Not bad, but why does Hillary see the need to undercut the strength of the apology with the "very large" adjective attached to "Finance Committee"? Better late than never.

I don't care how large your committee is, and if she was that expendable then there is NO excuse for her being allowed to stay for as long as she did. Obama lost one of his senior foreign policy advisors, a very important person in his campaign, for a silly off the record comment that wasn't even close to as offensive as Ferraro's comments and she apologized and then resigned almost immediately, because of the clamoring of your campaign for "justice", yet you can't get rid of this person who serves no critical role in your campaign?? You are the biggest hypocrite, and you thoroughly disgust me.

But has she renounced them?

"I deeply regret that I got caught race-baiting, but I am not sorry if it works."

A good start. I still believe that Hillary's a decent person. I'm disgusted by her campaign the last month and if I had to wager I'd say the ugliness will only continue. At some point, a bunch of Dems will have to step forward and say, Enough. Hillary doesn't have to drop out, but the tone of the campaign needs to change dramatically. She's so far ahead in Pa. she can practically choose how she wants to win it. She won't win the nomination, no matter what she does short of destroying the party. She's actually in a unique position to unify the party during this period. The Obama campaign is in reactive mode. If she gets nasty, he'll follow. And if she takes the high road, he'll happily follow there, too. Are these false hopes? Probably. The Democratic party is standing on the edge of the abyss. The next six weeks could decide whether we face four years of president McCain.

Hillary Clinton, I don't believe you. I simply don't believe you.

From the desk of:

Geraldine Ferraro

I have decided to resign from the position that I have never held with the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign.

I am deeply disappointed that Senator Obama has chosen to attack me in such a racist manner. However, should he become the nominee of our party, I am still willing to engage in fund raising for him, provided that he changes his ways, and promises to stop being a Black Man.

I recommend that people read the article cited. Apparently, it was apology night for Clinton at a forum sponsored by black community newspapers. This was one of three apologies.

The end of the cited article is particularly interesting, making the point Hillary's reticence to censure Ferraro was not due to some conspiratorial race strategy but rather due to her reluctance to "cede an inch to her critics". After all, she hasn't apologized for her Iraq vote, and that seems to me to be a much bigger deal. I would add that she also hates to punish loyal supporters.

Hmm...won't cede an inch to her critics, won't express regret for past decisions, won't punish loyal supporters. I feel like I've met her somewhere before.

According to my local newspaper, Clinton apologized to black voters. And this explains that she was speaking to black newspaper publishers. But she should have been apologizing to AMERICANS!

Keith Olbermann's special comment is irresponsible. It unnecessarily brings attention to and inflates the issue of race and racism. By implying that Ferraro and by association the Clinton camp of racism, he opens up an avenue of attack that any democrat would rather avoid. Especially the Obama camp.

Ferraro's comments while tasteless to many, pales in comparison to a prominent Obama surrogate.

Olbermann is leading us down a road that none of us want to go.

This is what we have to look forward to if pointing fingers about playing the race card is to become the main focus: Jeremiah Wright, posted on politico.com hope the link works.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Wright_on_film.html

This lame apology is nowhere good enough. Not after Geraldine Ferarro spent all day yesterday spewing racist crap across the airwaves. Clinton needs to 'reject and denounce' not only the hateful words but Ferarro herself.

Could this whole flap be the Clintons' attempt at outsourcing a 2008 version of a Sister Souljah moment?

The convention wisdom is that this Ferraro incident is turning into a nightmare for the Clintons. But is it really? Ferraro's comments began to dominate the news cylce on the day Obama won Mississippi, a state, like South Carolina, where votes would show clear divisions along racial lines. In effect, the role of Bill Clinton in South Carolina got to be played by Ferraro, who is well remembered by older, working-class voters in PA.

Hillary has already lost the African-American vote. And the upper income, highly educated voters in the Philly and Pittsburgh suburbs are already leaning toward. But it's hard to see how this dust-up won't do more good than harm among the voters who are the core of HRC's base.

Watch Keith Olbermann's special comment from last night on this. He states what is staring all of us right in the face. The Clinton campaign has been very careful to keep this issue out in front of everyone while still trying to keep their distance from the racism that Ferraro presented. Unfortunately for Clinton, I think she has not kept her distance and as with South Carolina, she has offended many Democrats in the country. Her tactics are irresponsible and I think she will regret them in the long run.

You can win a nomination on the fumes of fear and racism.

Shouldn't Hillary be apologizing to all Americans, regardless of their race or skin color, since what she is apologizing for impacts us all.

Her apology to Blacks is a continuation of her campaign's "slicing and dicing" of the American people for to drive a wedge between various races and groups.

She is still playing the divide and conquer game.

I think it is too late for Hillary to "reject and denounce" what has become a pattern of behavior for her campaign...

It really is disappointing to see Hillary make these lame repudiations. She seems so insincere and stilted that I can't take her seriously anymore. I think alot of people (myself included)have lost alot of respect for her over this issue. Before this campaign, I was ready to support her for the Presidency, respecting her intelligence and gravitas, and admiring her toughness. The more time passes, her advisors insult our intelligence, her gravitas on foreign policy turn out to be not all that impressive (hangin' with Sinbad in Kosovo), and her toughness takes on a hard and mean edge with her attempted knee-capping of Obama.

