|
|
| Re: Remembering a buddy from high school who died in Vietnam (1290717) | |||
 |
|||
| Home > OTChat | |||
|
[ Read Responses | Post a New Response | Return to the Index ] |
|
||
|
Re: Remembering a buddy from high school who died in Vietnam |
|
|
Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue May 26 12:25:49 2015, in response to Re: Remembering a buddy from high school who died in Vietnam, posted by SLRT on Tue May 26 12:02:17 2015. being followed by the barely competent Gerald Ford and the barely elected Jimmy Carter, not to mention setting a precedent that a sitting elected president (by a landslide) could be forced out of office. We might well have done better with a disgraced Nixon finishing his term, to have better candidates (Dem and GOP) face off in 1976.This is only because of the precedent that a sitting president, eligible for reëlection and seeking such, should always receive his party’s nomination. If Ford didn’t have the nomination locked up, then perhaps the Republicans would have nominated someone better and he’d have been elected instead. Not that until Teddy Roosevelt, presidents who succeeded to the office not only were never reëlected, but never won their party’s nomination. Also, I’m not certain that Carter looked so bad in 1976. A disgraced president finishing out his term might still have benefited the Democrats. Don’t you think that some of Obama’s victory in 2008 could be attributed to the unpopularity of Bush? |
|
|
|