December 27, 2006
Jerry Ford
Unlike Sister Ruth, I don't obsessively monitor the 24/7 news and propaganda channels. In fact, last night I dozed off watching some show on cable where they were counting down the top ten ways in which civilization could be wiped out in an afternoon (pleasant dreams!) so it wasn't until this morning that I heard President Ford had died.
I'm not going to spin some wild tale about Ford being a great president. He wasn't. But after the Great Presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon, the wars and upheavals, the riots and assassinations, the last thing we needed was another Great President. We needed a chance to catch our breath and take stock of how the country had changed over the past decade and a half. Ford provided that breathing spell.
Gerald Ford was the last President from an earlier time, a time before fundamentalist religion began to slither into national politics, a time when it was possible to disagree with someone's politics without vilifying him. I mourn his passing, and the passing of his era.
Posted by mayor mcsleaze at December 27, 2006 04:00 PM
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