Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Carter for President
You heard me. Bring back Jimmy.
His latest book is dead-on right:
"Carter spends significant time contextualizing his own spirituality, as if to underscore the urgency of his message that fundamentalism in any form is bad, especially when it encroaches on government. Indeed, Carter persuasively links fundamentalism to harmful policy, the subjugation of women, general xenophobia, and a host of other ills occurring all around him."
(--from Amazon)
Jimmy Carter for president.
Discuss
--ER
His latest book is dead-on right:
"Carter spends significant time contextualizing his own spirituality, as if to underscore the urgency of his message that fundamentalism in any form is bad, especially when it encroaches on government. Indeed, Carter persuasively links fundamentalism to harmful policy, the subjugation of women, general xenophobia, and a host of other ills occurring all around him."
(--from Amazon)
Jimmy Carter for president.
Discuss
--ER
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NO! Let the dead bury the dead. It is time to move past the Vietnam and cold war era and past everybody that was in it.
Grey beards and big bellys have always been councelors of wisdom, but not the leaders a people need.
No, let him rest.
Noticed Delay quit the House race. Time for new blood all around.
Grey beards and big bellys have always been councelors of wisdom, but not the leaders a people need.
No, let him rest.
Noticed Delay quit the House race. Time for new blood all around.
# posted by 
: 9:03 AM
: 9:03 AM
OK, OK. Here's some names I like: Evan Bayh, Bill Richardson. That's all, so far.
How 'bout "Carter for National Grandpa"?
How 'bout "Carter for National Grandpa"?
Oh come on, ER. Carter is a traitor, traipsing around the world bad mouthing his own country in the lands of our enemies. He should be brought up on charges. And I actually like the guy! But he is dead wrong.
Mark, you are remarkably true to form. "Fundamentalism: Taking the burden of thinking away from followers." If you haven't read anything Carter has written, and if all you're going on is what others have said -- especially other fundie freak right-wing talking head idjits -- then hush. If you HAVE read what he's written and care to engage it, bring it on.
I think of his voice like John the Baptist's: one crying in the wilderness, urging this country repent of its flirtation with right-wingism before we paint oursevles into so many corners we will never be truly free again.
Every time you people call someone a traitor, it confirms that my hunch about the person is right: Yer desperation in the face of the truth is showing.
And he's not traipsing, he's gallavanting. :-)
P.S. DeLay: Signs that God DOES love us, or at least a little part of Texas.
I think of his voice like John the Baptist's: one crying in the wilderness, urging this country repent of its flirtation with right-wingism before we paint oursevles into so many corners we will never be truly free again.
Every time you people call someone a traitor, it confirms that my hunch about the person is right: Yer desperation in the face of the truth is showing.
And he's not traipsing, he's gallavanting. :-)
P.S. DeLay: Signs that God DOES love us, or at least a little part of Texas.
Check that. It's spelled gallivanting. But he's not gallivanting, "going about seeking pleasure." He's peregrinating.
Jimmy Carter is too valuable as a teacher and writer to be sullied again with a political office. He has much more impact as a writer and living example of putting faith into action, and faith into thought for the bettering of society.
You should read "Sharing Good Times."
You should read "Sharing Good Times."
Trixie, I think yer right.
So ...
Bayh for president.
Richardson to head a special commission on Dealing with Illegal Immigration. "Immigration Czar."
Carter for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Bill Clinton for U.S. ambassador to -- no wait: secretary-general of the United Nations. How cool: "United Nations Secretary-General William Jefferson Clinton."
Gore heads the EPA.
Hillary goes to SCOTUS.
John Edwards head HHS.
Man, I am on a roll!
Blanche Lincoln gets a plum. What might it be? Veep! That's the ticket! Bayh-Lincoln!
James by-God Carville as White House spokesman.
Jimmy Harrell for ag secretary! ;-)
So ...
Bayh for president.
Richardson to head a special commission on Dealing with Illegal Immigration. "Immigration Czar."
Carter for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Bill Clinton for U.S. ambassador to -- no wait: secretary-general of the United Nations. How cool: "United Nations Secretary-General William Jefferson Clinton."
Gore heads the EPA.
Hillary goes to SCOTUS.
John Edwards head HHS.
Man, I am on a roll!
Blanche Lincoln gets a plum. What might it be? Veep! That's the ticket! Bayh-Lincoln!
James by-God Carville as White House spokesman.
Jimmy Harrell for ag secretary! ;-)
For the values Carter received from his kin and neighbors while growing up in rural Georgia, read his "An Hour Before Daylight."
Btw, Carter is in good company to say the least when it is suggested that he be "brought up on charges" for living his faith.
Btw, Carter is in good company to say the least when it is suggested that he be "brought up on charges" for living his faith.
# posted by : 11:48 AM
: 11:48 AM
ER,
I *love* your list. Al Gore as head of the EPA! Bayh for pres, Edwards for HHS and Hillary for SCOTUS. I may swoon.
GP: "Carter is in good company to say the least when it is suggested that he be "brought up on charges" for living his faith"
That flat gave me chills. Good call.
SuperB
I *love* your list. Al Gore as head of the EPA! Bayh for pres, Edwards for HHS and Hillary for SCOTUS. I may swoon.
