But Hillary isn't the first person to raise the issue. Didn't Michelle Obama herself initially object to her husband running because she feared he'd be assassinated?

Given the viral conspiracy emails, books, circumstantial evidence, laws of probablity, and the Clintons strong arm obstruction of investigations regarding their involvment with Vince Foster and a veritable laundry list of other former Clinton associates who have (often suspiciously and mysteriously) left the gene pool...she actually said this?

Dude.

I dunno, I'm pretty tired of the obama campaign crying foul every other week. Does anyone really believe Sen. Clinton mentioned Kennedy because she thought Obama might be assassinated?! I honestly think she just wasn't thinking about the assassination part of that analogy, she was trying to make the point that the primary isn't actually OVER. Perhaps she's so singularly focused on winning that she wasn't thinking about that event in any other light but the fact that a new front-runner had to be chosen... which is rather in character for Ms. Clinton I think.

Dang, that is one big, hairy hand holding the gun!!

Personally, I want Hillary to stay in the campaign. The longer she is in, the more chance of the Dems fracturing.

Agree with K-Det. I never felt she was implying anything about assassination. Why should she? No upside. She was just making a familiar historical reference, and subconsciously probably trying to ally herself with Bobby Kennedy's surging candidacy. More alarming in all this is the constant speech policing and offense-taking.

Wow, thank God for Rein and K-Det: after reading about this in various places all day, this is the first time (and twice in the same place) that I've found some people that feel about the same way I do about the comment.

Far worse than Hillary's assassination comment is the accompanying photo which displays her ignorance of firearm safety. With her finger on the trigger, who or what is she about to shoot?

It is unfortunate that so many of those who portray firearms as evil have so little experience with them. If Hillary actually spent some time at the range she would:

a) Learn proper firearm safety, and;
b) Realize that a firearm is a tool that can be used for good as well as evil.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Clinton -- finger OFF the trigger!

I'm no fan of the Hill but that's a crock and lot
of Bull about nothing.If someone is stupid enough
to whac the Ob the results will make Watts look
like a sunday picnic...As for Hill and the pistola
nice Photoshop...

Gator:

You're right! I missed the photoshop. Unless Hillary's right hand has somehow transformed into a man's.

(Hmmmmm. Could be...)

Unless Hill's got an extra joint between her wrist and her elbow, this is a photoshop, and not a very good one. The line of her forearm changes right at the end of her jacket. To say nothing about the size of the hand.

Not that this renders CY's story incorrect or irrelevant, mind you. He didn't suggest that the picture was legit, he's just using it as a visual on the RFK assassination reference.

I was going to answer Just Askin's question

With her finger on the trigger, who or what is she about to shoot?

Everyone is forgetting Bill Clinton's mention of Bobby Kennedy.in his speech to BBC some years ago.He almost went into tears over Bobby Kennedy. I personally thought it ws to cover up his involvement with the death of John Kennedy Jr. the typical Bill Clinton crying cop out, as when he faked a breaking voice on "wi-ife," when he said, "I hurt my wi-ife."I think Hillary meant, you never knowbut her dreaming under self probably meant, Obama might be murdered.

I'll take HRC at her word, but still must point out how incredibly stupid and politically tone deaf this comment makes her out to be.

Any way you cut it, her comparison to the 1968 primary is BS, and to invite the assasination discussion was beyond foolish.

Put some marmalade on that toast.