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December 27, 2006

Notes from Ferdy - Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter

by Ferdinand T Cat

Perhaps the most revealing story about former President Gerald Ford is a statement from the man who built his career by portraying Ford as a clumsy imbecile-- Chevy Chase.

"Later on we became friends and he was a very, very sweet man," Chase said in a telephone interview from a Colorado ski resort. "He took my wife and I on a whole lovely trip through Grand Rapids to show us where he had been as a child and what not. We kept in touch and he was just a terrific guy."

When Ford lost the 1976 election, he pretty much dropped out of public life. Many of us wish his successor, Jimmy Carter, would do the same thing. Today, Jackie Mason was the guest host for the Laura Ingraham Show, and I got the impression that he would cheerfully burn Carter at the stake if he could be sure that would stop the former President from screwing up American foreign policy.

Ford sat and watched helplessly while Saigon fell and Cambodia went nuts. His Presidency's most memorable moment, however, was the pardon of Richard Nixon, which was roundly condemned at the time. That's a worse record than Carter, who at least had the Camp David Accords on the plus side of his foreign policy ledger. Yet Ford was able to live comfortably in obscurity while Carter is getting goofier every month.

This is a serious problem, folks. Very soon, Nancy Pelosi is going to be sworn in as the new leader of the free world. In her new role, she will be in an excellent position to plunge Iraq into a sectarian bloodbath, and then to protect her legacy she'll need to start behaving just like Jimmy Carter.

The conclusion is clear: we cannot allow the Democrats to lose the war in Iraq.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

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i just wanna know why do you and everyone else hate Jimmy Carter?


Posted by: Queen Victoria at January 20, 2007 2:58 PM

I can only speak for myself. I actually don't hate him. I used to think he was naive, and his naivety enabled radical Islam to get a foothold in the Middle East and Marxism to gain ground in South America and Africa. But in the past six years, his antics have gotten stranger and stranger, beginning with his book on fundamentalism and Christianity and culminating in his attempt to portray the plight of the Palestinians as a form of Apartheid. As a result, I have upgraded his status from "naive" to "demented".

If Iran backs down and Iraq becomes a western-style democracy, he'll be remembered as a prize idiot. Otherwise, he'll be remembered as the enabler for America's defeat in the Middle East. If he had had the good sense to shut up, he would have been remembered as a decent guy who did a lot of charity work. So really, I don't hate him, I feel sorry for him.


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