Rest in peace, President Ford. God bless you, sir.

Ed. Note: Liberal rant replaced with the following quotation:

21Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?"

22Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.

23"Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand talents[g] was brought to him. 25Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.

26"The servant fell on his knees before him. 'Be patient with me,' he begged, 'and I will pay back everything.' 27The servant's master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.

28"But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii.[h] He grabbed him and began to choke him. 'Pay back what you owe me!' he demanded.

29"His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.'

30"But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. 31When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened.

32"Then the master called the servant in. 'You wicked servant,' he said, 'I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?' 34In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

35"This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart." - Matthew 18, 21-35

Rest in Peace, Mr. President. Your long journey has ended.

Rest in peace, Mr. President Ford!

May God be with all your many friends and family!

Jeremiah

RIP Gerald Ford.

I am a partisan Democrat who will work hard to see your party defeated, but you were above these categories at a time when the country needed it. Thank you for service, so timely, so valuable, and let this Gonzaga Bulldog say, "Hail, Michigan!"

Matt,

I don't think President Ford would have wanted it any other way. A lot of people don't grasp the fact that President Ford emerged out of that maelstrom known as the 60's...and he emerged out of it a gentleman, in the full sense of the word, who merely wanted to do what was best. Call him wrong a hundred different ways, he was always trying to do the right thing.

It was Ford's forlorn, 1976 effort to retain the White House for the GOP which first got me interested in politics. I was all of 11 when that campaign was going on, but dinner table conversation among my two aware parents was interesting and instructive...but at the end of it all, when Ford narrowly lost, it was ok - even my hyper-partisan GOP mother rested content...we were out of the woods, so to speak, and though we had a lot of problems to deal with and Carter promised to be a terrible President policy-wise, the nation had been by and large healed of the running sores of the 1960's. There was no fear, no anxiety, at that time in our house.

Ford did that.

I was 18 in 1974, when a disgraced President Nixon resigned and handed the reigns to Ford. I was also much farther to the left than I am today, a product of the times. I was in the Air Force, attending technical training at NTTC, Pensacola, FL, when the peanut farmer from Georgia defeated this fine man to win the White House. To steal a quote from a recent (DN)C-Span
caller, "Thank you, Jimmy Carter, for making me a Republican."

Gerald Ford ascended to the presidency against insurmountable odds. Under normal circumstances, his would have been a long, two-term, reign.

Rest in peace, President Ford. My thanks to you and President Reagan for reforming this once-misguided liberal.

I wasn't alive during Ford's tenure (he lost to Carter almost exactly ten years before I was born), but I asked my mom about him. She tends to be quite liberal, but had nothing really bad to say about him other than the pardoning of Nixon, which I am still somewhat undecided about (though I tend to be on the skeptical side). His presidency was mainly repairing trust in government after watergate, which he did do to an extent.

It is always sad, however, when a former leader of the free world dies. Rest in Peace.

By the way, I got a kick out of your replacing a "liberal rant" with a passage from the bible... priceless...

BTW, could you start replacing all liberal comments with Bible passages? I'm learning a lot about the Bible this way, and I'm not having to put up with liberal B/S...

Since when did servants have servants?

I am old enough to remember when he became President Ford. The man was one of the most honest and decent people in public life that I have ever seen. He was willing to do what he thought was right (the Nixon pardon) even if it was not politically popular. I wonder how much different the world would have been if he had won the next election - not Pres. Carter?

God rest his soul, and grant his family the strength to deal with their loss.

I now think it was a mistake (the Nixon Pardon) because of the precidence it's set. I did believe him at the time (I was naive at the time) but now I see it as a decision that lacked "vision".

I mean, look at what President George "D Dubya I" Bush thinks he can get away with because of it!!!!

From the Washington Post:

Former president Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified. "I don't think I would have gone to war," he said a little more than a year after President Bush launched the invasion advocated and carried out by prominent veterans of Ford's own administration.

In a four-hour conversation at his house in Beaver Creek, Colo., Ford "very strongly" disagreed with the current president's justifications for invading Iraq and said he would have pushed alternatives, such as sanctions, much more vigorously. In the tape-recorded interview, Ford was critical not only of Bush but also of Vice President Cheney -- Ford's White House chief of staff -- and then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who served as Ford's chief of staff and then his Pentagon chief.

You can find the full article, complete with addtitonal criticism, insight and opinion from Mr. Ford regarding our current administration, at the Washington Post web site.

We lost a good man. From his inaugural speech, "Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy."

yekepyt;

Consider the source of this story. Bob Woodward is a partisan who is opposed to the war in Iraq. It was conclusively shown that he misquoted and/or misconstrued many notable republicans that he interviewed for his last book which was conveniently published just in time for the last election. It would be completely out of character for President Ford to make negative remarks concerning a sitting President.

Well, Woodward wasn't so bad when he wrote the book that heaped praise upon the Bush administration -- now he is a demon. I suggest taht you go to the WP article check the quotes from the tape recorded interview and look them over. It is quite difficult to imagine them being out of context -- they really appear to express complete thoughts. Is it so hard to believe that Gerald Ford, arguably a very honorable, decent, well-reasoned, and thoughtful man, would object to the invasion and occupation of Iraq? For me, it is difficult to imagine a man like Ford holding anything but this opinion.

I mean, look at what President George "D Dubya I" Bush thinks he can get away with because of it!!!!

Straight from the Cindy Sheehan playbook. Way to go, Stanielle--you worship both Al Franken and Cindy Sheehan. BTW, Stanielle, what's bigger--Sheehan's nose or Obama's ears?

btw, all you lobotomized kook libs--President Ford's comments to Bobby Woodhead are slightly misinterpreted by all of you. Someone else can explain it to you; I'm tired of wasting my time on human debris...

Tom DeFrank, New York Daily News, has a few interviews with President Ford too. You kook libs should check them out before you put all your eggs in the Bob Woodhead basket.

Bob Woodhead speaks with a whiny lisp--maybe that's why you kooks love him so much...

"I don't think I would have gone to war." "Rumsfeld and Cheney and the President made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq." -Gerald Ford
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/27/AR2006122701558.html

Obama-sama has Big Ears has Small Genitals,

You're right, these quotes must have been totally taken out of context. What Mr. Ford is trying to say is that...um...well I'm not sure. They're pretty straightforward! Please enlighten us pieces of human debris what Mr. Ford meant to say, I'm on the edge of my seat.

Gar Wood

Gee, Nate, I just saw DeFrank on telly, and he contradicts what you say. I just don't know who to believe, him or you. I think I'll stick with him, because I think you're a kook lib. Sure, President Ford disagreed with the prosecution of the war with Saddam, but he supported the removal. If only we could've done that without invading, huh?

Sorry, Gar, but I'm not wasting my time with someone who calls himself "fish penis..."

And another thing--would Bob Woodhead, the award-winning journalist who talks with the whiny lisp that libs adore, would he have been so eager to publish the interview with President Ford had Ford been totally supportive of the war in Iraq?

It's funny how you libbies jump to the side of a man your ilk once reviled, once the man says something you find favourable to your hate-Bush, hate-America agenda. I'm surprised you're not heaping praise on Gordon Smith (R-OR)...

Obama-sama has Big Ears continues to whine and bear false witness against his neighbors, I see.

Wow Nate, you're a real student--of talking points. How does it feel to be a lobotomized clone, a lib-tard with no original thought? Idiot...

Obama - Osama,

You have yet to make a point. Besides making fun of people you seem like a robot to me. No points just blind belief.

How many years did you serve our Country, Nate????