Bill Clinton: "It bothers me but I did something yesterday in Philadelphia..."

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/718459179539816451

"It bothers me" when protesters drown me out, "but I did something yesterday in Philadelphia that I almost want to apologize for."

He only almost wants to apologize for it....

[peacebird]

1. What a putz.....

[revbones]

2. "Almost"

Nice.

[NWCorona]

15. It's more insulting than anything

[bkkyosemite]

3. unbelievable....

[Armstead]

4. "Not good enough".....Bill

Karma

[Lizzie Poppet]

5. That's okay, Bill...I almost take you seriously.

Almost...

[daleanime]

27. +1

[scscholar]

39. And I almost take his wife serously

Too bad the only other option is someone that treats his three wives badly and parachuted into the party at the last moment to take our money.

[roguevalley]

59. pathetic. then support hrc. she likes money over principle.

[2banon]

58. LOL! Thread Winner!

[EndElectoral]

6. Exactly. This is the language that wants it both ways.

He is publicly distancing his remarks for political purposes, but adds the "almost" indicating he pretty much believes his original assertions.

[jberryhill]

7. Lots of people do things in Philadelphia that bother them

[BernieforPres2016]

8. What an embarrassment he has become.

He just can't shut up.

[Else You Are Mad]

9. Bill Clinton doesn't apologize to...

The lower classes. What he said didn't offend or upset a donor or potential donor, so he doesn't feel the need to apologize.

[BernieforPres2016]

14. That's the closest a Clinton will come to apologizing for anything

To suggest that they thought about it. Hillary has wandered in that neighborhood on her vote for the Iraq War.

[NorthCarolina]

10. He's just this || close.

damn that's close.

[QC]

11. He did it deliberately--the southern primaries are over and

Pennsylvania has plenty of racists--I used to live in the central part, so I'm not engaging in idle talk here.

BLM is this year's Sister Souljah.

Bill is many things but he's not dumb and he doesn't do things for no reason.

[Else You Are Mad]

20. I had that same thought...

The central part of the state is just as bad as the south when it comes to racists. I lived in PA for 4 years, so I can definitely back up what you are saying.

[QC]

38. Pennsyltucky. Beautiful place and people were very kind to me,

but I heard racial remarks there that would get you in trouble in my native Alabama.

[bjo59]

53. I lived in the western part of the state in the 90s

with a (now ex-) boyfriend who's Chinese-American... it was hell on earth in terms of racism. As a white person I got my up-close-and-personal education on what it might be like to live with that 24/7. (One example was when he went to get his hair cut at a chain hair salon... every single hair stylist finished who they were working on and disappeared into the back room and there we were sitting in an empty hair salon waiting for a hair cut that never came. Never mind the city trucks that would drive by him walking our dogs in the middle of the day and yell racial epithets.)

[awake]

23. But this year those racists will vote for Cruse or Trump

Yes it was deliberate because in his hart he does not want Hillary to win.

[QC]

40. I wonder about that myself, if there's some weird sort of

passive aggression going on here.

[ibegurpard]

12. Jesus christ!

Apologize or don't apologize. But half-assed shit like this just means you have no fucking clue what the problem is and that you're trying to put out a political fire.
Asshole as always.

[jillan]

13. One thing is for certain, Bill sucks at apologies.

[tex-wyo-dem]

52. Not sure what happened to ole Big Dog...

He used to have an almost otherworldly knack for saying the right thing at the right time...brilliant politician, really.

He seems to have completely lost that edge and comes across as a self-centered preachy oligarch.

[Nyan]

16. "I almost want to apologize"?

Somebody's gotta make a hashtag out of that.

[RiverLover]

17. So close!

What an ego.

[awake]

18. Ok keep walking it back

Now he needs to man up and say just what that "something" was.

[seattleite]

19. An almost-apology from the husband of a woman who'll end up with an almost-presidency.

Love it.

[closeupready]

46. lol, love that - a second-rate apology from the husband of a second place almost-president.

[JSup]

21. More...

WJC: "I rather vigorously defended by wife...and I realized I was talking past her the way she was talking past me."

He sounds like me. You get angry, do something stupid, know you're doing something stupid but can't stop because you're angry even though you know you'll feel bad later.

[NWCorona]

22. Bill needs to just stop

[Third Doctor]

24. Not good enough.

In my younger days I looked up to this guy and even glossed over his flaws. I can't do that much anymore.

[arcane1]

25. I almost want to take him seriously n/t

[pdsimdars]

26. But royalty apologizing to commoners? Well, it just isn't DONE.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

49. Keep Calm and Almost Apologize.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

28. Says the poster who does not think Obama is qualified to be president.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

29. He needs to get together with Hillary on how to make "Hard Choices".

Or, at least, have her explain the art of CYA to him. Something she has a lot of "experience" in.

