Hillary Clinton was talking about Mrs. Reagan's quiet advocacy on all of these things - from stem cell research to gun violence, but you wouldn't know that to look at the snippet going around the Internet that makes it look like Clinton somehow said Nancy Reagan was only significant for HIV.

Last, but not least, I remember that roughly eight years ago, a young charismatic candidate for President greatly damaged my heart when he allowed one Donnie McClurkin, a pastor who believed that homosexuality can be (and needed to be) "cured", to campaign with him on stage - not once but in a series of campaign events. That man turned out to be the most effective and fiercest advocate for LGBT rights in the White House, becoming the first sitting US president to declare support for marriage equality and leading Congress to repeal the ban on service by openly gay Americans. He turned out to be the man whose Justice Department implored the Supreme Court to overturn the discriminatory federal marriage law DOMA, and succeeded. His name is President Barack Obama.

I know better than to judge the character of someone by single, isolated actions, let alone by a single, isolated sentence. The case, I imagine, is the same for everyone else, even those who are overlooking that because they feel hurt or simply because they have found a new weapon to beat their political opponent with.

But this IS a single sentence in a single interview. This is a single sentence in a single interview that Hillary Clinton has taken back.

Get over it. Get on with life. We have progress to protect. We have our country's future at stake.