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Summer of Discontent Reprised

Americans were shocked and stunned ‘Reason’ abandoned, injustice had won On Sept. 8, 1974, when President Ford exited the stage The Republican right was left in fistic rage While the Democrat left was aghast, How could Ford do this The scales of justice, now so sorely amiss To pardon a President, guilty in every possible way of undermining the law and his opponent just didn’t play It cost Ford the next election, ‘cos Richard Nixon he’d pardoned Voters’ adverse reaction over two years so hardened They elected an unknown, a neophyte named Carter next to whom the Ayatollah Khomeini looked smarter Yet the country moved on, hindsight thanked Ford ~ That Biden pardon Trump ~ start petitioning the Lord

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Jerry Brotherton

Date: 6/1/2024 7:52:00 PM

Thanks for the history reminder, my friend. Have a great weekend GW

Gershon Wolf
Date: 6/3/2024 7:45:00 PM

Yes. Unfortunately, doesn't look as if history has a ghost of a chance or repeating here. Would be best to put this national embarrassment of a trial to rest ASAP! Nothing as ridiculous and circus-like since the 'OJ Trial!' ~ gw

Regina Elliott

Date: 6/1/2024 7:22:00 AM

Hi Gershon, excellent writing, good friend. I think they may try to put Trump in Rikers prison. They're trying to take him down any way they can. Good luck to him. Shabbat Shalom. :)

Gershon Wolf
Date: 6/3/2024 8:02:00 PM

Yup. You're right. It's disgusting. Thanks for your good wishes, Regina!

I Am Anaya

Date: 5/31/2024 7:16:00 PM

Wait a minute, it's a state crime, Biden can't pardon him. Only a federal crime!

Gershon Wolf
Date: 6/3/2024 7:51:00 PM

And Kathy Hochul certainly won't pardon Trump. Nothing like putting vengeance --- oops, I mean 'justice' --- ahead of the country... Where are you when we need you, Gerald Ford?!!

Gershon Wolf
Date: 6/1/2024 10:00:00 PM

If you are correct, then too bad. That's all I have to say.

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 5/31/2024 5:00:00 PM

Love that King David honored the anointed King who was trying even to kill him. Likewise people that ran to him driveling with good news of who they took out met with dishonor. Why anyone would think to be gleeful or this…making our country look bad…the country who formerly God used to rebut WWII. (keep smiling…God is watching).

Hilda Greenhough

Date: 5/31/2024 4:38:00 PM

Dems want power at any cost. They are prostituting themselves to get it. Some love country, some love money.

Sara Kendrick

Date: 5/31/2024 7:45:00 AM

Ha!! Ha!! No way..Keep on writing. Sara K

Gershon Wolf
Date: 6/3/2024 8:00:00 PM

Sara, you probably despise Trump, no matter how much better a President he would be than the senile Biden and the incompetent Harris... Bill Clinton did a pretty good job as President. Monica mattered not. And it mattered not that Slick Willy and his wife were and are crooks of the worst kind... And Kennedy, that salacious womanizer, faced down Nikita Krushchev and saved the world from nuclear war... Nixon saved Israel from extinction at the hands of Sadat and Assad. Was Nixon a model of integrity?! Excuse me while I barf... Bottom line: We elect Presidents, not saints!!! Pardon Trump and let Americans choose whom they want!

Sara Kendrick
Date: 6/2/2024 9:09:00 AM

Well, it is not a good personality trait or characteristic for a person to have. Sometimes though when a person comes off that way it is really lack of self-confidence the person is experiencing. Have a great day..Sara K

Gershon Wolf
Date: 6/1/2024 10:01:00 PM

That kind of 'Pride,' which is actually an arrogant feeling of one's superiority, is even worse than hate.

Sara Kendrick
Date: 6/1/2024 2:34:00 AM

I meant that there was no way that Biden would pardon Trump, but maybe Trump will pardon himself. The reason I said that Biden would not pardon Trump was not because of hate(but it could be), but because of pride. Sara K

Gershon Wolf
Date: 5/31/2024 3:41:00 PM

No way? Why not? -- b/c of hatred, that's why not. That's what the bottom line is here. No one can do the right thing anymore. Too much hatred in the world, esp. in America.

Tonye George

Date: 5/31/2024 6:30:00 AM

I don't think they get along so well for Trump to receive a pardon. Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 5/31/2024 3:42:00 PM

Right you are. Biden and Trump do not get along... As well, Nixon and Ford were both Republicans... That said, it's hatred that blocks Biden from doing the right thing. What a wonderful thing it would be if Joe overcame his instincts and did what was best for the country! ~ gw

Hilda Greenhough

Date: 5/30/2024 11:15:00 PM

Good luck with that pardon. A most unusual judicial proceedings which is foreign. All rules broken. Guilty beforehand. I wrote a similar poem .

Gershon Wolf
Date: 5/31/2024 3:45:00 PM

Well, the question is this: How far is Mr. Bragg removed from Mr. Biden? Can Biden separate himself from the lunatic left of his party and do what's right for the country? That would be a near-miracle, woudn't it?

I Am Anaya

Date: 5/30/2024 10:46:00 PM

No trial, no conviction, Nixon resigned before he could be impeached and convicted by the Senate. I believe. Carter was a nuclear scientist in the Navy.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 5/31/2024 3:47:00 PM

I believe that Trump's conviction makes it all the more imperative for Biden to pardon him. After all, how many pardons of convicts did Obama and Trump dole out on their last day office? Why not do the right thing and stop the country from becoming further divided?! Let's move on...