| Kelly Thomas Opinion: Jimmy Carter Is A Great Former President
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I've thought for some time that Jimmy Carter was too good to be a part of the Washington DC establishment.
Washington DC reminds me alot of the HBO series, Rome, that takes place in 52 BC when Julius Caesar was coming into his own and the society consisted of self-serving egotistical leaders whose ultimate goal was acquiring power, not serving the people. Sound Familiar? In this case, today's Washington DC and Ancient Rome could be the same place. What think?
My belief is that Jimmy Carter is a good man who simply got done in by selfish, self-serving, beltway bandits while he was President.
My brother believes that Carter's biggest mistake was in not taking immediate action to rescue the Iranian hostages. Had he done this, believes my brother, he would have won a second term. Who knows! I'm glad he didn't get reelected so he could get out of DC; he didn't belong there.
Former President Carter has spent his time since leaving office serving our country and others better than any President I've known.
On Larry King Live the other night, Carter was talking about his new book, Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. In it, he talks about how fundamentalism is effecting our society. I have not read the book but am going too.
What is very interesting to me are the vitriolic reviews the book received on Amazon. My personal belief is that most of these people have not read the book either. I would like to cuss'em out, but my real belief is that people like this are the fundamentalists President Carter talks about: the don't confuse me with facts, I have my mind made up people.
One comment from one reviewer is a hope of mine, "I bet 90% of American Christians are closer to his(Carter's)beliefs than the purported views of our current leadership." But unfortunately, I don't think this statement is true.
In my opinion, most fundamentalists don't get it. And, as Carter said on Larry King live, It really doesn't make any difference whether they are fundamentalist Christians or Muslims or Mormon, whatever: they stick to the same tenets. They have these absolute beliefs which are either black or white-no middle ground, no compromise. If someone doesn't agree with them, then those with the contradictory opinion be "damned." Whether they be Christian, Muslem, Jew, Morman ..., fundamentalists tend to
choose only parts of their text(not the entire book)-Bible, Korean, Talmud, Book of Mormon- to prove their points, to justify their positions, to prove others wrong.
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