Thursday, April 06, 2006

McKinney Offers Lukewarm Mea Culpa

It looks like she is finally changing her tune on this whole Capital Hill altercation mess. It is interesting how she worded the thing though:

"There should not have been any physical contact in this incident," McKinney said in brief remarks on the House floor. "I am sorry that this misunderstanding happened at all and I regret its escalation and I apologize."

She didn't say that the hitting by her was wrong but *any* physical contact should not have happened. Supposedly the Capital Policeman put his hand on her to prevent her from rushing through a checkpoint after warning her three times to stop.

She also isn't sorry that she hit the guy but just sorry that the thing even happened at all. She also doesn't regret *her* escalating it by hitting a cop but just how it escalated at all. Kind of like she was powerless to control her actions and it just escalated by itself. Sometimes politician speak is very interesting indeed.

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