On March 22 2008 I wrote a diary that almost got me kicked out of the DK community. My crime? A supposed breach of protocol when I asked a rhetorical question of the Clinton campaign ... What is she waiting for? in which I recounted my personal experience of living through JFK's, MLK's and RFK's assassinations as a boy.
After her recent behavior and especially her comments today, I feel vindicated for asking why in the world she was holding on and extending the primary process when it was clear to me (and many others) that Barack had clinched the nomination back in late March.
Please follow me over the fold for some more thoughts on Hillary Clinton, loose talk about assassination and the DK policy of punishing dissent.
Within hours after publishing my diary (and the next time I logged in to DK) I was met by an electronic warning that blocked my entrance to the site. The message accused me of suggesting that somewhere in the bowels of the Clinton campaign someone was plotting to assassinate Barack Obama.
This was a complete misreading of my diary and perhaps reflected the "readers" dark thoughts more than they did my own.
My view was nothing so nefarious, even though my implication exposed the possibility of something just as odious afoot within the Clinton campaign. Namely, that someone within or with ties to the campaign had likely gamed out a strategy for dealing with the possibility that Barack would be assassinated or knocked out of the campaign by a scandal so monstrous as to make his campaign dead on arrival.
For this I was tarred, feathered and threatened to be run out of town on a rail.
The only way back into the good graces of the DK gods was to acknowledge that I had stepped across an unseen line and that any further mention of the "assassination scenario" would be fatal. I comptemplated leaving the community, but after a few days of feeling hurt and angry I thought it out and accepted the acknowledgment. After which I wrote a follow up diary explaining what I really meant by the first diary.
Given Hillary's recent actions I submit that the official DK reaction, and that of some in the community, was misguided. And that my words were either intentionally misconstrued or interperted through a lense darkly.
In any case ... WHAT THE F*CK IS SHE THINKING?!?!?!?!