My first statement this morning, echoed here by a FReeper:
It's interesting to see that President Ford was a park ranger, naval officer during the war, skier, golfer, and of course was a nationally known college football star. Clearly a man with extraordinary physical and athletic skills and yet the left lampooned him as a stumbling, bumbling fool.7 posted on 12/27/2006 8:39:39 AM CST by pepsi_junkieThe left always demonizes republican presidents as either (a) stupid (b) evil or (c) evil and stupid. With Ford, they couldnt make evil stick, so they went with stupid. But he wasnt inarticulate, so they decided to portray him as so clumsy and unaware that he was barely able to walk. A goofball who cared only about football and would knock everything around him down as he plowed through a room. Even the kid movie "Gus" about a field goal kicking mule took such unwarranted shots at him. He deserved better.
President Ford will have as his legacy that he replaced Richard Nixon and began a healing process in the wake of Watergate and Vietnam, a process which was completed by Ronald Reagan. For that, he deserves our respect and gratitude.
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