1). She could have declined to answer the question as she had been doing since the story broke.

2). She could have said that she understands how it is to have a flawed person in your life who you love and who has done more good than harm. This accomplishes two things for her: first, she keeps above the fray and second, she elegantly acknowledges that despite Bill’s imperfections as a human being, he accomplished a lot of good as President.

All that said, what Hillary said was not out of bounds rhetorically.
She is a very smart woman and a more than capable politician and the fact she decided to answer the question this time is fair to point out because it was a tactical shift. This is a hard fought nomination and she’s under no obligation to make things easier for her opponent. Hillary, like Obama, is doing what is in her interest to win and clearly she believes reminding people of this story works for her. I think it’s a mixed bag now but who knows how it will play out.

You’ve been coming here for a long time, first as a supporter of John Kerry, now as an Obama supporter. Do you share the values that Wright espoused in those videos? Obama himself said he did not, yet you defend the man simply because Hillary Clinton spoke out against him?

FYI — Barack Obama would have impressed me if he spoke out against the sexist crap coming from the media about Clinton. Has he done that? NO. Why, it doesn’t serve his campaign to do so – that’s why. Both Obama and Clinton are running their campaigns to win and Obama has been no saint.

Just answer it. It’s a very simple question. What would you have had her say?

You took the words right out of my mouth.

It’s sad that some progressives think we should all support the same candidate when the nominee has yet to be chosen. Perhaps if Obama supporters stopped telling Clinton supporter what they should do or think, we’d all be finding more common ground.

She’s in this to win. He says he has a 50-state strategy, well … he’s got himself a 50-state contest.