Ford: Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush "made a big mistake"

What doesn't it have to do with it?

 

I think in hindsight, the pardon was appropriate. Though I would have made it contingnet upon truthful testimoney before a Grand Jury or a Joint session of the House and Senate Select Commitee on Watergate. The last thing this country needed was Nixon on trial.

 

Why? We're a big grown-up country. We could have taken it. I think the almost immediate national public reaction to the pardon is a pretty sturdy argument against the "closure" meme.

 

NO FUCKING WAY ARE WE A BIG GROWN UP COUNTRY.
We are a people of short attention spans, large appetites, crude and simple popular tastes, the need for immediate gratification, a country whose general populace is not well educated, is not prone to nuance, gray areas or long analysis followed by a carefull weighing of factors. We are a nation of adolecents led by demagogues.

Clinton got a blow job at the office and this country went ape shit. Tens of Hundreds of thousands of people don't know how to punch a hole in a paper ballot or work an ATM-like voting machine.

 

In most places, they call them millions.

 

Jimmy Carter being a major exception to that rule.

 

Sure, but all the presidents after Carter (so far ) have been Republican except for Clinton.

 

I'm not used to literary devices, I thought mine sounded bigger

 

Clinton's done a pretty good job of adhering to that rule for the most part though.

Carter on the other hand is a bitter, doddering old fool.

 

All 3 of them. And Reagan had dementia during his 2nd term, Pappy Bush sold his soul for money and Clinton owes his wife for fucking every female he could every day of his marriage. I'm sure Clinton hit on the maid at the hotel during his honeymoon.

 

Is the Woodward backlash firing up in earnest after the Ford "revelation":

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/woodwards-woody_b_37284.html