"core_dump" wrote in message
newsan.2004.01.07.19.29.39.696326@mernocuryspaml ink.net...


Hillary Clinton made a racist joke about Mahatma Gandhi working in a St.
Louis gas station. If a conservative made that joke, they would be
labelled racist and forced to resign (as what happened with Trent Lott).
But Hillary, a liberal, made a simple apology and everyone forgot about
it.

NEW YORK (AFP) - New York Senator Hillary Clinton has felt obliged to
apologise for making a joke about Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi
having worked as a gas station manager in Saint Louis, Missouri.

"I have admired the work and life of Mahatma Gandhi and have spoken publicly
about that many times," the former US first lady said in a statement.

"I truly regret if a lame attempt at humour suggested otherwise," the
statement said.

The apology followed Clinton's remarks at a weekend fund-raiser, where she
joked that Gandhi once "ran a gas station down in Saint Louis" -- a
stereotypical job for South Asians in the United States.

At the time, Clinton had qualified her joke by adding that Gandhi was a
"great leader" of the 20th century.