In New Orleans earlier, Clinton offered her regrets for any hard feelings stemming from husband Bill Clinton's comments comparing Obama to the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Yet, when asked about that, all the senator would say is: “I’ll have more to say about that some day, but not right now."
Does she really mean: "I'll have more to say about that when my advisors tell me what to say"?
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It is a sad, hard fact that political figures are rarely permitted or feel secure enough to make their own statements and place a true or false next to certain controversial issues. The interesting thing about Hillary having to “get back to that someday” may have a lot to do with where she is campaigning next and what effects any comment, on one side or the other would have on the current region of voters she is trying to target. If targeting toward a very Southern region for example, such as Tennessee, she may be able to get away with conveying some similarities even, and not apologizing for Bill’s faux paw. If she were to take this to a more liberal and minority occupied region and go to California, she may be faced with having to express and sincere apology and explanation of the regret and the misunderstanding. I believe California would be a place in which she would definitely have to save face, as more voters would probably be very turned off by her husband’s commentary.
I think it is sad to say that without these political candidates advisors stringing them along like puppets, telling them every move to make and what words to say they loose a little bit of their sincerity. I know by having advisors there are many perks; they learn and understand the demographic and what their needs are as well as what they need to hear, they feed them carefully constructed rhetoric in which is neither too weak or too strong in order to fit their “status quo”, and they try to make them look as truthful as they can when speaking upon issues that may be undecided or rocky at the time.
I think this Baltimore Sun article is interesting also in the fact that once again, Hillary has been put in a position to defend herself and her husband for the wrong thing he has either said or done. As she comes back to apologize or clarify the meaning of what Bill said, this may be a great blessing in disguise to tell you the truth. By cleaning up another man’s mess for more than the second time, she is showing that she can not only take care of her own business well, but clean up other’s “man’s” messes. This is critical and she may look more favorably to the alpha-male voter, as every mother, woman, and child holds a special place in the hearts of a true “man’s man.”
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