[Betty Karlson]

30. Learn from Bernie, you arrogant 1% piece of entitlement.

[Hoyt]

31. Personally I'll wait and see what those who might (or might not) have been offended, say.

Over the months, I've seen a lot (actually most) of Sanders' supporters telling minorities how they should feel about various things. I'd rather hear them, to be honest.

[Betty Karlson]

35. Quite a few of Bernie's supporters ARE minorities.

If you truly believe that someone's political positions are determined by race, gender, or sexual orientation, you are the racist, sexist, and homophobe in the thread. Don't even intimate such ignorant things.

[Hoyt]

55. I believe most of Sanders' supporters are white and they've done their damnedest to tell minorities

how to think, on the election and a lot of other things where they should just keep their irrelevant opinions to themselves. Sorry.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

56. How rude... you are erasing all of Sanders' minority support.

He is clearly has plenty of Minority support. He won the least white state in the whole country for pete's sake!.

Not to mention poll after poll showing he has strong Latino/Latina support. So please stop this, it is borderline racist and divisive.

[roguevalley]

60. it gets them through their (dark) night(s of the soul)

[Betty Karlson]

57. You "believe"? Well that settles the matter then. eom

[Lizzie Poppet]

65. Well...you "believe" a lot of silly shit that's not true.

But more to the point, NO ONE should be told their opinions are irrelevant, and NO ONE is immune to political criticism just because they happen to have more melanin in their skin. Don't like hearing those expressions of opinion? Too fucking bad.

[Hoyt]

67. Don't mind you criticizing me, but your language proves my point.

[Lizzie Poppet]

68. I suspect you actually believe that.

Thus proving my point...

[silvershadow]

32. I'm sure he forgave himself. Truth be told, he probably used that tweet to

segue into doubling down.

[me b zola]

33. Is this satire?

[killbotfactory]

34. So 3/5ths of an apology? nt

[BernieforPres2016]

41. At least Bill didn't say in the old days the protestors would have been serving him coffee

Like he did about Obama to Ted Kennedy, shortly before Kennedy endorsed Obama.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

61. Wait... Did Bill really say that? nt

[BernieforPres2016]

62. Yes, according to the book Game Change on the 2008 campaign by Halperin & Heilemann

It has been pretty widely reported and I don't believe Bill Clinton has ever denied it. Ted Kennedy endorsed Obama shortly afterwards.

http://www.politico.com/story/2010/01/book-obama-biden-clashed-in-08-031302

–In lobbying the late Sen. Ted Kennedy to endorse his wife, former President Bill Clinton angered the liberal icon by belittling Obama. Telling a friend about the conversation, Kennedy recalled Clinton had said “a few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee,” the authors paraphrase. A spokesman for the former president declined to comment on the claim.

[frylock]

48. boom

[islandmkl]

36. the list of Bill's 'almosts' would require a flow chart to follow...

he should have used 'almost' instead of 'did not' in the Monica fiasco...

could have come off as regular guy tripping over temptation...versus a liar...

[nc4bo]

37. Oh fuck off Bill. Not sure what racist pieces of shit you're trying to woo or

Are you just being a jackass.

Is this a hard-working-white-voter thing?

[TheCowsCameHome]

42. I feel your pain, says Willie.

This time, he blew it.

[Hiraeth]

43. Bill Clinton can ALMOST kiss my ass.

[frylock]

44. Yeah, fuck this guy.

[closeupready]

45. How old is he now? We know him. He doesn't want to apologize for crap.

Leopards don't change their spots at 70 years of age.

Remember folks, this is the guy who told Ted Kennedy that Obama would have been carrying their bags not so long ago. And the one who way back in the early 90's got a hallmark "Crime Omnibus" passed that had a disproportionately harmful impact on minorities.

[demmiblue]

47. What an arsehole. Is he deliberately trying to sabotage Hillary?

I feel sorry for her.

[awake]

50. He must be this tweet will just draw more attention to what he said

It solved nothing just made it worse. Bill has not done Hillary any favors I would not be surprised if her Home email server was his idea.

[Ichingcarpenter]

51. This statement will cause another shitstorm for HillBil

Glad he's doubling down on his potty mouth racist statement.

He doesn't get it.

But thanks Bill

[Orsino]

54. It wouldn't be the Big Dog without some good old-fashioned triangulation.

I almost feel like he's told me something.

[99Forever]

63. That's okay Billy...

... next time some Teabagger slimeball starts going off on you for being a lying cheater to me, I'll almost defend you.

That cool dude?

[madokie]

64. F*

Bill Clinton.

He fucked us but good as President. Pretty much all demographics except for the rich

[Truprogressive85]

66. He can take his half ass apology and stick it where the sun dont shine

[dr60omg]

69. ALMOST is the operative phrase