LOL!! I have seen you beating your head against a wall on a few threads about this. I think the very definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Let's face it, you can't teach someone a sense of humor. I thought she was funny, and it still makes me chuckle when I think about the jokes. Ah, to be able to reference my mother in law as Don Corleone as a "joke"!! I use the quotations only for MY mother in law. Oh well, we get the humor in what she said and took it as just that.
I will admit if Hillary did it, I would still have thought it was funny. I just wouldn't have acknowledged it in public. :)
Im sure Barbara Bush thought it was funny too...her whole family teases her......and I agree with you 100%...