To me her non-apology is the issue. That and the fact that she has deliberately manufactured a phony reason to stay in the race by comparing the 1968 election cycle timeline to this year's timeline. When Kennedy was assassinated in June '68, they were just 13 primaries into the season. Of COURSE no one would quit the race at that point. But in June this year we are going to be 50 primaries into the season, and she has already lost. That's the point of all this that is so poorly articulated. She's working on a lie.

Obama and his wife have been pilloried for poorly chosen words, though, and their political opponents have made them major campaign issues. Hell, Obama has been skewered for words he didn't even SAY, somebody else said them. Clinton has taken that to the bank and worked that into a campaign issue, too.

Hardly any coverage at all was allowed for the Secret Service officer with the noose in his cube. Seems to me that's a bigger security issue for the candidates than what Hillary gaffed.

-Wexler

Dan's on the money. Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, and their ilk have turned political discourse into a festering swamp that drains a poorly managed manure storage structure. Any statement -- even the ones carefully scripted and vetted by the campaign staff -- can be parsed and snippeted and turned into food for the attack dogs. Give us all a break and talk about issues for a change.

The thing is that I have seen nothing credible that even hints at the Obama camp's being involved in fostering or prolonging this non-issue. The whole thing is a media feeding frenzy, one in which there is no meat, either live or dead, to chew upon.

Elsewhere there is a headline that implies that Hillary needs to apologize to Obama's children. What utter hogwash. I will repeat what I said elsewhere to the pundits who continue to try to make something out of nothing: Shut the f**k up.

Ted

As I said in my online BLOG here on Capitol Hill Blue back in February, the root cause of this whole problem is that our seemingly perpetual political campaigns go on for FAR too long and cost WAY too much money.

Anyone who was paying attention knew at the beginning of last year what each of the (then) major candidates for President stood for. But now, this whole campaign for the Presidency has turned into a seemingly never-ending soap opera.

And, because the mainstream media long ago ran out of anything new to offer us about the candidates or their stance on the issues, they only thing left for these clowns to do now is parse every candidate's words with a fine toothed comb. Next, I fully expect they will be counting how many times each candidate goes to the bathroom to see if they might possibly have an undocumented "bowel problem" that they haven't (yet) told us about!

This is sheer madness! When, oh when, are we going to finally wake up and realize we have let the corporate media barons turn our once orderly Presidential campaign into a mockery of democracy and our country into the laughingstock of the world?

amen.
It seems like no one ever hears what the candidates say, but only what they think they might be implying. Like no one speaks english anymore they speak some ill defined meta-english, where everything has to be interpreted before you know what it means.

(Sighhhhhhhhhhhh..........!)

For much too long a time we have been subject to reprimand from a self-righteous, self-appointed political thought-police who decides what may be said about someone at some particular time and place. The thought police invariably respond to a politician's faux pas with outraged demands that s/he must resign, or s/he must apologize, or s/he needs to seek professional help. Or perhaps the TP will wag its Miss Manners morality at those non-political figures who, in its infinite wisdom, commit an act of impiety toward the political celebrity.

My own experience with the tissue-tearing tantrums of the TP goes back to the aftermath of the assassination of President Kennedy, when - in the college news-rag column I wrote - I was somewhat less than worshipful of the man and the myth. For having failed to emotionally mutilate myself and then throw myself under the wheels of the Camelot Juggernaut wagon, I was set upon by my editor and any number of fellow students; I was - according to them - hateful, insensitive, filled with rage, crude and lacking sophistication, deliberately and spitefully cruel to Jackie and the children, and most of all I was in need of professional help.

All because I pointed out that Kennedy was not the Baldar the Beautiful most of them insisted that he was, but mostly because I had failed to participate in the emotional high colonic the Camelot votaries insisted was the duty of all.

The same with little brother Robert Kennedy, gunned down in a San Francisco hotel kitchen. The same with baby brother Edward Kennedy, washed away by his own cowardice. And even Beatles weirdo John Lennon and his - IMCO - talentless consort, Yoko Ono.

With Lyndon Johnson, how dare this crude, unlettered Texas politician sully the palace of America's (self-promoted) "royal family", where Queen Jacqueline had the menus written in French, or dare to pull the ears of his dog? Nixon? How dare he! He should resign, he should apologize!

Reagan? That clown! How dare he scare us by saying the bombing starts in five minutes! He should apologize, he should resign, he should seek professional help! Alexander Haig? How dare that Nazi say he was in charge! He should...George H. W. Bush...Bill Clinton... George W. Bush...John McCain...Hillary Clinton...On and on, ad nauseam.

We need to lighten up and remember that these people are politicians and are not necessarily the sharpest knives in the drawer, nor are we exactly candidates for Mensa. We need to stop taking either them or ourselves too seriously.

Most sincerely,

T. J. Flapsaddle

Wexler has it right. The fact that Hillary has repeatedly gone out of her way NOT to apologize for remarks that were tacky and tasteless, AT BEST, says it all. Even if the remark itself was a slip up, NOT doing something is not, and never will be, an accident. Hillary fully deserves all the pillorying, and more.

What Hillary said was just plain WRONG! It was wrong the first time she said it. It was wrong the second time she said it. It was wrong the third time she said it. It was wrong the fourth time she said it. It was just WRONG! To make it worse she has not made an appropriate apology. Imagine for a minute what she would be saying if another candidate said that bout her. The primary election was hers to lose. This is what she has done. I have a message for the Hillary supporters who continue to blindly follow her- Hillary has done this to herself. Stop your whining.

As long as blame is being assigned here let's not forget TattleTube! With all of the precious social networking crowd everywhere with their camera phones and other high-tech toys there is always a "Minder" watching and ready to send whatever comes out of someone's mouth a little wrongly (in their opinion) to live on in the eternal hell of TattleTube!

UNBELIEVABLE... I finally agree with DKT on something. As for the thought police, lack of political correctness will soon morph into hate speech, which will then be deemed a hate crime... the newest mechanism in the never-ending process by which so-called liberals try to disenfranchise those of us with ideas not appreciated by socialists, communists, and other aspiring totalitarians.

Thus, Hillary's crime it seems to me was to (minimally) stand in the way of Obama's intended steerage of our ship of state into purely leftist waters, the ideological place that all those (thought police) who carry water for Obama would have us be ignorant of.

I say this because - as an example - no thinking person would seriously believe that the average American would, should, or even could forsake his or her own (family's) livelihood in the service of finally, completely bankrupting this country to send more aid to foreign lands and peoples at the peril of our own... a constant thread throughout Obama's own spoken ideology. Marxism anyone ???

Come to think of it, perhaps the thought police might parse a few more of Obama's words for the hatred of America that he seems to obfuscate so easily with that golden-tongued Harvard style of his.

I couldn't agree with Dan moore. This parsing of someone's words and then they're is taken to task for the quality or "sincerity" of their apology is ridiculous. I think when Clinton made the original comment she was tired. I'm sure they're all tired. Give these people a break. I'm not a Hillary fan at all, but what she said about RFK should be taken in the context of her past. Does anyone truly think that she's wants Obama to be assassinated? I don't think so. I truly wish common sense would return to this country.