2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCan someone show me where Hillary actually said "I apologize"?
All I am seeing is something like I probably shouldnt have said that but....
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)libtodeath
(2,888 posts)so yes it does matter.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)libtodeath
(2,888 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)characterizing it as an "apology".
She did not in any way apologize.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)That's always fresh.
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)That's called an explanation. And by the way "super predator" wasn't a "choice of words" it was a term of art pushed by John DiIulio and his fellow crackpot social scientists at the time.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)the idiot theory of John DiIulio that both her an Bills should apologize for. They were fools to be sucked into it in the first place. And she dares to tell us that she had anything to do with civil rights?
thereismore
(13,326 posts)Arazi
(6,829 posts)'In a written response to The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart on the issue Thursday, Clinton said: Looking back, I shouldnt have used those words, and I wouldnt use them today."'
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Way to go out on a limb Secretary Clinton.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Ned_Devine
(3,146 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)Here it is:
In a written response to The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart on the issue Thursday, Clinton said: Looking back, I shouldnt have used those words, and I wouldnt use them today."
morningfog
(18,115 posts)The sentiment she has not regretted.
CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)What did her reaction and emotions demonstrate? ?????
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)Please try and keep up. It took Bill 22 years to regret it, and only then because it was making his wife look bad.
TCJ70
(4,387 posts)...and why he disagreed and felt boxed into it at the time.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)TCJ70
(4,387 posts)...rock and a hard place, right?
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)She spoke with J. Capehart
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/02/25/hillary-clinton-responds-to-activist-who-demanded-apology-for-superpredator-remarks/
Her statement:
In that speech, I was talking about the impact violent crime and vicious drug cartels were having on communities across the country and the particular danger they posed to children and families. Looking back, I shouldnt have used those words, and I wouldnt use them today.
My lifes work has been about lifting up children and young people whove been let down by the system or by society. Kids who never got the chance they deserved. And unfortunately today, there are way too many of those kids, especially in African-American communities. We havent done right by them. We need to. We need to end the school to prison pipeline and replace it with a cradle-to-college pipeline.
As an advocate, as First Lady, as Senator, I was a champion for children. And my campaign for president is about breaking down the barriers that stand in the way of all kids, so every one of them can live up to their God-given potential.
bvf
(6,604 posts)Weasels don't apologize.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)Does that count?
"Clinton regrets 1996 remark on super-predators after encounter with activist"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/25/clinton-heckled-by-black-lives-matter-activist/
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)What is her rating on "honesty" again?
riversedge
(70,299 posts)accountability for this bill??
........The 1994 crime bill, the statute that many African Americans single out as the cause of mass incarceration of blacks over the past 20 years and that many in the criminal justice field view as a mistake, passed the House with 235 votes. Sanders joined 188 Democrats and 46 Republicans in voting aye.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton at a Democratic presidential debate in Milwaukee, on Feb. 11. (Win Mcnamee/Getty Images)
No one would question Sanderss commitment to justice before or after he voted for the crime bill. Nor should anyone do the same to Clinton, who didnt even have a vote. Sure, her words sting in the light of 2016, but they should not blind anyone to what she did before and after she uttered those 42 words in the span of 12 seconds.
At the time Clinton was speaking, she was talking about body cameras, which is part of Clintons criminal justice platform that she first outlined in a major address last April. The same speech where she said, Its time to change our approach. Its time to end the era of mass incarceration.
Pushing Clinton on her past statements as Williams did is eminently fair. What isnt fair is ignoring what Clinton promises to do to fix the glaring problems unleashed by a bill Sanders voted for and Clintons husband signed into law.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/02/25/hillary-clinton-responds-to-activist-who-demanded-apology-for-superpredator-remarks/
retrowire
(10,345 posts)msongs
(67,441 posts)CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)malokvale77
(4,879 posts)CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)Bernie has demonstrated it while Hillary has... not so much.
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)Thank you.