Now I understand her newfound interest in firearms!

Basically we're at the point where she's admitted that the only way she can win is if someone kills Obama.

Yeah....that's gonna work out REEEEEEAL well.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Hillary's officially jumped the shark. She's grossly unfit for higher office. Please superdelagates, put an end to this charade. This is a sick, tactless, scary woman.

Say goodbye Hillary.

Further proof of her sociopathy. The more she digs herself into the hole and the more she mortifies Democrats the better. Keep digging!

Stay classy, Senator Clinton.

Can't wait to hear either the tortured logic in Salon's Clinton Clique defense of this or the deafening silence as they spectacularly fail to acknowledge the tackiness of her remarks, all the while playing the victim card and complaining about the behavior of Sen. Obama and his supporters.

You can just hear Brando's voice as Don Coreone saying, "ya know, it'd be a shame if somethin' happened to Obama, ya know? I'm just sayin". Every time you think you've found the slimy bottom of billary's sink, she grabs another handful of crap. Whatta shrew.

I'm not a huge fan of the Senator from New York, but this is a storm in a teacup. She's not Jesse Helms, for heaven's sake.

I was about to make a crack about old people remembering things through stories, but I do the same thing at 37 so never mind.

This gets better with each passing moment.

Joan Walsh is right: Hillary should - and must - stay in until the bitter end.

Freudian slip much Hillary? Oh well, at least she didn't compare the two and ask the crowd which one they wanted: another dead candidate or another Clinton..

I read something a few days ago claiming that Clinton was privately assuring uncommitted superdelegates that, if they stayed on the sidelines, she'd do nothing to embarrass them.

Um...

I'm starting to think HRC is losing her mind. Between this RFK comment and the "hard working white voters" comment, I think we have evidence of her becoming unhinged. She sure isn't talking like the experienced and smooth politician that she continually portrays herself to be. What is going on here? Is it that she isn't thinking well on her feet and therefore spontaneously coming up with seriously bizarre ideas (eg, get behind me, in case my opponent gets assassinated?!), or are these calculated words, designed for some purpose? What possible purpose could that be? It absolutely boggles the mind! Can her thought process be that out of whack that she could imagine that these would help her candidacy in any way?

That if she stays in the race long enough she may finally get to face sniper fire?

Unspin us with your wise input, by all means!

I've been writing for a living for over thirty years, but I don't know if I could express just how vile Clinton's reference to Bobby Kennedy is. He would have been my first vote for president and the thought of what might have been still aches. To say nothing of the idea that raising the possibility of Obama being killed gives the threat a perverse respectability.

Could anything be more shameless? Probably not. But the Clinton spokesman's assertion that to be outraged by Hillary's comment is itself "outrageous" isn't far behind.

Does she have any credibility left? She is digging so fast and furious it is hardly believable. "Don't read anything into it." Right.

If she and Bill want to have any standing in the party or in the country, she needs to get the hell out of the race NOW. I used to have a lot of respect for her. Now she has basically zero political capital left.

"We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it.

"I mean, despite the agents assigned to protect him, someone managed to find and shoot him as he was leaving through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel. All it would take for this terrible tragedy to be repeated is for just one person to study Senator Obama's security detail and figure out where the holes in it are. Just one unassuming middle-aged woman with an Obama t-shirt and a small firearm could get it done, especially in a narrow hallway or close quarters.

"Alternatively, you -- I mean, 'she' -- could wire herself with explosives, just between the bust and waistline. It wouldn't even require her to get closer than ten feet from him before detonating them for an almost certain kill. There's all sorts of instructions for building something like this on the internet. It would be a real shame if someone looked them up.

"And I would certainly hate to have to become the Democratic nominee for president under such horrible circumstances.

"Wink, wink."

I'm a huge Obama supporter, and was shocked when I first read this comment. But after reading the clarification, it's a bit obvious that she meant only that "RFK's nomination went into June...". The fact that she brought up the assasination was completely unnecessary and unwise considering the circumstances, but she's really not saying "i'm just waiting around in case something bad happens". There's nothing in the words to prove it one way or the other, but I think we need to stop over-reacting... it's a bit cruel to assume that she's advocating for assasination.

I'm not sure I want her a heartbeat away. This is just sad.

i like the new york times deck on their front page "Hillary Clinton referred to the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968 as a reason she should continue to campaign.."

baloney. a total misrepresentation that will be echoed everywhere.

it was unfortunate that she mentioned RFK's assassination at all, but she was obviously referring to the fact that the race was still going on june, not that RFK was assassinated, as the reason she's still in the race.

any efforts to spin in otherwise will be more of the same crap that's gotten clinton supporters so frustrated throughout the course of this campaign.