Two Words, Hillary. Are they that hard to say?

I don't want to stay on this topic too long, but really...how hard is it to say, "I'm Sorry."  Hillary Clinton is trying to deal with the RFK assassination comment and this is the only "apology" she can muster.

"I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation, 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 sen. Kennedy's seat in the United States Senate in the state of New York, and have the highest regard for the entire Kennedy family."

Unbelievable.  Why the nuance, Hillary?  I know you can't say "I fucked up" but you could say that you're sorry.  You didn't say you were sorry for what you said, you said you regret if people took it the wrong way or basically that it wasn't your fault.  You didn't even apologize to Senator Obama.  How hard is it?

It reminds me of her nuance around her Iraq war vote, and how she never said she was wrong and that she was sorry.  You know, things like this:

“I made a considered judgment, I didn’t make a speech, I made a decision and it was a decision based on my best assessment on what would be in the interest of our country at that very uncertain time.”

Problem was, she never even read the intelligence estimate.   She could have said she messed up and the vote was wrong, but it always comes down to someone else's mistake that led to her gaffe.  She never takes responsibilty for what happens. 

I'm sorry.  It's really simple.  My six year old says it all the time.  Come to think of it, so does my two year old.  I think a sixty year old senator could muster the courage to do it as well.

Update:  Apparently, the New York Times agrees with me (well, actually it's probably better said that I agree with them since I am a nobody).

But she could, at least, have apologized.  Instead, she issued one of those tedious non-apology apologies in which it sounds like the person who is being offended is somehow at fault: "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."