Look. No one despises Hillary more than me, but the comment was more stupid and weird than dark and sinister. She was simply explaining why she’s still in the campaign so she pointed out two historic instances where a campaign was still hotly contested as late as June. Here’s the whole quote:
“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, dismissing calls to drop out.
In other words, people remember that RFK was still in the race because the date of his assassination seems memorable: June, 1968, just two months after MLK was killed. Even as calculating as her thighness is, I can’t believe she was trying to imply that someone is gonna get bumped off in this campaign. She’s evil, but not that stupid. Just stupid enough to say this so it comes out so twisted. She should have said.
Everyone remembers that my husband was still fighting for the nomination in June, 1992. And, tragically, we all remember that Bobby K was still running in June, 68 when he was assassinate. It would have made it more clear that it was just to highlight the length of the campaign.
School had just let out for the summer. We had gone to the movies, something Disney, I think. Summer of ‘68. Not a care in the world and then... another Kennedy shot to death, and a world crashing in flames.
The primaries end this year on June 3rd several weeks before those two historical references.
I suppose you are discounting the possibility of a Freudian slip on her part. Could be unwise. Remember that she does have a history of being involved in, at the very least, a cover up of a murder - the rubout of her erstwhile law partner and reputed past paramour, Vince Foster!!!