Hillary Clinton on Private Email: ‘That Was a Mistake. I’m Sorry’

[alp227]

Source: ABC News

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday told ABC News’ David Muir that using a personal email account while Secretary of State was a “mistake” and that she is “sorry” for it.

"That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility,” the Democratic presidential candidate told Muir in an exclusive interview in New York City.

This is the farthest Clinton has gone yet in offering an apology for her use of a private email server while Secretary of State.

Clinton told the Associated Press on Monday that she would not apologize for it because “what I did was allowed.”

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-private-email-mistake-im/story?id=33608970

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

1. I could have sworn that just the other day

she said she had nothing to apologize for, as everything had been approved. Talk about a 360!

[Fearless]

4. It's the poll numbers.

[magical thyme]

15. it' the immunity deal in the works for the IT staffer. nt

[Tea Potty]

30. Its an imploding campaign

Let the teeth-gnashing and backstabbing begin!
This ships goin' dowwwwwwwn

[left-of-center2012]

44. Bingo !

That was exactly my first thought.

My second was:
drip
drip
drip

[RufusTFirefly]

6. You gotta problem with "evolution," Elmer?

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

7. Evolution, no.

But this is more like bending the space-time continuum at the speed of light.

[RufusTFirefly]

8. ROFLMAO!

[Bubzer]

11. Folding space is no big deal when you have money enough to buy off a spacing guild...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

21. But the quantum fluctuations in what position you hold becomes

a bit frustrating.

The poll numbers must be in the tank for her to actually step up for a change. She has avoided precisely this for weeks, if not months.

[Bubzer]

34. Right. But we all know polls can be all wibbly wobbly timey wimey kind of things.

[roguevalley]

43. Oh my god. smart people!

[Babel_17]

35. Control the coinage and the courts -

let the rabble have the rest, a cynical man might say.

[Bubzer]

36. Certainly might!

[thesquanderer]

12. More like a 180. ;-) (n/t)

[ChairmanAgnostic]

22. 720, not 180. Weather vane take fewer conflicted positions.

It is inherent in her character NOT to take responsibility. That is what is really killing her in the polls.

[Fearless]

38. It would be a 540, I believe.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

45. Yeah, my heads been spinning today.

[EEO]

18. I also clearly recall that.

[Lychee2]

50. She said she didn't "need" to apologize.

An apology was not morally required. But even though she didn't need to apologize, she's doing it anyway, to go the second mile. No contradiction in that.

(I am just f***ing with you.

[24601]

2. Now that we are all agreed on responsibility, what it the accountability? n/t

[roguevalley]

3. agreed. she has no political sense

[zentrum]

40. Yes, that really is it.

She's an incredibly tone-deaf, tone-blind candidate. If her advisors don't tell her how to play it, she has no sense of her own and if she becomes the nominee will really hurt the Democratic run for the WH.

[orange you glad]

5. She actually said "sorry"?

Too bad she didn't say that to Andrea Mitchell; when she refused to simply say "yes," I stopped watching.

[SunSeeker]

9. She did say sorry in the Andrea Mitchell interview. You stopped watching, so you wouldn't know.

As Rachel Maddow said, anyone who watched the Andrea Mitchell interview and did not think Hillary was apologetic did not watch the interview.

[orange you glad]

10. The First Response always Tells nt

[frylock]

13. At what point in the interview did she apologize?

[SunSeeker]

53. See post 52. nt

[frylock]

56. So it was a non-apology apology?

And "I apologize" or words to that effect were never actually spoken?

[magical thyme]

16. Sorry about the supposed "confusion" for us little people. Not sorry for what she did. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

23. I am sorry you took my insult as an insult. For that,

I am truly sorry, you sorry ....

[SunSeeker]

54. See post 52. nt

[madville]

17. Was that where she said

That she was sorry that everyone was confused?

[magical thyme]

33. yes, also before she said she had nothing to apologize for because it was "allowed." nt

[SunSeeker]

52. Listen to the segment yourself.

She repeatedly expresses regret and says she should have done it differently. She apologized for the confusion this has caused, and she said she regretted doing it. That is why at the end of the segment Rachel Maddow said that it was an apology. But some people will never be satisfied. They will want her to prostrate herself and even then, they will never be satisfied. They want her gone, defeated. Well it's not going to happen. She apologized, but she did not retreat.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/clinton-addresses-e-mail-questions-directly-519909955735

[silenttigersong]

14. To apoligize or not apoligize

that is the question

[ram2008]

19. Drip Drop, Flip flop...

That should be her new campaign theme.

