I have yet to see anyone that made the accusation that had any clue of what was known about AIDS or even what power the President had to do anything about it.

You put the facts in front of them, ask them how they can say that immediate response and billions of dollars adds up to "inaction", and they just ignore you and say the same things. No facts, no attempt at fairness, nothing but empty, irresponsible accusation.

I don't expect any of them to wander onto this or my post regarding it, they have nothing to say in response.

You get an insightful from me, SR.

No deep down he was a bastard

Indeed, little_whip. It's a hard job, and not everything is black and white.

Thanks, BakerStreet! I hate to say it, because it might be used to undermine reasonable arguments against them, but these people are idiots! If they really want to paint Reagan as a bad man, then why not stick to things such as the Iran-Contra affair? It's almost as if they want people not to take them seriously.

Well, noragchick, he might have been a bastard, but at least he was no Hitler 2000, allowing over thirteen million people to die as Clinton did!

P.S. I don't actually think Clinton's responsible for anybody who died from heart diseases and such, but if funding five billion dollars to research to prevent a deadly disease is inaction (as is the case with Reagan), then Clinton is the ultimate in inaction as he didn't spend over five billion dollars for each deadly disease that plagues Americans daily.

Reagan was a good, jovial man who contributed reasonably well; yet he was a union buster, which is ironic since he himself was president of the Actors'Guild, but showed his true colors by abandoning the infamous ten during the McCarthy hearings. As for AIDS, he percieved the malaise as San Francisco's problem--that's how wide his view was. Still, after all, he did have Alzheimer and the nation sincerely felt sorry for that. 

I like F. Roosevelt and Reagan, they are both bad asses who did the best that they could while being under such great pressure from everyone around them.