Her political career is over
Friday, May 23, 2008 by Dave Winer.
This time Hillary Clinton has gone too far. 
Strike 1. Positioning Barack Obama as the black candidate after the South Carolina primary.
Strike 2. Refusing to say Obama is Christian, not Muslim.
Strike 3. Saying white voters go with her, in desperation, after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries.
Strike 4. Suggesting she should stay in the race because Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in 1968.
Too much benefit of the doubt. Bringing assassination into political discourse as an "issue" is too much.
Hillary Clinton is a sophisticated, calculating politician. She doesn't make accidental statements, and has in no way earned the benefit of the doubt. Her explanation is a non-explanation. Her retraction was not a retraction, and she was nowhere in the neighborhood of an apology
Screwing around with life and death is over the top.
Earlier today I posted on Twitter that it was inevitable that she would be on the ticket with Obama. Once again I forgot how awful this person is. It won't happen again.
Update: MP3 of Keith Olbermann's special comment on Countdown tonight.
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