Gershon Wolf Poet Couplet

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 June 1, 2024 at 7:52 PM Thanks for the history reminder, my friend. Have a great weekend GW Gershon Wolf June 3, 2024 at 7:45 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 June 1, 2024 at 7:22 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 June 3, 2024 at 8:02 PM Yup. You're right. It's disgusting. Thanks for your good wishes, Regina!

I Am Anaya May 31, 2024 at 7:16 PM Wait a minute, it's a state crime, Biden can't pardon him. Only a federal crime! Gershon Wolf June 3, 2024 at 7:51 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 June 1, 2024 at 10:00 PM If you are correct, then too bad. That's all I have to say.

Kim Rodrigues May 31, 2024 at 5:00 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 May 31, 2024 at 4:38 PM Dems want power at any cost. They are prostituting themselves to get it. Some love country, some love money.

Sara Kendrick May 31, 2024 at 7:45 AM Ha!! Ha!! No way..Keep on writing. Sara K Gershon Wolf June 3, 2024 at 8:00 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 June 2, 2024 at 9:09 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 June 1, 2024 at 10:01 PM That kind of 'Pride,' which is actually an arrogant feeling of one's superiority, is even worse than hate. Sara Kendrick June 1, 2024 at 2:34 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 May 31, 2024 at 3:41 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 May 31, 2024 at 6:30 AM I don't think they get along so well for Trump to receive a pardon. Sometimes history doesn't repeat itself. Gershon Wolf May 31, 2024 at 3:42 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 May 30, 2024 at 11:15 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 May 31, 2024 at 3:45 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 May 30, 2024 at 10:46 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 May 31, 2024 at 3:47 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...