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	<title>Comments on: A Decent Man</title>
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		<title>By: LilMissIndie</title>
		<link>http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2006/12/28/decent-man/comment-page-1/#comment-1066</link>
		<dc:creator>LilMissIndie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;More importantly, he left us with an example of sanity and clarity in public leadership.&quot;

I lived through the Ford era also and appreciate what he did for our country, a man who did not seek the office but served when asked. But I was disappointed in his allowing Woodward to publish his comments posthumously. We do need sanity and clarity in public leadership; Gerald Ford could have demonstrated that had he spoken out in some way while alive. If he couldn&#039;t tolerate politics any longer, and didn&#039;t think anyone would listen to him, why make the remarks at all or ask that they be held until his death? Instead of the moralizing finger-wagging we&#039;ve gotten from Jimmy Carter - resulting in more polarization - I would have loved to have heard the voice of this decent man. (Perhaps he couldn&#039;t stand to submit himself to the flaying that occurs in the media and many blogs these days.)



Btw, (I&#039;m not usually this mistrustful but) how do we know that Ford told Woodward he could publish the remarks after his death? Tapes of the interview? Notes from Ford? I&#039;m just curious (and hopefully not clueless because I don&#039;t know the answer).

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;More importantly, he left us with an example of sanity and clarity in public leadership.&#8221;</p>
<p>I lived through the Ford era also and appreciate what he did for our country, a man who did not seek the office but served when asked. But I was disappointed in his allowing Woodward to publish his comments posthumously. We do need sanity and clarity in public leadership; Gerald Ford could have demonstrated that had he spoken out in some way while alive. If he couldn&#8217;t tolerate politics any longer, and didn&#8217;t think anyone would listen to him, why make the remarks at all or ask that they be held until his death? Instead of the moralizing finger-wagging we&#8217;ve gotten from Jimmy Carter &#8211; resulting in more polarization &#8211; I would have loved to have heard the voice of this decent man. (Perhaps he couldn&#8217;t stand to submit himself to the flaying that occurs in the media and many blogs these days.)</p>
<p>Btw, (I&#8217;m not usually this mistrustful but) how do we know that Ford told Woodward he could publish the remarks after his death? Tapes of the interview? Notes from Ford? I&#8217;m just curious (and hopefully not clueless because I don&#8217;t know the answer).</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: Yahia</title>
		<link>http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2006/12/28/decent-man/comment-page-1/#comment-953</link>
		<dc:creator>Yahia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah (:
Thanks for your answer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah (:<br />
Thanks for your answer.</p>
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		<title>By: eatbees</title>
		<link>http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2006/12/28/decent-man/comment-page-1/#comment-949</link>
		<dc:creator>eatbees</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 03:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No, Yahia, I&#039;m not sure. See my reply to &quot;hum&quot; above. Ford kept Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State even though he was the architect (with Nixon) of some of the most cold-blooded foreign policy the U.S. has ever had (Cambodia, Argentina...). But I lived through the Ford era, and I respect him for trying to restore balance to the country at a difficult time. I&#039;m not saying he was great, but at least he knew his limits. He wasn&#039;t insane or possessed by the Devil like our current leadership. 

Why didn&#039;t he criticize the war publicly? I think he was honestly sick of politics and didn&#039;t think anyone would listen to him, certainly not Bush.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, Yahia, I&#8217;m not sure. See my reply to &#8220;hum&#8221; above. Ford kept Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State even though he was the architect (with Nixon) of some of the most cold-blooded foreign policy the U.S. has ever had (Cambodia, Argentina&#8230;). But I lived through the Ford era, and I respect him for trying to restore balance to the country at a difficult time. I&#8217;m not saying he was great, but at least he knew his limits. He wasn&#8217;t insane or possessed by the Devil like our current leadership. </p>
<p>Why didn&#8217;t he criticize the war publicly? I think he was honestly sick of politics and didn&#8217;t think anyone would listen to him, certainly not Bush.</p>
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		<title>By: Yahia</title>
		<link>http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2006/12/28/decent-man/comment-page-1/#comment-948</link>
		<dc:creator>Yahia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 03:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hum &gt; http://translate.google.com/

Eatbees &gt; Are you sure about qualifying him as a decent man? I personally don&#039;t think so.
He didn&#039;t have the balls to say that in public I suppose?
Also, if he&#039;s &quot;responsible for giving Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney their first positions of real authority&quot;, then he&#039;s partly responsible for the actual mess, isn&#039;t he.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hum &gt; <a href="http://translate.google.com/" rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com/</a></p>
<p>Eatbees &gt; Are you sure about qualifying him as a decent man? I personally don&#8217;t think so.<br />
He didn&#8217;t have the balls to say that in public I suppose?<br />
Also, if he&#8217;s &#8220;responsible for giving Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney their first positions of real authority&#8221;, then he&#8217;s partly responsible for the actual mess, isn&#8217;t he.</p>
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		<title>By: hum</title>
		<link>http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2006/12/28/decent-man/comment-page-1/#comment-836</link>
		<dc:creator>hum</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>oui j&#039;imagine que c&#039;est pareil de votre coté
ceci dit quand je dis &quot;bonnet blanc blanc bonnet&quot; on sait meme a l&#039;exterieur que vous n&#039;aviez jamais eu un président comme dabliou (W) ;)

en tous cas tu m&#039;impressionnes avec ta connaissance du maroc et sa politique, tu dois savoir plus que la majortié des marocains... sur leur propre elections
en plus tes posts sont agreables à lire, meme si j&#039;arrive pas ecrire en anglais (je l&#039;ai etudié au maroc au lycée, mais j&#039;ai tout perdu en arrivant en france. ici le système n&#039;aide pas a apprendre l&#039;anglais, ni d&#039;autres langues d&#039;ailleurs.)

