HRC: This is why an apology on Iraq was important

[after posting this diary, I saw this one in the same vein. I'm not trying to pile on.]

A heartfelt and sincere apology by HRC on her vote for the AUMF-Iraq might have contained some statement like: "I should have read the National Intelligence Estimate." and "I will never believe Michael Gordon again." Optional: "This administration cannot be trusted." Very Optional: "Joe Lieberman cannot be trusted."

Now, of course, it's a bit late. Kyl-Lieberman is there, staring at her, and so is the "new" NIE. The clues about Iran have been there, all she had to do was look for them. Sy Hersh. She could have just said: I WILL NOT TAKE THIS SORT OF STEP WITHOUT THE NIE BEING RELEASED. That is her job. Her duty. Her responsibility.

It was perhaps acceptable for us think that she learned her lesson, but just thought it politically best not to make a public self-flagellation. If we thought that, we were wrong.

She didn't learn her lesson.

I don't know whether or not Kyl-Lieberman was a deliberate attempt to bait HRC into a colossal bonehead move. But if it was, it sure worked.

In addition to her other well-publicized negatives, HRC now stands revealed as just not a very intelligent person, not a very careful, or thorough or discerning person.

I don't know whether she gets bad advice from Mark Penn or the King of Siam, or gets money from the [fill in the blank] lobby, and I don't care. She's the boss of what she will say and do, and that is the way it would be as President of the United States.

At this point, HRC has no viable options to remedy this; the right thing to do is what she should have done before, but wouldn't; now she has to double it. Of course, she won't. She'll just try to ignore it.

It's too bad, but it's good that we learn these things about our candidates. Who knows, maybe she'll still win the nomination. That would be too bad, because we have others who are better suited to taking on the responsibility.

imho.