inspirational leader" like RFK, but as a particularly melanin-rich George McGovern, the pipe-dream left-wing candidate doomed to spectacular general-election failure. If anything, she sees herself as RFK, the insurgent candidate on the cusp of a Summer of Triumph. So the inescapable conclusion is that Hillary Clinton was actually subtly calling for the assassination of Hillary Clinton. That’s right, Loyal Readers – the insidious virus of Clinton Derangement Syndrome has now claimed its greatest victim: Hillary Clinton. And in a sprawling, violent country like this, there is a real risk some deranged person – such as Hillary Clinton – will taker her up on it.
Of course, even if Hillary does the full Budd Dwyer, No Quarter and Make Them Accountable will still hold out for the Risen Hillary to get an absolute majority at the convention, once the rules committee seats the delegates from Pompeii and Krakatoa, as it must to avoid disenfranchising those voters.
Comment by Mona —
May 24, 2008 @ 12:11 am
What Jim said. I do not support Hillary but Christ on a Crutch, peeps.
Comment by Dave W. —
May 24, 2008 @ 12:16 am
“Budd” by Rapeman. Highly recommended.
Comment by Thoreau —
May 24, 2008 @ 12:56 am
I know she wasn’t actually calling for an assassination, but her remark basically amounts to “Hey, anything could happen to swing this my way! He could even be killed!”
That’s just not the sort of shit you say and expect to be taken seriously.
Comment by Gsnorgathon —
May 24, 2008 @ 1:34 am
I’m right with you, Mona. I too don’t support Hillary Clinton, but I too support Christ on a Crutch.
Comment by Dave W. —
May 24, 2008 @ 1:36 am
O yeh, Mr. Henley, my new music vid (the song is old). It is just like New Pornographers if they suddenly took drugs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6nYMUEEIMs
Comment by Thoreau —
May 24, 2008 @ 1:51 am
I don’t think she helped her case when she directed her apology to the Kennedy family.
Comment by John Cole —
May 24, 2008 @ 2:59 am
Hey now, as an identified Hillary hater, I never said she was calling for his assassination.
I was just noting that the tragic farce that is the Clinton campaign is now claiming that a partial reason for her continuing in the race is that “Obama might get assassinated.”
That being said, fuck her. Fuck her very hard. I hope she loses her race for dogcatcher in 2012, Stiftung Leo strauss be damned.
Comment by Kevin Hayden —
May 24, 2008 @ 9:59 am
What’s to hate? She’s not the first drama queen I’ve ever encountered, and I think that ought to be her campaign video henceforth and forevermore.
Comment by Donald Johnson —
May 24, 2008 @ 6:59 pm
This is one of those cases where irony is flying around in all directions and I don’t know what anyone means.
But anyway, I think it’s likely Clinton was making an honest mistake, with no evil implications whatsoever. It’s the sort of thing I could imagine myself doing–she’s thinking of the Kennedys because of Teddy’s cancer, and she’s thinking of how campaigns used to go on well into June, and to illustrate this she alludes to RFK’s campaign because everyone (who is old enough) knows he was killed in June and she doesn’t stop to think how it sounds.
I’d say that’s what happened, partly because I can imagine someone blundering into a comment like that and also because I can’t imagine why Evil Hillary could possibly think she could state something like that and not be blasted for it. As has happened.
None of this implies that I like or respect either of the Clintons. Never have, never will. I just think it’s likely she’s innocent in this one case.
Comment by Fermion the Clown —
May 24, 2008 @ 8:18 pm
Missed this post when I responded to Thoreau’s subsequent post.
I’m with Johnson: she made a mistake with no malign intent. So think Atrios, Scott at LG&M, Mark Kleiman, my wife, Donald Johnson, and by now probably many many others. Meta-reference to comments at Thoreau’s subsequent thread.
Cheers, FtC
Comment by Mona —
May 24, 2008 @ 8:42 pm
I — and I know I am not alone — am sick of John Cole’s failing to make clear his actual opinion.
Luv ya, John.
Comment by dbomp —
May 24, 2008 @ 10:30 pm
Speaking as a native Minnesotan, any train of thought that goes, “Remember 1968! We don’t want to end up with Hubert Humphrey!” doesn’t sell very well.
Comment by David Tomlin —
May 26, 2008 @ 6:43 am
The linked article on Budd Dwyer notes that his suicide has ‘appeared in many Faces of Death-type movies’. It doesn’t mention that the event can also be seen in Michael Moore’s anti-gun ‘documentary’ Bowling for Columbine.
For those who haven’t seen that film, I recommend it highly, both as entertainment and as a fine example of the art of propaganda.