Battleangel

Good commentary on the dark legacy of American political assassinations, brought to the forefront by certain recent comments.

This is un-forgivable, because this nation’s deepest shame, its most enduring horror, its most terrifying legacy, is political assassination.

Lincoln. Garfield. McKinley. Kennedy. Malcolm X. Martin Luther King. Robert Kennedy.

And, but for the grace of the universe or the luck of the draw, Reagan, Ford, Truman, Nixon, Andrew Jackson, both Roosevelts, even George Wallace. The politics of this nation is steeped enough in blood [...]

I believe this to be the core issue here, namely the flimsiness of the US political system. If presented with such a string of violence and assassinations alone, most observers would assume you were talking about some third world nation in a constant state of civil unrest.

Elsewhere Huckabee already made that joke. And Fox contributor Liz Trotta as she comments on Hillary Clinton’s rationale for staying in the race: "[...] some are reading [it] as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama. Um, Uh, Obama. Well…both if we could! [laughing a little too gleefully]". Real classy America.