Like It Was Yesterday

[DemocratSinceBirth]

I can still remember the Ford- Carter debate where Ford "liberated" Eastern Europe. When he mistakenly said Eastern Europe was not under Soviet domination a big grin came on Carter's face. The following day I believe Ford was campaigning in Chicago in a Polish neighborhood and somebody had a sign "Thank you for freeing us."


My buddy and I wern't old enough to vote but we canvassed for Jimmy Carter... Among my peer group we were pretty much split...


I see President Carter is delivering the final eulogy tomorrow in Grand Rapids... Once bitter political opponents they became good friends. There's a lesson there for folks who want to learn it...


Good bye Gerald Ford... You weren't perfect but none of us are....

[cornermouse]

1. Exactly.

[Taverner]

2. Ford v Carter was never that bitter

I still remember the ads "I'm a Ford...not a Lincoln..."

Watching those ads is almost comical today - no mudslinging on either side...sigh....

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. It Wasn't That Bitter..You're Right...

But the Republicans tried to exploit Jimmy Carter's Playboy interview ....


Actually the 80 primary race between Kennedy and Carter was much more bitter.

As a Kennedy partisan I got caught up in the bitterness but time has a way of healing all wounds...

[jwirr]

4. I think they both worked together at the Carter Center in later years.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. They Were Buddies

President Carter will be delivering the final eulogy tomorrow...

[mnhtnbb]

7. Apparently brought together by their dislike of Reagan.

[valerief]

6. One thing Ford taught everyone: if you don't make waves, they

let you live to be an old man.

[NNN0LHI]

8. What a comparison

Carter watched Bush using Shock and Awe on the Iraqis and knew it was wrong.

And he said so publicly and took the heat for doing it.

Ford watched that same Shock and Awe and he knew it was wrong too.

But he went through great pains to avoid saying it publicly for the sake of party unity and to avoid the heat.

Quite a comparison alright.

Don

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. I Don't Think I Compared Them

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