phobizone

••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

gerald ford

sure, he was a good guy.

but look what he gave us: rumsfeld and cheney.

and if he hadn't pardoned nixon, maybe the dick would've been prosecuted, and maybe that would've deterred the bush from riding roughshod over the constitution.

Posted by d nova at 12/27/2006 08:01:00 PM

2 comments:

  1. d.K.Wednesday, December 27, 2006 10:12:00 PM

    Pardoning Nixon may not have been popular, and it certainly wasn't, but the converse may have been much worse for the country. Cheney and Rummy were around (as congressmen) long before Ford promoted them. I think he was a man of honor, and that doesn't mean one who makes no mistakes. He also favored pardoning of tens of thousands of GIs who AWOL'd or deserted during 'Nam. Also very unpopular, but probably the right thing to do.

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  2. d novaThursday, December 28, 2006 5:45:00 PM

    ur first sentence seems 2 b the popular wisdom these days, but i disagree. we didn't need healing, we needed an example that wd make future scoundrels think twice about breaking laws 2 build power.

    rummy n darth in congress might've stayed in congress. bringin 'em in2 the WH launched them on career paths that did possibly irreparable harm 2 this land n the world.

    his amnesty was good. i agree.

    i think he really did put integrity above politics, but his errors glare.

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