In last night’s non-debate among Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton got the biggest applause line of the night: “If H.I.V./AIDS were the leading cause of death of white women between the ages of 25 and 34, there would be an outraged outcry in this country.”the author points out that we are spending billions of dollars and that hillary's statement is false because of it.
She continued, “If we don’t begin to take it seriously and address it the way we did back in the ‘90s, when it was primarily a gay men’s disease, we will never get the services and the public education that we need.”
These are superb applause lines, well targeted to her audience. The insinuations behind them, however, are damnable lies.
but i don't think so. i did not hear or read hillary's words and therefore risk taking the comment out of context. OTB said we are spending money so we are doing something. but i think hillary's comment is correct. not just about money. but about the outcry. preventative efforts aside,* more needs to be done about AIDS in america. i understand africa needs help, but so do 437,982 people here.
* the fact that we all learned that HIV and AIDS is preventable [you could even not have sex] may be part of the reason we don't "care" too much. but hillary's statement is still true.
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