ce qui serait bien un jour c&#039;est avoir un browser qui vous traduit en live un site dans n&#039;importe quel pays dans votre langue et que les commentaires aussi soit traduit
cela permettra peut etre un jour de lire des blogs japonais ou chinois ou ...etc

continue à nous donner le plaisir de lire tes articles

merci
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>oui j&#8217;imagine que c&#8217;est pareil de votre coté<br />
ceci dit quand je dis &#8220;bonnet blanc blanc bonnet&#8221; on sait meme a l&#8217;exterieur que vous n&#8217;aviez jamais eu un président comme dabliou (W) ;)</p>
<p>en tous cas tu m&#8217;impressionnes avec ta connaissance du maroc et sa politique, tu dois savoir plus que la majortié des marocains&#8230; sur leur propre elections<br />
en plus tes posts sont agreables à lire, meme si j&#8217;arrive pas ecrire en anglais (je l&#8217;ai etudié au maroc au lycée, mais j&#8217;ai tout perdu en arrivant en france. ici le système n&#8217;aide pas a apprendre l&#8217;anglais, ni d&#8217;autres langues d&#8217;ailleurs.)</p>
<p>ce qui serait bien un jour c&#8217;est avoir un browser qui vous traduit en live un site dans n&#8217;importe quel pays dans votre langue et que les commentaires aussi soit traduit<br />
cela permettra peut etre un jour de lire des blogs japonais ou chinois ou &#8230;etc</p>
<p>continue à nous donner le plaisir de lire tes articles</p>
<p>merci</p>
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		<title>By: eatbees</title>
		<link>http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2006/12/28/decent-man/comment-page-1/#comment-826</link>
		<dc:creator>eatbees</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oui, et c&#039;est vrai dans les deux sens, n&#039;est-ce pas? :) Essaies à trouver, par exemple, un américain qui peut dire même les noms des chefs d&#039;état arabes et les rapports entre eux....

Merci de m&#039;encourager, j&#039;essaie à éclairer de temps en temps notre politique interne (ici, &quot;nous&quot; = &quot;nous les américains&quot;). Par exemple, est-ce que tu sais que John Kerry n&#039;est pas président aujourd&#039;hui à cause d&#039;un bâteau de haute vitesse (&quot;Swift Boat&quot;)? C&#039;est vrai mon ami! 

C&#039;est toujours plus compliqué qu&#039;on peut dire en quelques lignes. Gerald Ford par exemple, avait comme ministre à l&#039;étranger Henry Kissinger, que pas mal entre nous accuse de crimes contre l&#039;humanité dû à son soutien des dictatures en Argentine, Indonésie...est-ce que le bilan est avec Ford aussi...?

De toute façon merci, on aura l&#039;occasion d&#039;en parler beaucoup plus l&#039;année prochaine, inch&#039;allah, lors des enquêtes du Congress contre notre président actuel!

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oui, et c&#8217;est vrai dans les deux sens, n&#8217;est-ce pas? :) Essaies à trouver, par exemple, un américain qui peut dire même les noms des chefs d&#8217;état arabes et les rapports entre eux&#8230;.</p>
<p>Merci de m&#8217;encourager, j&#8217;essaie à éclairer de temps en temps notre politique interne (ici, &#8220;nous&#8221; = &#8220;nous les américains&#8221;). Par exemple, est-ce que tu sais que John Kerry n&#8217;est pas président aujourd&#8217;hui à cause d&#8217;un bâteau de haute vitesse (&#8220;Swift Boat&#8221;)? C&#8217;est vrai mon ami! </p>
<p>C&#8217;est toujours plus compliqué qu&#8217;on peut dire en quelques lignes. Gerald Ford par exemple, avait comme ministre à l&#8217;étranger Henry Kissinger, que pas mal entre nous accuse de crimes contre l&#8217;humanité dû à son soutien des dictatures en Argentine, Indonésie&#8230;est-ce que le bilan est avec Ford aussi&#8230;?</p>
<p>De toute façon merci, on aura l&#8217;occasion d&#8217;en parler beaucoup plus l&#8217;année prochaine, inch&#8217;allah, lors des enquêtes du Congress contre notre président actuel!</p>
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		<title>By: hum</title>
		<link>http://www.eatbees.com/blog/2006/12/28/decent-man/comment-page-1/#comment-823</link>
		<dc:creator>hum</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>merci de nous rapprocher d&#039;une vision interne des politiques americains
car de l&#039;exterieur (surtout dans le monde arabo muslman) pour nous c&#039;est &quot;blanc bonnet et bonnet blanc&quot;

paix à son ame</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>merci de nous rapprocher d&#8217;une vision interne des politiques americains<br />
car de l&#8217;exterieur (surtout dans le monde arabo muslman) pour nous c&#8217;est &#8220;blanc bonnet et bonnet blanc&#8221;</p>
<p>paix à son ame</p>
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