Hillary, Hillary, Quite Contrary!
How does your tongue grow?

Jimmy C, Letchworth Garden City, UK

These remarks are in very poor taste! To bring up the assassination of Robert Kennedy is very insensitive at this time, especially when Ted Kennedy is fighting for his life! Was the comment meant to get back at Ted's support of Obama? Read the story of Haman in the Book of Esther! God is in charge!

Rose, Atlanta, USA

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Hillary Clinton believes that the only way for her to get the nomination is for evil to befall Obama. Evil enough as death. The news is, God will protect Obama and he shall become the US president, He is a man of destiny. Hillary should get used to it.

Leroy, Toronto, Canada

many bloggers here did not hear the original clip of Clinton. She was talking about how long previous candidates had been campaigning in primaries before they got the nomination. She talked about the candidates in the month of June, mentioning her husband Bill Clinton's and Robt. Kennedy. End of it

ann, columbus, USA

Hillary ,was simply refering to presidential election history.
But the media, instead of broadcasting what she said, twisted
it and presented it to the public in the darkest and the most sinister way possible. shame on them.

ahmad, sterling, loudoun

Last week Gore Vidal said this about Mrs. Clinton to the London Times: "I'd always rather liked her." But this long campaign, this daily search for the grail, has driven her crazy." "I think her strategy is more or less insane."

I think maybe he was onto something. She has lost perspective.

karela, Hastings, USA

Perhaps it is time for Hilary to call it a day. Although like many politicians of whatever nationality she hangs grimly on in the hope that "something will turn up."

Neil, Gloucestershire, England

The highest office in the country requires the utmost of diplomacy and delicacy, this was not just a "misspeaking" it was a deplorable and grievous insult that underscores her lack of ethics, couth and character. Listen to Obama speak, w/o your prejudices, and you'll hear a man qualified to lead!

Teri , Forks, Washington, USA

Hillary is Bang on the Money. Obama is a Great mixed race Man that can unite the USA and save the world. That won't be allowed by the people who need to use their terror tactics to control the less well informed. I am afraid that another assasination is already being planned

Mark, Newcastle, UK

She is stating a historical fact about what could happen and a reason for her not giving up - yet. I would be very worried about voting for someone who has constantly associated with a racist preacher who damns America. The old saying, "Love my country or leave it still works".

B J Deller, Marbella, Spain

hillary is desperate,and a drowning man(or woman) will hold on to the tiniest log of wood even if it is the assasination of an opponent
but i really hope she is not inferring or suggesting this else
american politics will be no less different or better than what
obtains currently in my country.

boskyie, lagos, nigeria

Hillary IS RIGHT - leave her alone. The Kennedys were assassinated because of their liberal views, and God knows there are many white supremacist groups in the US who would gladly assassinate an African American. Obama IS a target, he IS a loose canon, it could be open season on him IF he wins.

Sal, Vancouver, Canada

This is a non-story. Listen to Clinton's intonation and the total lack of reaction by the interviewer and it is clear she was simplying citing 1968 as an example of a political campaign that was still in play as late as June, just like 1992. At worst it was a poorly-chosen example, nothing more.

Chris Harding, Edinburgh,

This is typical of how the liberal media has turned on Hillary in their baffling attempts to anoint Obama as their Messiah. Their demonisation of Hillary has destroyed the democrats only chance of winning the whitehouse. The arrogant, eliteist and hypocritical Obama will not win the general election

Mitch, Melbourne, Australia

I'm surpirsed she didn't say she was dodging bullets in the Ambassador Hotel the night RFK was murdered.

Bruce Northwood, Washington, D.C., USA

she was really saying she hoped for an assassination. She hardly has to campaign to be a viable candidate in the case of such a trajedy. She would be the natural alternative in that awful event. but arising from a mindset that witnesses the execution of retards to win elections, can we expect more

dan, porto alegre, brasil

Who on earth cares? Whichever one of them gets in, they're both wholly bought and paid for by big corporations and have only them and their own interests at heart. Nothing on earth will change.

