tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post116722521284034586..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1167312437216447842006-12-28T08:27:00.000-05:002006-12-28T08:27:00.000-05:00How freaking IRONIC is it that from the grave, this good man tells us, via Woodward, how misguided Bush's Iraqi policy is?<BR/><BR/>Attaboy, Gerry!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1167264438050119932006-12-27T19:07:00.000-05:002006-12-27T19:07:00.000-05:00Godspeed Mr. President, give our regards to Bob Hope when you get there. Just don't forget your clubs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1167231449447737532006-12-27T09:57:00.000-05:002006-12-27T09:57:00.000-05:00A very, very nice man, almost incapable of national political nastiness required to be elected president. His successor, Jimmy Carter, was much the same. No coincidence that despite the electoral defeat, he and Carter became very close friends almost immediately after 1976.<BR/><BR/>I'll forgive him for two of his appointments which thrust people back in our faces under W--Rummy and Chaney. Hateful doesn't even come close to decribing those two.<BR/><BR/>Decent folks seemingly cannot win the presidency. Look at the crop left standing today for 2008--if you beleive the national pundits (I try hard to dial in some common sense) Obama may be the most-decent one there, and he's got zero security/foreign experience. <BR/><BR/>The remainder are some of the most ambitious, greedy, calculating and angry-acting candidates we've seen in along time.<BR/><BR/>God rest Gerald Ford. He earned a spot in heaven.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1167230058839885672006-12-27T09:34:00.000-05:002006-12-27T09:34:00.000-05:00So what you're saying is that if Ford's dad had appointed a couple of Supreme Court justices, then he would have been elected in 1976? You know, like the Current Occupant? Sorry - the reference to Ohio was too tempting to resist.<BR/><BR/>President Ford did a good job of healing the country in a constitutional crisis, and I agree with you that history will judge him kindly. He didn't do much else, but I think what he did was enough.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com