Bernie Sanders questions Clinton's praise for Nancy Reagan's Aids record

[NWCorona]

"Bernie Sanders on Sunday criticised Hillary Clinton’s brief praise for Nancy Reagan, whom the Democratic presidential frontrunner said “started a national conversation” on HIV/Aids.

“I just don’t know what she was talking about,” Sanders, the independent Vermont senator who is running for the Democratic nomination, said in an interview with CNN."
“In fact that was a very tragic moment in modern American history, there were many many people who were dying of Aids, and in fact there was demand all over the country for President Reagan to start talking about this tragedy, and yet he refused to talk about it.

“I’m glad [Clinton] apologized, but the truth it was not President Reagan and Nancy Reagan who were leaders … quite the contrary … they didn’t get involved in it.”

This gaffe isn't going away any time soon.


http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/13/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-nancy-reagan-aids-comments

[Merryland]

1. She has issued a more elaborate "apology"

that still doesn't explain why in the hell she would lie about this - it's really peculiar.

[Kalidurga]

2. Yes it is pecuLIAR.

SORRY CAPS STUCK.

[NWCorona]

3. I thought the Same!

She's an attorney so that might explain it lol

[ejbr]

4. My theory:

She is constantly in campaign mode, and she wanted to show voters that SHE was aware of the epidemic's origins, along with Nancy Reagan's pet projects. It backfired miserably; not only does it demonstrate her ever-present self-serving approach to politics, but now she is responsible for reopening this festering wound of the Reagan legacy. To do this at Nancy's funeral is gonna irritate people on both sides.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. But the DNC convention nominating Bill was chock full of open condemnation of Reagan and Bush on

HIV/AIDS. Until she said that stuff about Ron and Nancy I assumed she knew about the epidemic and about the politics surrounding it because she was a beneficiary along with Bill of that anger toward Reagan and Bush.

Two Primetime speakers at that convention utterly assailed Ronald Reagan in detail and extreme clarity:

Bob Hattoy: "AIDS is a disease of the Reagan-Bush years. The first case was detected in 1981, but it took 40,000 deaths and seven years for Ronald Reagan to say the word "AIDS." It's five years later, 70,000 more dead and George Bush doesn't talk about AIDS, much less do anything about it."
http://www.towleroad.com/2007/03/bob_hattoys_spe/

Most of Hattoy's speech is about how Bill Clinton was our hope. Because we thought they were at least paying attention to the speeches at their own nominating convention, but apparently they were not listening at all.

I'm with Bernie. I just don't know what she was talking about. Her comments were like comments from an alternate reality fiction. It is disturbing.

[ejbr]

7. Wow

Thanks for that refresher. Now.... I got nothing.

[Betty Karlson]

6. Bernie has my back. Good to know.

God bless him.