Secretary Clinton regrets joking that Ghandhi used to run a gas station in St. Louis.

[pantsonfire]

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized for joking that Mahatma Gandhi used to run a gas station in St. Louis, saying it was “a lame attempt at humor."
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3890946/ns/us_news-life/t/clinton-regrets-gandhi-joke/

It's hard to be funny, especially when you force yourself to be, it can sometimes lead you down these offensive lines of thought, which possibly should be taken with a grain of salt. Some people lack the natural ability to be humorous and especially when being improvisational, you say something before you think, Freudian slip? Or just human nature?

[NWCorona]

1. Thanks for that flashback

Jokes like this aren't funny.

[BillZBubb]

2. Hillary sometimes just cannot hide her racism. It slips out, then she "regrets" it.

All is forgiven, even after the 100th event.

[libtodeath]

28. So true and so sad that it is not condemned.

[bigwillq]

3. She really should stop trying to be a comedian

[cloudbase]

4. Did she let out a cackle after telling the joke? n/t

[IamMab]

6. You'll have to invent a time machine and travel back 12 years ago to when this happened to find out.

[demwing]

16. Why? Do lame racist jokes stop being offensive after 10 years?

Or are you just willing to make up any kind of pathetic excuse to defend the anointed one?

[IamMab]

20. It's just cute the way you think you're "discovering" stuff. Have fun. nt

[demwing]

27. So you're going for the "pathetic excuse" option. Got it. /nt

[tralala]

5. If people like this don't see the problem

with saying these things in public, I can only imagine how they talk behind closed doors

[Politicalboi]

7. But just a whiff of sexism

Drives her and her followers crazy. But stereotyping is just a joke. Another "mistake" of many.

[BillZBubb]

42. It doesn't have to be a whiff. If they have no defense, then SEXISM it is.

[DJ13]

8. As long as she didnt mention the "Quickie Mart"

I'm sure her supporters will forgive her.

[loyalsister]

9. Using ableist language in an apology for a bigoted joke is kind of revealing

She really does not seem to have respect for people. Unless a person can be exploited for political gain or be a major donor, they don't exist.

[JI7]

10. there was a guy there named gandhi who did own a gas staTion

That's how the joke came about. If you watch the video she is talking to him.

[pantsonfire]

11. Context...then why apologize and regret it? n/t

[JI7]

15. because sometimes it's better to just do that. but my point is that

It wasn't the way many are trying to make it out to be.

[pantsonfire]

17. You're probably right, but years later, CP Time...Cautious Political Time...

...improv ok, Bill de Blassio's thing ok, and yes she wasn't being racist. Just strange to turn Colored Peoples' Time into Cautious Political time...another instance of her "lame attempt at humor".

[demwing]

18. It never is, is it?

No matter what this clown does, she never diminishes in the eyes of her followers...

[JI7]

26. most people who hate her are racist

Things like calling her a clown turns people off and says more about those who hate her

[demwing]

29. Not sure if you intended that to be ironically funny

But I laughed anyway

[Marr]

25. Huh? Where do you see that? /nt

[KittyWampus]

12. Has Sanders apologized yet for his "ghetto" remark in Michigan?

That was a lot more recent.

[pantsonfire]

19. I don't believe so, he was thinking probably about the "ghetto" he lived in growing up..

....was he referring to AA's specifically? Is ghetto now politically incorrect? I am honestly not up to speed on this, if you'd like to link me or explain, I'm all ears...

[phleshdef]

36. Nothing to apologize for.

[Tarc]

13. Yay, history lesson time

2004 was a good year, my Sox finally won another World Series, the Patriots won their 2nd Super Bowl

[pantsonfire]

14. Yay, pointless comment time...

[Tarc]

39. I know, you're a Yankees fan

Can't Account for Limitations, I guess...

[pantsonfire]

40. Not a big fan of baseball, more a hockey, basketball and futbol fan...

Though, I was a bandwagon Sox fan when they won, that was an exciting championship. I'll join the Cubs bandwagon when their their time comes (a century is long enough!). Tonight, Kobe retires and the Warriors are poised to win 73, the most in the history of the NBA.

[Peace Patriot]

32. I remember 2004 as a TERRIBLE year: 2nd stolen election by the Bush Junta.

So glad you have better memories. I don't judge a year "good" by its sports events if far, far worse things are happening--like the slaughter of war, and the torturing of prisoners and the cruel displacement of millions of people, and vast criminality in our nation's leadership and grand theft from the public treasury.

I like sports, too. But "a good year" with all that horror happening? Not.

[FuzzyRabbit]

21. Humorless people should not try to make jokes.

Like many smart serious people, Hillary Clinton just does not have a sense of humor. So when she tries to be funny, she misses the mark, just like Mitt "who let the dogs out" Romney. Or Sheldon Cooper.

[pantsonfire]

22. Oh gawd...remember when he sang, "America the Beautiful" eeek

compared to this....

[FuzzyRabbit]

35. I don't care for Romney but

he sings better than I do, damn it. I can't carry a tune in a bucket, but unfortunately my hearing is perfect pitch so I can't stand my singing.

[scscholar]

37. Mabye in this case it's the audience being humorless

[The Old Lie]

23. She insulted every Hindi-American.

She doesn't know when to stop. Those PoC she loves to tout? It's disappearing, very fast. I would not be surprised to find the PoC favoring Bernie by 20-1 margin when it comes to New York next week.

[pantsonfire]

24. Tulsi Gabbard, the first and only Hindu (for now!) in congress...

....risked her career by resigning as Vice-Chair of the DNC to support Sanders, that takes immense courage.

[KoKo]

31. Has she apologized yet for "We Came...We Saw......He Died"

followed by chilling laughter?

She has had so many of these moments where she seems to come unhinged. Yet, she rarely gets called down about them, unless she is pandering to a constituency and is put in a corner.

[Peace Patriot]

33. I think Clinton would prefer revolutionaries like Gandhi to be gas station attendants...

...instead of upsetting the settled order, with the oligarchs on top and the peons silent and servile.

I'll bet she would have sided with the British Empire on that conflict. She's siding with Wall Street, our own brand of imperial oligarchs, now.

[pat_k]

34. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

Lame joke aside, you think she realizes the quote perfectly describes her attitude to Bernie? She's the one doing the laughing at the moment.

Transcript
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/hillary-clinton-at-newsday-long-island-transcript-1.11680010

...they're excited by something new and something that is a little different and a little revolutionary and promises free college. {Laughter.}

[PowerToThePeople]

38. The insincere mocks the sincere.

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She is such an outstanding person.

[artislife]

41. She is missing the humor chip. nt

[oldandhappy]

43. The rich have a very different sense of humor.