This is worth reading to get a feel for both the woman and the candidate she served. We can only hope that she finds her way back to a role serving what we hope will be the Obama administration. An excerpt:
Q: What is the biggest lesson you have learned in the aftermath of your controversial comments about Hillary Clinton?
A: Well (pauses) … what is so abhorrent about my comments is not only are they hurtful and hateful; they don’t reflect my real views of Senator Clinton. These are not thoughts I had been having alone in my own home, storing up to vent over these 14 months.
I really just had one of those bad moments when you lose your temper and you say something that sticks. It sticks out there as something associated with Senator Clinton and also with me — all because of me.
What is the lesson? The lesson is that I wish somebody would invent a device that would allow me to go back in time. (Chuckles.) People keep saying to me that the lesson is: Don’t say anything off the record. But I think the real lesson is don’t say hateful and hurtful things anywhere. I know that sounds too ponderous. You got to keep control of your temper and not let the heat of the campaign … cause those sentiments to bubble up in you.
God forbid we have foreign policy advisers who actually take responsibility for their mistakes.
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