On May 24, 2008, at 1:32 PM, feste37 wrote:
I think that's exactly what she was suggesting. Olbermann got it right. She was saying that she was sticking around because Obama might get shot, just like RFK was shot in 1968. Can't see any other reason for this weird reference to RFK. The idea is, well, anything can happen, including assassination, so that's why I'm slogging on, waiting to take over if disaster should strike.
I think in her own really clumsy, Hillary-like way, what she was suggesting more was that campaigns can drag on forever, even until June, and that both Bill's and RFK's did, even though RFK was the odds-on favorite. She could still have mentioned him without the reference to his death and it would have seemed somewhat less calculating. And as others point out, primaries were a whole lot different back then. In fact, I think I read that in 1968 there were only 13 Dem primaries, so any comparison is pretty ludicrous. Sal
