""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."
Okay, maybe I'm missing something, but by referring to both Bill and Bobby campaigning into June wasn't she trying to make the point that there is precedence for campaigns going on that long? That it wasn't necessarily unusual? That's how I interpreted it based on her preceding comments about people trying to get her to drop out since Iowa.
That is a terrible thing to do, to speak so lightly of such a tragedy. For her information, the Dems drafted Hubert Humphrey to run in 1968. They didn't turn to Eugene McCarthy, who was in second place behind Kennedy at the time of his death.
I was five miles from where RFK was killed on June 6th, 1968. We didn't tell my mother at first, because we thought she would miscarry my brother.
This is one of the most vile political statements I've ever heard, and I'm old enough to have heard a lot of them. This is a huge mistake on the part of this wicked woman, and she can't blame old Bill for this one.
Except she was wrong in Bill's case as his primary race was effectively over in MARCH when Tsongas abandon his campaign. There were other references she could have made but having made the same statement back in March (when Ted Kennedy was not on her mind) makes one pause.