Yes there was the now rousing Obermann 'Final Comment' which shows why Keith has one of the best research teams in the media that backed the "Assassination" subject in the corner. But what no one is broaching is that this apologetically described 'gaffe' is none other than a "Freudian Slip of the tongue". It ranks up there with saying the word "BOMB" on an airplane or "FIRE" in a crowded theater. It is more another gaffe which Keith went on how many times this campaign season has forgiven Hillary for the many other 'gaffe's' be it the "Bosinan Big Fish Story" or the "planting of Q's" in Iowa just to name a couple, she has uttered. But this one takes the proverbial "cake", like how Maria Antoinette is remembered in history saying "let them eat cake!" Thankfully last night the press was eating it up like how sharks in a feeding frenzy.

Going deeper, this "Freudian Slip of the tongue"----meaning a momentary exposure of an unspoken or subconscious thought [or worse, a wish] that Obama and his campaign would be there no more. Sure she was reaching in that interview, expanding a bit further what she has said before about June or RFK, answering the same inquiry from a constant group interrogation by the press, local and national, as to why specifically are she is remaining in the race despite the obvious second grade math land mounting $20M plus debt.  I mean her logic that a sudden Obama implosion reminds me of what my mother used to utter when she insisted I put on a clean pair of underwear back when I started driving a car---insinuating that if I crashed and hospitalized, at least I wouldn't be embarrassed by soiled underpants. My logical reply was always they probably would be blood stained then! But we know that was not a genuine concern, the fear was that I would crash the car, not soil the underwear.  The fear for Clinton here is that Obama will win the election and serve famously for eight years and leave her political legacy behind.

Yet there are many apologists excusing the 'supposed' gaffe as an example of exhaustion, but was it really? In more aptly fits an utterance expressing anger. Haven't your heard loved ones or even acquaintances say things like "I wish him [or her] dead". Or "they should hang the bastard", as if they know whether the human being was born out of wedlock. That said we know the meaning of those phrases in context----complete contempt for the person. Sure most are sorry afterward for saying such a mean and nasty thing, but it still showed a moment of serious contempt. In this case this contempt was in public, and ultimately possessing a serious and defining political consequence. I suspect many Democratic leaders who are associated or supportive of Clinton will quietly separate from her.

For me it actually shows her inexperience in the big political arena. Hillary Rodham Clinton might be a superior political wok but the role she honed over the 30 years was actually the chief supporter of her husband. Like it or not that was her role regardless of her own personal ambitions, the role as standard bearer does ably fit. And this gaffe, on top of the "lost count" ones that Obermann's research staff put together prove it regardless of her base of energized and stridently scorned support.