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with apologies to Elton John and Bernie Taupin, but at least I didn’t include audio of Hillary Clinton (or myself singing this…) 

What have I got to do to make you love me
What have I got to do to make you care
What do I do when lightning strikes me
And I wake to find that you’re not there What do I do to make you want me

What have I got to do to be heard
What do I say when it’s all over
And sorry seems to be the hardest word

It’s sad, so sad
It’s a sad, sad situation
And it’s getting more and more absurd
It’s sad, so sad
Why can’t we talk it over
Oh it seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word

What do I do to make you love me
What have I got to do to be heard
What do I do when lightning strikes me
What have I got to do
What have I got to do
When sorry seems to be the hardest word

this could be Hillary’s new theme song on the campaign trail, but instead it was a steady course of ‘don’t blame me’ for the former first lady this past weekend as she toured New Hampshire in hope of beginning her coronation as the Democratic party’s nominee for president in 2008.  “Had I been president (in 2003), I never would have started this war… The mistakes were made by this president, who misled this country and this Congress,” said the junior senator from New York in response to questions from a less than fawning audience in Berln, New Hampshire.  Mrs. Clinton still refused to denounce her vote authorizing President Bush to use force in Iraq, and received criticism from the assembled party faithful. 

Many experts agree that the question now is not how Mrs. Clinton will continue to defend her vote, but when and how to acknowledge the now in vogue position of ‘I made a mistake and if I knew then what I know now, I would have never voted the way I did’ held by former Senator and fellow presidential candidate John Edwards.  Unfortunately for Mrs. Clinton she seems to have developed by association a trait her husband former President Bill Clinton was well known for, not knowing how to apologize and move forward.