Reply #49: Yeah. A huge blunder of telling the truth. [View All]

[RaleighNCDUer]

We WERE in a national malaise. The oil embargo and the hostage crisis emphasized that we could not command other nations to our will, which was very disappointing to the chest thumpers. Three Mile Island showed us that our much vaunted technology was failing us. The debt from the Vietnam war was coming due, and undercutting our GDP. After eight years of a Republican whitehouse people were so distrustful of the government that they couldn't believe that his 'simple man' image wasn't just a pose -- so when he spoke from the heart, about his conversations with Amy, about the Playboy interview, about his religious convictions, nobody knew how to take it.

BTW, the rabbit thing was just a little fun in the press thing, like Ford's clumsiness. He never claimed to be afraid of the rabbit - he was a farmer, for god's sake. He knows rabbits. It was the image of the Secret Service man moving to get between him and the rabbit (maybe the guy thought it might be rabid) that kicked it off, but the press ran with it.

Why are you repeating the RW memes that helped defeat him?