Keller @ Large: Trump Can Prove Critics Wrong With Apology
BOSTON (CBS) - It's one of the first lessons most parents teach their kids – how to say you're sorry.
And it's one of the best lessons anyone can learn.
Everybody makes mistakes, yours truly included. Sometimes those mistakes hurt others, or cross the line of appropriate behavior.
When that happens, the only thing to do is acknowledge the blunder and apologize for it.
That's just what grownups – and properly reared children – do.
President Obama did it back in 2009 when he insulted a Cambridge police officer for his handling of the arrest of a Harvard Law School professor the president was friendly with.
Hillary Clinton has done it several times, notably last year when she apologized for voting for US intervention in Iraq as a US Senator. "I made a mistake, plain and simple," she said.
And even Mitt Romney, who wrote a book entitled "No Apologies," apologized when he was governor here for unknowingly using a racially-offensive expression.
If they can do it, so can Donald Trump.
Trump is being reviled by friend and foe for insisting a judge overseeing a Trump University fraud suit can't do his job because his parents were Mexican. Some of his closest allies are begging him to end the agony by apologizing, because when you say you're sorry, it defuses the anger and backlash against you.
Trump's critics have claimed he's too immature and narcissistic to be president.
This is his chance to prove them wrong.
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