Ford-Carter debate excerpt
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Uploaded by lawford83 on Jun 4, 2008
Gerald Ford's infamous gaffe in the 1976 presidential debate.
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You have to wonder how things would've turned out if "Sweater Malaise" Carter had not been selected by the Electoral College in 1976.
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He was not a good man. He was on the Warren Commission, and acted as J. Edgar Hoover's informant to guide the WC to a no-conspiracy conclusion. As President, he did everything possible to obstruct Congressional investigations into CIA/FBI wrongdoing. The man spent his whole career covering up for people.
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Stupid jock.
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Ford disputed the moderator saying Helsinki acquiesced to Soviet dominance of Eastern Europe. Since Helsinki became a manifesto for dissident movements, leading to the fall of Communism, he was correct. He got carried away with rhetoric, but it would have been dangerous for a President to validate the moderator's premise. I am a Democrat who understood what he meant in '75. He tried to cram subtle points of diplomacy into sound bites and stumbled. The reaction to what he said, now that was dumb.
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There is truth to what he said. Yugoslavia was not part of the Warsaw pact and since the 50s was a fully independent. In fact the Communists there came to power through a partisan movement. Similarly Ceausescu in Romania was seen as a national hero for much of his rule. (albeit not in the late 80s). Perhaps Poland is the exception to a degree.
Also the USSR is now gone too, but can we say the regime didn't have legitemacy? Google Soviet Union referendum, 1991
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This makes me cringe.
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@SavagePersonified90 Gerald Ford loved America. Sarah Palin loves America. It is sad how a TV brain freeze can ruin someone. Because it is human nature. For instance there are a lot of people in this country who can sing, but can they do it on stage with perfection ? There are great baseball players who can play great at AAA. But can they pitch mistake free at Yankee Stadium. (ala Ed Whitson)
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A great and honest president, ruined by a mistake like this (and by Nixon's mistakes, too).
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I bet Gerry Ford didn't sleep for weeks after this debate
FRSFreeState 1 year ago 22
This is some Palin-grade stupid right here.
His comments would have been much less damaging if he had stopped before mentioning Poland. Tito and Ceausescu were totalitarian monsters, but did maintain some degree of autonomy from Moscow. Just as important, there weren't large blocks of Yugoslav- or Romanian-American voters to piss off. Poland is different on both counts.
TariqAlSuave 1 year ago 9