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papapi's Journal
I may be just an ordinary citizen. I may be just a working class white male. I am able to forgive simple unintentional gaffes by a politician. But I CANNOT forgive the cold and calculated manner Hillary Clinton has adopted in order to advance her personal agenda.
As a child of the 60s, as Hillary was, I lived through the horrifying political assassinations of our nation's leaders. I remember the voice of the Principal of my grade school as it broke over the loudspeaker in my classroom.
"Can I have your attention. Early today in Dallas, Texas the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy was wounded in an attempt on his life. He has been transported to the hospital. The situation is grave. Please keep him in your prayers. Classes are canceled and students will be boarding their busses in fifteen minutes."
When I arrived home, my father, a veteran of two wars, was sitting silently in front of the black and white television. Tears were running down his cheeks.
"I think it's over" he said. "I think he might be dead."
Here he was absorbed in the despair of what was happening to his Commander in Chief. A man who had witnessed untold horrors during his early life as he helped remove the fallen from the battlefields in Europe and Korea. He never carried a weapon during his years of military service. He was a conscientious objector. Yet he enlisted and became part of the medic corp, assisting in the field and in the military hospitals - caring for wounded and dying soldiers. I can still vividly recall that image to my mind. And this was only the beginning. Our nation lost so much in the succeeding years.
Hillary Clinton is no ordinary citizen. She is not of ordinary intelligence. She has occupied the premier house of our nation. She has attended the best schools our nation has to offer. She has served in the highest legislative body in our country. Her comment today in reference to the Bobby Kennedy tragedy is no coincidence. It is no witless gaffe. It is the cold and calculated planting of a disgusting and reprehensible idea in the minds of madmen and fools. An invitation to social miscreants to hoist something foul and evil upon this nation. Until this point her dirty politics have been excused away by her supporters as misrepresentation or volley. Not this one. There is no excuse whatsoever for her to think we are this ignorant or uninformed. Her plan is a failure and her campaign for the nomination is over. Anyone who can support this kind of deliberate plotting has absolutely no moral scruples.
I call for Hillary Clinton's resignation from this primary. And if she has one ounce of honor left in her, she will publicly admit her crime and ask us all for our forgiveness. I doubt she'll do this. So far she hasn't even shown that she has the courage to offer an acceptable apology.
Beyond the pale only begins to describe her folly.
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