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Hillary’s RFK gaffe certainly has people talking—and most aren’t being too kind.

• Michael Goodwin of the New York Daily News calls it “an X-ray of a very dark soul” that considers murder just another strategic possibility. Hillary has shot her chance at being vice president, he writes: “She doesn’t deserve to be elected dog catcher anywhere now.”

• Steve Benen labeled it mere “molehill politics" in the Carpetbagger Report. Clinton was only talking about the election calendar, yet her argument still misleads: Kennedy was killed in June, but that race began in March.
• Hillary’s excuse, that she’s been thinking about Ted Kennedy, doesn’t fly either, Karen Tumulty writes in Time magazine, because she made nearly identical statements a couple of months ago.

(Read more Clinton 2008 stories.)