MetaChat - Watching Betty Ford

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02 January 2007

Watching Betty Ford at Pres. Gerald Ford's funeral this morning is making me really sad. She looks just shattered.

post by: BoringPostcards at: 10:44 | 11 comments

She's stoic. Like so many other aging widows who end end surviving their husbands for a decade or several. Like my grandmother who survived my granddad some 22 years.

posted by orthogonality 02 January | 10:51

How old is she now?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 January | 10:54

posted by orthogonality 02 January | 10:56

She's 88.

She and the kids looked really shaken during the 38-gun salute outside, but they look more composed now.

posted by BoringPostcards 02 January | 10:58

It's beautiful and sad.

Is Alan Greenspan sleeping in a pew?

posted by LoriFLA 02 January | 11:11

Yeah, I'm home today and watching, too. Very dignified and heartfelt. Having gone through my father's funeral almost ten years ago and, recently, my uncle's, accompanying my mom and my aunt, respectively, I can't imagine having it all be so public. With my father, it was hard enough just with family and friends.

posted by Pips 02 January | 11:20

Dumbya just said "racial prejudist". Gah.

posted by orthogonality 02 January | 11:22

I think when Georgie Boy gets his funeral, the 38-gun salute will be fired into his coffin.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 02 January | 12:15

By Cheney. On a quail hunt.

posted by orthogonality 02 January | 12:27

Yeah, it's a been a long week for Betty.

posted by orthogonality 02 January | 16:22

Made me think of my mom at my dad's funeral. Very sad.

posted by mrmoonpie 02 January | 21:11

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