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Originally Posted by ratbastid
It's amazing that this actually sounds like taking responsibility and apologizing to some people. Let's look at the actual words, though:
"To the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility."
There are at least three hedges in that one sentence. (Count them! It's a fun game!) It's the single most irresponsible taking of responsibility I've ever heard. It would be possible for him to back out of this statement entirely, simply by limiting the "extent to which the federal government didn't fully do its job right."
...Say what you like about Clinton, at least when he admitted a mistake, he admitted the mistake. This guy's so buffered by yes-men he actually thinks he walks on water. This statement is clearly and transparently a PR move.
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You must not have been watching when Clinton said "While my answers were legally accurate, I did not volunteer information."
In other words, he said he spoke truthfully when he said he remembered Monica Lewinsky when she was ordering a pizza, but not when she was delivering oral sex.
Then, of course, he spent the next ten minutes or so saying it was all the Republicans' fault.
There's also the matter of Janet Reno taking "full responsibility" for Waco, and propagating the many lies told about the FBI's illegal actions there. I still can't believe there hasn't even been a trial for the FBI's burning about 80 men, women, and CHILDREN to death.
So don't tell me BUSH was insincere.