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Finally someone with guts [message #42571]

Sun, 20 May 2007 09:19

Roger

Really getting into it

Location: USA
Registered: February 2007
Messages: 522

http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/former-president-carter-blasts-bush/20070519164509990001

Former president Carter was never outspoken, but this time he hit the head on the nail and told it like it is.

If you stand for Freedom, but you wont stand for war, then you dont stand for anything worth fighting for.

Re: Finally someone with guts [message #42576 is a reply to message #42571]

Sun, 20 May 2007 15:53

kupuna

Really getting into it

Location: Norway
Registered: February 2005
Messages: 510

Roger,

It's fun to see how much energy that old man still has.

Carter seems to reiterate what he has already said, and he harvests criticism from exactly the corners you'd expect. Your standpoint is obvious Smile

, but how many other Americans listen to him? Is he outdated or is the propaganda from Fox News and the Republican Party strong enough to shoot down whatever he says?

Or are people so so tired of the present administration that they are looking for alternatives?

[Updated on: Sun, 20 May 2007 18:28]

Re: Finally someone with guts [message #42586 is a reply to message #42576]

Mon, 21 May 2007 01:51

Roger

Really getting into it

Location: USA
Registered: February 2007
Messages: 522

I think Carter is saying what a lot of people want to say. Carter was a gentle president and a lot of people liked him. This is unheard of. a retired president critisizing the current president. Bush has been steadily loosing points on the popularity scale. The republicans are in deep poo. They know everything has backfired on them. Carter just put in words what most people are thinking.

If you stand for Freedom, but you wont stand for war, then you dont stand for anything worth fighting for.

Re: Finally someone with guts [message #42587 is a reply to message #42586]

Mon, 21 May 2007 03:34

JFR

On fire!

Location: Israel
Registered: October 2004
Messages: 1367

Roger wrote:

The republicans are in deep poo. They know everything has backfired on them.

Roger, I am not an American and I know little about American politics. But I can't imagine that American politics are very different from what one can see in any 'representative democracy'. It doesn't matter how terrible a government/administration/party has been: it takes just one 'knight in shining armour' and the people will fall for him/her. It seems to me that both H. Clinton and R. Giuliani have all that is necessary to be a 'knight in shining armour'. Take heed, take care.

PS to all Britons: I don't think that Gordon Brown has what it takes to be a 'knight in shining armour', so he might just be an effective PM.

PPS. Israel has the most inept, ineffective and incompetent PM of them all. Any takers? Please. Pretty please. Going for less than free!

J F R

The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)

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