With the likelihood increasing of a 2008 showdown between presidential contenders Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., it will be interesting to watch how, or even whether, the public and pundits discuss a sorry incident that links the two. At a GOP Senate fundraiser in June 1998, McCain reportedly told this “joke”: “Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.” (This was when Chelsea was a teenager.) McCain later apologized to President Clinton, then in the thick of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Apology or not, it says something about what McCain considers amusing, at least among Republicans.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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