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| WTF? Washington Post columnist David Broder suggests Clinton is hoping Obama will be assassinated
by Arlen Parsa
Conservative Washington Post columnist David Broder had this to say on Meet The Press Sunday:
“It’s very unlikely, Tim, that she [Clinton] catches up in terms of the pledged delegates from the primaries and caucuses that remain… She has one other game that she can play, which is that, after the last primary in Puerto Rico, there will still be two months before the convention meets. During that time there will be events and there will be a ton of polls. Her hope has to be that either something happens to Senator Obama or that the polls indicate that she would be a better candidate against John McCain.”
Are you kidding me? I can’t think of any other way to read that than Broder suggesting that Clinton is hoping that Obama will be assassinated. What absolute garbage, of course Clinton is not hoping that “something happens to Senator Obama.” How utterly reprehensible.
I spend a fair amount of my time on the political assassinations of our past. Been getting some eerie feelings every now & then over the last few weeks (like when they stopped screening people at a rally IN DALLAS!). And this does sound a bit like something from a well managed media figure unknowingly repeating disinformation. There were a lot of weird statements & lapses in security in the late summer/early autumn of ‘63 as well.
And no, poor Senator Clinton knows know more about this than you or I
“I can’t think of any other way to read that…” Are you kidding yourself?!!! While I’m not defending this guy, it’s certainly conceivable he meant that something like a SCANDAL of some sort could taint Obama; that’s far more likely than an assasination attempt, which I don’t think was implied.
Even without anyone “hoping” for it, politics are full of surprise career-ending events… just ask Spitzer. If Mr. Broder had made his comment in a Brando/Godfather voice, then I think we’d have reason for outrage. IMHO, I think you’re just over-reacting to one person’s semi-valid analysis on a slow news day. And yes, “something” could happen to McCain or Clinton as well; all it would take is something as minor as a Howard Dean type outburst to end a campaign.
I’m sure, behind closed doors, Clinton and McCain, AND Obama are hoping (and actively looking) for some juicy bit of past indiscretion with which to knock the opposition out of the race. That’s the way political campaigns have always worked… sad, but true.
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