Comments on: R.I.P. Gerald R. Ford: 1913-2006

By: Shell

Shell — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:25:12 +0000

I will admit that I have not read all the comments, but has anyone brought up that FORD kept some (and brought on other) really evil bastards — that started the ruin of this country? And that includes CHENEY and RUMSFELD. And we mustn’t forget his keeping KISSINGER. Oops! Oh yeah == he made Pappy Bush the head of the CIA too.

So — if you wanna praise Ford, go ahead — but it is pretty dumb to hate Kissinger, Cheney, and Rummy today, while loving Ford. Oh yeah — and Ford was in the Warren Commission, too. (Single Bullet Theory — LOL)

By: Shell

Shell — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:23:53 +0000

By: Guitar_Playing_Bastard

Guitar_Playing_Bastard — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:52:10 +0000

MB: Mr. Rayne threw the first, molotov. I just happen to be better at it and more swilling to get down and dirty. I will say again, with pride and fervor - anyone who thinks you can defeat repukes by bipartisanship, going along to get along, being “nice,” or anything other than down-and-dirty street fighting is delusional. Certifiably insane.

The first time I see Democrats “Swift-boating” a repuke, I will dance with glee. This is a fight for the national soul, and nothing but total victory is acceptable.

If you expect me to make nice, you’re not paying attention. I don’t go after people unless they come after me but if they do, don’t expect me to lay down like a dog.

By: Shell

Shell — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:44:14 +0000

The “we are entitled to our own opinions” sounds to me like “We at the MSM must be doing something right because everyone hates us!” (In case you forget, that was the MSM’s response to many slamming them for printing OPINION as FACT.)

I say BS. Can you have an OPINION? Sure — even imbeciles do. But to omit FACTS when making that OPINION? Really stupid.

By: Mommybrain

Mommybrain — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:14:54 +0000

GPB, one of the nice things about the place is that we are entitled to our own opinions and are not required to subscribe to others’. That includes you and it includes me and Rayne and everyone.

Pleae stop hurling molotov coctails at us because we disagree (although I am closer to your position on Ford).

By: Guitar_Playing_Bastard

Guitar_Playing_Bastard — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:08:14 +0000

Thanks Shell, nice to see at least one other person gets it. I would have thought the folks who run the place would, but I see I was mistaken.

Nixon should have died in PRISON!

By: Shell

Shell — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:06:33 +0000

Guitar –

It is just Get On The Bandwagon BS. A few people start the Conventional Wisdom that Ford was a DECENT MAN. Lemmings read it, and agree. No thought. (And half of them only know Ford from history books.)

You guys can yap all you like about this “decent man,” but even at the end, he was siding with Bush.

He was and IS a Republican. You can talk all you want about how he was an old Republican, but he was as evil as any Republican.

By: Guitar_Playing_Bastard

Guitar_Playing_Bastard — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:26:32 +0000

The best way to save the country is to permanently emasculate the repukes from anything resembling power. Take a look at EVERY major scandal involving the POTUS (and don’t give me any bullshit about a blow job) and a repuke has been behind it, from Grant to Harding to Coolidge to Nixon the Reagan to Chimp.

EVERY SINGLE major scandal - Republicans behind it.

People like you are why the Democrats are perceived as weak. You are not willing to get down and dirty and fight back. You want to take…”the high road.”

You and your high road types are what got us Clusterfuck, as much as the repukes themselves. You make me sick.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:39:19 +0000

GPB — there have been quite a number of corrupt Democratic Party members, elected and otherwise, over the course of this country’s history. Weakness exists on both sides of the partisan line.

And I have met and known and count among my friends good, kind, generous Republicans — but they are appalled at what has happened to their party, some in denial. I’ve also met some Dems who are vicious, nasty, selfish, egotists who have taken their own party down rather than lose one iota of their personal power.

The challenge to us is save this country; it requires me to be extremely partisan to do so. But assuming we can save this country, it is incumbent upon us to save Americans, and that is explicitly not a partisan job. I’m ready for that day when it comes, and I hope that there will be others who are able to find the common humanity in our fellow Americans.

In the mean time, enjoy your own weakness — if you can see it.

By: mandrake

mandrake — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:31:45 +0000

I wonder if some are looking at Ford through the prism of today’s political environment. Granted, Cheney and Rumsfeld sprang from the Ford administration and I agree that some of the negative comments about Ford have merit, but I personally still believe Bush makes Nixon look like a choir boy.

I was a kid during the Nixon scandal. We’d never had a Vietnam before. But we have one now. The heartbreak of what’s happening now is that our leaders have learned nothing from what happened then. That’s not really Ford’s fault.