Apologies That Begin With “If” Don’t Count

Reality challenged Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, who has been raising a terrible stink the past couple of weeks over the old “Obama’s Birth Certificate” thing and saying he wanted to keep Obama off the ballot in November, which would be humorous except for that part about him being  Secretary of State for Arizona, which means he maybe could have done it.

If Ken Bennett is offended that I think he’s a lying little pander-monkey, I apologize

Anyway, he has apparently been convinced that he was barking up the wrong tree (If Donald Trump and Dentist/Lawyer/Real Estate agent Orly Taitz combined couldn’t come up with the goods, what chance did Mr. Bennett have?)

So, he’s issued the standard Republican apology (yeah, both sides do it, but in case anybody is keeping score, the Republicans lead in this category by about 1,000 to 1).

“If I embarrassed the state, I apologize, but that certainly wasn’t my intent,” he said.

Actually, Mr. Bennett, nobody’s asking you to apologize for embarrassing the State of Arizona.  You’re from the same state as Jan Brewer, Sheriff Joe R. Piehole and Meghan McCain.  Seriously, how much more embarrassed could Arizona be?

You should apologize for wasting everybody’s time on an issue that is more proven than global warming, even.  Obama’s bona fide Americanness has been proved as much as evolution or the more or less roundness of the earth.  It is not a matter of opinion.  It is settled fact.  You should apologize for being a bloody idiot.

But my real problem with this is the wording of the apology.  “If I embarrassed the State…”  Apologies that begin with “if” don’t count.

It’s like  Romney’s statement in regard to the John Lauber haircut incident.  “If anybody was offended by any  of my funny little pranks in High School, well, here, have an apology, on me” har har har.

It’s just not good enough.