ANOTHER PRESIDENT

It's 5:39, 56 degrees out, dark, and Patrick is in bed with Junior.

The fifth president I saw was Jerry Ford. Missing LBJ broke my string of seeing all the Presidents in my lifetime. I saw him at the same place I saw Nixon, and he was President at the time, at the St. Pete Airport. One of the crowd, behind a low fence, I thrust out my hand and he shook it. He had yellow teeth. He was the only man, that I know of, that served as President of the United States, never having been elected by the people. He stumbled through his presidency and bumped his head alot. He may have been a fair college football player, but he was in over his head at the whitehouse. Thank goodness THEY didn't choose his watch to leave the Mother Ships and invade us.... So it goes.

By the way, Cindy Sheehan continues to dishonor her son's service. The real tradgedy here is that she probably will never realize the error of her ways, but I guess that's a blessing for her. Her son will forgive her. She's just a crazy old woman, beat down by life's injustices...
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