Hillary apologizes for Nancy Reagan/AIDS comment

[dlwickham]

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/708403247795539968/photo/1

While the Reagans were strong advocates for stem cell research and finding a cure for Alzheimers, I misspoke about their record on HIV and AIDS. For that, I'm sorry.

[elleng]

1. Interesting, I guess. How many will notice this?

[peacebird]

2. "Misspoke"? As in said the exact opposite of the truth? Why yes you did, as usual.

[BlueMTexpat]

4. Hardly that.

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/11/11208192/hillary-clinton-nancy-reagan-aids

What does seem to be true is that when the Reagan administration eventually did decide to respond to the AIDS crisis, Nancy Reagan was among the influential administration figures pushing for that decision.

"I think that she deserves credit for opening up the AIDS money," historian Allida Black told PBS in 2011, saying that along with Koop the first lady pressed the president and the secretary of health and human services to allocate research funding to HIV/AIDS issues.

"But," Black continued, "I could never say that without saying they never would have waited this long" if not for the perception that the disease was a problem for gay men.

In the same PBS segment, Nancy's son, Ron Reagan, likewise portrays his mother as an important progressive force on AIDS issues inside the Reagan administration.

[Mika]

8. Just like good republicans do.

Get the lie out there.
Semi-retract later.

[revbones]

3. Just another flip-flop from the queen

and just another day for her supporters.

[TM99]

5. That is a non-apology.

She did not misspeak. That was a paragraph long statement lying about the 1980's, the Reagans, and AIDS.

[dlwickham]

12. bullshit

[TM99]

14. Bullshit right back at you.

One does not answer a question with a paragraph long reply and then claim they misspoke. Well, liars like Clinton do, but not normal folks.

[Metric System]

6. As a gay supporter I accept her apology. I don't appreciate Sanders supporters using AIDS to score

political points.

[ret5hd]

9. But yet, you don't seem to mind when Ms. Clinton uses AIDS ...

to score political points, even if she, uhhh....uhhhmmm..."mis-speaks" to do so.

[dlwickham]

13. how did she use AIDS to score points?

[pangaia]

7. 'MISS-SPOKE" my ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's just that you got caught....again....

[phantom power]

10. This was as inexplicable as her repeated insistence at bringing up Kissinger.

Why even go there? There's absolutely no political up side to it.

[longship]

11. ^THIS^ is what I do not understand.

Where's the up side to this?

It just does not make any sense whatsoever. Maybe she did misspeak. But that is one quite egregious misspeaking.

I just don't think this helps her much.

When one is a presidential candidate why say such a controversial thing even at a funeral? Especially at a funeral!!!!

It makes no sense whatsoever any way one looks at it.

[SusanCalvin]

16. Color me baffled as well.

I've seen a couple of explanations, and I guess they might explain her thinking, but I still can't make her thinking make sense to me.

[phantom power]

17. My take on this is, somewhere along the way, Clinton became a Villager.

In the less-than-flattering sense of those politicians who forget that outside the beltway, this isn't just a game to people. Apparently she truly is friends with Kissinger, and the Reagans, and either doesn't realize or doesn't care about how actual voters might remember those people for the things they did.

[Loki]

15. I just had a supposedly gay BS member

call my 98 year old mother a silent homophobe for her previous stance on gay rights, which she has changed and for someone who is in her 90's I consider that quite a positive change. I've lost my brother to AIDS, my granddaughter is gay, and I believe that Hillary's explanation is enough for me. If not, I would be the biggest hypocrite in the world by never accepting my own mother's change of heart. This is going to take our party down unless we stop this destructive descent into annihilation by a thousand cuts. The enemy is becoming us.