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why should ungrateful nuts like you be listened?
"samsloan" wrote in message oups.com... Gerald Ford, The Greatest President Who Ever Lived I have been watching with a combination of amusement and disgust the gaudy display that his been going on during the past few days, where speaker after speaker has described Gerald Ford in the most laudatory terms imaginable. One would imagine that Gerald Ford was the greatest president who ever lived, and possibly the greatest man in the history of the world. However, those of us with a sense of history and who actually remember the man realize that Gerald Ford was a terribly mediocre man. President Lyndon B. Johnson got it exactly right when he said that Gerald Ford was "too stupid to walk and chew gum at the same time". I wonder why the taxpayers are paying for all this pomp and circumstance, all this gaudy display over a man who became president, and a **** poor president at that, as a historical accident and as a reward for being the last to remain slavishly loyal to President Richard Nixon during the depths of the Watergate Crisis. Why is all this ceremony pushing the real, serious and important news, like what is going on in Iraq, off of the front pages of the news? Sam Sloan |
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"Christian Williamson" wrote in message news:%bqmh.2104$Fs2.1765@trnddc05... GoMavsGo wrote: "samsloan" wrote in message oups.com... Gerald Ford, The Greatest President Who Ever LivedPresident Lyndon B. Johnson got it exactly right when he said that Gerald Ford was "too stupid to walk and chew gum at the same time". Ahh and that's when such liberal tactics started. If you don't like your oponent then mock them as stupid. No matter what they have achieved in their life. It was the same as with Eisenhower. Liberals have been doing this nonsense for too long. Being born in 1954 I'm too young to remember, but I doubt anyone could have possibly had anything bad to say about Ike. Didn't he graduate around the middle of his class at West Point? Supreme Allied Commander during WWII? President of the US? President of Columbia University? Artist (two rooms, two coats, one day)? As for Ford, didn't he graduate in the upper third of his class at Yale Law School? War Hero? And the only honest president we've had since Eisenhower? Yikes. |
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Ford was not elected, but stepped into the Presedency when Richard "I am not
a crook" Nixswine was forced to resign due to the exposure of his Watergate crimes. In gratitude, Ford PARDONED Nixon, thus sabotaging justice and showing himself to be just as much a criminal. Still, I hope that someday America will set an example of morality for the world to follow. Of course, to the fascists now ruling America, all "morality" means is the suppression of such pleasures as sex - except for themselves, of course. FF |
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"Christian Williamson" wrote in message
news:%bqmh.2104$Fs2.1765@trnddc05... GoMavsGo wrote: "samsloan" wrote in message oups.com... Gerald Ford, The Greatest President Who Ever LivedPresident Lyndon B. Johnson got it exactly right when he said that Gerald Ford was "too stupid to walk and chew gum at the same time". Ahh and that's when such liberal tactics started. If you don't like your oponent then mock them as stupid. No matter what they have achieved in their life. It was the same as with Eisenhower. Liberals have been doing this nonsense for too long. CONSERVATIVES VS. LIBERALS: THE NATURE OF THE BEAST It all began a hundred thousand years ago on a ledge in front of a cave. A female homo sapiens walked by, attracting the attention of a male. The male stepped forward and smacked her over the head with his club. WHACK! He then dragged the unconscious female into his cave for sex. One day there were two males standing in front of a cave when a female walked by. The first raised his arm to club the female, but the second male communicated to him that clubbing females over the head to have sex was not nice. WHACK! WHACK! The first male stepped over the unconscious second male and proceeded to rape the female. On that day the first liberal paid the price for expressing a new idea. Things didn't change much for thousands of years until the advent of projectile weapons. This was first symbolized by the David and Goliath story in the Bible, where the big strong brute was laid flat by the small but smarter boy. Once brute strength was no longer the controlling factor in social interaction, liberal ideas slowly gained a foothold in human culture, and civilization began. Throughout human history, the price for advocating tolerance and progressive change has been paid in threats, beatings, excommunication, incarceration, torture, murder, assassination, and execution. Countless liberals have paid the ultimate price for their humanity. Though Jesus Christ is the most famous, names in recent history that come to mind are Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon, and Robert Kennedy. Today there are many conservatives - individuals, groups, and nations - who use threats and violence to silence the voices of reason, tolerance, and progress. Here in America it is seen in racists and homophobes beating blacks and gays, sometimes to death, not for money or out of anger generated by interactive cause, but because of religious or racial intolerance and secular bigotry. Alan Berg on talk radio was a strong voice against a conservative organization called the Aryan Nation. For thus exercising his freedom of speech, he was shot dead while walking his dog in front of his house. David Rice is a man on death row in Washington State who has no remorse whatsoever for entering the home of a family of four and carving out their living hearts only because he heard they were "liberals." He got their names from a Democratic Party membership list. Right-wingers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols killed 168 men, women, and children as an act of protest. What liberals have ever committed such an abominable atrocity? The most abominable atrocity in several decades is the 9/11 terrorist attacks in which thousands of innocent civilians were murdered. The alleged perpetrators, Osama Bin Laden and the al Qaeda-Taliban terrorists, epitomize the right-wing religious fundamentalist mentality. Some believe that the 9/11 attacks