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I’m glad we live in a nation where every word that comes out of someone’s mouth is examined and parsed and judged harshly. For too long people have gotten away with saying things like “Mission Accomplished” and “Last throes of the insurgency” and no one really paid attention.

It’s about time we started listening.

Just the other day Hillary, (yes, that Hillary, the one still running for president), made an off the cuff comment about Bobby Kennedy’s June assassination. Of course it was offensive, it mentioned…June…

What made it worse was her apology: “I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation, and particularly for the Kennedy family, was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that whatsoever. My view is that we have to look to the past and to our leaders who have inspired us and give us a lot to live up to, and I’m honored to hold Senator Kennedy’s seat in the United States Senate from the state of New York and have the highest regard for the entire Kennedy family.”

Can you believe that?

Let’s parse the first sentence of Ms. Clinton’s bit of blatant insincerity and see what’s really going on.

She starts with I. Oh, look, it’s all about her.

The very next word is regret. ‘Regret’ is French, and it’s not even anglicized French, it’s a full on French loan word. You know how they say ‘regret’ in France, ‘regret.’ Tell me that isn’t Hillary spitting in America’s eye.

The next section, that if my referencing that, is typical political doublespeak. That referencing that has no meaning. ‘That’ is a relative pronoun; it’s a code to her relatives…and we all know who she’s related to.

Next we have moment of trauma for our entire nation. You might think you know what she’s talking about, but a closer look tells us she’s talking about the trauma of losing the nomination and, referring back to the I  at the beginning of the sentence, how the nation deserves to suffer for not letting her be president.

…and particularly for the Kennedy family, everyone knows this is code for socialism, plain and simple.

And finally, was in any way offensive. However, with a simple change of punctuation, based on the subtle pitch variances in Hillary’s voice when she made the apology, this should read as an interrogative as spoken by Tony Soprano, “What, that was in any way offensive?”

Yeah, these people have gotten away with murder with using language and all, it’s about time we held them accountable for every single word that comes out of their mouths.

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