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Hillary Clinton is still on the defensive about her comment last week noting how Robert Kennedy had been assassinated in June. How could she think the comment wouldn’t raise concerns about Barack Obama being assassinated? Nearly 6 in 10 Americans (and more than 8 in 10 African-Americans) have worried that someone would try to harm Obama if he were the nominee, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll taken in March.

Clinton’s non-apology apology didn’t help: “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.” So it is other people’s fault if they thought the comment was inappropriate?

Meanwhile, speaking of inappropriate, here is a clip of a Fox News contributor who accidentally messed up Obama’s and Osama bin Laden’s names, then laughingly suggested that both of them should be knocked off. Ha, ha.
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“The record suggests that if Clinton is not the nominee, no woman will seriously contend for the White House for another generation,” columnist Marie Cocco wrote. She noted that “only eight women currently serve as governors, the springboard to the White House for four of the past five presidents.” One of those female governors who is sometimes mentioned as a prospect is Kathleen Sebelius. But, Cocco pointed out, Sebelius “heads a state with six electoral votes and limited fundraising potential.”

Cocco wrote: “Clinton cleared the hurdles often cited as holding American women back, yet she is unlikely to surmount the final barrier. So you have to wonder. Is it something about Hillary, or something about us?”