Hillary Clinton\'s colossal blunder simply the last straw....Hillary Clinton apologized Friday after citing the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (below) in defending her decision to keep running for the Democratic presidential nomination. \n\nHillary Clinton apologized Friday after citing the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (below) indefending her decision to keep running for the Democratic presidential nomination.\n\nSICK. Disgusting. And yet revealing. Hillary Clinton is staying in the race in the event some nut kills Barack Obama.\n\nIt could happen, but what definitely has happened is that Clinton has killed her own chances ofbeing vice president. She doesn\'t deserve to be elected dog catcher anywhere now.\n\nHer shocking comment to a South Dakota newspaper might qualify as the dumbest thing ever said in American politics.\n\nHer lame explanation that she brought up the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy because his brother Ted\'s illness was on her mind doesn\'t cut it. Not even close.\n\nWe have seen an X-ray of a very dark soul. One consumed by raw ambition to where the possible assassination of an opponent is something to ponder in a strategic way. Otherwise, why is murder on her mind?\n\nIt\'s like Tanya Harding\'s kneecapping has come to politics. Only the senator from New York has more lethal fantasies than that nutty skater.\n\nWe could have seen it coming, if only we had realized Clinton\'s thinking could be so cold. She has grown increasingly wild in her imagery lately, invoking everything from slavery to the political killings in Zimbabwe in making her argument for the Florida and Michigan delegations. She claimed to be the victim of sexism, despite winning the votes of white men.\n\nBut none of it was moving the nomination needle, with Obama, despite recent dents, still on course to be the victor.\n\nSo shekept digging deeper, looking for the magic button. Instead, she pushed the eject button, lifting herself right out of consideration.\n\nGiving voice to such a vile thought is all the more horrible because fears Obama would be killed have been anundercurrent to his astonishing rise. Republican Mike Huckabee made a stupid joke about it recently. Many black Americans have talked of it, reflecting their assumption that racists would never tolerate a black President and that Obama would be taken from them.Clinton has now fed that fear. She needs a very long vacation. And we need one from her.\n\nSay good night, Hillary. And go away.\n\nmgoodwin@nydailynews.com\n\nCOMMENT:\n\nMissus clinton\'s \'timing\' rationale doesn\'t cut it, either. The examples she chose were hardly analogous: The husband locked up the nomination IN MARCH, NOT JUNE, and by June, RFK had been in the race ONLY 2 or 3 MONTHS.\n\nThe clintons\' fundamental error: They are too arrogant and dim-witted to understand that the demagogic process in this fiberoptic age isn\'t about counting spun heads. It\'s about not discounting circumambient brains. \n\nJust as the clinton race card was premeditated, so too was the assassination invocation.\n\nListen to Gwen Ifill on \'Meet the Press\':\n\nGWEN IFILL: [N]ever talk about assassination in politics.\n\nMAUREEN DOWD: Exactly.\n\nMS. IFILL: Exactly. Why would you even suggest it?\n\nAnd the backdrop is what\'s important. There\'s probably no one who\'s ever been in a room with Barack Obama at one of these huge rallies or even just seen a photograph of it where it hasn\'t crossed their mind, if you\'re of a certain age and survived and lived through these assassinations and assassination attempts.\n\nSo the question with the Clintons especially is we know that THEY ARE WORDSMITHS, that we know that they very carefully think about what it is they say. She\'s said this several times before.\n\n\nAnd so you have to think what do they think people would think? We\'ve heard her campaign spokesman say things like,you know, \"Who knows what could happen?\"\n\n\n\nThus, there is only one possible rationale: hillary clinton invoked assassination to incite some crazy racist.\n\nBlacks used as dispensable political pawns is entirely consistent with clinton history.\n\nThink Rwanda. See YouTube: Destroying Obama (clinton legacy of lynching update) balkanizers, Barack, bill, clinton, genocide, hillary, lynching, Obama, racists, Rwanda