Ford called Carter a 'disaster'

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[NormsRevenge]

This 23 September 1976 file photo shows then US president Gerald R. Ford (R) with Jimmy Carter (L) during their first televised debate in Phildelphia, PA. Ford, who became president on August 9, 1974 after Richard Nixon resigned following the Watergate wiretapping scandal, died Tuesday, his office in Rancho Mirage, California, reported. He was 93.(AFP/Library of Congress)

[Moonman62]

Tax cuts don't cause inflation. People who produce goods and services are the ones who get to keep more money because of tax cuts, so their extra money is already offset by what they've produced.

I've looked at many periods of inflation in this country and others. None of them have been caused by tax cuts. If you know of one please let me know.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

I think Ford's problems with Reagan have to deal with the fact that he was his nemesis and he probably think s that if Reagan had not challenged him in '76 he probably thinks that he would have beat Carter in '76.

Ford's political observations are not always so great. For example, in 1984 I saw Gerald Ford speak when I was a student at Ohio State and he told us that he thought the 1984 presidential election would be very close.

[clintonh8r]

I never seem to get tired of typing...

Jimmy Carter:

WORST.
PRESIDENT.
EVER.

[bnelson44]

Say It Ain't So, Jimmy

http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=12136206&postID=116863957482143750

[bnelson44]

Say It Ain't So, Jimmy

http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/01/say-it-aint-so-jimmy.html

[steveegg]

You need to dig up a photo of a burnt-out Pinto after a rear-end collision for the comparison.

[tomnbeverly]

We can blame Carter for Chavez raping Venezuala

[Republican Wildcat]

Exactly. As the funeral progressed the media wanted to talk about Iraq. It was pathetic.

[supremedoctrine]

It's obviously sour grapes---Reagan is the one President in my lifetime who people who dismissed him at first come to re-evaluate as far better, and smarter than they originally thought he was. I for one am glad the endless Ford eulogizing is over---the constant theme that was struck was "decency", which should be a starting point for a President, not the entire resume.

[MississippiMan]

"He was a very decent, fine individual," Ford told the paper.

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That's a ubiquitous quote regarding Carter, and perhaps the one with the least truth. He was not and is not a "good man" as far as I'm concerned. He's a failure who loves to take potshots at good people. He claims Christianity while taking incredibly abiblical stances. If I had to sum him up, I think I'd call him a bitter pretender whose soul appears to be black with rot.

MM

[highlander_UW]

Carter and Clinton are democrats...the classless party.

[DUH]

In 1981, Ford said: "I think Jimmy Carter would be very close to Warren G. Harding. I feel very strongly that Jimmy Carter was a disaster, particularly domestically and economically. I have said more than once that he was certainly the poorest president in my lifetime."

Well ... DUH! ... I'll say it while I'm alive!

[DB]

And there lies Ford's problems.

Americans don't want a manager for President. They want a leader and Reagan was a leader.

[Vote 4 Nixon]

How in hell can you put Nixon's name in the middle of those mental Giants? Nixon was guilty of bad decision making, no more no less. LBJ was a fool by any standards while Carter flat out hates America.

[MinuteGal]

These post-mortem comments by Ford, if true, shows what a plodding, middling, muddled man he turned out to be.

Frankly, I see little difference in swipes at people before or after someone's death. Ford just had to get his last oar in, didn't he, even from the grave.

Why can't these presidents retire, live quietly and gracefully and kick the bucket without making egotistical comments before and after the eternal rest for a ravenous press and politicians to kick around.

I can hardly wait to see what the rancourous, bitter Jimmy Carter will leave on tape and paper.

Retire and shuddup.

Leni

[finnigan2]

"Aside from winning 6 NBA championships in 8 years, Michael Jordan's contributions to the sport of basketball were unremarkable."

- Your analogy (and sarcasm) doesn't work because international political achievements and domestic ones are not like two games of basketball, each with the same rules.
However, I do recall that Michael Jordan did attempt to switch from basketball to baseball. While he was outstanding in basketball, his achievements in baseball can safely be described as, "unremarkable".
Now is it clearer?

[longtermmemmory]

vERY VERY SOUR GRAPES.

[longtermmemmory]

The left is doing what they always do, the are claiming the dead in order to attack the living.

Night of the Revisionist History Zombies.

=you too will believe the corpse of dead president Ford has been zombified and chasing tv cameras in order to say "G W Bush baaaaad!!!!" as it does its zombie walk.

[GOP_Lady]

I shed tears at President Reagan's funeral, but none at President Ford's. Makes one wonder why, doesn't it? Rest in peace, Presidents Reagan and Ford, and God bless.