Carter: This Isn't the Real America

[MissMillie]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=23635&mode=nested&order=0



IN RECENT YEARS, I have become increasingly concerned by a host of radical government policies that now threaten many basic principles espoused by all previous administrations, Democratic and Republican.

These include the rudimentary American commitment to peace, economic and social justice, civil liberties, our environment and human rights.

Also endangered are our historic commitments to providing citizens with truthful information, treating dissenting voices and beliefs with respect, state and local autonomy and fiscal responsibility.

[tecelote]

1. Carter was the last President to really care about the People.

It's been about corporate profits ever since.

[MissMillie]

2. sorry for the dupe

I've already asked for this to be deleted.

[kiraboo]

3. I just started reading his book this evening.

It's an easy read - not particularly intellectual - but makes some excellent observations, including the discrepancy in values and practices between the fundamentalist christo-facists trying to manipulate our government, and the more traditional evangelical christians like Jimmy Carter himself.