Clinton Discusses Her Personal Apology To Obama

Hillary Clinton commented publicly for the first time about her personal apology to Senator Barack Obama after one of her top campaign officials brought up his adolescent drug use as an issue.

In a Washington Post interview published December 12, Clinton co-campaign chair Bill Shaheen discussed the drug use Obama details in his memoir "Dreams of My Father." Shaheen has since resigned over his comments.

The Obama Campaign sent out a fundraising letter condemning Clinton's attack.

During the press conference today, Clinton was asked:

"I wonder if you would take the opportunity to say that a candidate's indiscretions as a teenager should not be an issue on which voters should make there decision?"

Clinton replied, "Well I apologized to Senator Obama yesterday. It's certainly not an issue in my campaign. And I said that to Senator Obama."

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[WestLittleRock]

Barak's church's 12-point Black Value system:


1. Commitment to God

2 Commitment to the Black Community

3 Commitment to the Black Family

4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education

5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence

6 Adherence to the Black Work Ethic

7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect

8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middlecla­ssness"

9­. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the Black Community

10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions

11. Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System

12. Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value System.

[Tellmethetruth]

Waiting for Obama to apologies for all the women that have been offended for the countless sexist, cruel, and vicious remarks his supporters and bloggers have made directed at a woman candidate that offend all women.

Obama we are waiting for you who are the last make candidate to renounce sexism as equally offensive as racism.

Either Obama has specifically ordered his supporters to attack Clinton using sexist slander and hateful remarks or Obama is too weak as a leader to stop the slurs. Which is it?

[loki]

This is a Bush trait. Do your dirty dead and then bogusly attempt cover your ass. HillaBush. It would explain why Bush pretends to be a Christian . He can kill people today, and as for forgiveness on Sunday and feel like everything is fine then, to start it all over again come Monday.

[SuperLib]

I really don't get people who make these arguments over and over again. Its getting tiresome. So you don't trust the "inexperienced" Barrack Obama AS OPPOSED TO BUSH JR who has been in charge of this mess for the past eight years ? Are you friggin' kidding me ? How can Republicans who have been SO wrong about so many issues over the past eight years even think that their judgment is right this time ? The same people who gave us Bush are now trying to convince us that Obama is too "inexperienced" ! It beggars belief and makes me laugh out loud.

Look, Dick Cheney, Wolfowitz, Pearle were all HIGHLY experienced and you see what kind of total mess they led us into. Its not about experience alone, which Obama does have by the way, its about JUDGMENT, CHARACTER, INTEGRITY. All these things that are foreign words for the present administration.

Obama has led people and brought people together ever since his grad days when he worked as a community organizer. What did Bush do after grad school ? Owned a failing Baseball team, owned a tanking oil business, NOTHING, zilch in public service or in bringing people together for the common good. Bush, Cheney and the rest are career politicos, frauds, they've never brought people together, all they did was learn how to get ahead in the political system for their own gain. And now their former supporters are trying to tell me that their "experience" (yeah, their experience in playing the system to their advantage) is better than what Barrack Obama has earnestly done. That's what makes me shudder.

[joja]

HC looks pretty drained in the HuffPo pic.

So much for invincability.

[thebeerdoctor]

I think it was Churchill who said that the first duty of a politician is to get elected. So it should come as no surprise that seeking for power can be quite a ruthless enterprise. Running for U.S. president is most certainly a "long hard slog" and those that are in it for the long haul endure a metamorphosis that transforms them into something you can hardly recognize. They are in fact, what the late Hunter S. Thompson referred to as "The Shameless Ones".
It also should not be shocking to realize that the successful ones (that is, those who obtain power) usually turn out to be, for the most part, untruthful monsters.

