Hated it then, hate the divisiveness now.

There is really no excuse for that. I remember the real fear that Obama would be assassinated before being allowed to be the first black president.

It's really unforgivable.

...she was in it for herself, and damn the party.

Likewise, what she is doing in this election.

I mean, Obama could have been assassinated, right?

Then, the country would have been in a real mess. So she was just being patriotic and thinking of what was best for America. A very selfless gesture.

This is for Clinton supporters and other impaired readers.

a question for me. If either one of the candidates
wins at the convention and something happens
to that candidate, what then?

Is there any known protocol for this?

But it looks like there's one thing wrong, a nominee did die in 1872.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1872

It looks like it would create a mess.

Let's hope that nothing like that will happen.

But last week, prior to Nevada, Clinton stated in the town hall that she needed to start focusing on the GE. Basically saying the field needed to be cleared so she can "save us" from the republicans.

It was another wtf moment for me, in a tied race she wants the field cleared.

One more insight into her mindset. She expected to be anointed and by this time her expectations were that her team could be doing op research for the GE and she could go on a tour of the primary states rallying the support of her troops.

Displays a poor ability to foresee potential events and a poor ability to manage variables.

Edit to add transcript

TODD: And when I'm talked about -- asked you about your first 100 days priorities, you've mentioned a lot of issues, and you haven't put immigration reform first. And some immigration reform advocates are concerned that if you don't put it first, that the same thing that happened in '07, the same thing in '10 -- how do you prevent that if you don't make it first? As you know these legislative lifts are hard? And the concern is if it's not first, it may not happen. What do you say?

CLINTON: Well, when we both had a chance to vote on comprehensive immigration reform in 2007, the bill that Senator Ted Kennedy championed, I voted for it; Senator Sanders voted against it. So I know how important it is to put together a coalition.

If I'm fortunate enough to get the Democratic nomination, I will immediately begin working on the priority legislation that I want the Congress deal with right away, and immigration reform will be among those issues.

(APPLAUSE)

Now for me the way that Congress works, and I think my friend Congresswoman Marcia Fudge is here somewhere.

(APPLAUSE)

CLINTON: There she is. Thank you.

The way that the Congress works, there are a bunch of committees, and the committees have different jurisdiction. So if you're dealing with immigration reform you go to one committee, if you're dealing with equal pay for women you go to a different committee.

So what I want do is get my priority legislation ready to go, begin working even with Democrats in the Congress during the general election. I also want to do that for nominations, because I want to get the judges I want to appoint, I want to get the other important officials appointed.

So I'm not going to waste a minute. That's why I want to get this nomination as quickly as possible so I can gets to work on being your president.

(APPLAUSE)

did she really say that? She couldn't have said that. Really??

It does leave wiggle room, but compare it to comments made by Obama in spring of 2008, it was always something along the lines that this will be a contest all the way to the convention, by contrast she needs this locked up quickly. A statement like that on its own is questionable, based upon past history it is offensive.

Thank you.

End of the Bush-Clinton Era?
By Robert Parry
May 25, 2008

Hillary Clinton’s comment, referencing Robert Kennedy’s 1968 assassination to explain why she’s continuing her campaign, may serve as a crass punctuation point for the end of a grim period in American history, the Bush-Clinton era.



This period – roughly marked by George H.W. Bush’s rise as Vice President and then President from 1981 to 1993, Bill Clinton’s embattled two terms, and then eight years under George W. Bush – represented an extraordinary period of lost opportunities for the nation as its global power peaked and began a rapid descent.

Notable for its bitter partisanship, mindless jingoism and willful historical amnesia, this era saw the United States fail to address its bloated energy consumption, reverse the decline in its manufacturing base, stop the erosion of the middle class, provide universal health care for its citizens and wisely deploy its military might.

So, on one level, the Democratic presidential battle has been a struggle over whether Democrats want to revert back to their brief hold on the White House in the 1990s (by picking Hillary Clinton) or strike off in a new direction (by nominating Barack Obama).

Early on, some Democrats told me they supported Sen. Clinton because her election would repudiate the Bush family and its nasty brand of politics. They envisioned a hard-working and battle-tested President Hillary Clinton completing some of the reforms that Republicans thwarted in the 1990s.

However, other Democrats have come to see the Clintons as less a cats-and-dogs enemy of the Bushes than two sides of the same coin, a kind of duopoly that is more common in Third World nations where two ruling families trade power back and forth without disrupting the power structure. In this view, Bill Clinton essentially earned his bones with the Bush family in 1993 when he swept a dustbin full of Republican scandals under the rug – including the Iran-Contra Affair, Iraq-gate and the October Surprise question.

President Clinton may have thought he was being responsible and buying some bipartisan peace. But he actually cemented an incomplete and false history of the Reagan-Bush period, thus denying the American people a thorough understanding of what their government had done over those dozen years.

more at link --> https://consortiumnews.com/2008/052508.html

that Hillary is forcibly removed from the race....


... in handcuffs, by Federal marshals.