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Subject: thoughts on Gerald Ford
Former President Gerald Ford died last night.
I'm sure there will be a lot
of tributes to him, but he was a putz who was
at best not bright enough to
do the job and at worst complicit in things like
the Indonesian invasion of
East Timor, covering up the crimes of Richard
Nixon to the extend we'll
never know just how dirty that White House was,
was on the Warren
Commission (where he altered the first report
making the "magic bullet"
theory seem more sensible), gave Cheney and Rumsfeld
their first appointments
into the White House, mishandled the withdrawal
of US troops from Vietnam,
and put George Bush in charge of the CIA (giving
us the long legacy of Bush
relatedforeign policy criminal actions).
At a time when the country desperately needed
leadership, Ford gave us sand*.
He presaged the current Republican response to
middle class financial trouble
by responding to energy problems and rampant
inflation with buttons and a
stupid slogan rather than any sort of legislation.
Too bad we'll hear about what a wonderful healer
he was after Watergate,
when the truth is, he swept the last few chances
to really punish the bastards
who were in charge of it under the rug so that
the low level grunts were the
ones who took the fall.
Oh, and after he left the Presidency, he played
a lot of golf and watched football.
I think Jimmy Carter did a bit more with his
post-Presidency, but Carter is
thought of as a failure and a bigot if you watch
the mainstream news anymore.
Ford was a putz who left the world in much worse
shape than he got it, which
was pretty hard to do since he was only in charge
for two years. But I liked
his wife and he was decent to his kids.
BTW. the real reason I hate him? If it weren't
for him, Chevy Chase wouldn't
have been the breakout star first year of Saturday
Night Live, and would have
been hanging out with Lorraine Neumann in the
80's instead of polluting movie
screens. Please make a note of it.
*What I mean by sand is from this quote:
People want leadership, Mr. President, and
in the absence of genuine leadership,
they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the
microphone. They want leadership.
They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through
the desert toward a mirage, and when
they discover there's no water, they'll drink
the sand.
President Andrew Shepherd: Lewis, we've had
presidents who were beloved,
who couldn't find a coherent sentence with
two hands and a flashlight.
People don't drink the sand because they're
thirsty. They drink the sand
because they don't know the difference.
Cory!! Strode,
The Best Dressed Man In Comics
www.solitairerose.com