The horrible comments made by Hillary Clinton yesterday, using the assassination of Robert Kennedy in June 1968 as a rationalization of why she is staying in the election, just waiting for something to happen to Barack Obama, sent me back to 1968. And all that happened that year. Such, such difficult times, and as I have remembered, I am thunderstruck at the similarities between 1968 and 2008. Today in this election year, we are dealing with many of the same issues and feel the same sense of a fight to the death for our principles and for our political lives.
1968 was a volcanic year of violence in our country and the scars are still very, very tender and the memory still very, very fresh. Even now. Hillary Clinton's comments ripped scar tissue off that terrible wound and poured the acidity of her unbridled ambition all over it. It hurts very much. Perhaps because the similarities to today's struggle are uncanny.
These are my memories and experiences of that year, and the years that led up to it, and I invite you to share it with me.
To start on that journey down this dark, dark memory lane, let me say that "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.... "