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Bondrock



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:46 pm    Post subject: President Ford dies. Reply with quote
he was the oldest president. although he pardoned Tricky Dick, aka Richard Nixon, he did provide the world with a few laughs.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061227/ap_on_re_us/obit_ford
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wannago



Joined: 16 Apr 2004
PostPosted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
He was a better man than most. Not a great president but look at the crap pile he walked into. I still have a photo of my father shaking hands with him in the Oval Office. Thank god it was before Slick Willie and the subsequent stains.
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Gopher



Joined: 04 Jun 2005
PostPosted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
See NPR's article on Ford.
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Moldy Rutabaga



Joined: 01 Jul 2003
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wow. First JB and then this. Now I expect to see political cartoons showing him tripping over the golden gate and crashing into St. Peter!

Ken:>
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gregoryallen



Joined: 26 Mar 2006
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The best anecdote I can give regarding Ford is something Paul Krassner wrote about the issue of Karma:

Chevy Chase became famous in the seventies lampooning President Ford by famous pratfalls on SNL. Subsequently this activity caused Chevy major back pains. As a result, he became addicted to painkillers.

This addiction lead him to the Betty Ford clinic.

Karma.
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hogwonguy1979



Joined: 22 Dec 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 6:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
he was truly a decent man put in an unbelievable situation

he had to pardon Nixon given what the country was going through
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
'Decent' is a good word to describe him. He was a man of character and integrity. He was made VP because of those personal qualities at a time when they were in especially short supply. He served the country well. In a way, I think he was a great president--not because of the policy choices he made in office, but because of the kind of man he was.
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cbclark4



Joined: 20 Aug 2006
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A clarification of the OP age statement.

"Ford was the longest living former president" (OP Link)

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animalbirdfish



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
"I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln."

I think we're all still trying to figure that one out.
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cbclark4



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
animalbirdfish wrote:
"I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln."

I think we're all still trying to figure that one out.


Ask Squeaky, Lincolns die when you shoot them, Fords keep on running.

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magpie



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I never will forgive him for the BS Warren Report. Time and place in history I know, but all the same shame on him.
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cbclark4



Joined: 20 Aug 2006
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 6:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Have you read the report or are you relying on the word of Sara Jane Moore.

http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/index.html

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regicide



Joined: 01 Sep 2006
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
magpie wrote:
I never will forgive him for the BS Warren Report. Time and place in history I know, but all the same shame on him.



CNN is reporting Gerald Ford has died. The media is determined to remember him in the best possible light.


Please see the following for Gerald Ford:

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=8416

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAfordG.htm

It is important that we use this opportunity to publicize the role he played in both the cover-up of the assassination of JFK and Watergate.
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Gopher



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Regicide: how many times are you going to cut-and-paste and repeat this exact same post?

In effect, you are hanging propaganda posters here and in the Off-Topic forum.
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cbclark4



Joined: 20 Aug 2006
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
regicide wrote:
magpie wrote:
I never will forgive him for the BS Warren Report. Time and place in history I know, but all the same shame on him.



CNN is reporting Gerald Ford has died. The media is determined to remember him in the best possible light.


Please see the following for Gerald Ford:

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=8416

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAfordG.htm

It is important that we use this opportunity to publicize the role he played in both the cover-up of the assassination of JFK and Watergate.


Gerald Ford proved the lone nut theory twice.

SEE lone nut #1:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynette_Fromme

SEE lone nut #2:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Jane_Moore

For more on lone nuts see Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, Mark David Chapman and John Warnock Hinckley, Jr.

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