it was part of the Reagan expansion of the failed drug war.
A Brief History of the Drug War | Drug Policy Alliance
her campaign kept the issue so front and center that it helped to propel this expansion.
now we can go back and forth all day about the minute differences between Nancy Reagan's campaign somehow doesn't offend small government sensibilities in the way that Michelle Obama's does, but it would be an utterly ridiculous discussion. it doesn't get much more big nanny government than the drug war.
Hillary Clinton's push for health care was kind of unprecedented for a first lady, though. i'm not criticizing the desire to finally give up on our stupid employer based health care system, but i could at least understand those who support small government being alarmed by it. however, this thread only exists for partisan reasons, and you know it. somebody posts it to say, "wow look, what my team did worked," and then the other team spends 40 pages fighting the enemy. it's just tiresome. we're all arguing about serving a kid a ****ing salad at school.
i am absolutely not suggesting that. there has been absolute foaming partisan rage for decades now. ****, i was even a rabid right winger under Clinton. and the idiots even made a snuff film about Bush. utter lunacy.
i will say that the temper tantrum thrown by the right under Obama, though, has annoyed me to the point where i am just completely and utterly disgusted. we have to change our political system. i've never seen this much gridlock and nearly complete obstruction. it's caused by gerrymandering, and a two party system. we need to fix both.
agree about Hillary's unprecedented role being big. but this is a school lunch program. it's not even in the same sport.
as someone who lost a lot of weight and works daily to keep it off, i agree that it won't fix the problem. however, even a discussion about school lunches turns into a damned partisan fistfight. it's just one more indicator that the way our system is set up is not working, and needs serious tweaking.