@Lash,
I vote for the latter.
I don't think she was, in any way, suggesting Obama should be assassinated, nor was Trump suggesting Clinton should be assassinated.
Having said this, Trump is an idiot, and Clinton's best defense against continued revelations about her.
Now, the media is poised to take anything he says and ride it to death, but he keeps making their efforts easy for them.
At some point this pattern of unforced errors has to tell us something about him, I don't buy for a second the crazy theory that he is deliberately trying to tank his own campaign, but I do think he is incapable of modifying his rhetoric, or too stupid to realize that what works during primary contests doesn't necessarily work in the general election. It seems clear to me that he has impulse control problems. I don't believe such problems make him a threat for starting WWIII over a nasty tweet from Putin, but it could easily make him a threat for constantly making ill considered and outrageous comments that can have negative consequences for American interests.
While I don't believe he was seriously suggesting Clinton should be or could be shot by "2nd Amendment People" I also don't believe he only meant that they would "do something" by coming together and vote against her. He thought he was being clever and funny in a way someone might say something over the top when in a bar with their friends, and he won't knock it off for the simple reason that people are telling him he has to and he hates people telling him what he has to do, This sort of egotistical attitude, while unfortunately far too common among politicians, is not a good thing in a president; particularly when the person doesn't have the ability to turn it off when doing so is to his or her advantage.
While the news coverage is almost entirely consumed by this stupid comment, the important news about evidence of pay for play involving the State Dept and the Clinton Foundation isn't getting the attention it deserves. As well, the story of Seddique Mateen, the father of the Orlando killer Omar Mateen, appearing in the front rows of a Clinton Rally is dead on arrival. Now the fact that Mateen the Elder supports Clinton really doesn't say anything about Clinton is pretty irrelevant. If the father of Dylann Roof appeared in the same frame as the candidate at a Trump rally, it would be all over the news, with all sorts of sinister suggestions being made by Clinton surrogates. Trump wouldn't have had to say a word about it, he could have allowed surrogates to make the suggestions. Would it have been dirty? Yep, but no dirtier than the tricks all campaigns play. However he can't take advantage of what was almost certainly an unfortunate coincidence because, once again, his big mouth has redirected media attention away from Clinton and on himself.
This election is horrible. If Trump doesn't get his campaign on track and his fat trap under control, Clinton is going to run away with the election. Neither or them should win, but one will and an even worse result is one of them winning big so they are convinced they have a "mandate."
Right now even if Trump wins he will be fighting with a Republican held Senate and House. For whatever reason, Republicans can't seem to come together and work in concert with one another the way Democrats can. I don't think that even if Clinton wins big she can turn the Senate and the House blue, but if she does we will be looking at a true disaster.
Given that both of them are unqualified to be president, the "best" result will be the winner being seriously restrained by the other branches of government. Assuming that Clinton's coattails aren't formidable enough to win Democrats both the Senate and the House the "best" result if for her to win and be kept in check at least by the House. I hate to say it, but it's all I can hope for at this point. I just don't trust the Republicans to continue their fight with candidate Trump to President Trump.
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