So, here is the question that is puzzling me. Can someone, whether they are a President or anyone else, redeem themselves and cure omissions by later clarity and specificity? In other words, can one refine one's comments on White Supremacy and racism that were too vague and too weak by ramping up one's outrage later? Do we treat the later comments as a reflection of the real feelings of the person speaking and ignore earlier flawed rhetoric or do we look at the first words spoken and treat them as "truth?" Does it matter if it is minutes, hours or days between the first comments and the improved comments? And, one more thing: to what standard do we hold our leaders with respect to their obligation to speak up and out out on topics such as discrimination, racism, sexual assault, violence? High -- the question is how high the bar is and should be.
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