Presidential Test Failure

Did she say what I think she said? Apparently it was at least the second time Senator Clinton, making the point that she hadn't stuck around too long, publicly recollected that Sen. Robert Kennedy was killed in the month of June. The last time was in a Time Magazine article in March.
Here's what she said to The Sioux Falls Argus Leader about her political future. "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? we all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California." Now here is part of her apology later in the day. "The Kennedy's have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy," referring to Sen. Kennedy's recent illness. She added, "And 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."
Now back to the Time Magazine article. She said, "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. Having a primary contest go through June Is nothing particularly unusual."
For this exercise let's forget that her husbands last opponent dropped out in March of 1992 and the more sinister inferences one might make out of her statement. Do you notice anything else here? She is wading through enormously sensitive waters and it would appear she is unable to locate the dry land. To be generous, it is these moments of apparent confusion about the truth that sunk her campaign.
Whether it be fables about Bosnian sniper fire, anecdotes about hospitals turning away life threateningly ill patients, planted debate questioners or irritating details, of which there were many, like anti-Obama adds featuring voters who later reveal not being registered in the state the adds were tailored to, it's this steady flow of controverting information that ultimately determined her fate.
One could argue that much of the blame lies with her staff. Surely someone noticed that the Bobby Kennedy comment was in bad taste when it was first used and should not be repeated. And on down the list there was in each case someone who dropped the ball.
If Senator Clinton was already wearing President Bush's shoes these matters could have been dealt with like, well, President Bush does. But she didn't get that far because people realized that they were actually looking at what a Hillary Clinton Presidency would look like and didn't like what they saw. Unlike most of the time, during an election we the people wield the power and we have done our job. Congratulations.