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Original Title: "PINNING HOPES ON OBAMA'S ASSASSINATION? HILLARY'S HUGE SLIP OF THE TONGUE"
(「オバマ氏暗殺」を期待？ ヒラリー氏大失言)
By Reporter Hidekazu Yamamoto, Washington Bureau
...Hillary Clinton, whose chances at the Democratic nomination have dwindled, tied in the reason for her staying in the race to the June, 1968 assassination of Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy....
....the fact that she would entertain the thought of such an unexpected situation through such a public comment raised eyebrows and the candidate has had to apologize for it.
(goes on to quote the Clinton utterance word for word which is now widely reported).
Robert Kennedy was the brother of assassinated American president John Kennedy, who was attorney general in his own right. He ran for president and was nearing in on the democratic nomination, with a victory in California in June 1968, and after he gave his victory speech, he was gunned down in the California hotel; his death brought chaos to the Democratic Party, which nominated Hubert Humphrey whom then Richard Nixon of the Republicans went on to defeat.
There have been ongoing concerns from the early stage of the campaign for the safety of Mr. Obama because of his race, running for the possibility of becoming America's first Black president, and the Secret Service is on heightened alert to protect him from the same fate.
Hillary Clinton to date has had biting things to say about Mr. Obama, such as that he has no shame, that he has no substance, but this time, bringing assassination into the discussion is something the US media has wildly taken off with. It has shaken up things in the US news world.
Clinton centered her apologies toward the country as a whole and the Kennedy family. Obama side had comments that it was regrettable.
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Mainichi Shimbun and Yomuiri Shimbun, also large circulation major Japanese dailies, are now pouncing on this story. Mainichi goes so far as to say even Clinton talking like this way in public could have an effect of actually inviting such a horrid situation.
Nikkan Gendai a more blue-collar, tabloid-oriented lower circulation daily, runs with the headline "The Horror of Hillary Clinton's Calculating 'Obama's Assassination'" (オバマの「暗殺待ち」というヒラリーの恐ろしい計算)...it leads off with the supposition that Hillary has just blown her chance to be VP to President Obama, and that the last thing people would want is a Vice President sitting in office wishing bad omens for the President so she could take over. (Refers to Hillary's "immensely injured pride" if she were to have to play second fiddle as Vice President--Journalist Katsuo Hotta).
Jiji Press is also running a story on this. I think the Japanese blogs on American politics are ramping up with it, I suspect it will be a fairly prominent story on national TV news here tonight.
Update: My goodness, now national Japanese TV networks JNN, NNN and Fuji TV are all getting into it. The screen saver pic at the top of this thread with Hillary is just now off Japanese TV--Nippon Television Network, saying (my translation) "US Presidential Candidate Hillary Brings Up Robert Kennedy Assassination Right In The Middle Of The Campaign" ...
Video link here Hit the orange box to stream short video clip. In Japanese, 'natch.
I've been looking forward to this morning's news cycle. This massive screw-up by Hillary has all the promise and hope of a "little Christmas" this morning...
Anything and everything that might taint negative to the Obama campaign becomes ‘off limits.’
One thread just a few days ago had a growing list of the ‘off limit’ items.
This is a prime example of PC-at-its-best. PC is nothing more than liberal censorship.
Ironically, it was the other Dem candidate who opened this newest ‘can of worms’.
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We can add this to the growing list of Things You Can't Say About Obama or Things That Make Obama Whine.
Sen. Obama: "Lay off my wife"
I think you got the translation of the photo wrong. I read it as “I’m little chimpmunk, find me food, which way to the bathhouse, can I call you a wheelbarrow now?” But I may be wrong.
What did she apologise for, I don't get it!?
As Kerry found out....one liners are everything, specially when the candidate is void of a moral compass and the one-liner goes planetary! ... right up there with Kerry’s “....you’ll be stuck in Iraq” anti-military, anti-American, classless gaffe. Yep, Clinton Kerried herself right off the field with one sKerry remark!
So is this hillary’s sepuku moment?
Yes. It is the very dark soul of the Democrat Party of the 21st century.
May have been lost in translation, but that sounds like this reporter is already claiming victory for Obama in November.
(and I L-O-V-E it!!!!)
Hoisted on their own petard of “political correctness.”
She is staying in just in case he gets assassinated.
Now she realizes how bad that sounded and is trying to lay a smoke scree.
It'll get ugly if they can do a McVeigh and pin it on a "radical conservative."
Hirraly lefelence this event thlee times. Maybe it’s not just a Fleudian srip of the tongue?!