Just Before Hillary Kills Obama

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Just Before Hillary Kills Obama

Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo

Saturday, May 24, 2008

When will Hillary kill Obama? In New Hampshire or on Super Tuesday? Before March or in June?

I first heard the joke when Hilary Clinton was invincible and Rudy Giuliani was the leading candidate for the Republican Party nomination. I dismissed it as inconsequential.

Thanks to Hillary, now I do not think it is wise to regard it as a mere joke. Anyone who knows Barack Obama should warn him to beware of June 5th.

The way Hillary continues to run, in spite of all the odds, indicates that she knows something we all do not know. Not a form of unknown math combination and permutation that will give her the delegates she needs, but something more sinister. Some have called that thing the June surprise.

The idea is that when June comes, as the super delegates prepare to make their final choices, Hillary’s people will drop a fetal bomb about Barack Obama. And they hope the bomb will be big enough that Obama will throw in the towel way before the super delegates desert him in doves. That has been the best case scenario that the Clintons have been working on as a final solution to the fairy tale.

But in an interview with Sioux Argus Leader editorial board, Clinton had a slip of tongue. In trying to give reasons why she is hanging in there, she said that we should remember that Robert Kennedy was assassinated on June 5th 1968 in California while he fought for the Democratic Party nomination. The good book says that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.

As of June 5th 1968, Robert Kennedy was not the leading candidate for the Democratic Party nomination. He was about 200 votes behind Eugene McCarthy. Meanwhile, the real leading candidate backed by the establishment was Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson’s Vice President. Despite Kennedy’s third place position, he was considered a threat to the candidate of the Democratic Party establishment. Kennedy’s ultimate plan was to knock out Eugene McCarthy in California and go one-on-one with Humphrey.

For many in the Democratic Party leadership, Kennedy was just a fairy tale candidate. Like Obama of today, candidate Kennedy carried with him the hope of millions who had been disenfranchised by the political process. He advocated racial and economic justice. His concept of foreign policy was one that would be non-aggressive, not one that would obliterate enemy nations. He attracted the young, noting that, "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope...."

Kennedy was called an opportunist by the Democratic Party elite. He was considered at some quarters as a man without substance, a former Attorney General under the administration of his brother (code word-nepotism) and a first term senator from his adopted New York (code word-carpetbagger). From the point he announced his candidacy for president on March 16th 1968, it was obvious he would be the candidate for change, "I do not run for the Presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies,” Robert Kennedy declared. “I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I'm obliged to do all I can." Reminds you of anyone?

Robert Kennedy was not unaware of the danger he faced. He noted that, “Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.”

On June 5th 1968, 24 year-old Jordanian immigrant, Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Kennedy as he celebrated his win in California. Sirhan’s reason for killing him was because of Kennedy’s support for Israel. Or so we were told, as conspiracy theorists will say.

With so many Hillary’s voters culturally different (a code word) from Obama, who knows if the culturally different Sirhan Sirhan of Pennsylvania or West Virginia has gotten a coded message. Who knows? Maybe Hillary knows. (Sounds outrageous? In these United States, you never say never.)

Before Iowa, the joke was that based on what happened to the Kennedy brothers, it is obvious that there are people behind the U.S. presidency that are stronger than the president. It then follows that if President Hillary does not want to be assassinated by forces who do not want a female president (code word – sexists- the same people Hillary has been attacking this week), she should pick Barack Obama as her Vice President. The thinking being that killing President Hillary would lead to the worst nightmare of the culturally different Hillary voters - a black president.

Now the new joke is that if President Obama wants to stay alive politically and otherwise, he should make sure that Hillary Clinton is NOT his Vice President. What an end for Hillary!

But should anything happen to Obama on June 5th or after, William Shakespeare has provided us with a befitting epitaph. It is the same that Robert Kennedy recited for his brother, President John F. Kennedy, when he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

“Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;

For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night

Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.

Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night,

Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,

Take him and cut him out in little stars,

And he will make the face of heaven so fine

That all the world will be in love with night

And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo: To Hillary’s Supporters: Please Don’t Leave the Country

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Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo will be signing copies of his book, Children of a Retired God at the 100 Cummings Center, suite 221 E, Beverley, Massachusetts on Sat. June 14th at 5pm; at Igwebuke Hall in Hapeville, near Atlanta International Airport, Georgia on Sat. June 28th at 8.pm and at the People’s Club Hall in Boston on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 at 8.00pm. For more information, contact Ehimen Edokpa at Integrity Business Group, 129 Union Street, Lynn, Phone: 978-335-4451. More dates and venues will be announced as soon as they become available. His latest books, How I Helped to Elect Obama President & Africa: The Shit that Happened will be out soon.

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