Lady Carcieri is RI's own Barbara Bush, only nastier.

How lucky we are to have her!

Jeff Neal is being very cute with his denial, very politically slippery. Sure, it is true that Sue Carcieri never said there was a "connection between" the kids and terrorists who killed Bhuto.

But that's not what the kids are saying. They are saying that Sue Carcieri "compared" them to terrorist by describing what she thought was their similar training methods.

First of all, she has no knowledge of who is doing any so-call "training" of these kids. She said in the Bakst article "I think they have mentors", but she has no knowledge and is just guessing.

The Bakst article notes that "a 16-year-old Vietnamese boy called his actions 'racist' ."

That may be true, but now the governor calls for the "group" to apologize to him for calling him a racist. The group didn't call him a racist, just one kid. The Gov's righteous indignation here doesn't ring true.

Bottom line is Sue stepped in it and now is too arrogant or proud to apologize.

I'll never understand why politicians refuse to apologize. What's the harm?

I think you answered your own question;you mentioned arrogance.

The students have invited Governor and Mrs. Carcieri to come to their group and learn about the realities of Southeast Asian families in Rhode Island -- I hope they take them up on it, but I'm not holding my breath. Also, here's the ProJo quote from the teenager that inspired Sue Carieri's comment -- you can see he is talking about the governor's actions, not maligning his character -- and he also points out that young people like himself have to miss school to serve as translators, so no wonder he's upset!! Here it is:

Tam Nguyen, 16, another organizer for the Providence Youth Student Movement (PRYSM), called Carcieri’s actions “racist.”

“Taking away interpreters from our community is not going to solve the state’s financial crisis; it’s going to create another financial crisis in my community, as elders lose their benefits and connections to state services,” he said.

Many times, Nguyen said, “my friends have had to skip school just to take their parents to the doctor’s office or to the DMV [Division of Motor Vehicles]. The problem is, we are skipping school and the problem is, we are not even professionally trained — we should not take up the state’s responsibilities.”

"...the state’s responsibilities..."

Ah, the Nanny State. It's all the State's responsibility. What happened to taking care of yourselves?

And not for nothin' but this 'security code' system stinks. Half the time you type in the code and it tells you it's wrong. Is that an "l" or a "1" or an "i"? Maybe you can deal with that?