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Can someone show me where Hillary actually said "I apologize"? (Original Post) libtodeath Feb 2016 OP
What does it matter, the apology has been rejected. leftofcool Feb 2016 #1
A non apology shows disdain and contempt libtodeath Feb 2016 #2
Evidently, the protester herself thought it was an apology because she rejected it. leftofcool Feb 2016 #7
Or maybe she was asked a question based on the term the MSM is trying to push. libtodeath Feb 2016 #21
I think she was being charitable Kelvin Mace Feb 2016 #9
It wasn't an apology. It was regret. morningfog Feb 2016 #10
Was it the classic, I'm sorry if you were offended? DefenseLawyer Feb 2016 #3
It does not even seem to be that,just a wrong choice of words but I was right sort of thing. libtodeath Feb 2016 #4
Oh THAT she called an apology? DefenseLawyer Feb 2016 #13
It is not just the words that she should apologize for - it is jwirr Feb 2016 #27
Not even "sorry if". No sorry, no apologize. nt thereismore Feb 2016 #11
Worse. Here's her statement/"apology" Arazi Feb 2016 #12
Well no, those words have been recognized as idiotic today. DefenseLawyer Feb 2016 #16
Exactly. Her SOLE concern is how it makes her look today n/t arcane1 Feb 2016 #19
And of course it was written to Capehart. Must be nice to have a connect like that Ned_Devine Feb 2016 #26
Nope, less than that Kelvin Mace Feb 2016 #15
She did not. She only regrets the words because they are biting her in the ass. morningfog Feb 2016 #5
AGREED! CorporatistNation Feb 2016 #29
Where is the apology from Sanders for his vote on the crime bill? Thinkingabout Feb 2016 #6
When did Bernie use such racist language in support of the bill? morningfog Feb 2016 #8
About that.... Kelvin Mace Feb 2016 #18
Bernie complained about the crime bill AT THE TIME. arcane1 Feb 2016 #20
He was plenty vocal about that vote... TCJ70 Feb 2016 #34
He didn't have to vote for the bill. Thinkingabout Feb 2016 #35
Ignored this did you? retrowire Feb 2016 #36
But then he's voting against women... TCJ70 Feb 2016 #38
Then just say he voted for the crime bill. Thinkingabout Feb 2016 #39
Best I could find is this tk2kewl Feb 2016 #14
Don't waste your time looking. bvf Feb 2016 #17
Well she said she regrets it, not 'I apologize". Stellar Feb 2016 #22
Sounds like more weasling around on words trying to have it all ways. libtodeath Feb 2016 #23
ONLY Because She Got Called Out On It... WORTHLESS! Typical!! CorporatistNation Feb 2016 #30
Sanders voted for the Crime bill. Why the double standard?? Does he bear no Responsibilty and riversedge Feb 2016 #24
lol retrowire Feb 2016 #37
nothing she ever says will be good enough to the sanders crowd nt msongs Feb 2016 #25
Possible Reason Why Anything Hillary Says Has Trouble Flying... CorporatistNation Feb 2016 #31
How many do-overs does the President of the United States get? nt malokvale77 Feb 2016 #28
NONE... Solid Judgement is KEY !!! CorporatistNation Feb 2016 #32
It's as simple as that. malokvale77 Feb 2016 #33
 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
9. I think she was being charitable
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 09:06 PM
Feb 2016

characterizing it as an "apology".

She did not in any way apologize.

 

DefenseLawyer

(11,101 posts)
13. Oh THAT she called an apology?
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 09:10 PM
Feb 2016

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)
27. It is not just the words that she should apologize for - it is
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 09:26 PM
Feb 2016

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?

Arazi

(6,829 posts)
12. Worse. Here's her statement/"apology"
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 09:09 PM
Feb 2016

'In a written response to The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart on the issue Thursday, Clinton said: “Looking back, I shouldn’t have used those words, and I wouldn’t use them today."'
 

DefenseLawyer

(11,101 posts)
16. Well no, those words have been recognized as idiotic today.
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 09:13 PM
Feb 2016

Way to go out on a limb Secretary Clinton.

 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
15. Nope, less than that
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 09:13 PM
Feb 2016

Here it is:

In a written response to The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart on the issue Thursday, Clinton said: “Looking back, I shouldn’t have used those words, and I wouldn’t use them today."

 

morningfog

(18,115 posts)
5. She did not. She only regrets the words because they are biting her in the ass.
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 09:05 PM
Feb 2016

The sentiment she has not regretted.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
20. Bernie complained about the crime bill AT THE TIME.
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 09:15 PM
Feb 2016

Please try and keep up. It took Bill 22 years to regret it, and only then because it was making his wife look bad.

 

tk2kewl

(18,133 posts)
14. Best I could find is this
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 09:11 PM
Feb 2016

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 shouldn’t have used those words, and I wouldn’t use them today.

My life’s work has been about lifting up children and young people who’ve 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 haven’t 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.

riversedge

(70,245 posts)
24. Sanders voted for the Crime bill. Why the double standard?? Does he bear no Responsibilty and
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 09:21 PM
Feb 2016

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 Sanders’s commitment to justice before or after he voted for the crime bill. Nor should anyone do the same to Clinton, who didn’t 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 Clinton’s criminal justice platform that she first outlined in a major address last April. The same speech where she said, “It’s time to change our approach. It’s time to end the era of mass incarceration.”

Pushing Clinton on her past statements as Williams did is eminently fair. What isn’t fair is ignoring what Clinton promises to do to fix the glaring problems unleashed by a bill Sanders voted for and Clinton’s 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/

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