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Tue Aug-15-06 06:54 PM
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Tue Aug-15-06 06:57 PM
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1. Didn't he just get out of the hospital? n/t |
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Tue Aug-15-06 07:06 PM
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4. He was in the hospital for a few days last month, yes. |
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But at 93, this isn't exactly unusual. Plus he had a bout with pneumonia in January; I doubt he'll be with us all that much longer.
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Tue Aug-15-06 06:58 PM
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2. I'm glad it 's just for |
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Former president admitted to Mayo Clinic for ‘testing and evaluation’
Even though he's a rethug, he was put in a untenable position to lead this country.
I hope he is O.K.
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Tue Aug-15-06 07:13 PM
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Tue Aug-15-06 06:58 PM
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3. Oh ... poor Old Pres. Ford |
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I could never muster up really negative feelings for him despite his political affiliation (and pardoning of Nixon and...).
I do wish him and his family well
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Tue Aug-15-06 07:16 PM
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7. I don't think Ford was anywhere near the likes of Nixon & Co. |
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Guess they should have picked a crook like themselves. Oh that's right they did, Reagan, Bush I and Bush II. America still hoping for an honest republican.
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Tue Aug-15-06 07:23 PM
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9. Agreed, not of the same ilk |
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Tue Aug-15-06 07:55 PM
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10. Thanks to Reagan and both bushes... |
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there will not be an honest republican in america for the next 100 years.
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Tue Aug-15-06 08:47 PM
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13. Boy, any honest politician is tough to find these days |
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Tue Aug-15-06 08:02 PM
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11. He was a actualy a funny guy ... |
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I thought that the evil republicans were gone when Nixon left and he was replaced by Ford. Gerry was great. We could all laugh AT him; the way he fell down stairs and Saturday Night Live was all over it. Those were the days and man was I wrong about the evil repubs being gone. Ford was the one and only enjoyable part of 40 years of basicly solid GOP rule. The evil quickly got much worse.
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Tue Aug-15-06 08:46 PM
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12. They were funny skits. Ford was not the secretive type that |
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the other bozo's were/are.
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Tue Aug-15-06 11:21 PM
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17. i agree, it's hard to dislike him or feel any anger towards him |
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even if you disagree with what he has done. if/when he is gone i admit i will be sad.
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Thu Aug-17-06 03:24 PM
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18. Well, lot of players related to his time in office are gone |
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Kennedy brothers & Jackie Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon,...sure would be nice to see a few others leave this world, Rummy, Cheney, Wolfowicz
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Tue Aug-15-06 07:08 PM
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always seemed like a decent guy.
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Tue Aug-15-06 07:17 PM
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8. Me too. Aside from Ford, I dread enduring a West Michigan pres. |
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funeral esp. with Dick DeVos running for governor.
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Tue Aug-15-06 09:18 PM
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He was (and is) a honest, straightforward man, not without ability. Given a more "interesting" time he might have even been a great president. I don't think there is anything to forgive about his pardoning Nixon. I was a devout Democrat and no Nixon-lover in 1974, but I think Ford saved the country from being hauled through Watergate again just as the Vietnam War came to its ignominious end. It took a lot of courage to pardon Nixon and it effectively ended Ford's political career as he probably knew it would.
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Tue Aug-15-06 11:13 PM
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He will probably go down in history as the only man to become vice president and president without being elected into either position. He replaced Agnew and then Nixon. I felt very sorry for him when his wife contracted breast cancer while he was in office and also had her drinking problem to contend with. I didn't realize he was so old.
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Thu Aug-17-06 03:29 PM
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19. Good man...poor choices. |
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Get well soon President Ford.
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