Get the lie out there.
Semi-retract later.

and just another day for her supporters.

She did not misspeak. That was a paragraph long statement lying about the 1980's, the Reagans, and AIDS.

One does not answer a question with a paragraph long reply and then claim they misspoke. Well, liars like Clinton do, but not normal folks.

political points.

to score political points, even if she, uhhh....uhhhmmm..."mis-speaks" to do so.

It's just that you got caught....again....

Why even go there? There's absolutely no political up side to it.

Where's the up side to this?

It just does not make any sense whatsoever. Maybe she did misspeak. But that is one quite egregious misspeaking.

I just don't think this helps her much.

When one is a presidential candidate why say such a controversial thing even at a funeral? Especially at a funeral!!!!

It makes no sense whatsoever any way one looks at it.

I've seen a couple of explanations, and I guess they might explain her thinking, but I still can't make her thinking make sense to me.

In the less-than-flattering sense of those politicians who forget that outside the beltway, this isn't just a game to people. Apparently she truly is friends with Kissinger, and the Reagans, and either doesn't realize or doesn't care about how actual voters might remember those people for the things they did.

call my 98 year old mother a silent homophobe for her previous stance on gay rights, which she has changed and for someone who is in her 90's I consider that quite a positive change. I've lost my brother to AIDS, my granddaughter is gay, and I believe that Hillary's explanation is enough for me. If not, I would be the biggest hypocrite in the world by never accepting my own mother's change of heart. This is going to take our party down unless we stop this destructive descent into annihilation by a thousand cuts. The enemy is becoming us.