Is Hillary Clinton Running a Real Campaign? [updt]

Hillary Clinton: The Reagans, particularly Nancy, helped start "a national conversation" about HIV and AIDS. https://t.co/7sZp8X53fb

Full — unprompted — statement:

“It may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS in the 1980s. And because of both President and Mrs. Reagan, in particular, Mrs. Reagan, we started national conversation when before no one would talk about it, no one wanted to do anything about it, and 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.’”

You really have to watch her say it. It’s done with such conviction:

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This cannot be a real Dem candidate for president. No real Dem candidate for president would ever say these words. This is the kind of thing that creates armies of extremely pissed off people — Dem people. (“AIDS” is near the top of the Twitter trending list right now.)

P.S. She’s already scrambling back.

Hillary Clinton’s statement on her comments about the Reagans' record on HIV and AIDS: pic.twitter.com/RtIs0zpJfk

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/blankstare

Hillary Clinton not only lived through that era, she was very actively political during that era. How is it humanly possible to forget the reality of what the Reagans did [not do] during that time? She said that unprompted. Giving her a really enormous benefit of the doubt — who has a brain fart that big? WTUHF? 

Oh, just deadly from Billmon:

.@tryggth@ggreenwald@fakedansavage You know how this works: HRC campaign will issue mealymouthed "clarification, & supporters will shut up

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That was before the statement came out. 

• Dan Savage on walkback: “Not. Good. Enough.”

Update: Per diarist jamess — it looks as though NBC has given Clinton an unacknowldged do-over on this (add: not a re-do, but a friendly edit):

www.dailykos.com/…

But what is perhaps even more amazing than that, is that after the public and twitter out-roar concerning that factually incorrect,  NBC gave Ms Clinton a second try at the interview with Mitchell to get the story correct, before her out-of-touch mis-statement got out of hand.

This link has their updated new story, but somehow inexplicably, Clinton now credits Nancy Reagan for her out-reach on Alzheimers research (instead of AIDS and HIV research) as she had said earlier:

 [Around TimeMark 1:40, Hillary speaking to Andrea: ]

    “It was very brave of her, to take a political stand on behalf of research, that she thought might help, prevent or cure Alzheimers.”

If NBC — and Hillary Clinton — have actually done this, they’re opening the door to widening this scandal. (It appears they have — go to the video at the top of the link — about 1:40 in: www.nbcnews.com/...)