In his inaugural address of August 9th, 1974, the late President Ford said:

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, and so I ask you to confirm me as your president with your prayers. And I hope that such prayers will also be the first of many.

He ended his address with this:

God helping me, I will not let you down.

In President Ford’s press conference of 8/28/1974 (which I just witnessed on the C-Span network) he said — regarding any potential pardon of Richard Nixon — that he had asked for “prayers for guidance on this very point.”

He pardoned Nixon the following month.

Many columns and books have been written of late warning of a coming theocracy of some kind in the United States, based largely (it seems to me) on how President George W. Bush has allegedly worn his faith on his sleeve.

Well, based on President Ford’s almost constant invocations of God, and his seeming belief that God was was on his side, and giving him “guidance” of some kind, I think that it’s pretty clear that we’ve been living under an effective theocracy in the United States since 1974. The fact that history seems to regard this raving religious maniac as some kind of Republican moderate is all the more telling.

If this is what the moderates are like, then what the heck are the hardcore right-wing-Christian-nuts like? We clearly don’t know the half of it.

God help us.

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