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Dick wants us to remember that to forgive is divine!

I know, this is more of a political post, but I can't help it.

Reading an AP article (reproduced below) about Dick Cheney hailing Ford's pardon of Nixon -- especially now in the shadow of Saddam Hussein's rope trick dance -- I couldn't help but chuckle at the thought that he one of the spirits that visited him on Christmas Eve might have found a nervous Cheney tugging at a spectral noose around his own neck as he looks into the next few years.
Associated Press
Cheney Hails Ford's Pardon of Nixon
By CALVIN WOODWARD and JEFF WILSON 12.30.06, 8:31 PM ET

With the thunder of cannon and the whistle of a bos'n pipe, the nation's capital honored Gerald R. Ford's memory Saturday in funeral ceremonies recalling the touchstones of his life, from combat in the Pacific to a career he cherished in Congress to a presidency he did not seek.

Old colleagues, today's leaders and ordinary Americans remembered him as a man called to heal the country from the wounds of Watergate, the scandal that shattered Richard Nixon's presidency in 1974 and brought the even-keeled Ford (nyse: F - news - people ) to the Oval Office.

Ford's decision to pardon Nixon, so divisive at the time that it probably cost him the 1976 election, was dealt with squarely in his funeral services by his old chief of staff, Vice President Dick Cheney.

"It was this man, Gerald R. Ford, who led our republic safely though a crisis that could have turned to catastrophe," said Cheney, speaking in the Capitol Rotunda where Ford's body rested in a flag-draped casket. "Gerald Ford was almost alone in understanding that there can be no healing without pardon."

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