were deliberately allowed to happen, exacerbated, or even perpetrated by radical right-wing elements within our own government to further their fascistic agenda. Two buildings were hit by planes, but THREE collapsed. The evidence that the three collapsed buildings were brought down with demolition explosives put in place BEFORE the attacks is very strong. Arguing that such horrendous crimes are not political in nature or that they are not done primarily by conservatives is utter nonsense. Look back: Who nailed who to a cross? Who were the Loyalists to the totalitarian monarchy of King George? Who started our Civil War to defend slavery? Who fought to keep women as property, and now fights their sovereignty over their own bodies in the freedom to choose abortion? Who fought against child labor statutes? Who fought against the concept of free public education? Who fought against the right of women to vote? Who fought against anti-trust and anti-monopoly legislation? Who fought against workers organizing? Who fought against government controls on manufacturers of cars "unsafe at any speed?" Who killed several thousand innocent civilians in the 9/11 terrorist attacks? Who started WW2, murdered 13 million and caused the death of 40 million more? Who defended Jim Crow for a hundred years? Who fought against voting rights, civil rights, social security, health care for the elderly, and minimum wages? Who fights against environmental protection statutes? Who opposes equal rights for gays and other free-lifestyle minorities? Who cruelly opposes physician-assisted dying for suffering, terminally ill patients soon to die anyway? Who is sabotaging the separation of Church and State, and all our other Constitutional rights, freedoms, and protections? Who are the moralizing hypocrites forcing their puritanical inhibitions and prohibitions on ALL Americans via legislation and draconian, police-state enforcement practices? Who always puts personal gain and corporate wealth and power above the common good? CONSERVATIVES OR LIBERALS? The historic, undeniable truth is that these evils are THE NATURE OF THE CONSERVATIVE BEAST! Conservatives have distorted and demonized the word "liberal," whose true political meaning is favoring progressive change, humanistic values, and opposition to authoritarianism. They identify it with governmental waste and tolerance of criminality, when in fact they themselves are guilty of abuses such as corporate welfare bail-outs and tax evasion, fraud against investors, and other white-collar crime. Conservatives fear and oppose all change and progress beyond "what's in it for me?" At the core of conservatism is the Machiavellian bully - the despotic practitioner of "might makes right," craving wealth and power, and willing to use any and all means to get them. Conservatism is the philosophy of the caveman wearing a business suit. AND THE CAVEMENS' CLUBS CAN NOW DESTROY OUR EARTH! |
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GoMavsGo wrote:
"samsloan" wrote in message oups.com... Gerald Ford, The Greatest President Who Ever LivedPresident Lyndon B. Johnson got it exactly right when he said that Gerald Ford was "too stupid to walk and chew gum at the same time". Ahh and that's when such liberal tactics started. If you don't like your oponent then mock them as stupid. I often use the term 'stoopit' to describe conservatives. It fits, since that's how it sounds coming from those mouth-breathers. No matter what they have achieved in their life. I wonder why the taxpayers are paying for all this pomp and circumstance, all this gaudy display over a man who became president, and a **** poor president at that, as a historical accident and as a reward for being the last to remain slavishly loyal to President Richard Nixon during the depths of the Watergate Crisis. Why is all this ceremony pushing the real, serious and important news, like what is going on in Iraq, off of the front pages of the news? Sam Sloan All Presidents get the same treatment. When Clinton and Carter pass they will get the same treatment. It's called respect and it honors the highest office in the United States. You may not like the President but all Presidents deserve it. What lefties and righties have done to each other over the last several years is sick and disgusting. Clinton and Bush should get the respect they deserve. -- There are only two kinds of Republicans: Millionaires and fools. |
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On 2 Jan 2007 01:59:34 -0800, "samsloan" wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : Why is all this ceremony pushing the real, serious and important news, like what is going on in Iraq, off of the front pages of the news? "Cui prodest scelus, is fecit." "The one who derives advantage from the crime is the one most likely to have committed it." ~ Seneca Republicans need every distraction they can get. -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green, http://mindprod.com Priorities: Prevent global climate destabilisation. End both wars. Prepare for oil shortages. |
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Ange1o DePa1ma wrote: "Christian Williamson" wrote in message news:%bqmh.2104$Fs2.1765@trnddc05... GoMavsGo wrote: "samsloan" wrote in message oups.com... Gerald Ford, The Greatest President Who Ever LivedPresident Lyndon B. Johnson got it exactly right when he said that Gerald Ford was "too stupid to walk and chew gum at the same time". Ahh and that's when such liberal tactics started. If you don't like your oponent then mock them as stupid. No matter what they have achieved in their life. It was the same as with Eisenhower. Liberals have been doing this nonsense for too long. Being born in 1954 I'm too young to remember, but I doubt anyone could have possibly had anything bad to say about Ike. Didn't he graduate around the middle of his class at West Point? Supreme Allied Commander during WWII? President of the US? President of Columbia University? Artist (two rooms, two coats, one day)? Nobody did, Other than being an artist rather than a engineer or scientist, he greatly ovrersimplified the problems we're haviing with the military industrial complex, just by appearing on your home boxoffice tv too often. As for Ford, didn't he graduate in the upper third of his class at Yale Law School? War Hero? And the only honest president we've had since Eisenhower? Yikes. |
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