Hillary Clinton Is Sorry

Townhall.com ^ | September 10, 2015 | Derek Hunter

[Kaslin]

It’s a specialty of the Washington elite – the non-apology apology. And no one is more elite or more expert in this technique than Hillary Clinton.

She says she’s sorry, and for once, I have to agree with her – she is sorry.

She had to do something. After days of not apologizing, the focus groups and pollsters were coming back with one overriding truth: No one trusts Hillary Clinton.

Since a leopard can’t change its spots, team Hillary knew true repentance, or even a manufactured approximation in any believable sense, was impossible. With no fresh ears left to lie to, they’ve doubled back to those they hope can be drawn back into the fold simply by her saying she is sorry.

On her handling of classified material in a way that would have mere mortals seeking a plea bargain and a pardon, Clinton originally told ABC News “I’m sorry that it has, you know, raised all of these questions. I do take responsibility for having made what is clearly not the best decision.” In other words, she’s sorry people are too dumb to understand people of her ilk aren’t to be held to normal standards, but she, after blaming you, takes responsibility for it.

Realizing the candidate’s insincerity wasn’t winning hearts and minds, team Hillary circled around again.

In an email to supporters, her communications team crafted a new “apology” without the qualifiers, ostensibly from Hillary. She starts, “Yes, I should have used two email addresses, one for personal matters and one for my work at the State Department. Not doing so was a mistake. I'm sorry about it, and I take full responsibility.”

She then attempts to explain why she’s not guilty of anything other than caring too much.

“It's important for you to know a few key facts,” she/they write. “My use of a personal email account was aboveboard and allowed under the State Department's rules.” Again, she grants herself absolution. Interestingly, Clinton hopes no one remembers she was head of the State Department, meaning she set the rules. At least until the president, her boss, ordered them changed and she didn’t comply.

“Everyone I communicated with in government was aware of it,” she continues. President Obama and a number of top White House aides have said they didn’t, in fact, know. And it’s highly unlikely the ambassador she fired for using personal email for official business did.

Then we get to the gem: “And nothing I ever sent or received was marked classified at the time.” Irrelevant, of course, in the eyes of the law, but also impossible.

Other than routine conversations with staff about the weather at a vacation home, almost all communications between the nation’s top diplomat and her underlings is, to one degree or another, classified. And if Hillary emailed, say, chief of staff Cheryl Mills from her private server, she would be the only person capable for marking it as such because no one in the State Department had access to the emails or, according to other emails released this week, even knew it existed.

“As this process proceeds,” she continues, “I want to be as transparent as possible. That's why I've provided all of my work emails to the government to be released to the public.”

Only that’s not remotely true. If she wanted to be even a little transparent, she wouldn’t have set up a shadow system only a select few loyalists knew about. Also, she didn’t provide her work emails to the government out of magnanimity; she provided them in a belated effort to comply with the Federal Records Act. And she did so by having staff and lawyers with little or no security clearances unfettered access to search them.

Finally, they are being released to the public not at Hillary’s request borne of some newfound embrace of openness. They are coming out by judicial orders, and those orders stem from Freedom of Information Act requests from non-profits and news outlets.

Hillary Clinton may “want to be a transparent as possible,” but that doesn’t mean anything coming from her. Aluminum foil also is as transparent as possible. It’s just not very transparent.

So yes, on her third or fourth try, Hillary Clinton did manage to say she was sorry. It wasn’t sincere; it wasn’t for any reason other than to attempt, yet again, to distract from her lawlessness. And it wasn’t honest. For those reason, and so many others, I firmly agree that Hillary Clinton is, in fact, sorry. Just not in the way she means it.

[Tigerized]

So. She finally uses the “s” word.

Where do I send her little plastic participation trophy?

[DJ Frisat]

"“Everyone I communicated with in government was aware of it,” she continues. President Obama and a number of top White House aides have said they didn’t, in fact, know."

And they're truthfulness is well-known and acknowledged!

[DJ Frisat]

Crap! Make that ‘their’...

[Berlin_Freeper]

Brenda Lee - I'm Sorry

[SERKIT]

A transparent as a stone wall.

[GreenHornet]

“And nothing I ever sent or received was marked classified at the time.”

Hillary Clinton was not some GS-9 civil servant working in an obscure government office somewhere. She was the Secretary of State for four years, one of the highest ranking officials in the government. On a daily basis, she sent and received information from the White House, Department of Defense, intelligence agencies, foreign governments, and our embassies around the world. We're supposed to believe that, in all that time, none of this was classified? I'd like to see the media ask Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, and Madeline Albright how often they dealt with classified material during their tenure as Secretary of State,

[SERKIT]

For this interview, did she get:

a) makeup tips from John Boehner, and
b) voice lessons from Trace Adkins?

[heartwood]

I saw her on the morning news saying that claptrap.

She has adopted Obama’s manner of speaking - the calm, measured, unemotional tones that suggest a calm, wise, rational, disinterested mind.

The miracles a speaking coach can accomplish!

[arthurus]

Hillary Clinton Is Sorry

In the Southern sense of the word, this is a true statement. Her husband is pretty sorry, too.

[2nd Amendment]

The same “feel good “ emotions that drive Americans to vote for Hillary are driving the Trump pseudo conservative train. Vote Cruz for true pinciples!

[Impy]

She’s a sorry excuse for a human being.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Hillary Clinton has gone from not standing by her man like Tammy Wynette to singing “I'm sorry, so sorry” like Brenda Lee.

I think she should go back to “baking cookies” for her daughter.

[Delta 21]

Excellent post.

B T T T

[Liz]

Another example of the Clintons' "family solidarity."

"Smile everybody. Another $100 million came in today."

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The Clintons showing up at church triggers The Gag Factor.
Conjures up memories of the darkest days of the Clinton presidency.

VINTAGE TIME COVER
The Clintons do their "Family Act," leaving the WH
arm-in-arm after Bill got lewinskied in the Oval Office.

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The Clinton show MUST go on. Scandal after scandal, the Clintons smile and soldier on. The greedy opportunistic monsters act like we don't know they are beholden to
thousands of Clinton Foundation donors salivating for payback when (and if) Hillary wields the presidential pen.

Looking at that vintage Time cover, we can only wonder how much of our tax dollars the avaricious Clintons helped themselves to.