Comments on: Gerald Ford http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:34:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: JX http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-65089 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:48:29 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-65089 Yale bashing, that's a hoot! I'm assuming you are including the media's complicity in villianizing Bill and Hillary Clinton, both J.D. from Old Eli? Yale bashing, that’s a hoot! I’m assuming you are including the media’s complicity in villianizing Bill and Hillary Clinton, both J.D. from Old Eli?

]]> by: moonbat http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62784 Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:53:06 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62784 <a href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_digbysblog_archive.html#116724077646265635" rel="nofollow">What Digby says.</a> What Digby says.

]]> by: Swami http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62718 Thu, 28 Dec 2006 05:59:39 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62718 <i>Any way, president Ford made it past 90, a very good run. We should all be so lucky. </i> Thats my sentiment also... and at least 30 of those 90 were spent on the gravey train. Life couldn't have been too hard seeing that we have been and will be to be picking up the tab. Any way, president Ford made it past 90, a very good run.
We should all be so lucky.

Thats my sentiment also… and at least 30 of those 90 were spent on the gravey train. Life couldn’t have been too hard seeing that we have been and will be to be picking up the tab.

]]> by: paradoctor http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62695 Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:52:35 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62695 I told my daughter that the flags were at half-mast for Gerald Ford, but that as far as _I_ am concerned, they were really at half-mast for James Brown. I told my daughter that the flags were at half-mast for Gerald Ford, but that as far as _I_ am concerned, they were really at half-mast for James Brown.

]]> by: k http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62610 Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:35:34 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62610 I think Ford did what he thought right at the time. He didn't know what some of these creatures that started out then with him would become. In fact he didn't know what the republican party would turn into over time. I just saw Ron Nessen on PBS saying old Nixon business( messes) were taking up 25% of his and his staff's time and they probably thought it would be the best way to move past all of that.How could they know that some would take pardon (as the Iran contra crowd definitely did,) as a free pass to go at it again in the future. I think Ford did what he thought right at the time. He didn’t know what some of these creatures that started out then with him would become. In fact he didn’t know what the republican party would turn into over time. I just saw Ron Nessen on PBS saying old Nixon business( messes) were taking up 25% of his and his staff’s time and they probably thought it would be the best way to move past all of that.How could they know that some would take pardon (as the Iran contra crowd definitely did,) as a free pass to go at it again in the future.

]]> by: maha http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62601 Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:07:03 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62601 <i>I always felt that a working man voting Republican is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.</i> Good'n. I always felt that a working man voting Republican is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.

Good’n.

]]> by: erinyes http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62582 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 23:09:31 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62582 I never paid much attention to politics until 1991.I was having breakfast at the Waffle house (my daughter calls it the "awful house".)just outside St Augustine Fl, and it was announced over the radio that Bill Clinton won the election . My wife and I were pleased that he defeated George H. Bush, but one of the local "good old boys" yelled out "there goes the country".Go figure. I always felt that a working man voting Republican is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders. After reading the preceeding comments, it strikes me as very curious that we have had so many corrupt and inept presidents over the past 50 years, some just less corrupt or inept than others. There is a message here (too bad it's in code.). Ford SEEMS like a decent guy, but then there are the photos of Ford's staff including several of the same flying monkeys that have caused us so much grief in the current regime. 'Tis a real kick in the head! Any way, president Ford made it past 90, a very good run. We should all be so lucky. I never paid much attention to politics until 1991.I was having breakfast at the Waffle house (my daughter calls it the “awful house”.)just outside St Augustine Fl, and it was announced over the radio that Bill Clinton won the election . My wife and I were pleased that he defeated George H. Bush, but one of the local “good old boys” yelled out “there goes the country”.Go figure.
I always felt that a working man voting Republican is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.

After reading the preceeding comments, it strikes me as very curious that we have had so many corrupt and inept presidents over the past 50 years, some just less corrupt or inept than others.
There is a message here (too bad it’s in code.).

