This is one of the reasons why if I were American, I woul not vote for Hillary Clinton…

In Sioux Falls, South Dakota yesterday, while 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.

Of course, in this Associated Press report she immediately apologizes for making such a seemingly insensitive remark in the face of the recent illness that has struck Senator Edward Kennedy. Turning the tables, and not trying to appear insensitive she says, “The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy,” she added, referring to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s recent diagnosis of a brain tumor. “I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and in particular the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that whatsoever.” Well, maybe it’s true. Maybe the Kennedy’s have been on her mind. However, to publicly remind a family, and a nation already grief over the latest tragedy to strike the Kennedy clan, does not speak very well of her over-all emotional quotient. Loss permeates the very fiber of a family, or a nation, in the case of a well-loved political icon such as Bobby Kennedy. No matter how far away or how long ago it has been, a family or a nation will always remember the circumstances surroundng the loss.

I’m sorry Hillary, this remark, was, to my personal opinion, in really bad taste. Next time, think AND feel, long and hard, before you try to make yourself look good in public. In trying to “save” yourself, you instead, struck a raw nerve among many of your country’s Democrats and publicly reminded a family, already reeling from the events of the last few days, about a 40-year loss that I am sure, they still carry in their hearts to this day.

Photo from Reuters.