No, Hillary. Nancy Reagan stood by and watched tens of thousands of people die.

[joshcryer]

5. I think she was inventing a narrative that seemed like common sense.

That a President and his First Lady in the 80s ignored the HIV-AIDS crisis was clearly unbelievable. She wrote a script mid-sentence and it turned out to be completely and utterly false.

I personally think this is why politicians are screwy. They make up whatever thing they can on the spot. John Kerry famously accepted a question about WTC 7 forcefully demolished in a Q&A which is used by "9/11 truthers" to this day. I won't link the video (the sources are 9/11 truthers but the video exists, search "WTC 7 john kerry&quot , but in the Q&A someone asked him about a something a firefighter said saying they "pulled that building" (which actually meant that they pulled their crew from the building and abandoned operations). Kerry said "I think they made a decision ... that they did it in a controlled fashion." He was off the cuff, assuming it was a reasonable thing to do, and went ahead and accepted the guys question at face value.

Clinton's "making up the narrative in real time" thing is truly horrible though, because it presumes absolutely no knowledge of the Regan administration as it relates to the LGBT community whatsoever. It shows how completely out of touch she is to have thought that up or have invented it out of nowhere. This is a huge huge deal, a huge deal within LGBT communities, and within the left as a whole, how the Regan administration basically wrote off the HIV-AIDS epidemic wholesale, did nothing about it, absolutely nothing.

With that said, I do think she mispoke. I do think she was ignorant of those times (she was with Bill in Arkansas, and probably doesn't have many liberals in her circles who discuss this issue rarely if at all). I do think she made a error inventing a narrative from thin air that was the exact opposite of reality.

I think for her to truly recover from this, after Nancy's death is out of the news for awhile, she brings this back up, and admits her folly. Admits that Regan didn't do anything for LGBT particularly HIV patients (back then "AIDS" was "synonymous" with HIV as far as I recall, I was a kid but I still remember how merely touching other kids was considered wrong).

This apology simply doesn't go far enough. I'll await the future clarification. Hopefully she does it.