A year ago, if anyone had bothered to ask, I was supporting Hilary. Gender (and some troubling Senate votes aside), I thought she was someone whose beliefs somewhat aligned to mine and with enough knowledge of how Washington works to actually effect some change or at least undo some of the Damage done by Resident Tush.

One big reason that I’ve switched to supporting Obama has been the increasingly despicable way in which she has run her campaign this year. She has been bordering on downright evil. And as the nomination slips further and further from her grasp, she shows signs of seriously losing it. The latest being this quote:

My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.

The New York Times makes the point that she basically said the same thing back in March:

Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn’t wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual.

There’s a lot of different ways to read this, but none of them are good. Primary campaigns run as long as they need to run before someone locks up the nomination. The fact that sometimes it’s a close race and goes all the way out to the convention isn’t a given; that’s just how it happens in some years. But the only example she can find of this is RFK? And she has to mention RFK’s tragic murder in conjunction with Obama’s run and the fear that the US is so filled with hate groups that some might stoop to any depths to stop him?

If she can’t control the crap coming out of her mouth now when she’s just a candidate, if her judgment is so careless now, how would she handle herself if she actually got elected and the pressure was on her? It’s a future I’d rather not contemplate.

Of course I’d sooner vote for a 1958 Studebaker than John McCain. And probably a Waring blender would do far less damage to the US than he would.

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