Posted on 04/20/2006 5:41:33 AM PDT by Dark Skies
Years later, I think I understood what he was trying to say although I'm not sure that I could put it into any better words.
Those countries might have been controlled by the Soviet Union, but the people did not believe that they were controlled by it. The culture was not dominated by Russia even as it was being oppressed by that nation. They were their own peoples, and they weren't going away. They wouldn't be absorbed by the domineering Soviets. At least, that's what I think the point was.
I stopped eating peanuts while Jimmy was president.
Clinton was an idiot, but he was a self-serving idiot and the damage he caused was relatively minor. Carter is an idiot, but he's a messianic idiot who thinks he can remake the world into sweetness and light. That makes him far more dangerous than Clinton.
And what puzzles me is why Ford thought that point was so important to make in a presidential debate.
You make good points. But the same can be said for Lyndon Johnson, quite an accomplishment when you consider that Johnson left office in 1968.
LBJ created those horrible, politically-correct immigration laws that we are just now seeing the cost of. He created the accounting gimmicks that took Social Security "off the budget" and enabled the government to conceal the size of its deficits. He's the one who created the rigid welfare state wtihout putting in any safeguards to prevent fraud or abuse.
We still pay the price for LBJ.
I bill arrived on September 11, 2001.
Jimmy was just projecting his own self image into the P.O.S.
The only difference was that Carter had a Democrat Congress.
Just to be fair to Peanut Brain the "55 mph speed limit" was Nixon's idea not Carter's.
Nixon was a liberal Republican.
Correct me if I am wrong but I don't believe that Ford could have run again had he beaten Carter in 1976. Ford became President in Aug of 1974. That would have still paved the way for Reagan to become President in 1980. I firmly believe that Ford would not have abandoned the Shah the way Carter did. Our world would be much better had Carter NEVER been President. ( Somebody should beat me cause I voted for that sonofabitch.)
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