27 December 2006

Cleethead's Dead.

My father used to call President Gerald Ford "Cleethead" after all the time he spent in playing ball and being a male model. Never did he think Ford was an idiot, by definition of the position as President he figured you have be fairly smart in some regard. What a president did during their administration is where he'd loosen any expectations for intelligent decision making. After all, he figured after fighting in the Pacific most every politician had the makings of a complete stupe.

Still, I think there was some fondness between Ford and my dad. I think he'd have liked to have seen the day "Cleethead" ran for the end zone one last time. Here's to you, Gerry.