[observer5]

Complicating matters is the film's charge that Reagan believed AIDS was biblical revenge...

It sure is...

[cwb]

O'Reilly had Nancy's secretary and one of Ronalds biographers on his show last night. They both said this AIDs issue is pure BS. Reagan was sympathetic to the AIDS issue especially when his freind Rock Hudson came down with it. The debate over the compassion for AIDs had to do with money and how resources should be allocated to deal with it. At this time, AIDS was even claimed to be transfered by saliva and there was a general hysteria from many in the medical community, alone. You had multiple camps with multiple theories about AIDs and how to deal with it...and this idea that Reagan set a negative tone is rediculous. You couldn't even get those in-the-know at the CDC/NIH and even the WHO to agree on treatment and the allocation of funds. Reagan also had many other issues on his plate at this time.

[elfman2]

"It sure is... [AIDS was biblical revenge... ]"

On only matters that Reagan’s not attributed with such self righteous, unsupportable statements.

If you want to selectively call one man's suffering “biblical revenge”, arbitrarily dismissing similar claims that 9/11 or some US natural disaster was “God’s revenge”, who cares. This is still a free county.

[lady lawyer]

Romans 6:23. The wages of sin is death.

[ejdrapes]

The point isn't whether any of us believe AIDS is biblical revenge, but whether Ronald Reagan believed it or ever uttered the words "They that live in sin shall die in sin". I don't believe for a minute that Reagan ever uttered those words. Perhaps some here wish he had, but that's not the point. I hope Nancy does sue, because it's obvious most of this is garbage that could never be proved as fact. It's all based on the left wing ideology of the producers/actors/CBS.

[CyberAnt]

That's not the point. Plenty of people who really knew the Reagans have confirmed that Reagan was very sympathetic to the gays because in his years in Hollywood, he knew many of them. In the time period when Reagan was president, he did more for AIDS than any other president.

But this statement: "Rank amateur! Who does that sonofabitch think he is? I'm the goddam President of the United States, I'm his boss!" I'M STUNNED! DIDN'T CLINTON ACTUALLY MAKE THIS STATEMENT. I've read several books about the Clintons, and that statement sounds very familiar. We know Blabs was very smitten with Willy.