Ford SEEMS like a decent guy, but then there are the photos of Ford’s staff including several of the same flying monkeys that have caused us so much grief in the current regime.
‘Tis a real kick in the head!
Any way, president Ford made it past 90, a very good run.
We should all be so lucky.

]]> by: AL http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62558 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:34:30 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62558 Ford was a Univ of Michigan grad. Ford was a Univ of Michigan grad.

]]> by: terry http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62542 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:37:39 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62542 My recollection of the time was that Ford was certainly better than Nixon and LBJ not as good as JFK and sort of on a par with Ike. I hated Nixon and LBJ for the idiocy of Vietnam and all the lies both told about that fiasco. Nixon was forced to resign because of two things--the lies/coverup about Watergate and the fact that the Democrats controlled Congress. I certainly cared a lot more about the lies about Vietnam than I did about the coverup of Watergate although the coverup reflected Nixon's general tendencies of deceit and manipulation which his crooked cronies carried out in all aspects of his administration. As a result the pardon, while unwelcome, did not really affect my vote. Rather it was the sense that Carter would be better for the economy and working people than Ford who was a fiscal conservative in the Hoover sense in the face of a really pretty wretched economy. Unfortunately, Carter proved no more able at dealing with the economic mess started by LBJ's "guns and butter" and continued by Nixon's efforts at price controls in the face of the first OPEC boycott and turned out to generally be a good man and a near awful president. In my opinion it was Carter's inepitude which lead to the election of a second rate actor who managed to first stop inflation by throwing millions of Americans out of work and then got the economy going--eventually- by racking up the biggest deficits in history before Dumbya. I suppose that if Ford had been elected instead of Carter that a Democrat could have won in 1980 and we would not have had Reagan. My recollection of the time was that Ford was certainly better than Nixon and LBJ not as good as JFK and sort of on a par with Ike. I hated Nixon and LBJ for the idiocy of Vietnam and all the lies both told about that fiasco. Nixon was forced to resign because of two things–the lies/coverup about Watergate and the fact that the Democrats controlled Congress. I certainly cared a lot more about the lies about Vietnam than I did about the coverup of Watergate although the coverup reflected Nixon’s general tendencies of deceit and manipulation which his crooked cronies carried out in all aspects of his administration. As a result the pardon, while unwelcome, did not really affect my vote. Rather it was the sense that Carter would be better for the economy and working people than Ford who was a fiscal conservative in the Hoover sense in the face of a really pretty wretched economy. Unfortunately, Carter proved no more able at dealing with the economic mess started by LBJ’s “guns and butter” and continued by Nixon’s efforts at price controls in the face of the first OPEC boycott and turned out to generally be a good man and a near awful president. In my opinion it was Carter’s inepitude which lead to the election of a second rate actor who managed to first stop inflation by throwing millions of Americans out of work and then got the economy going–eventually- by racking up the biggest deficits in history before Dumbya. I suppose that if Ford had been elected instead of Carter that a Democrat could have won in 1980 and we would not have had Reagan.

]]> by: Miller http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62532 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:59:34 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-ford/#comment-62532 I really disliked Ford at the time. His pardon on Nixon seemed like an obvious quid pro quo. With the recent reminders of congressional bi-partisan comittees, I could be convinced to adopt a more generous assessment. I.e. that there do exist "true believers" in bi-partisan consensus. The fact remains, however, that bi-partisan consensus whitewashing of the truth is a fundamentally elitest and undemocratic endeavor. It's purpose is to prevent the public from getting the truth because "The people is a great beast" and unvarnished facts are too dangerous to be let loose. I really disliked Ford at the time. His pardon on Nixon seemed like an obvious quid pro quo.

With the recent reminders of congressional bi-partisan comittees, I could be convinced to adopt a more generous assessment. I.e. that there do exist “true believers” in bi-partisan consensus. The fact remains, however, that bi-partisan consensus whitewashing of the truth is a fundamentally elitest and undemocratic endeavor. It’s purpose is to prevent the public from getting the truth because “The people is a great beast” and unvarnished facts are too dangerous to be let loose.

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