In hindsight, Carter gets his due (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Symposium highlights 'raw list of things he got done as president'

By TOM BAXTER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 01/20/07

Athens — Former Vice President Walter Mondale recalled Friday that when he came home after he and President Jimmy Carter lost their 1980 bid for re-election, someone asked him "what on earth you have to be proud of" after a one-term administration generally considered to be a failure.

"I answered, 'Well, we told the truth, we obeyed the law and we kept the peace.' And it didn't sound like much at the time," Mondale told an audience of scholars, students and former Carter administration officials attending a University of Georgia symposium on Carter's presidency ...

Carter ... called the prison for terror suspects at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "an abomination and a disgrace to our country," and said it should be shut down.

He also criticized the Bush administration for its failure to win approval of more stringent fuel standards for automobiles and its lack of progress in advancing Middle East peace talks ... <C-SPAN will cover>

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/01/19/0120natcarter.html

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1. Two Americans who loved America and governed accordingly.

"we told the truth, we obeyed the law and we kept the peace."

Those were the days, my friend, those were the days.

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2. I know ... right? The big tragedy is that what once was normal is now heroic and yearned for... n/t

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3. and add this:

Carter ... called the prison for terror suspects at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "an abomination and a disgrace to our country," and said it should be shut down.

Who else has the guts to say this?