Hillary Clinton attend-t-elle tranquillement l’assassinat de Barack Obama ?
C’est une drôle de polémique qui vient de naître aux Etats-Unis. Hillary Clinton pour justifier sa présence tardive dans la course à la nomination a rappelé que son mari n’avait été choisi qu’en juin durant les primaires démocrates de 1992. Et jusque là, rien de grave. Mais elle a ensuite fait référence à l’assassinat de Robert Kennedy. Comme si elle sous-entendait qu’un assassinat pouvait encore changer le cours de cette élection.
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. I don’t understand it.
Les commentateurs ont-il vu ce qu’il voulait voir dans les propos d’Hillary Clinton. Et même si elle ne sous-entendait pas cela, ce que presque tout le monde croit, quelle idée de mettre en parallèle « cette » course à la nomination et celle de Bobby Kennedy.
Andrew Sullivan dit très justement :
As for her argument that June primaries are nothing new, she is correct. But in no previous primary election did the voting start just after New Years’ Day. The New Hampshire primary in 1968 was on March 12, two months later than this year. For June, therefore, read August. Yes, this season has gone on for ever. And for Senator Clinton, it has now obviously gone on too long.
She’s been waiting for Obama to implode. Instead, she just has.
Après un temps d’hésitation et sentant la controverse prendre de l’ampleur, Hillary Clinton a fini par s’excuser :
Earlier today I was discussing the Democratic primary history and in the course of that discussion mentioned the campaigns that both my husband and Senator Kennedy waged in California in June 1992 and 1968 and I was referencing those to make the point that we have had nomination primary contests that go into June. That’s a historic fact.
The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy and I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation, and particularly for the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that, whatsoever. My view is that we have to look to the past and to our leaders who have inspired us and give us a lot to live up to, and I’m honored to hold Senator Kennedy’s seat in the United States Senate from the state of New York and have the highest regard for the entire Kennedy family.
La rédaction du New York Times n’est même plus surprise par les sorties d’Hillary Clinton. Par contre, elle critique fortement les fausses excuses d’Hillary Clinton :
But she could, at least, have apologized.
Instead, she issued one of those tedious non-apology apologies in which it sounds like the person who is being offended is somehow at fault: “I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation, and particularly for the Kennedy family was in any way offensive.”
If?
Is it even possible that Mrs. Clinton thinks someone out there was not offended by her remark, Kennedy relative, Obama relative, or just plain folks?
Pendant ce temps, la famille Kennedy n’a pas vraiment apprécié. Et Hillary Clinton contre-attaque.
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- As a Professor, Obama Enthralled Students and Puzzled Faculty - Jodi Kantor, The New York Times
- Paul Jenkins: Obama Still Does Not Know His Place - Paul Jenkins, The Huffington Post
- In study, evidence of liberal-bias bias - James Rainey, Los Angeles Times
- Bush and McCain Seem to Diverge in Foreign Policy - Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times
- End of the Affair - Gabriel Sherman, TNR
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The voters haven’t embraced Clinton, so I don’t see any reason why I should endorse him. Look at the exit polls. People have terrible doubts about this guy, and we’re talking about Democrats.
Dennis Edward Eckart, 1992
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