Bipartisan stumblebums
O.K., here's an example of bipartisan stumbling on a sensitive topic. On Friday Hillary Clinton invoked the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968 as one reason why she should stay in the hunt for the Democratic presidential nomination.
"We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California," Clinton said in a meeting with the editorial board of a South Dakota newspaper according to the Washington Post.
Clinton's advisers came out later to explain she was noting that historically presidential nominating contests have stretched into the summer, not that rival Barack Obama might be assassinated.
O.K., but if we busted on Mike Huckabee last week for making an unfortunate joke before the National Rifle Association, it seems only appropriate that we similarly bust on the former First Lady for making such a comment. It comes at the end of a particularly bruising nominating contest where allegations of race baiting have been lodged against her campaign.
So maybe it's not making light of what some consider a dangerous possibility in this historic election year like Huckabee did.
But perhaps she should have given this a little bit more thought before speaking. For some people, it hasn't been that long since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were gunned down in the prime of their very public lives.
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