As if the untouchable subjects of slavery and the Holocaust weren’t enough, Clinton had to go on to bring up Robert Kennedy, not to nod towards an admired man near the anniversary of his death, but instead to us it, as an example, for why “it’s not over ’til it’s over.”
Though her comments could be twisted (as if they aren’t already) to say that she somehow implied that something could happen to Obama, which many thought at first, the mere fact of using someone’s death as an example to say something unrelated is my real issue here. What does an assassination have to do with Hillary’s campaign? Some suggestions as to why she made this comment:
1. Like on Holocaust Remembrance day, she was merely recalling historical events.
2. She wanted to shine light onto the forgotten historical detail that Robert Kennedy was actually losing to Hubert Humphrey in June, afraid that it was overlooked.
3. She needed to explain her Sirhan Sirhan joke.
4. She wanted to remind voters of the admiration they should have for somebody young, eloquent, and supported by the Kennedys.
And yet… more comparisons to follow. Before she even uttered Robert Kennedy’s name, Clinton had this to say:
“We’re seeing that right now in Zimbabwe,” Clinton explained. “Tragically, an election was held, the president lost, they refused to abide by the will of the people,” Clinton told the crowd of senior citizens at a retirement community in south Florida.
Clinton’s words soon incited massive riots in which Clinton’s tribe, the middle aged white working class women, took to the streets with machetes.
