No, her explanation and apology are bullshit, she was as close to putting out a public contract on her competition as a candidate can get.
And the protection isn't to be trusted either
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/15/america/15joke.php

Nez you are exactly right. This seals her fate NOT because she alludes to Barack Obama's assassination but because she speaks of Bobby Kennedy's assassination while Senator Ted Kennedy is dying.

She just gave the superdelegates 'cover' to move to Obama. And she just gave the Obama campaign reasonable 'cover' not to select her for VP.

In the same week that Ted Kennedy gets diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor Hillary said something like this? It is insane!

wow, I know she could be manipulative and low, but this is just another level. :( And it makes me very sad because even though I decided to support Obama a while ago - I still wanted to think Hillary was a decent human being. The previous stuff she's said, while low, is not that surprising in a political race, people can pull out all the punches sometimes and I still held hope that it was just her wanting to fight that brought it out and not that she was a despicable person.

But what I just watched her say - well, I don't think a decent human being would say that.

Thank you Hillary. You've given me a glimpse into the darkness of your soul. For you, the obliteration of just one, or 71 million, is pretty casual. A single solution for every problem, very neat but not so tidy.

OMG ! Me being the skeptic, it may be that HRC is aware of a sinister arm that may be responsible for so many political assassinations. I hope not.
There has to be some reason for Hillary's smugness. Peace out.

Maybe. And maybe speculating in directions like that is best left to others. Don't wanna wire myself too tightly. :)

I'm old enough to remember the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK. They were national tragedies which affected a generation.

In the case of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., my mother was active in the civil rights movement. Though I was very young, I had seen the lynching photos that used to be distributed on postcards, in a book my mother had. I knew about the violence unleashed on affluent Black communities, perpetrated by poor Whites who were easily driven into a jealous rage. I knew what Dr. King was striving for, and it was something of great importance to me even at that age. He was a hero to my entire family. My mother had a framed photo of the two of them that she displayed with pride until the day she died.

There are no words to describe the sense of loss when he was assassinated. None. It seemed like every time a Black leader tried to stand up and demand fair treatment and equality for all Black people they ended up dead.

RFK's assassination followed this trauma by only a few months. It was a startling act of violence, a shock upon a psyche already raw with pain and loss. He was also a beacon of hope, and his death, too, snuffed out that promise of something better.

Both events are linked in my mind, and that is probably true for others my age. They occurred in too close a proximity for it to be otherwise. And anyone who thinks that Ms. Clinton's highly inappropriate remark doesn't evoke memories of that pain and loss and despair is a blind fool, especially now, when we are so close to having a Black presidential nominee.

I'm sure she didn't mean it as a threat, but there's no way it wouldn't remind us of what happens to Black people who attempt to reach too high. She doesn't just need to apologize to the Kennedys and the Obama family, she needs to apologize to America.

yliza