Paul Downes, Milton Keynes, Bucks

Mrs Clinton is something like our Gordon Brown. Both have hungered for POWER for so long that this greed has festered inside them and rotted their souls. Even through the smiles they oozes venom, self-doubt, and pure unadulterated self-interest. Neither are fit for purpose. Show 'em both the exit!

Jack, London, UK

For many African-Americans who supported the Clintons and loved them like familty this is a sad day. I don't think Hillary really meant that she hopes Obama will be assissinated; but she should have known that his assissination is won of our biggest fears. We thought the Clintons knew us!

peggy, tacoma , USA

OBAMA/CLINTON ticket is going to be a political sucide to OBAMA.i'm sure he understands this very clearly,because this was not his message that gave him the nomination.Party machinery should not even consider it otherwise REPUBLICANS are on.

OZOR, Lagos, Nigeria

I do not support Mrs. Clinton, but I can see that her comment was only to point out that in these two cases the campaigns for nomination were still going strong in June. However, I do not think that in these two instances the campaigns started two years earlier. We're sick of this campaign!

Dan, Fairhope, USA

For those who actually listed to what Mrs Clinton said, the emphasis was on JUNE - it just happens to be historical fact that Senator Kennedy was shot - it could well happen to her, not only Mr Obama. Hilary-haters will twist anything she says.

David Cunard, Los Angeles, United States

Does Obama really think that he can trick voters with a cheap knock off. No woman will be able to bring in the amount of support that Hilary Clinton could. Napolitano or Sebelius would be a foolish choice for Obama simply on account of pettyness. If he chooses either of these then he is a fool.

Stephen Desmond, Cheshire, England

mrs clinton needs to face facts ,her race is over get real and think of your future an moved on. obama is the man for the job he believe in changes.we are sick an tired of the old politics.

angela, ill, usa

An American comedian recently said Obama will need a world class food taster should Clinton become his VP.

MARK KLEIN, M.D., Oakland, CALIFORNIA

HILLARY is the reason she is losing, I would not even consider voting for HILLARY in my wildest dreams. This woman can not even conduct her self in a simple interview, using diplomacy. I would not allow her to run a CARAVAN PARK. VP no way that is a lost cause, with all that EXPERIENCE she claims?.

Daphne Kenward, Cambridge, UK

This is astonishing,havinging on praying your rival gets killed or says something rendering him unelectable.No evil surpasses this.She will as well send people to kill Obama in order for her to be the nominee. Why is America cursed with such evil.How can she then be allowed to stay on in the campaig

kamalunga, hatfield, uk

She did not apologise..".I regret...if" is a weak dodge to blame someones 'interputation' for the gaffe. She has said it before. It is calculated and vile...She let us see her black heart and damaged soul...Let us get her 1000miles away from the Whitehouse!

jtl, denver, co, USA

Iit was a surprise to see Hllary was interesed in firearmes durind campain trail. now know why
HIT JOB LOL

Alex D, Alberta, Canada

Bad choice on Hillary's part to compare the times of RFK and the present. She may have been in a word stupor and wanted to please the reporter with more verbiage than here tongue was ready for.

Lot's of Bobble Headed reporters who need to satisfy the dazed voters with smears that want us to puck.

Gary Holbrook, Golden, USA

Berry had to make a stink about this to justify the U.S. Goverment paying for his 100 personal body guards, most of whom look like they just got out of a maximum security prison.
<Rolling Eyes>

Jenny J, Portrland, USA

Mrs. Clinton spoke in personal anguish, as did Henry II in musing aloud about Thomas Becket "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" Let's pray deeply that no hothead takes this as a legitimating call to action. Oh, what thoughts lurk in dark recesses.

John McKay, Ottawa, Canada

Deb, Kodak, USA:

Are you seriously suggesting that an assassination is not 'unusual'? This was a gaffe worthy of Geroge W. Bush himself whichever way you bend it. Clinton has lost it.

