Not entirely sure what one is supposed to do when a sometime President dies. Is it rude to spend 1000 words explaining why the new Will Smith movie kind of sucks? Because I was going to get caught up on movie reviews today, and with the totally unaffecting death of Gerald Ford, I feel kind of guilty about that.
Later tonight, I suppose. Pursuit of Happyness and the shockingly competent Rocky Balboa after I get unpacked and all that jazz.
27 December 2006
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Totally unaffecting? Time for another Beckley Op-Ed.
ReplyDeleteFor starters, there are now no living Republican Presidents with a name that is not George Bush.
This goes some way towards spelling out why it is such an event that Ford has passed. Passing with him is every shred of evidence of Republican presidencies run with integrity and goodwill at their core. Ford, always maligned for the fact that he was not elected and chastised for his pardon of Nixon, nonetheless was part of no machine, and one can only respect that. He represents, and his death announces the death of, a more-straightforward kind of politics. Just what was needed after Watergate, sure, but also the norm prior to Nixon and something that has been little-seen ever since.
But please, Ford is no reason to halt movie reviews. He gets flags all over the country at half-mast. That should suffice.
"Gerald Ford dead today, at the age of 83, and the new Will Smith movie sucks."
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