Comments on Gerald Ford is Dead

Somehow presidents back in the day (aka before carter) looked a helluva lot more badass. I miss presidents that look like Jack Nicholson, or at least some kind of badass movie star... JFK had too much going on to even need to look that badass.

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Uhh, Taft wasn't very badass.

Love the Simpsons reference!

http://conradkilroy.livejournal.com/39182.html

It was an SNL sketch with Dana Carvey.

Good gawd. I can't believe he was even still alive. He had to be the most invisible former-president in all of history. Dude hasn't done anything more noteworthy than golf for the last 30 years.

To SDA IN SEA: President Ford was not elected to his post. He was drafted to the position. He acted to calm this country from its Watergate woes and move on. Good for him to live his own life. Thank you, Mr.President. Thank You.

Thank you, President Ford, for Dick Cheney. And Donald Rumsfeld. And George H. W. Bush (& son). And, most of all, for James Brown's 1974 hit, "Funky President (People It's Bad)."

While he definitely won't make the 10 Greatest Presidents, we can thank him for one of the liberal stalwarts on the current Supreme Court (John Paul Stevens). Also, I think he served as a reminder that the GOP was not always dominated by the Religious Right and it was once possible for even a GOP President to be pro-choice. He also endorsed gay civil unions late in life: http://www.heartheissues.com/presidents-38-geraldford.html.

"Lame Duck" would be a bit cruel, but he was essentially foisted upon the position, which is the only time I remember that circumstance playing out in making someone president in recent history. I'm not claiming we haven't had *elected* lame ducks before, of coruse.

Ford was the one who did champion the metric system in the U.S., which was shortlived, and you can decide if he purposely didn't give it as much of a boost in order to let it die or not. However, Carter is usually credited with this, although it was Ford who signed the actual Metric act(s).

Geez, Chevy Chase impersonations, the Nixon pardon, and the Metric Act(s) are the only memorable things I can conjure. I'd hope the passing of James Brown would overshadow Ford, not because Ford doesn't deserve to be looked back upon, but because James Brown changed the world far more than Ford did.

R.I.P. Brown and Ford. Hope you guys get to talk about the good ol' days in whatever parallel universe you may simultaneously occupy now.

Bush says he was a uniter. Shit, with all the talk Bush does for being a uniter it would be nice if he tried it himself sometime. But like all born agains it is all talk and nothing to back it up. President Ford better than President GW Bush.

I agree with you Andrew. Ford was indeed a uniter when compared against GWB.

Interesting that George H. W. Bush was most dissapointed when Ford chose Nelson Rockefeller to be vice president over him.

Uhh.... I am not sure how to respond to a Gay Republican agreeing with me. But I will assume it is a good thing. But just for the record I have been a "Die Hard Democrat" since the 1980 election when I was the only third grader in my school who supported Carter.

dude, andrew, it's ok to agree with a republican sometimes, lol. that's funny. cooties! cooties!

but seriously, if you want to draw comparisons nixon is to bush as the next president will be to ford. both nixon and bush were incredibly polarizing (though bush seems to be more so), and in their wake they're going to leave a public disenchanted with a failed war with a healthy dose of corruption and whatever throughout the government. the next president is going to have a similar set of challenges that ford faced--Ford said, "Our long national nightmare is over." The next president's speech writers should write that one down.