If you care to educate yourself, you can look at the following (in addition to TGC’s reading suggestion).

You can read, can’t you?

http://www.indegayforum.org/news/show/26671.html

http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock200312030913.asp

BTW: what does Rosalyn have to say about Jimmy’s bigotry and unfortunate tendency to suck up to totalitarian tyrants?

It’s a capital idea and I will set my calender for next year to do the same – a new February tradition.

Happy birthday, Mr. President! You are sorely missed.

Best wishes,
-MFS

Ronald Reagan…. who fiddled while the AIDS crisis began.

And just what was he supposed to have done? I don’t think it would have made a whole hell of a lot of difference. AIDS wasn’t identified until 1982 and still few people knew what exactly it was or what to do about it. Money earmarked for AIDS has been included in the budget since 1984.

As Edwin Meese said

“I can remember numerous sessions of the domestic-policy council where the surgeon general provided information to us, and the questions were not whether the federal government would get involved, but what would be the best way. There was support for research through the NIH. There also were questions about the extent to which public warnings should be sent out. It was a question of how the public would respond to fairly explicit warnings about fairly explicit things. Ultimately, warnings were sent out.”

So I’d like to know, if you can provide anything useful than liberal urban legends, how exactly Reagan “fiddled”, and what difference it would have made. And you have to do better than “The amount of money earmarked was not enough.” because it never is.

Also, can you point out the “fiddling” here:

http://www.fas.org/spp/civil/crs/96-293.pdf

Do you have actual evidence or just liberal lying points?

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YTFkZTcyMzFmNjNhZWQ1ZTMwY2NiZTNjNTE0YTAxMGE=

gillie – you’re hopeless.

Happy Birthday, President Reagan

And to even suggest he was better than Roosevelt is ludicrous.

Let’s see, starting off a quarter century of American prosperity versus keeping the country in a depression. Hmmmmmm…….which is better? His tax cuts worked just as Kennedy’s did.

His best accomplishment was outspending the Russians. He did a great job of explaining why it was important to outspend them and of course he granted amnesty to illegal immigrants

He also abandoned Lebanon. Armed Iran, negotiated and gave in to terrorist and on and on. But the greatest disaster of Reagan was his economic policy. He started the conservative policy of tax cuts coupled with high spending in times of economic expansion. He raised the debt to 3 trillion dollars! Thus we are where we are now. His refusal to raise taxes coupled with his love of military spending started spiral to where we are now. All of his government spending did help the economy improve but he lacked the guts to balance the budget when times were good.

Reagan was not a bad president. But your attempts to mythologize Reagan have gone too far. And to even suggest he was better than Roosevelt is ludicrous.