She should fire all of her advisors.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

24. Perhaps Mark Penn is available. He'd fit in as a perfect replacement.

[Autumn]

20. Wait, I thought she said what she did was allowed and she wouldn't apologize?

The new improved Hillary? Does she even realize what this makes her look like? Pick a stand Hillary.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

25. Would you ever ask The Donald to be modest?

[Autumn]

32. Edited to apoligize

Last edited Tue Sep 8, 2015, 08:28 PM - Edit history (1)

the snark was uncalled for. Had a bad WTF going on there.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

66. No worries. Well, actually,

it IS a worry that drives us this way. We recognize the serious weaknesses inherent in Hillary, Chen if her most rabid supporters do not. We see that hers is a disaster in the making, unless she makes changes, structural changes. So far, she is changing the seating for the next string concerto on the Titanic. What is it, version 4.0 already?

[jtuck004]

27. On my weather underground there are little arrows that show the wind direction. When it changes, the

arrows point another direction.

I wish there was a political weather page so we...

Oh, wait. I don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

[randys1]

26. "Non story pushed by the right forces Hillary to apologize for next to nothing"

[riversedge]

28. so very true. But she did. yes she did.

[randys1]

29. I tried the last couple of minutes to respond to every BASH HIllary thread on here, just

for fun, but I cant, I am not fast enough

[snooper2]

59. you are the only one in this thread with a Hillary GIF

Congrats!

[Fred Sanders]

37. The GOP are not celebrating this media manufactured semantical flamebait non-story near as much many on this thread....pitiful.

[rhett o rick]

39. Well at least that's something. I don't think she has ever appologized to the people of Iraq

for that "mistake". It's beyond me why some can overlook such serious "mistakes" when there are other candidates that haven't made mistakes of that magnitude. I guess it's hero worship. No one has told me anything different. Wait one person did tell me they like Clinton because she is tough like Margret Thatcher. Yikes!

[closeupready]

46. On Iraq, she said she has nothing to apologize for.

That's not a direct quote, but she was asked about it back in 2006 or 7, IIRC.

[rhett o rick]

49. Right, people died and Haliburton made millions, yea capitalism. nm

[c588415]

41. Clinton still has my vote.

Her use of a private email server caused no harm to no one. If Sanders win the primary, then he will have my vote in the General

[Lychee2]

55. It "harmed no one"? How do you know this?

How do you know that foreign intelligence services weren't monitoring her server? There was satellite information on North Korea in one of the posts. Did North Korea hack her server? Did that help them in some way to harm the US? We just don't know.

[6000eliot]

57. It apparently harmed Bernie Sanders supporters in some way.

They keep posting about it here even though nobody else cares.

[Lychee2]

58. Actually I think it helped them.

Bernie Sanders Leads Hillary Clinton by 9 in New Hampshire, Gains in Iowa: Poll

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/bernie-sanders-leads-hillary-clinton-9-n-h-gains-iowa-n422111

[6000eliot]

63. Don't care. Supporting Hillary. Donating to Hillary.

We'll see who wins, once the primary season actually starts.

[Lychee2]

64. That's cool. Good for you. That's what this is all about.

It's great that people get to support the candidate of their choice, and the outcome gets decided democratically. A lot of countries don't allow that.

[tabasco]

60. LOL. Hillary's email will lead to the Apocalypse.

Hillary's not my favorite candidate, but this manufactured faux outrage is getting quite tedious.

[tabasco]

61. BENGHAZI!1!1!

[Lychee2]

62. :)

Cute!

[c588415]

65. I can give a shit what you think about Clinton; she still has my vote.

[Lychee2]

67. Good for you.

Stick with your candidate.

[youceyec]

42. make sure

you all put your double standards away when it comes time to vote unless you want Bush or Trump running the country.

[Reter]

47. You are forgiven

Now please drop out.

[donna123]

48. I could not care less about this

It's the repubs trying to make much ado about nothing as far as I'm concerned. If only repubs would expend as much energy on improving our nation as they do on Clinton witchhunts. The polls are all a joke as well. MSM seem to be the only ones who want people to get into a lather about things. We really need to shorten our campaign season to like 6 months but the MSM would go bonkers. MSM are the only ones who love this and salivate at the prospect of anything minor and then try to make everyone else think it's newsworthy. Faux is of course the worst about it.

If anything, a private email may be safer as Chinese and Russians are hacking into government stuff left and right.

[napi21]

51. Why the hell do some keep harping on the apology thing?

I don't need an apology, and I think those who DO would never vote for her anyway. I just saw a guest on Rachel's show who said the same thing.