Reply #38: Rejoice! Another Republican gone to be with God. YES!llllll [View All]

Hot damn, sounds like you know Betty and the kids real well, and unless you do, you've just wasted two cents.

With the exception of those who are friends of the family, I don't think any of you should feel obligated to speak well of Gerald Ford in death. You may be sure that Mrs. Ford and children will not be relying on any of your support, although I'm certain she will later come out and publicly acknowledge the heartfelt sympathies she has received from her good husband's army of supporters (translated other politicians and sheeple)......and I will barf appropriately.

And I see the made for propaganda machine--mainstream media--is doing a bang-up job manipulating public opinion. If their mission wasn't so obscene, it would be hysterically funny, cuz ya have to know that the run of the mill are doing just as they are being bid--lapping this crap up--on queue. Mind numbing.

As for feeling sorry for Gerry's family, hold the pathos. They lived remarkably well off the public purse thanks to hubby and daddy's being the U.S.A's head cheese and former little cheese, albeit doing nothing much for the nation whose people filled the coffers upon which he generously fed for life.

That any of you feel he was a good family man in no way offsets his decision to pardon Nixon. In so doing, he proclaimed to all that a president is above the law--far, far above the law--unlike you peasants who must account and be responsible for your heinous, life threatening, unconscionable crimes against the state--like smoking marijuana or killing the parish priest. That he and Kiss-baby sanctioned the East Timor invasion by Indonesia is, on the other hand, admirable, however little known because the media characteristically unreported it. That around 350,000 East Timorians died as a result of the invasion--well, now, that doesn't count, does it?

That Gerry pulled together the likes of a Rumsfeld, a Cheney, a Bush and retained the murderous Kissinger should tell us that he was a poor judge of character and nation building skills. But, hot damn, he was a soft-spoken man, with much charm who loved his wife and kids and could play a respectable game of golf. Yes, we must respect a leader of that repute to be sure.

And now he's kicked the bucket. Instead of crying the crocodile tears, rejoice that we now have one less Republican. That the remainder should last as long is what I find depressing and mourn about.