That time when Clinton refused to drop out of the race because Obama could be assassinated

[LiberalArkie]

Call me sentimental but I’m a sucker for anniversaries. Take, for example, May 23 2008, when then Senator Hillary Clinton was asked if she was going to drop out of the primary race, given the Senator Barack Obama’s lead in delegates. During an interview with the editorial board of the South Dakota newspaper The Argus Leader Clinton expressed frustration with the way she was being pressured to suspend her campaign. I should add that I don’t find this part of her response inappropriate:

I don’t know I don’t know I find it curious because it is unprecedented in history. I don’t understand it and between my opponent and his camp and some in the media, there has been this urgency to end this and you know historically that makes no sense, so I find it a bit of a mystery.

But things took a turn for the worse when the editorial board asked, “You don’t buy the party unity argument?” to which she responded:

I don’t, because again, I’ve been around long enough. You know my husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere around the middle of June. We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. Um you know I just I don’t understand it. There’s lots of speculation about why it is.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/that-time-when-clinton-refused-to-drop-out-of-the-race-because-obama-could-be-assasinated/

[timmymoff]

1. She has a lot of class

the large portion of it being low.

[tularetom]

2. Very classy, that woman

[tazkcmo]

3. Do as I say

Not as I do. The worse kind of "leader".

[farleftlib]

4. What good for the goose

is good for the (S)ander(s).

Her followers will be along any second to tell us all how it's different this time around.

[Mike Nelson]

5. I finally saw the clip in question...

...and it didn't live up to its reputation as, "I need to continue as Obama might be shot dead." That was a big stretch... also, I don't think Bernie stays in because Hillary may be handcuffed and thrown in prison. These are things that candidates must think about - but I like to think they don't have pin-stuffed voodoo dolls back home.

[liberal_at_heart]

12. She never comes right out and says what she is saying. She is always vague and

ambiguous. If she didn't mean that why would she bring up the assassination? It would completely random and totally out of nowhere if that is not what she meant.

[samsingh]

6. And yet Obama made her SOS and has endorsed her

[Ash_F]

7. Obama endorsed her?

[samsingh]

8. pretty much.

[insta8er]

9. Thank you for putting that smile on my face, I mean...ahahhahahahh..sorry hahahah LOL

[malokvale77]

10. Please link to that endorsement.

Many here on DU make that claim. Not one has provided any proof.

[samsingh]

11. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/us/politics/obama-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders.html?_r=0

"In unusually candid remarks, President Obama privately told a group of Democratic donors last Friday that Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont was nearing the point at which his campaign against Hillary Clinton would end, and that the party must soon come together to back her."

[malokvale77]

13. That's your proof.

It's amusing for sure, since the WH denied it shortly after.

http://bb4sp.com/white-house-denies-reports-of-a-clinton-endorsement/

What else you got?