Responding to a question from the Sioux Falls Argus Leader editorial board about calls for her to drop out of the race, she said: “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. You know I just, I don’t understand it,” she said, dismissing the idea of abandoning the race.

Hm.  This is on the heels off of last week’s:

Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee drew cringes Friday when he made a joke at the National Rifle Association convention about Barack Obama getting shot at.

 Huckabee […] was interrupted by a loud thump from backstage.

The quick-witted Southerner looked behind him and said to the Louisville, Ky., crowd: “That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair and someone pointed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”

The audience fell silent […]

I guess we should not be too hard on Hillary Clinton or Mike Huckabee.  It is very difficult not to make jabs against the charismatic, and more properly assassinatibility, of Barack Obama, just — you know? — in passing.  You just trip over it.  Just sort of trip over it without realizing it.  The Ability for Barack Obama to be Assassinated is just the Giant White Elephant in the room for this campaign.  In the room that will just have to plague us for the rest of this campaign.  And through his four or eight years of his presidency, if it gets that far.  Unless that is truncated for some reason.  For… some… reason.  (Um… he abruptly retires after six years?)

Sigh.

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