GP: "Carter is in good company to say the least when it is suggested that he be "brought up on charges" for living his faith"
That flat gave me chills. Good call.
SuperB
# posted by : 12:50 PM
: 12:50 PM
OK, ER, I can give you lots of those things. Gore being anything other than Clinton's bitch, though, is simply silly.
:-)
:-)
GP loved you comment about Carter.
But I still advocate a total House and Senate and White House Cleaning.
Everybody on your list ER is Vietnam Era.
We have to have new vision.
We have a long term Middle East series of battles to fight now thanks to Bush I&II.
We have the effects of Global Warming and rising sea levels to deal with on an international scale.
We have the down-classing of America and an inevitable class war on the horizon to keep in check.
We have a health care and elder care crisis already here.
We will expand our energy problem by a factor of ten if we continue on this way.
We will have to merge much of Canada and Mexico into our Union.
Time to flush the old farts out, and seek new ideas, new hope, and new strength. Both parties have proven that they are dead to the needs of America. Either they wake up and move on, or the get the hell out of the way.
And the word "Purge" is begining to rattle around in the back of my mind.
No ER, there is not a single leader on you list, and we need several right now.
But I still advocate a total House and Senate and White House Cleaning.
Everybody on your list ER is Vietnam Era.
We have to have new vision.
We have a long term Middle East series of battles to fight now thanks to Bush I&II.
We have the effects of Global Warming and rising sea levels to deal with on an international scale.
We have the down-classing of America and an inevitable class war on the horizon to keep in check.
We have a health care and elder care crisis already here.
We will expand our energy problem by a factor of ten if we continue on this way.
We will have to merge much of Canada and Mexico into our Union.
Time to flush the old farts out, and seek new ideas, new hope, and new strength. Both parties have proven that they are dead to the needs of America. Either they wake up and move on, or the get the hell out of the way.
And the word "Purge" is begining to rattle around in the back of my mind.
No ER, there is not a single leader on you list, and we need several right now.
# posted by : 1:51 PM
: 1:51 PM
There's hardly a person in the world I admire more as a human being than Jimmy Carter. You're right, ER, he IS right.
He was a lousy president, however.
He was a lousy president, however.
When President Reagan was being briefed on the invasion of Grenada, he asked how many helecopters would be sent to rescue the Medical Students there. He was told, and then he gave a direct order to double it. When questioned by the general he was being brief by as to why? He said, "If Carter had sent twice as many helecopters on the Iran hostage rescue as he did, you wouldn't be talking to me as Comander in Chief right now.
It is more than a saying that for want of a nail the war was lost.
It is more than a saying that for want of a nail the war was lost.
# posted by : 4:34 PM
: 4:34 PM
Carter's presidency ... it would have taken a a miracle worker to walk this country out of the ashes and dung of Nixon. Jimmy Carter was, and is, no miracle worker. And, his insight seems to have come from his years, particularly his years since his presidency. He can be petty, too, I'm sure. We all can. But boy is he worth listening to now.
Drlobo, aside from the rightness or wrongness of the war in Iraq, don't you think the sasme is true there? If Rumsfeld was not stubbornly wedded to his idea of lean forces, and if the current commander-in-chief actually LED, if we had had a half-million people over there in the first place, don't you think it would be a different Iraq?
I contend, again, that 1. Modern conservatives-Republicans don't do government well because they mistrust it. 2. War is the ultimate act of government. 3. Conservatives-Republicans aren't fighting this war well, as a result.
I contend, again, that 1. Modern conservatives-Republicans don't do government well because they mistrust it. 2. War is the ultimate act of government. 3. Conservatives-Republicans aren't fighting this war well, as a result.
"Every time you people call someone a traitor, it confirms that my hunch about the person is right"
i apply the identical litmus test. never fails me!
love carter, but the man's unelectable. too much bad history, albeit wrongly percieved.
"Carter for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations."
i'll fo you one better: secretary general....
KEvron
KEvron
i apply the identical litmus test. never fails me!
love carter, but the man's unelectable. too much bad history, albeit wrongly percieved.
"Carter for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations."
i'll fo you one better: secretary general....
KEvron
KEvron
"When President Reagan was being briefed on the invasion of Grenada...."
richard reeves, is that you?
ironically, reeves uses that quote in an article meant refute any comparisons between bush's struggle with iraq and reagan's struggles with the soviets.
damn those grenadine sand storms!
KEvron
richard reeves, is that you?
ironically, reeves uses that quote in an article meant refute any comparisons between bush's struggle with iraq and reagan's struggles with the soviets.
damn those grenadine sand storms!
KEvron
ER, I don't think it was just the stench of Nixon that Carter had trouble with. He was the consummate Washington outsider. He did not understand the power of the presidency and how to wield it effectively, at least not until very late in his presidency and by then it was too late. And last but not least, I think he was too "nice" a person to be really effective in Washington, too honorable. Which is a sad comment on the state of affairs in our nation's capitol.
Any comment that Carter is or ever was a traitor is truly contemptable.
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Any comment that Carter is or ever was a traitor is truly contemptable.
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