(ThyBlackMan.com) I was recently accused of character assassination by staunch Hillary Clinton supporters as a result of the mere mention in my article, “This Is Why I Don’t Trust Hillary Clinton – She’ll Do Anything To Win, And She Thinks We’re Dumb,” that once Hillary Clinton became desperate over her all but certain loss to Barack Obama in the 2008 primaries, she began to continually allude to the assassination of Robert Kennedy during the 1968 primary. She kept repeating that mantra as justification for why she didn’t simply get out of the race. The mere mention of this episode seemed to drive these Clinton supporters up the wall. They said it was “water under the bridge,” and others tried to make light of it as though I was some sort of crazy conspiracy theorist – “Was Hillary also responsible for the sinking of the Lusitania – and by the way, where’s her birth certificate?” But the fact is, this issue is not funny, and it should be seriously examined.
What made Hillary’s remarks seem much more malevolent than a simple gaffe was, as pointed out in a Keith Olbermann commentary, someone had obviously told her that her mention of the word “assassination” was inappropriate since Sen. Obama had been receiving death threats every since the day he threw his hat in the ring to run for president, so Hillary stopped using the word – temporarily. But as her situation became more dire, and it was all but certain that she was going to lose to Sen. Obama, she began using the word “assassination” again.
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And later, On May 11th 2008, while appearing on Meet The Press, Hillary’s campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, made the same kind of statement to Tim Russert. He said that in order for Hillary to win the nomination “something big” would have to happen. Then Russett asked, “An act of God, or something catastrophic?”, and he said, “Yes, something big would have to happen–absolutely.”
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So how much farther did they have to go, say, “Calling all wingnuts! If somebody – ANYBODY – don’t kill this man America could end up with a Black president!!!?”
So in my judgement, when Hillary Clinton repeatedly alluded to assassination while on the verge of losing the nomination to the first 
Black man with a legitimate chance to become President of the United States, that was a serious issue. That was much more than just a simple gaffe, and it shouldn’t be fluffed off as such, because it speaks volumes about either Hillary’s character, her judgement, or both. Thus, any journalist worth his or her salt should feel an obligated to pursue this matter. It’s about the obligation to follow truth wherever it leads, and regardless to whose ox it gores. That’s what both journalists, and true progressives are suppose to be all about, not joining personality cults. Only wingnuts and idiots place blinders on to support their favorite candidate. That’s how we got George W. Bush – through the blind devotion of his less than thoughtful supporters – and we paid for it dearly.