[MRb1000]

YEAH SHE LOOKS LIKE CHUCKY'S SISTER READY TO STRIKE AT WILL. SHE IS NASTY. IF SHOULD DOSE NOT STOP THIS NASTY POLITICS. I WILL REFER TO HER AS CHUCKY'S SISTER. LOOK AT THOSE I EYES JUST LIKE HER BIG BROTHER CHUCKY

[ltyr2002]

Obama is the perfect candidate for the GOP to run against. He has the least experience in senior office of any major candidate, possibly ever; this as America is tottering on the abyss with trade deficits national debt, immigration chaos, terrorists trying to destroy us, health care costs out of control, education needing overhaul, new cold war rumblings with China and Russia, and Pakistan verging on collapse, with its nukes...

And Obama is the guy who's going to change all this because of...what? I don't see ANYTHING other than a couple of interviews before the war that give me any reason to think this is the one person who can do all this saving and changing.
He has so little experience that people seem to be projecting onto him characteristics that he has not demonstrated in reality. It's simply surreal, the sychophancy of his supporters.

Imagine you run a company and want to hire a manager for it. Do you look for experience in your hiring? OF COURSE YOU DO! So why do we give Obama a pass on this, even though our very LIVES could be at stake with what kind of leader he will be??? Good speeches don't guarantee effective leadership and policy.

This whole thing sickens me. Meanwhile, Biden and Dodd, who actually DO have records and experience worthy of the job, get passed over. I fear for this country!

[watchingthings]

The way I see it, too many people of the United States Of America want Hillary to feed them a bunch of shit and do what an ELITE person does once she is President? Maybe she will throw some crums to the masses. The world will not be forgiving at all for bush's reign. The world sees all Americans as acomplicess to Bush's policies. Therefore,Hillary can't hide what Bush has done. Somebody in the world will be holdond courts against American in Abstentia. The American people will be ashamed to go abroad because of thgis.

[watchingthings]

Hillary was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Obama was born with dust in his mouth-African dust. Who the hell does Hiiary think she is by saying that she's the one to vote for? Hey.Barack­...you got the Hill. beat.

[watchingthings]

The destruction of America has already begun, do we need hillary to carry it on or do we need someone like Kucinich to save everyone. People-please Google Kucinich.

[watchingthings]

Yes Hillary: you have apologised­....now go home. Please do not lie to the country anymore. Please do not promise something you never would deliver. Try deliver honesty.

[Georgea]

********He PEDDLED drugs?**********

Unbelievable. This kind of racial charge I would expect form Republicans, who never waver when it comes to preying on Americans' fears. But from another Democrat? and from a Clinton to boot?

What the Clinton campaign, and the Democratic establishment in general, doesn't get is that those of us out here, who have had to deal with the consequences of Bush and his Congressional enablers, are no longer going to fall for the same old tricks or be forced to vote one way out of fear.

We will nominate Obama. If he loses, we will at least have made a point. No more triangulation, no more selling our children for misguided policies. Take this Obama in your eye, Hillary.

[USMC1980]

This proves that Hillary is a good person who did the right thing and got rid of a loose cannon, who shot his mouth off about crap.

Anti-Hillary zealots on HuffPo, will of course not give her any credit for her sincere apology, but then they are the same Democrats who have helped ensure our defeat for the past 8 years, by being so selfish that if there candidate can't win....the­y will take the whole party down with them.

Anyways, Hillary will get the nomination, so it's kind of a mute point. One can only hope that when she does win, anti Hillary Dems will support her to help ensure we don't get Giuliani, Romney or Huckabee in the WH...but if history is any indicator.­...I won't hold my breath.

[Stevelagain]

Where is Hillary's or Obamas balanced budget bill and why isn't congress looking at it right now?

Where is Hillary's or Obama's social security bill and why isn't congress looking at it right now?

Where is Hillary's or Obama's Medicare fix (Medicare is the one that REALLY broken) and why isn't the congress looking at it now?

Where is Hillary's or Obama's bill to secure our nations boarders and thus take a nessesary first step in resolving our immigration issues and why isn't congress looking at it now?

I'm not seeing any leadership from either one. Senators should do more than put their names on other senators bills and vote on them, they should create their own bills. They should legislate. I see no leadership in the Obama or Hillary camp.

The only difference I see between the two is one of good character. Obama has it, Hillary doesn't.