Nation plans 5 days of mourning for Ford (for real??)

[Imagevision]

That's a little presumptuous, isn't it? I mean, all due respects for Gerald Ford but I don't remember getting the memo to grieve 5 days for the man. I'm still grieving the loss of The Godfather of Soul, James Brown!
http://musick.blogspot.com/2006/12/nation-plans-5-days-of-mourning-for.html

[Gatchaman]

1. Did we have all this hoopla when Reagan died?

I know it was a big media event, but did Wall Street close for him? Did federal workers get time off? I can't really remember.

[ronnykmarshall]

2. Yes.

[MonkeyFunk]

3. Yes

the Reagan hoopla was even grander than this.

Personally, I don't know why the families want to put themselves through this.

[William769]

5. Wasn't it 30 days?

[depakid]

4. It's a Wall Street tradition

I don't know about mail service, though.

Maybe someone else recalls. Seems a bit absurd. Then again, nothing this administration does surprises me anymore.

[Blue_In_AK]

6. The Reagan hoopla went on for...ev...er.

It seemed like at least two weeks.

[BuelahWitch]

8. Some who weren't federal workers even got time off

Our boss gave us half a day off the Friday after Reagan died. Nothings too good for Saint Ron ya know!

[sandnsea]

7. 5 days for Clinton?

Or Carter? Seems a little brief to me, if its put into some perspective. I've got no problem with this. It's about time we remember we're supposed to be one country.

Although I will miss James Brown A LOT MORE. His service was wonderful, that's the way to go out! Especially in a 24 karat gold casket, oh yeah baby!

[enid602]

9. mourning

Are they mourning Ford's passing, or the death of the Republican Party. I think Ford may have been one of the last decent Republicans.

[Nihil]

10. F*ck him

He was a failure.
If you respect this "can't walk & chew gum" (to be polite) failure then
there is a precedent to respect the current "can't stay upright on a Segway" failure.

[Imagevision]

11. For a while there I thought they were going to do a nation-wide tour with Reagan

[cassiepriam]

12. Everything is propaganda time now.

We have become a country of sizzle and no steak.

[dogday]

13. All I know is for about one week, every time I turned

on the TV, the burial guards were dragging Reagan's coffin off to yet another appearance... Frankly it was too much for anyone...

[The Count]

14. I wasn't in on it. Does it mean New Years parties are cancelled now?

[mwb970]

15. This must be a slow news time.

I can't think how else to account for the obvious over-coverage of the Ford demise. I mean, last night every cable news channel had video of a casket in a room on for hours. I finally found a rerun of one of those author appearances on C-SPAN.