Gabriel Casey, Belfast,

At best crass. At worst suggestive to the wilder fringes of her "base". We've seen enough "certain type of women" posting their hate towards Obama that it would only take one of them, egged-on by HRC's comment, to flip out and do this. 100% obviates her chances for VP for similarly obvious reasons.

Stuart, England,

It's not so much what she said as it is the repeated demonstration of bad judgment and lies..........

ithamer, Toronto, Canada

She's really done it this time. Some mis-speak..........

Chris Lightbown, London, United Kingdom

As a supporter of Senator McCain, I hope very much that Obama is persuaded to adopt Mrs Clinton as his VP running-mate.

P Fleet, Cologne, Germany

So much for the "3am phone call". This has been said more than once. She wants the WH at any price.

M.J., Iowa, U.S.A.

She has nothing to gain by saying this, so she should be forgiven. When candidates are talking all the time, there will be unfortunate mistakes & she has apologised. So, "Let it be"!

g.mc arder, Belfast & Drogheda, N.Ireland/Ireland

Terrible gaffe by a Presidential candidate! To infer that she still has a chance to win and using the assassination word in the same sentence, and at a time when Senator Kennedy is very ill... Not Presidential language, insensitive, and actually rather sinister...

Rob Tootell, Krakow, Poland

Obama will win if he doesn't play politics and become one of them. America's desire for change will outstrip the fact he is black or inexperienced. Hopefully most people don't care anymore about the former and will see the latter as a bonus not a disadvantage!

gavrilo Prinzip, Bromley, UK

Crazy killer gaffe..! Next, Hillary will claim that "Bosnian sniper fire" trauma has caused her to "..misspeak" again. Now claiming widespread misogynism has negated her campaign. Surely the US has better candidates than this - too fascinated with cheerleaders as opposed to real leadership.

Doug, Pretoria, SA

Her fabled "experience" did not prevent her from making this revelatory remark and re-awakening memories of a period in history that we all want to put behind us. Senator Obama's call for change becomes even more poignant and relevant this morning.

Mary Rose Gliksten, windsor, berkshire

It is amazing to me that a supposedly intelligent media cannot grasp the context of her statement.

I'm not a Clinton supporter, and I don't trust her. I can however follow an English conversation, and I understood her discussion to indicate that it isn't unusual for campaigns to extend into June.

deb, kodak, usa

Hillary was referring to a historical fact - RFK was campaigning in June when he was killed. One needs to be slightly paranoid to twist this into anything more than that.

Nona, New York City, USA

It is said that the Clinton camp is waiting for Obama to say something to render himself unelectable. If true it is a delicious irony given that hardly a week seems to go by without her saying something which shows her own unsuitability for the highest office in the land.

Simon Murch, London,

Very awful mindset. About 90% of our sins comes from our mouth. We create a cause by thinking about it, saying it and doing it. I would not be stupid enough to appoint this power hungry woman - to be president at all cost - as my vice. She is not stupid, she knows exactly what she is talking about.

Frank, London , UK

It's actually very simple. Barack Obama has come a long way on his own accord and has won over the voters with his pledge of "CHANGE." To even consider having someone like Hillary Clinton as a running mate is insane. Like millions of others, I will switch back to the republican party and vote McCain

Lee, Honolulu, USA

She said THE SAME THING back in March in an interview with a TIME magazine editor and AGAIN in May just after the NC and IN primaries. This cannot be dismissed as a simple slip of the tongue or "misspeaking." No one of an age to remember 1968, when TWO Kennedys were killed, should be so careless.

Michael Sheridan, Sacramento, USA

Bah, I'm sorry. I meant to say "in 1968, when RFK and MLK Jr. were killed." I know that JFK was killed in 1963. Please correct my earlier post, if possible.

Michael Sheridan, Sacramento, USA

Josef Martin:

She was referring to President John F. Kennedy's brother, Senator Robert F, Kennedy, who was assassinated while running for president about four and a half years after JFK's death.

Larry Miller, Eugene, Oregon, USA

If Obama is dumb enough to place Hillary (and Bill) Clinton on the ticket as vice presidental candidate he stands to alienate all of those people who want real change. Anyone who thinks Bill Clinton would not be a very prominent fixture on that ticket is crazy.

