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To: steve harris who wrote (204661)	10/2/2004 1:57:33 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572853

I believe that Gerald Ford was the best President for the time that we could have had. The country had just snatched a loss from the jaws of victory thanks to Kerry, Fonda and friends. Hillary Rodham (Clinton) had just partaken is a successful partisan effort to bring down a sitting President. Ford was unassuming and likable. The former football star was very athletic, but when Saturday Night Live portrayed him as bumbling, he had the unassuming self confidence to accept the humor, rather than proving it wrong. At the time, he set a record for vetoes. (The next President, James Carter easily broke the veto record, even though he was a Democrat, and both housed\s of Congress were also Democrat controlled.) The Democrat controlled Congress assumed they could ram anything through Ford because of the circumstances surrounding his arriving in the office of the President. Ford seemed to view his role as caretaker. He worked to restore trust and respect to the office which had been vacated by a man behind a criminal conspiracy which in the opinion of Hillary Rodham (Clinton) would not have resulted in his removal from office if had Nixon destroyed the tape recordings. Betty Ford displayed decorum and poise unknown in the ranks of First Ladies for many terms. She later became famous for being alcoholism. At the time, she displayed class. Gerald Ford should have never been President. Having landed in that role, he dispatched it with honor and integrity. At the time, a President who had tried to achieve more would have probably failed. Gerald Ford was a great President for the time.

To: steve harris who wrote (204661)	10/2/2004 9:50:20 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572853

Well, I'm not ABB. I actually think Kerry is a good man for this point in time. On the other hand, the truth is, if Bush is elected, I won't be terribly disappointed, because I think there can be some very good things coming out of it like maybe some privatization of social security, tax reform, and maybe Syria getting its butt kicked around like they deserve. However, right now, I think Kerry would be able execute in Iraq and in the war on terrorism better than Bush and that trumps all my other concerns. Kerry has been painted as a waffler by the Bush administration and he's been painted as weak on military and a whole bunch of other stuff. The Bush admin is excellent at this. They pretty much destroyed McCain too, who is such a good man and clear thinker. So I try to read between the lines on what the media tells me and I read everything I can get my hands on to see if I can find the real truth. If you want to talk about records, Bush's record is spotty at best and downright incompetent at worst, if you're willing to admit the truth. This country deserves someone more deliberate, less cavalier, more balanced, more strategically inclusive when it comes to alliances, and less black and white. We NEED someone who can see the subtleties of diplomacy and bring the full power of this country's leverage against other country's and organizations that represent a threat to us. Right now, Bush is pretty much using the military or the threat of the military to accomplish everything. He has no clue when it comes to diplomacy. Kerry does. Kerry has spent 20 years in the Senate learning how to get his way in the execution of his goals. I'd like to see that kind of experience brought to bear in rebuilding alliances that were forged during and since WWII. No matter how strong you think this country is, we simply cannot go it alone. We have to become the beacon of light again that attracts the rest of the world to our side and Bush is incapable of that now. Even if he had a change of heart, he has lost all credibility with the world. I have NEVER in my 46 years seen our country at this low a level of respect among the rest of the population of our globe. That makes me very sad, because I still believe that with all our flaws, we still have a lot that is good and selfless about this culture compared to that of most other countries. Yet somehow, Bush has destroyed that perception among other countries. I will never understand how he was able to destroy in 3 years what took 200 years to build.