IT'S CONFIRMED: Hillary invoked Bobby Kennedy's June assassination as reason it's too early for her to concede in May

6:29PM Rachel Maddow explains what the superdelegates should take away from this episode:


6:08PM Eugene Robinson just said "her apology adds insult to injury." Here is the video, I only just posted it on YouTube, so it may need some time before it actually works:


6:00PM MSNBC's Keith Olbermann will have a "special comment" tonight about Hillary's horrific words. This is one not to be missed, I suspect.

5:39PM Local Nevada blog calls on Nevada superdelegates to announce their decision now. Other state blogs should do the same. Target your local superdelegates, and don't just stop with the uncommitted ones, ask Hillary's superdelegates if they agree with her.

5:27PM Hillary invoked Bobby Kennedy's assassination in early March as a reason for staying in the race, per TIME - I'm sure she didn't mean it that time either:

TIME: Can you envision a point at which--if the race stays this close--Democratic Party elders would step in and say, "This is now hurting the party and whoever will be the nominee in the fall"?

CLINTON: No, I really can't. I think people have short memories. 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.

Yeah, not at all unusual if you consider assassinations usual.

5:20PM Latest pundit excuse, "she was tired." She was tired? Ms. 3 fucking AM was tired? Nice. Well, I sure hope Al Qaeda doesn't attack when President Hillary Clinton is "tired."

5:09PM AP's first line is not good for Hillary: "Sen. Hillary Clinton referred Friday to the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968 Democratic campaign as a reason she should continue to campaign despite increasingly long odds." AP understood perfectly what Hillary meant.

4:52PM Hillary apologized to the Kennedy family for saying that one of the reasons she's waiting to drop out is because Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June. Whatever. Then her spokesman said that reading anything into what she said would be "outrageous." Fuck you. You just said that it was too early to drop out in May because Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June. FUCK YOU, HILLARY CLINTON. A lot of us have been wondering for months now just what "meteor" Hillary waiting for - she wanted to say in the race "just in case"? Just in case what? Just in case Obama is assassinated, apparently. Where the hell is Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean. Enough of her bullshit. Why would any black voter stay in our party if we aren't willing to stand up to this kind of hateful bullshit?

4:49PM: It's particularly sick that Hillary would somehow use Bobby Kennedy's assassination as a reason for staying in the race the week that Ted Kennedy left the hospital with a brain tumor.

4:38PM: ACTION ALERT - Call the following uncommitted Senator-Superdelegates and ask them if the reason they haven't endorsed a candidate yet is because of what Hollary just said; that Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June and it's only May. That is exactly what she just said.

59 seconds in, she says it:


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4:35PM UPDATE: Note what Hillary's staff said earlier today, before she told the editorial board that she's waiting for Obama to be murdered:

Wolfson and McAuliffe both insist that she is not quitting and will campaign through the last primaries on June 3rd -- and until decisions are made on Michigan and Florida. They say she feels to do otherwise would be letting down her supporters. Despite the odds against her getting the nomination, Clinton aides say as long as people are still voting, there is always the chance something will happen and she ends up winning.

Joe sent me the paragraph 3 hours ago. He was totally creeped out. This didn't happen in a vacuum.

4:30PM UPDATE: Now her campaign is saying that she simply said that Bobby Kennedy's 'race' went on a long time. No she didn't. She said that Kennedy was assassinated in June and therefore it's too early for her to drop out in May. She is out. Where is Harry Reid, where is Nancy Pelosi, where is Howard Dean? Hillary is waiting for Obama to be assassinated? My God. What message did she just send her supporters?

IT'S NOW CONFIRMED: Three trusted sources - two in the Senate, and one a family member - just confirmed that they were watching the video of Hillary's editorial board meeting today and just heard the exactly quote that is in the NY Post story below. Hillary actually said that Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June, so it's crazy to ask her to pull out of the race in May. Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid need to tell this sick piece of shit to get out of the race now.

UPDATE: I just called the newspaper's news room to inform them that they kind of have a huge scoop here if they can confirm. Their response: You can watch the video yourself it's on our Web site. Uh, yeah, but is it true - did she say it? They don't know. Nice. The Argus Leader didn't sound very interested in finding out if they had a huge story on their hands, so who knows.

You can read the NY Post article and decide for yourself. I'm trying to listen to the interview now to find out what exactly she said and why.

The article just updated. Holy shit.

Hillary Clinton today brought up the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama.

"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. I don't understand it," she said, dismissing calls to drop out.

Clinton made her comments at a meeting with the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader's editorial board while campaigning in South Dakota, where she complained that, "People have been trying to push me out of this ever since Iowa."