Why did she lie about Nancy Reagan's involvement with the AIDS crisis? Why THAT lie?

[karynnj]

19. That is desperation - they demonized the disease

Imagine that as soon as scientists had a glimmer what was happening, if they would have LED the effort to both treat those afflicted with respect and kindness and committed the resources needed a decade earlier. Even though the problem was is Africa, look at how quickly the Obama administration led on the effort to contain and then - as much as possible - eliminate the ebola threat.

In fact, had Clinton been the President (or even still the SoS) then, you would be writing things as if she single handedly led the effort - an angel of mercy.

Obama acted with the seriousness of purpose that Reagan lacked.

I know that everyone edits out the bad and emphasizes the good, but this was ridiculous as ALL those plays etc have the correct story - the Reagans did not lead on this.

It is easy to find things you can praise - looking at others, they praised her devotion to Ronnie as he slipped into dementia, her willingness to ignore Republican orthodoxy to support stem cell research - even praising her (I would say ) lame effort to get kids to say no to drugs. In any time, there were some things that were bipartisan -- I would bet that there had to be things that HRC did as First Lady of AR when Reagan was President. Not to mention, being in the small club of people who lived and raised kids in the WH.