Comments on: Ford Disagreed On Iraq? Yes, We Can Print That! http://www.brandonabbott.org/ford-disagreed-on-iraq-yes-we-can-print-that/ Where Normal Is The New Rebellion Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:07:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: la http://www.brandonabbott.org/ford-disagreed-on-iraq-yes-we-can-print-that/comment-page-1/#comment-32 la Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:28:17 +0000 http://www.brandonabbott.org/2006/12/31/ford-disagreed-on-iraq-yes-we-can-print-that/#comment-32 Yes, it has been grimly amusing to watch his death politicized, although not at all unexpected. We're talking about a man whose presidency was so unremarkable as to have made Jimmy Carter electable. If you are going to have to talk about him for 72 hours straight, I'm sure that you're going to look for something interesting to say about him. Doesn't seem right to go for the whole Betty Ford Treatment Center angle. Consider how different it was when Ronald Reagan passed. That was an occassion of true national mourning. I agree that we shouldn't speak ill of the dead, and I'm sure that he had many redeeming characteristics. It's a shame that the media is making some random out-of-context remarks that he made his legacy. But really, what else can we expect? Yes, it has been grimly amusing to watch his death politicized, although not at all unexpected. We’re talking about a man whose presidency was so unremarkable as to have made Jimmy Carter electable. If you are going to have to talk about him for 72 hours straight, I’m sure that you’re going to look for something interesting to say about him. Doesn’t seem right to go for the whole Betty Ford Treatment Center angle.

Consider how different it was when Ronald Reagan passed. That was an occassion of true national mourning. I agree that we shouldn’t speak ill of the dead, and I’m sure that he had many redeeming characteristics. It’s a shame that the media is making some random out-of-context remarks that he made his legacy. But really, what else can we expect?

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