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Comments on: Do Not Speak Ill Of The Dead https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/12/27/do-not-speak-ill-of-the-dead/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:30:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/12/27/do-not-speak-ill-of-the-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-19372 Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:30:50 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/12/27/do-not-speak-ill-of-the-dead/#comment-19372 OTOH, he may just have felt that he was too old to want to put up with the grief of saying anything negative about the Shrubbery. He never defended the old line Republicans against the conservatives who took over the party he lead and he assuredly would have had strong views about the changes in the House under Gingrich and DeLay.

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I’m afraid my initial respect for the service Ford did under very awkward circumstances has since been tempered considerably by the release of the Woodward tapes.

Ford clearly had potential influence with his buddies Rummy and Cheney; why did he not wield that influence while he was alive, when it might have done some good? I hope that doesn’t count as speaking too ill of the dead, but with 20-20 hindsight, I think that the man who “enabled” Rumsfeld and Cheney had some responsibility to attempt to influence them in regard to the mess they are making. In the end, I suppose the Republicans’ “Eleventh Commandment” prevailed over all else.

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