As I have posted many times before, here and elsewhere, I think it is just a matter of time, and this thing is Obama's to lose. But the more this race-baiting and incessant attacks on Obama's "readiness" continues, the more I worry Hillary may irreparably damage Obama for the general. As Olbermann pointed out in his devastating "special comment" last night (thanks to Grand Pajandrum for posting it), Hillary is running against Obama like a Republican, and in the process of sand-bagging Obama, is destroying any shred of a legacy she or her husband had left among Democrats...It is increasingly clear that Hillary is simply a Clinton. Not a Democrat, Liberal, Advocate for the Working Class, or anything else. She is simply a Clinton, and all her decisions support the party platform: Victory at any Cost.

Sorry Zellery, but the genie's already out of the bottle, you lying, racist hag.

Is Jesse "She cries about her appearance but not about Hurricane Katrina victims" Jackson, Jr. still a national co-chair of the Obama campaign?

No apology, even of the "if what I said offended you" variety necessary for key campaign spokesman or The Candidate when engaged in self-serving lies.

Did Ms. Powers ever apologize for calling Hillary a monster, or did she just apologize for being intemperate?

Seriously, just wondering.

And don't even get me started about the "revelations" that Hillary was dissing MLK right before the South Carolina primary. How convenient - the timing and all.

No race-baiting race card playing by the progressiver-than-thous to see here. Move along.

Hillary Clinton is one of those people that kind of grow on you over time. You start out neutral, you move towards dislike, and it's all downhill from there. My impression of her is that she is a 100% authenic phony. Her "standing by her man " as he has cheated on her with GOD only knows how many women tells me she values position over self respect . And if you do not respect yourself, how can you reasonably expect anyone else to respect you ? She is a loser.

When Clinton runs a "red telephone" ad or a "al-queda is watching" ad the day before a primary, WE see this as a Rovian tactic (which it surely is) but we are political junkies. The rest of the country who don't care about the nuance and still barely know who Rove is, don't associate the two. The sad thing is, these tactics still work, probably always will and the Clintons know it.

I could have written this post, almost exactly feel the same.

The people have been way ahead of the MSM & the politicans for a long time, if someone doesn't stop this train wreck in work mode, we will indeed be adressing the person in the WH as President Mc Cain. So stop it already!

Well said. I agree that BILL Clinton has a history with the AA community that is to be commended. I never heard anyone refer to Hillary as the "1st black 1st lady", and admittedly don't know to much about her relations with the AA community. But I will grant you that.

Agreed that many of us are probably too quick to assume evil motives for things that come out of this campaign. But the tone this has taken lately, from the "threshold" comments, to the VP slot suggestion, now Ferraro, just makes me cringe a bit. There is nothing but cynicism in the suggestion that Obama isn't ready to be CinC, but she would take him as a VP.

To be fair, the Obama camp went down a notch in my eyes by responding to the "kitchen sink" with the "porcelain toilet". I don't want to hear about tax returns, monsters, and the like. Hopefully this is the Apex of sleaze and it gets back to issues now, but I doubt it.

You know what so unsettling? Bush - the most incompetent man ever to hold the Office of the Presidency - has never openly denigrated minority groups. He has never openly appealed to narrow-minded bigots across the land. But Hillary Clinton has. George W. Bush has undermined the economic, military and political power of this republic. But Hillary Clinton has done something far worse. Hillary Clinton has given BIGOTS in every remote corner of the United States reason for hope.

another_reader, experience is all well and good, but Hillary has also stumped a lot on her ability to bring about "results." Yet, the only time she's ever been directly responsible for something major (healthcare), she blew it. So, is that any indication of her ability to lead and get things done? Foreign policy experience doesn't really wow me, because while she does have some (enough people in Ireland attest to her behind-the-scenes influence to give her the benefit of the doubt), she also exaggerates it to no small extent. Now, I don't mean for this to be an attack, but I feel it's a legitimate point and an issue that's stopped me from voting for her. She stumps on experience, and while she and Obama squabble over nuances in the resume, it doesn't really attest to her ability to lead.

I'm just curious to know your opinion on it.

For those of you who say Clinton's "apology" for Ferraro's comments (which she had no control over) were not good enough, let me remind you that it was Obama who has flamed this story, it was Obama's compaign who brought this to the attention of the networks who would not otherwise have known about the story which was buried at that point.

Obama feels it is to his advantage to keep bringing this issue up. He wants to continue to get the 90+% of the black vote. THat percentage goes up each time he throws out a story about race and uses the race card. And he always finds a way to spin the story that its the other campaign doing it.

No one is being fooled here.

Hello?? Do you really think that the Clinton campaign would have brought up a blatantly racist comment by one of their own *first*? Good grief, get a clue.

Sorry, I meant Pennsylvania, not Ohio. I miss the edit function.

Look at these videos and see if you can - if anyone can - still claim that the Obama people didn't start this whole thing off playing the race card:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzhl-endvco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhkSJfv8icI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUbUBTlmAiA

Rae

WHO STARTED PLAYING THE RACE CARD??

THIS VIDEO PROVES IT!

His church believes its okay to even change the bible passages to make that point!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUbUBTlmAiA

He has supported this krap for over 10 years and defends it. If Hillary had been a member of such a church for 10 years and had supported this, what would Keith Oberman had done with that?

Perhaps Clinton's Jim Crow "divide and conquer" tactics are perfectly acceptable to her supporters. Perhaps they, too, are fully prepared to stir up race hatred and prejudice simply to achieve narrow political objectives. Perhaps they are indifferent to the anxiety and trepidation such tactics create in the minority community. Perhaps they, like the candidate they support, have no scruples whatsoever.