Fighting For Puerto Rico’s Soldiers and Veterans: During a conversation with the family of a Puerto Rican soldier who had fought in Iraq, Hillary promised that “[w]hen I’m president, we will begin ending the war in Iraq, and you won’t have to worry about [your son] going back…Our veterans deserve a commander in chief who will take care of them, and I will.” 

Most of us who "have no intentions whatsoever" do not continue to say the same thing again and again and then each time vow that  we had "no intentions whatsoever." Clinton's claim to having been "misunderstood" is more than a little stale.

"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," she added. "I certainly had no intention of that whatsoever."

She has said much the same thing before. In a March interview with Time magazine, she said almost exactly the same thing: "Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn't wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June, also in California."

How many times does she have to pull the same lousy cheap shot before people say "enough"?  Well, judging from the huge backlash,  I think that Friday in South Dakota the public's patience and saturation point with her reached its limit.

Senator Clinton's day went from bad to worse on Friday. On her last stump stop for the day in Brookings, there were no Hillary banners and the applause was subdued according to press reports.

The questions began with a man in the audience accused Bill Clinton of pardoning a group of Cuban nationalists so that Clinton would have the Puerto Rican vote when she ran for the Senate in 2000. 

On August 11, 1999 Clinton commuted the sentences of 16 members of FALN , a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group that set off 120 bombs in the United States mostly in New York City  and Chicago , convicted for conspiracies to commit robbery, bomb-making, and sedition, as well as for firearms and explosives violations.  See WIKI for more on this pardon.

"Apologies notwithstanding, there are some things you just do not say in a Presidential campaign. It doesn’t matter how hard you work; how tired you are or what is on your mind. There are some things that demonstrate conclusively that the speech you are engaging in is in bad taste, is improper and at the best can be called poor judgment. The kind of poor judgment that indicates you are not really and truly qualified to be President of The United States.

Hillary Clinton said just such a thing today while in South Dakota, meeting with the Editorial Board of the Argus Leader newspaper, in advance of the June 2d primary in South Dakota. She was defending her position to stay in the race until June, possibly until the time of the convention, when she stated history was on her side as evidence of past nominating time periods not wrapping up until June, “My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary, somewhere in the middle of June, right?" Clinton said in an interview with the Argus Leader newspaper editorial board.

"We all remember, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California, I don't understand it," Clinton said.

The remarks can be read to say that Mrs. Clinton is remaining in the race, just in case someone assassinates Barack Obama, and that history shows that it is possible to obtain the parties nomination as late as June for that reason . . ."

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