Clinton apologizes for calling Nancy Reagan a 'very effective, low-key' AIDS advocate

[LiberalElite]

Source: CNN.com

St. Louis (CNN)Hillary Clinton apologized on Friday for calling the late Nancy Reagan a "very effective, low-key" advocate on AIDS/HIV, saying she "misspoke" in an interview with MSNBC.

Clinton said the former first lady, who died on Sunday, "started a national conversation" on AIDS that "penetrated the public conscience and people began to say, 'Hey, we have to do something about this, too,'" during an interview with the network at Reagan's funeral.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/11/politics/hillary-clinton-nancy-reagan-aids/index.html

[JackInGreen]

1. How do mis speak

With narrative? You don't, that's a lie.

[oldandhappy]

2. Yep! Again.

[longship]

3. Why say such a thing in the first place?

Especially when one has an entire presidential campaign staff at ones fingertips who should know better.

Why? Why make shit up?

[oldandhappy]

4. almost funny

Realllllllllly Clinton?

[Arazi]

5. She's now trying to say she meant Alzheimer's

But there's no,way since Alzheimer's has never been stigmatized.

She's lying again!!!

“It may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS back in the 1980s,” Mrs. Clinton, who was attending Mrs. Reagan’s funeral in Simi Valley, Calif., told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “And because of both President and Mrs. Reagan – in particular, Mrs. Reagan – we started a national conversation, when before nobody would talk about it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Hillary is suffering from Alzheimer's? Hmmm

[Arazi]

13. No, she was saying she meant to praise Nancy Reagans Alzheimer's advocacy

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Hillary forgot what she was talking about? In the middle of an election campaign? Symptom?

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

23. She may be showing early signs of senility

[LiberalElite]

37. Except that - through the miracle of technology (sarcasm)

the whole world can see that she had praised Nancy Reagan's Alzheimer's advocacy and was done with that topic. Damn videos!

[Skeeter Barnes]

46. Affluenza

[dixiegrrrrl]

49. She may be correct.

If thousands of us yelling at Reagan to DO SOMETHING about the dying men and the disease, then there WAS " a national conversation"
albeit in strenuously loud and frustrated tones.

Clinton needs to set aside an Apology Day, one day a week where she can do a mea culpa for all her "mis-spokes" .

[LS_Editor]

6. #HillaryLies

She's running to be the presidential nominee for the side that cares about facts. Maybe she forgot...

[Bubzer]

7. Hye, look! Another example of her great judgment!

[jalan48]

8. Embarrassing.

[Feeling the Bern]

9. like you misspoke abour sniper fire in bosnia?

your hrc shills in that hrc group you kick people out of so you can have your echo chamber really have to disinfect yourselves with lye daily.

Goldwater Girl
Kissinger lover
Former Wal-mart board member
DOMA supporter
NAFTA supporter
Honduran child deporting supporter
Drug war supporter
Raygun Democrat
Voted for te Iraq War
$17M in secret speeches to Wall Street

If a Republican were all these things, you'd all go nuts. But because it's HRC the Demi-Goddess, it's all good and can be explained.

And when you can't explain, you get smug and aloof.

She is Republican Lite.

Her apology is unaccepted because she said it. On the Record. . .she owns it now. All the backpeddling and walking back does nothing.

And any LGBT person who now supports her might as well run the knife over their wrists since she has thrown you all under teh bus to pander to the Republican mouth breathers by praise the Spawn of Hell spouse of the Sith Lord himself.

[LiberalElite]

19. IMO it's a

cynical attempt at manipulation of people who she must think won't know any better - and will vote for her because she seems to care. Stupid on soooo many levels.

[mikehiggins]

45. What does she care? She got the endorsement of some major LGBT people and groups.

Now that she has that, what does she need LGBT people for?

Just like having been endorsed by the Planned Parenthood management she seems able to "evolve" on women's absolute right to abortion.

[Aldo Leopold]

10. Insulting.

"Started a national conversation."

Among whom? Self righteous assholes?

About what? How to look the other way?

[Dont call me Shirley]

11. Her lies are getting into the realm of ridiculousness.

[George II]

14. And that apology should end this, but of course since she's the front-runner.......

........this will be dragged out until she clinches the nomination.

[RoccoR5955]

26. More like

until she has finally lost the nomination for a SECOND time!

[Kalidurga]

31. Why did it undo the damage it caused?

[Gore1FL]

41. She walks into self-made mistakes. She does so over and over.

Mispeaks, misvotes, missupports, misrepresents, etc to the point that you have to ask if she is tone-deaf, bumbling, manipulative, rudderless, pandering or some combination of all theses things.

