"Ford was the only unelected President in U.S. history"

[Bluzmann57]

WRONG!!!!!!!!!!! He was the FIRST unelected President. G.W. Bush was never elected. As we all know, he was selected. I straightened a freep type out on this point today at work. But Ford only had a short time, whereas bush has had six loooonnnnnnggggggggggg years to fuck everything up.

[Patsy Stone]

1. True

He was, however, the only president never elected to either the vice presidency or the presidency. Also, the only one to survive two assassination attempts, both by women.

That's all I got. :)

[Bobbieo]

6. Wasn't it Ford who brought Rumsfeld and Cheney into the White House?

Or am I wrong on this?

[Patsy Stone]

10. Not wrong

Cheney was Ford's Chief of Staff, and Rumsfeld was the youngest Secretary of Defense under Ford, and the oldest under *.

[Bluzmann57]

11. No you aren't wrong

He did indeed, although I read somewhere that Rummy worked for the Nixon campaign in some capacity.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. He was under secretary of defense under

nixon.

[Phredicles]

2. Easy to fix: "Ford WAS the only unelected President in U.S. history"

It's just a matter of emphasis.:P

[malaise]

21. Unelected for the two top posts

and as exciting as watching paint dry

[BLUSH]

3. yep

[Der Blaue Engel]

4. How about Andrew Johnson?

Freeps don't pay much attention to history OR current events.

[tammywammy]

9. I think what they have been saying

Is that Ford wasn't elected into either office, President or VP, hence the never elected. Johnson was elected as VP, so he wouldn't fit in that classification.

[Der Blaue Engel]

12. Ah

Gotcha.

[SharonRB]

5. Yeah, both of the major Detroit newspapers referred to Ford

as the "only president, blah, blah, blah...." in their issues today. I yelled "LIAR" when I read them.

[liberal N proud]

7. Ford was only the first President never elected to office

Bu$h was the second President never elected to office.

[jgraz]

8. Ford was far more legitimate than Chimpy

At least Ford's presidency came about through legal, constitutional means.

[soothsayer]

13. what about after johnson had kennedy killed?

[niyad]

15. I keep pointing that out, as well. drives the little sheeples crazy.

[MonkeyFunk]

16. I know nobody likes to hear it...

but the Electoral College DID, in fact, elect George W. Bush.

[Lex]

17. George Bush won by one vote in the US Supreme Court.

If the US Supreme Court had not intervened, then all the Florida votes would've been re-counted statewide and Gore would've won the Electoral College.

That's the correct answer.

[MonkeyFunk]

18. I'm merely pointing out

that the Electoral College elected George W. Bush, and that Gerald Ford remains the ONLY President never elected to the Presidency or the Vice-Presidency.

[bobthedrummer]

19. Yep, they have to lie 24/7 under penalty of something from the BFEE

as long as that unelected war criminal, George Walker Bush is in the WH.

This is not a "long national nightmare"-this is much worse BFEE's HOMELAND (TM).

[Mz Pip]

20. Chester A. Arthur?

n/t

[Initech]

22. Ding ding ding!!!

Term #1 - Bush's "victory" was decided by a 5 - 4 supreme court decision (and the first to call it was... *drum roll* Fox News) which threw out the popular votes and any chance of a real recount.

Term #2 - Bush's "victory" was decided by electronic voting machines which were more easily manipulatable than a Las Vegas slot machine.