Clinton Derangement Syndrome — that’s clever! Did you used to be a Bush supporter? Is that where you picked up that expression?

I actually agree with Craig. I don’t believe for a minute that Hillary was expressing a hope that Obama would be assassinated before the convention, or at any other time. Rather, what makes her comment so craven and disgusting is that she was reminding the voters and the Superdelegates that he COULD be assassinated because, y’know, he’s black and he has populist appeal and he’s a threat to the establishment. She was demeaning and dismissive and arrogant and dog-whistling to the “blue collar white voters” (read: “racists”) that she’s a safer bet.

No wonder she’s losing.

Of course, you have to lie to make those numbers work. You have to ignore the fact that Obama wasn’t even on the ballot in Michigan. You also have to ignore the fact that all the candidates — even Hillary! — agreed to not campaign in Michigan and Florida before the primaries started. This is important because Hillary has more name recognition than Obama, which was especially acute during the early part of the primaries. So of course she’s going to get more votes in a state that neither of them have campaign in (Florida), or a state where he wasn’t on the ballot (Michigan).

In other words, to say that Clinton leads to popular vote is to disenfranchise a lot of people who voted for Obama.

Hillary knows she has lost, so she’s whipping out all these desperate arguments — whichis what everyone knew would happen if she selfishly stayed in the race.

Let me ask you a question — though since you appear to be dumb as a stump, I’m not expecting an honest or intelligent answer — but if Hillary did manage to subvert the delegate count (hence democracy) to “win” the nomination, do you really thik she would have a chance to win in November when the party would split over the question of whether or not she stole the nomination?

Fact is Hillary lost. And when a candidate loses, it’s in the best interests of everybody for them to accept this fact and move on before they start making dumb, desperate ploys to stay in the race. This isn’t a supposed “derangement syndrome,” this is fact — a reality that we’re currently witnessing. To deny it is to be unobjective. What Hillary is doing — when not implying that she needs to stay in the race in case Obama gets shot (and yes, Semidi, that is what she said) — is creating phony arguments that would cause her rabid supports (ie: you) to claim that the nomination was stolen from her. Nothing is further from the truth.

Stop skirting the rules that were agreed to at the beginning of this primary to say that Hillary has the most popular votes. Stop trying to steal the election.

If you don’t, then a new phrase might enter our political lexicon: It’s the theft, stupid.

Stay classy, asshole.

Hillary was being asked why she’s still in this primary.

Now she could have trotted out her usual excuses/lies… She could have said she has the lead in the popular vote, or she could have said that she is still mathematically in the delegate.

But she didn’t.

Instead, she said that a candidate could be assassinated in June, it’s happened before, and therefore because of this reason, she needs to stay in the race.

That’s what she said — nobody is making this up.

I didn’t know that she said the A-word in March. However, it was as wrong then as it is even more wrong wrong now. Hillary should have known better, but she fucked up.

And you know… Huckabee didn’t use this as a defense of his candidacy. Romney didn’t use the assassination card (God, I have to use such a term) to stay in the race.

And if a candidate is struck down, you know, I’m pretty sure the party can handle it. Either at or before the convention.

What Hillary said was totally, completely, and unequivocally out of line. Any statement contrary to that — in defense of her comments — is bullshit. Furthermore, Hillary only proved that her staying in the race while she is, for all intents and purposes, mathematically eliminated, will hurt the party. If she was concerned more about making sure we don’t have a third straight Republican term in the White House, she would quit the race — now. And she should have quit before West Virginia, because she lost the race by that point.

That fact that she needs to quit is self-evident — her excuses for staying in the race are not only getting more ridiculous, but it could hurt the party.

She lost. She needs to concede and get the fuck over it.

I can also see why her apology was geared more toward the Kennedy family, given the bad news they are already dealing with. Could she have included Obama in that statement? Sure, she probably should have emphasized that she didn’t intend to make that kind of specific connection. Not that it would have quieted those intent on using the ammo provided.

Frankly, every President and Presidential candidate lives under the constant spectre of physical threat. Obama is not unique in this regard. It’s a sad reality that they all understand at some level.

It’s interesting that she DID in fact say this, and use the A-word, in a TIME interview in March and hardly anyone raised an eyebrow. Now, with tensions between the two camps (and all their blogosphere supporters) at an all-time high, we get this rippling reaction. Hmmmm.

Howard Fineman had it right tonight when he said it is a campaign that needs to be put out of it’s misery.

SHAME on BILLARY. You ARE UNFIT to be President!!

If Hillary says this when she gets tired in the middle of the day, just how would she answer that 3am call?