[supremedoctrine]

That’s exactly what my impression of him has ALWAYS been.
Could never figure out how he stacked up as some kind of
“go-to” guy years ago, to say anything about anything, but that was his function. It’s his smoothness and his carefully cultivated somber demeanor that lent him a kind of “credibility”, as vacuous as it was. In a way, he was a kind of unsuccessful prototype of Obama.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Very well said, IMHO.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

That’s exactly what my impression of him has ALWAYS been.
Could never figure out how he stacked up as some kind of
“go-to” guy years ago, to say anything about anything, but that was his function. It’s his smoothness and his carefully cultivated somber demeanor that lent him a kind of “credibility”, as vacuous as it was. In a way, he was a kind of unsuccessful prototype of Obama.

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- On the one and totally agree esp. with regard to his Imus appearances.
- On the other hand pretty much all politicians end up being empty suits - it’s just you can see Ford’s emptiness a lot easier than others. Basically their job now equates to having good haircuts, wearing nice suits, raising lots of campaign cash and saying what various constituencies want to hear. The myth of the “public servant” is about as relevant as that of the athlete competing for “the love and purity of the game”. Stories we’re told as kids and we have trouble letting go of as adults.