About "I misspoke" - why am I not buying it.

[jillan]

A former First Lady does not make a comment on National Television about the life of another former First Lady on the same day the latter is being buried without first carefully preparing her statement(s).

Dignitaries walk on eggshells to not insult another dignitary at the time of their death, no matter how much they were disliked. Especially one that wants to be the President of the United States, which includes being President of the small part of America that thinks the Reagans walked on water.

It's called protocol.

Hillary did not go on television unprepared to make a remark on Nancy Reagan on the day she was being buried.
Nobody would.
Not even to mention the fact that Hillary is overly conscious when it comes to public speaking. That's not an attack.
It's a fact.


She didn't misspeak. She prepared those remarks ahead of time.

[UglyGreed]

1. Of course

IMO it was pandering to the right since the campaign believes the primary is over.

[dchill]

6. Her pandering chops SHOULD be up to snuff.

No excuse!

[NCjack]

2. She fell in 2012 and suffered a concussion. It's time for neurological exam to be sure

she is healthy.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. She needs to take a class in "CYA Apology Strategy".

Particularly difficult when the statement being apologized for when you introduce the topic and speak about it for 45 seconds on TV.

[BernieforPres2016]

8. The funny thing was Andrea Mitchell trying to bail Hillary out

with the "even if quietly behind the scenes" comment after Hillary stepped in it. If Andrea had been sure she was off camera, she probably would have been giving Hillary a throat slashing gesture and grimacing when Hillary started down that path.

[farleftlib]

4. Of course she did

She saw an opportunity to suck up to the right and she calculated the risk and decided the LGBTQ people had nowhere else to go.

It's the same MO she's been utilizing since Day One and she isn't going to change. Oh, I mean she is going to change, every time the wind blows she's going to mouth a different platitude, stance, opinion whatever.

[HereSince1628]

7. I think that's pretty close to correct. Re change..

Hillary doesn't change or evolve. She re-volves, sooner or later what wasn't, is, again. She has a Swiss-army knife -like capacity to be a politician for all circumstances. She is whatever is needed at the moment

[BernieforPres2016]

9. If the mega rich in the LGBTQ community were still behind her after DOMA

why would they abandon her over this?

[Bluenorthwest]

10. If they had been behind her Barack Obama might not be President today....

Those HRC types are not the big money, those are he wannabes and might be somedays. The mega money was to a large extent cheesed off at her and at Bill and this got Obama lots of early money because he looked like he could beat her. It was not so much for him as it was against her and that's the fact.

[BernieforPres2016]

12. Are they not behind her against Bernie, by and large?

[Skwmom]

5. Her suffering backlash for lauding Reagan is scrolling across the screen. I'm sure it was a mistake

and not a political calculation.

[bigwillq]

11. Kick (nt)