If it was a time or two thing, fine, but it isn't. It's a pattern.

If she wins the nomination, I'll vote for her, In that case, I hope to vote for her primary challenger in 2020.

[Solly Mack]

16. A family friend, more like a cousin, really, died in 1984 of AIDS.

The first, but certainly not the last, of my friends who would die of it. I well remember the 80's, the Reagans, and HIV/AIDS. Because I was aware early enough to know what it was called first, GRID and "gay" cancer. Which only added another layer to the bigotry and the lack of response. It was only gay people dying, you know <insert any number of hateful jokes being told at the time, and still are>.

It wasn't difficult to talk about. Because we were talking about it and talking loudly. It was difficult to get anyone to listen. Because those with the power to help didn't care. Huge difference. Major difference. A critical, life-saving difference.

No, it isn't "hard to remember" how the Reagan Administration (to include his wife) behaved during that time - It's impossible to forget.

"The other point to make, too, is it may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS back in the 1980s," Clinton said. "And because of both President and Mrs. Reagan, in particular Mrs. Reagan, we started a national conversation, when before nobody would talk about it."

Clinton added: "Nobody wanted to do anything about it. And, you know, that too is something that I really appreciate with her very effective low-key advocacy, but it penetrated the public conscience and people began to say, hey, we have to do something about this, too."

I'll be polite in comment.

What utterly contemptible bullshit.

[RoccoR5955]

25. +1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000! n.t.

[LiberalElite]

38. - and that phrase "national conversaton"

how fucking trite is that?

[Solly Mack]

40. I've said all I can safely say on the subject. I'm that disgusted by the comment and apology.

[MissDeeds]

17. She seems to have to apologize a lot

Because she's wrong a lot. Not the quality we need in a president.

[840high]

18. She certainly mis speaks a lot.

[zentrum]

20. Pander. Pander. Pander.

When that doesn't work—then it's a misspeak.

[Mr.Bill]

21. I'm beginning to wonder about Hillary.

I mean how do you fuck up attending a funeral?

[LiberalElite]

22. When you use it as an excuse

to cynically pander to groups you want voting for you. In effect, she was using her attendance at a funeral as a campaign stop.

[Marie Marie]

30. Rallying for votes from the Reagan Republicans who don't want to vote for Trump?

Beyond inappropriate at a funeral.

[Kalidurga]

32. The same way Mitt fucked up a European vacation.

[LiberalElite]

35. - and near the end, speaking about First Ladies -

and what they each bring to the role she said "UP UNTIL NOW...HER... and HER... (emphasis added) she appeared to be alluding to having a First Husband in the WH. You're counting those chickens before they hatch, H.

[Kalidurga]

36. I think her chickens have turned into omelets.

[Gore1FL]

42. +1

[RoccoR5955]

24. Too late!

Did she evolve into that position?
The deed is done, too late for apologies.
Mrs. Clinton lost my vote for ANY office that she runs for!

[revbones]

27. Watch the video for yourself if you think she "misspoke"

It wasn't a misplaced word as she claimed, she steered toward that subject

&feature=youtu.be

[LiberalElite]

34. There is no misplaced word - definitely not - but AAGGH

at the end talking about First Ladies and what they each bring to the role she said "UP UNTIL NOW...HER... and HER... (emphasis added) she appeared to be alluding to having a First Husband in the WH. You're counting those chickens before they hatch, H.

[Cassiopeia]

28. She was pandering and it created backlash.

Otherwise she would be perfectly fine letting this lie stand.

[Thespian2]

29. Please remember...

Lying Liars gotta' Lie...

[left-of-center2012]

33. Hillary flip flopped, again? n/t

[xocet]

39. So...

She took sniper fire....and...Nancy Reagan was an AIDS/HIV advocate...?

[Geronimoe]

43. Revisonist

Early in Reagan's first term the UN recommended $2 billion funding to address the HIV/AIDS virus. After Reagans two terms less than $20 million had been invested. During Clinton's two terms HIV/AIDS was the number one cause of death for 25 to 49 year old adults.

It is interesting that one who claims she has committed a life to healthcare issues, is so ignorant on this issue that has caused 39 million deaths.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

44. So the "misspeak" part was fixed by claiming Nancy was a hero on AIDS....

......uh huh.......

[Lazy Daisy]

47. Hillary needs to send The Donald

a fruit basket. If it not for him and the Chicago rally taking up the news cycle, THIS would be the hot topic today and tomorrow.
Once again Trumps campaign helps shelter the hot mess that is Hillary Clinton.

[pothos]

48. absence of clinton supporters in this thread is no surprise

both her original statement and her "apology" were repugnant.