President Jimmy Carter: "White House Diary"
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-11-30/president-jimmy-carter-white-house-diary
Former President Jimmy Carter talks about America's role in the world today, the challenges facing the Obama administration, and insights from the detailed diary he kept during his White House years.
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President Jimmy Carter
39th President of the United States, recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, founder of the Carter Center, and bestselling author.
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Thank you President Carter!
Is a two-state solution possible -- East Jerusalem, right of return, settlements, etc.?
What alternatives are there to the two-state scenario -- a single Jewish state or a secular state or a catastrophic war? What would be the imact of a single secular state on the Middle East?
How refreshing to hear President Carter's thoughts especially on Afghanistan and the issue of civil rights for all people. It has been a blessing to the start of my day.
Louis Hill
Dallas, Texas
President Carter. I was so looking forward to meeting you in Durham, NC in October.
Unfortunately, when you fell ill in Cleveland, your schedule did not allow you to visit.
I was hoping for the opportunity to tell you face-to-face what a wonderful humanitarian
I think you are. I admire your strength and convictions, especially in regard to the Palestinian
issue. I admire you very much and am grateful to you for you continued efforts at peace
and free and fair elections in other countries.
Regards and respect,
Wendy Cartwright
President Carter is a fine old man who has shown more courage post-office than as President. Today he illustrates how one can be honest without being candid. It was what he elected not to say that was most important.
He obeys too many outdated rules.
1.Write polite books to raise money for your library.
2.Pretend political parties still matter.
3.Give false hope the American people will receive justice from the Oligarchy.
4.Deny that Capitalism is incompatible with equitable prosperity and democracy.
5.Testify that God is watching, and not looking away in disgust.
The agreed fact that the same unsolved issues remain on the table thirty years later seems to confirm the rules above are paramount for "elder statesmen." (Maybe elite pseudo-benevolent self-deceivers would be more descriptive.)
dear Mr. President, i loved your energy policy and think you were a great pres, but will have to call you out on your comments regarding how you view gay "rights" in light of your baptist faith.
no, Jesus didn't say anything about gay sex but that doesn't mean he condoned it. he never condoned sin. by that reasoning, He didn't say anything about child pornography either, does that mean He would look the other way on that as well?
i don't see how you can dismiss the Old Testament regarding this issue. Although i agree with you it probably isn't a mortal sin, i don't think Christians should support sin, mortal or not.
i also don't agree with you about republicans withdrawing support for public radio/telly because they want everyone to watch fox news. NPR is notorious in the sublety of their liberal bias with reporting on social issues. DR is no exception.
again, i think you were a great pres. thanks.
I think president Carter is the best US president ever. But I always wondered about the view that abortion is allowable in cases of rape and incest. What did the unborn child ever do wrong in such cases? I myself am an advocate of the woman's right to choose, but emotionally, I do get the view of people who are against all abortion. I simply do not understand pro-lifers who make the rape and incest exception.
I used to think president Jimmy Carter was an honest, good man but a weak president. That's the most common rap on him. I don't think so any more. I think he is vindictive and sanctimonious and just plain ... well fill in the blanks because I don't want to violate any codes of conduct. For instance, today on the show, he referred to the 2000 election and declared Al Gore the winner. Only partisan politics on the supreme court of the U.S. caused it to turn out otherwise. I don't know if he read the reports that were issued by the New York times and the Washington Post after the election fever had died down. They couldn't declare either way and I believe they counted every vote they possibly could. They spent a lot of $ on it. They ain't Fox News. But Jimmy flippantly declares it a bogus decision. As long as we forget the little things like Al Gore declaring Saddam Hussein the greatest security threat facing the United States during the 2000 election debates we might tend to think of Jimmy as an honest man. He isn't.
President Carter is willing to accept James Bakers public lies about him very casually in the name of politics as usual and asserts it had nothing to do with their close friendship. However these comments were broadcast to citizens and contributed to disinformation. This is no different from the lies and disinformation he decries on Fox news. Mr. Carters ability to accept this hypocrisy in his own actions is the same ethical flaw that enables him to overlook the fact that the Palestinian Charter states it's express intention is the destruction of the State of Israel and that the Palestinians continue to land missiles inside the State of Israel, when he chooses to blame Israel for the lack of peace with the Palestinians. This is not a hardening on the part of the Jewish community; but a recognition that the religious prejudice and underlying hatred that caused the entire world to ignore the Nazi murders is still alive and well in Jimmy Carter and others of his ilk.
I enjoyed your discussion with President Carter this morning. I was disappointed, however, when you asked about the media, and he only criticized FOX News as being biased, and not MSNBC. And you failed to bring up the biasness of the MSNBC reporters. I almost thought you were going to be "objective"; but, alas, I was wrong.
I have admired President Carter for a long time, but I am mystified by his appreciation of George H. W. Bush. This is the man who nominated Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. There is no excuse for a president to nominate a man who is so unqualified to the Supreme Court.