I look at it the same way I do the Bittergate controversy and the brouhaha about Jeremiah Wright. I don't think these kind of remarks are worth even a 10th of the attention that they get, and this hysteria about them is in large part what is broken about our system. Olbermann's thing last night was over the top, and I think he should reserve his special comments for special occasions, like the loss of habeas corpus, the telecom amnesty con, the administration's mistreatment of our vets, or its politicization of the justice dept. This is hardly such an occasion, and he's in danger now of trivializing whatever impact these comments might have. She has already diminished her stature to such a degree that it's as if the media is getting its shorts in such knot out of habit or because it simply has nothing better to do. She made almost exactly the same comments in March, I believe, and nobody made anything of them then. Neither do they now deserve more than a what-else-is-new passing notice. This gaffe-gotcha game our political media play is detestable, distorting, and distracting..
We all make judgments about the candidates based on a number of factors, and a gaffe like this while unfortunate, should play a very minor role in shaping one's understanding of who Hillary is. More important is the hawkish Beltway bullies she has chosen as her advisors, her poltical obtuseness when it came to the healthcare issue in the 90s and now in her underestimation of Obama. Her vote not only to support the war, for Kyle-Lieberman, and her threat to obliterate Iran, her pandering, her self-absorbed sense of entitlement, her use of race and gender in this campaign, her leaning on Richard Mellon Scaife, her ridiculously self-serving arguments about Michigan and Florida--all tell the real story. She's a hold-your-nose-and-voter-for-her hack if there's nobody better. She consistently has shown that her judgment is shaped by a formulaic political calculus. She would at best be a mediocre president. So if you want to chalk up this latest comment as just another example of her bad judgment, tone-deafness, and self-absorption, fine. But it really is not that big of a deal.
We all make judgments about the candidates based on a number of factors, and a gaffe like this while unfortunate, should play a very minor role in shaping one's understanding of who Hillary is. More important is the hawkish Beltway bullies she has chosen as her advisors, her poltical obtuseness when it came to the healthcare issue in the 90s and now in her underestimation of Obama. Her vote not only to support the war, for Kyle-Lieberman, and her threat to obliterate Iran, her pandering, her self-absorbed sense of entitlement, her use of race and gender in this campaign, her leaning on Richard Mellon Scaife, her ridiculously self-serving arguments about Michigan and Florida--all tell the real story. She's a hold-your-nose-and-voter-for-her hack if there's nobody better. She consistently has shown that her judgment is shaped by a formulaic political calculus. She would at best be a mediocre president. So if you want to chalk up this latest comment as just another example of her bad judgment, tone-deafness, and self-absorption, fine. But it really is not that big of a deal.