Yesterday, Hillary Clinton, in a move she is not always noted for, apologized. She apologized three separate times: once for her husband’s Jesse Jackson comments in South Carolina, once for Geraldine Ferraro’s recent comments and separately for the U.S. government’s response to Katrina.
This is her best statement of healing to date in this campaign.
“I want to put that in context. You know I am sorry if anyone was offended. It was certainly not meant in any way to be offensive,” Hillary Clinton said. “We can be proud of both Jesse Jackson and Senator Obama.”
“Anyone who has followed my husband’s public life or my public life know very well where we have stood and what we have stood for and who we have stood with,” she said, acknowledging that whoever wins the nomination will have to heal the wounds of a bruising, historic contest.
“Once one of us has the nomination there will be a great effort to unify the Democratic party and we will do so, because, remember I have a lot of supporters who have voted for me in very large numbers and I would expect them to support Senator Obama if he were the nominee,”
She sounded sincere and contrite. I applaud Hillary for her statements.
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