A recently surfaced video clip from 1989 shows former President Gerald Ford forecasting the likelihood of America’s first female president. In a Q&A session with an elementary school student, Ford outlined a scenario in which a woman would first become vice president and then assume the presidency after the sitting president’s passing.
Ford’s prophetic response suggested that once a woman breaks the presidential glass ceiling, it may become challenging for men to secure party nominations in future elections.
In the exchange, Ford advises a young girl aspiring to become president, saying, “I hope we do have a young lady at some point become President of the United States… I think it will happen [with a woman becoming vice president first], and then the President will die, and the woman will become President… And once that barrier is broken, from then on, men better be careful, because they’ll have a hard, hard time ever even getting a nomination in the future.”
Ford’s remarks, made over three decades ago, appear remarkably prescient today.
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Firstly, slow Joe crow hasn’t died, so I’m not sure where you see a nevuah here.
Secondly, at this point it looks as though if Kamala does wind up as president it’ll be either by 25th amendment, old man Joe dying of natural causes, or (less likely) winning the presidency.
Secondly, you cut the video short. Did he say he thought it would happen in the next four to eight years, presidential terms, presidencies, decades?
Ditto @fakenews regarding the “nevuah.” The president (as far as I know) is alive and well, albeit perhaps somewhat cognitively diminished. And the “within four to eight years” was conveniently cut short in the video clip.
No! NO! Chas V’shalom for Jews, America and the world if this woman chalila wins.
NO! NO! Ch”V. Don’t publicize a BAD “nevua”. Chalila this woman should win!
4 to 8 decades
Sounds like a nevuah to me.
Or more like common sense.
Or, more likely, a “self fulfilling prophecy”
lo navi velo ben navi just a man using common sense