The Doorstop President
When Cheney spoke at Ford's state funeral on saturday he called the unelected former vice president and president a 'healer' for pardoning Nixon:
"Ford, the 38th president who died on Tuesday at age 93, steered the United States through "a crisis that could have turned to catastrophe," said Cheney, chief of staff in Ford's White House 30 years ago and an honorary pallbearer at the ceremony in the US Capitol rotunda."
Of course the catastrophe Cheney was referring to was the possibility that Nixon could and should have been tried and punished for his many crimes against humanity and the nation's laws. Also it's easy to see why he chose to gush over the Ford legacy as it was during that presidency that both he and his mentor Von Rumsfeld rose to positions where they could profit from influencing american policy for decades. Funny how Ford gave the go ahead for Indonesia to slaughter hundreds of thousands of East Timorese in 1975, and then his progeny Rummy and Cheney helped the current war criminal president slaughter hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Or maybe it's not so funny.
Pardoning Nixon was a huge deal at the time. He was complicit in secret bombing campaigns in Indochina during the Vietnam war, he used government agencies to launch attacks on political opponents, he ordered his goons to use illegal wiretaps and break into Watergate. Vile abuses of power that should have been punished instead were swept under the rug by Ford, and with that one act he encouraged the fascism we see today. Alaskan senator Ted Stevens opined "He knew the road toward national healing began with courage to forgive."
No, that wasn't any healing, that was keeping the door open for future abuses.
While our lapdog media is really stretching to hype Ford's passing, foreign media don't seem to need to gush over his legacy and also notice a certain lack of interest in the pumped up hoopla:
"George W. Bush sent his apologies - he was too busy cutting wood and riding his bike - and almost 500 of the 535 members of Congress also had more pressing engagements, as the state funeral for Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the US, was held in Washington yesterday.
To make matters worse, there was a last-minute scramble to rally enough pallbearers."
"Ford, the 38th president who died on Tuesday at age 93, steered the United States through "a crisis that could have turned to catastrophe," said Cheney, chief of staff in Ford's White House 30 years ago and an honorary pallbearer at the ceremony in the US Capitol rotunda."
Of course the catastrophe Cheney was referring to was the possibility that Nixon could and should have been tried and punished for his many crimes against humanity and the nation's laws. Also it's easy to see why he chose to gush over the Ford legacy as it was during that presidency that both he and his mentor Von Rumsfeld rose to positions where they could profit from influencing american policy for decades. Funny how Ford gave the go ahead for Indonesia to slaughter hundreds of thousands of East Timorese in 1975, and then his progeny Rummy and Cheney helped the current war criminal president slaughter hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Or maybe it's not so funny.
Pardoning Nixon was a huge deal at the time. He was complicit in secret bombing campaigns in Indochina during the Vietnam war, he used government agencies to launch attacks on political opponents, he ordered his goons to use illegal wiretaps and break into Watergate. Vile abuses of power that should have been punished instead were swept under the rug by Ford, and with that one act he encouraged the fascism we see today. Alaskan senator Ted Stevens opined "He knew the road toward national healing began with courage to forgive."
No, that wasn't any healing, that was keeping the door open for future abuses.
While our lapdog media is really stretching to hype Ford's passing, foreign media don't seem to need to gush over his legacy and also notice a certain lack of interest in the pumped up hoopla:
"George W. Bush sent his apologies - he was too busy cutting wood and riding his bike - and almost 500 of the 535 members of Congress also had more pressing engagements, as the state funeral for Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the US, was held in Washington yesterday.
To make matters worse, there was a last-minute scramble to rally enough pallbearers."
posted by nolocontendere at 7:27 AM
3 Comments:
Poor, poor pitiful Rumsfeld. Snowed-in at his manse in New Mexico and unable to attend his friend Saddam's funeral.
Has the bestial simp found himself a job yet?
If that had been Clinton lying in State, there would have been standing room only, and not much of that, either. Cheney would have left out the part about forgiving and forgetting. These bastards kill me.
The lack of interest in eulogizing Ford is interesting. A big ho hum and so many no shows at his funeral.
You're right, Laurie, Clinton will be lionized. It's funny, actually. Clinton will walk the streets of a foreign country and be mobbed by smiling thousands. If Chimpy tried that, well lets just say he'd be mobbed.
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