Couldn't find just the right way to put it, so didn't want to mar the main post. But I couldn't help ponder the metaphor...The death of moderation.

I guess Jerry won't be coming down for breakfast . . .

I never figured out how Nixon could be pardoned before being tried or convicted...but Gerald Ford wasn't the worst of the lot. I used to think he was a low-watt bulb, but compared to the militant idiocy and fascism of Dubya, he seems old-style American.

Somewhere they had the audacity to state that he was the only unelected president in US history --- on HuffPo's alert to be precise --- so, uh, get back to work, Brad. (The alert also whined about Betty not specifying the cause of death. Sheesh. OLD AGE.)

I remember one time he was asked a complicated question, thought for a few moments, and then sheepishly declared, "I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln." Raised my estimation of him considerably. RIP, Mr. Ford...

Ford seemed like a humble guy. I was disappointed that he never said anything about the route the Republicans have taken in the last 20 or so years. Maybe he didn't want to have Hannity demeaning his character.

I like this quote of his:

“Things are more like today than they have ever been before.”

Hard to argue with that statement!

He was still a neo-con though
Check this tidbit, "R. Doug Lewis, who is now executive director of the Election Center, managed Ford's 1976 campaign in Texas"
And "His closet is so full of skeletons that the door can't be shut. Good riddence. Red menace, Kennedy, COINTELPRO, assasination of Diem, regime change in Iraq '63, hushing up the Church commission, regime change in Indonesia, Chile, Brazil...regime change up the ass. One of the more influencial people behind the Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon whitehouses and big time globalist. A member of the CFR, he was a bigger fear monger than John Foster Dulles and as evil as W. Averell Harriman."

Once a Rethug, always a thug I guess

Did you know his given name was Leslie King Jr ?

"His parents were divorced in 1915. His mother moved to Grand Rapids, Mich., and married Gerald R. Ford. The boy was renamed for his stepfather."

This one I thought interesting
"Was Gerald Ford Ever President??"

"The 25th Amendment to the Constitution includes all the provisions covering resignation of a President. It specifies that such a resignation occurs

...whenever the President transmits to the president pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.

Nixon never did this!"
Link

I was a kid in high school when Richard Nixon resigned, I had always wished since then ,that Gerald Ford had been a more honorable man; Nixon should have been tried and undoubtedly jailed. Then maybe these SOBs would have crawled back under their rocks, where they belong. Don't know what I'm talking about? Rummy and Cheney got their first White house gigs under Ford......

I think Rumsfeld and Cheney both served as assistants to Nixon.

Ford probably thought "honor" consisted of "saving the nation the trauma of criminal prosecution of a former president." That, of course, came from the dumb as a rock wing of the Republican Party. Ford exemplified that set all of his career in the House.

It was a terrible decision and disservice to the nation.

Rumsfeld and Cheney were both Chief of Staffs for him. Rummy went on to become his DefSec (youngest ever, at the time)

Remember it was under Ford that Cheney and Rumsfailed learned how to bend, change and control execute power. Without those free uncontrolled exercises of theft and power then, they could never have moved so fast robbing and raping the constitution today. I don't care how old and nice a man seams when they've allowed corrupt abuse of power they too are corrupt.

And I didn't then and don't want to be saved from the trail of a corrupt president and his administration. We owe it to our future to make examples of these criminals so the next president that finds himself with a senate and house that he can't get away with what ever he wants! It's our civic duty!

Thanks for Posting a Picture of
Gerald Ford!
Now I can Print it out and do to it
what Ford did to the Constitution of
The United States of America.......
Piss all over it!

President Gerald Ford Dies at 93; Supported Indonesian Invasion of East Timor that Killed 1/3 of Population

http://www.democracynow.....pl?sid=06/12/27/1638254

Investigative Journalist Robert Parry on Gerald Ford's Legacy and the Bush Administration's Roots in the Ford White House

http://www.democracynow.....pl?sid=06/12/27/1645231

Did Gerald Ford Agree to Nixon Pardon Before Taking Office? The Nation's Victor Navasky on Ford's Memoirs and the Lawsuit that Followed

http://www.democracynow.....pl?sid=06/12/27/1647206

That's why Democracy NOW! is the best news on TV. I think on ANBCBSNNXX, they're going over what a good football player he was.

He was still a neo-con though
Check this tidbit, "R. Doug Lewis, who is now executive director of the Election Center, managed Ford's 1976 campaign in Texas"
And "His closet is so full of skeletons that the door can't be shut. Good riddence. Red menace, Kennedy, COINTELPRO, assasination of Diem, regime change in Iraq '63, hushing up the Church commission, regime change in Indonesia, Chile, Brazil...regime change up the ass. One of the more influencial people behind the Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon whitehouses and big time globalist. A member of the CFR, he was a bigger fear monger than John Foster Dulles and as evil as W. Averell Harriman."

Once a Rethug, always a thug I guess

Wow, Dulles and Harriman in the same post! (Ptooey!) You wouldn't happen to be Tom Robbins would you?

Ford should have never pardonned Nixon.

#18 no I'm not, but "If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done."

All total the (Useless) msm will spend more time on his death than the time he was in office...

Yeah JOJ, it looks like its shaping up to be 'Cracker week II' don't it
(Cracker week I being Reagan)

Cracker week..funny. Good time to clean out the attic. May Gerald Ford rest in peace. And finally learn war doesn't solve anything.

Ford was against the invasion and occupation of Iraq (link here), and says Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush made a major mistake in doing it.

Dredd

I'm wondering if it was more valuable to the nation that ford was said that he was against the Iraq (gas station) holdup in death or if he said it years ago ?
The more that I'm learning about him the less I like about him . . .

Ford was pure Republican, from his service on the Warren Commission where he did what was necessaary to make sure the truth didn't come out (read Tom Hartman's book for the details) to his pardon of Nixon to his talking truth to Bob Woodward (that Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld are idiots and the war a mistake) only under the condition that it not be revealed until AFTEr he was dead.

A pure "Party Player" to the bitter end, and proof that there really are NO (NONE! NOT A ONE!) good Republicans. Republicans are SCUM, FILTH, EVIL, GARBAGE that should be STRUCK FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH, and that one of their "better" ones could do so many evil things (let's not forget E. Timor) is proof of that.

Ford stuck with the disgusting Republican policy of never saying anything bad about another Republican, no matter how evil or stupid they are. Problem is that all those poor soldiers are dying in the mean time.

Now Jimmy Carter, there's a man with GUTS!

"The more that I'm learning about him the less I like about him . . ."
Ditto, JOJ.

That was supposed to link to Amy Goodman's interview of Carter about his new book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid". The bravest book written this year! {I took the bad link out for you, Larry. Carter really does have guts. --99}

“You Can Have Watergate, Just Gimme Some Bucks and I’ll Get Straight.” The JBs

Thanks 99. I checked it out before I posted, and it seemed to work fine. I hate that.

Jerry Don't let'em close the casket door on ya fingers. . .