Bobbie, London,

This imbecilic brouhaha reminds me of when Ronald Reagan, running for president, wondered how nitrogen could possibly be classed as an air pollutant when *trees* release nitrogen, and all the media nitwits went, "Oh! Reagan says trees cause air pollution! Ha ha ha ha!"

Shrewsbury, New York, New York,

What an absolutely awful thing to say. It sounds like she actually hopes there is a Sirhan Sirhan out there, who might also be a Hillary supporter. Is this an observation by Clinton or worse, it is a suggestion ?

JP, Milan, Italy

Mrs. Clinton has hit a new low. She has absolutely no shame.

Mike, Knoxville, USA

One of the most severe cases of 'foot in mouth' I have ever seen. Clinton has shown the world how such a crass and ignorant statement was devoid of judgment and experience. Damage control seems useless for these ominous words. She has secured her candidacy as president of the political graveyard.

Lisa Poliah, Marabella, Trinidad and Tobago

Democrats eating their young - yum!

Joanne, Charleston, USA

Now we know why she is staying in the race.

John, CHICAGO, USA

Mrs Clinton's citing of the assassination of Robert Kennedy as a reason to remain in the Democratic contest reaches new depths of desperation. And the same comment was actually made during a March 6th interview to Richard Stengel of Time Magazine. Why does the Democratic party tolerate this woman?

Donovan Wright, Reading, Berkshire,

Hillary is getting more desparate and digger herself in a dipper hole of selfishness as each day passes. Day-by-day Hillary is weaking her position for any place in politics. Please Obama do NOT ask Hillary to be your VP. You owe her nothing! For those who are interested, I am a white female from NY

IM, New York,

You have to be astonishingly dishonest to suggest she mentioned RFK's assassination to infer something could happen to Mr Obama. You know perfectly well that she was simply arguing that many primaries lasted well into June and that the media calls, since March, for her to quit is crass politic.

Charles, Ottawa, Canada

Senator Obama,

you campagne in poetry, you govern in prose

I believe in Hillary

Ralph, LiaoNing , China

She is proving time and time again that she is temperamentally unfit to be the POTUS. She can't recognize that her behavior makes her no different than Bush. The only saving grace to this horrid comment is that she has effectively closed the door on the insane notion that Obama pick her as his VP

Melissa, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

And I thought politics in Jamaica was rough.

Andrew Green, Kingston, Jamaica

is now the time to graciously admit defeat and unify

john, bali, indonesia

President JKF Kennedy was murdred not in California, but in Dallas, Texas............

Josef Martin, Hilton, South Africa

This amazes me how the media has taken Hillary Clinton's comments totally out of context! Me as a normal person, I even understood what it was that Hillary Clinton meant. So why has the media taken it out of context and made such a big deal about.

Hillary Clinton 2008

Ken, San Marcos, USA

Its not much of a democracy when the choices are so limited.

Udo, Melbourne, Australia

will not vote on any ticket that obama is part of even if clinton is running mate would choose lesser of two clinton over obama and mccain over obama

virginia, belton, usa

mrs, clinton is really a piece of work, I hope Obama isn't forced by the dem. party to carry that mahout on his back into the election.

mary, myrtle creek, USA

yea,following the train from Nigeria.Hillary would bolster Obama's chances,but would further entrange dirty politics in America.I mean it can precipitate to anything.With her camp, there, was too much self seeking; ask Christians where this could lead:James3:13-17.God requires other tools not hers.

Victor, Uyo, Nigeria

Wow! Hillary has lost her mind.

Linda, Maple Valley, Washington, USA

Leave poor Hilary alone, she just, "misspoke".

Trevor, Nanchang, China

After Hillary Clinton's most repugnant statement today about RFK's assassination in June, which leaves no doubt about what she is really hoping for, IT IS NOW IMPOSSIBLE for her to be VP - period.
This woman has completely lost her marbles!
And Obama would be a fool to have her as his running mate!

Jimmy C, Letchworth Garden City, UK