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Jimmy Carter for Secretary of State

May 4th, 2008 at 11:04am Jon Murray

Jimmy Carter has accomplished more in a week of negotiating in the middle east than what has happened in the past seven years of double talk and posturing from the Bush administration.  Common sense, honesty, intelligence, a knowledge of history and people skills are the ingredients for successful diplomacy.  Jimmy Carter has been the recipient of a lot of criticism over the the year, but, I sure miss his presidency.

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  • 1. Don R. Gugliuzza  |  May 5th, 2008 at 8:55 am

    Jimmy Carter is a much better ex-president than he was a president. The stupidity of this administration that will only talk to it’s friends and not it’s enemies. After seven years in office, Bush must be getting pretty lonely having no friends left to talk to.
    You’re right, Carter has done more for peace in two weeks than Condi Rice and the rest of her cohorts have done in seven years. I look forward to seeing this buch of incompitents go out of office. Unfortunately, I don’t look forward to any of our choices taking over. They may not be as bad as Bush, who could be? But they’re certainly not anyone that will do what’s right for the country and its citizens. Can anyone bring Harry Truman back to life? I miss him.

  • 2. Jon Murray  |  May 5th, 2008 at 10:37 am

    Don…What qualities did you like in Truman?

  • 3. Don R. Gugliuzza  |  May 5th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    Good old Harry was an honorable man. When he and his partner went bankrupt in their haberdashery, Harry made sure that no creditor lost a nickle.
    He integrated the armed forces. Prior to his presidentcy, if you were Phillipino, you were automatically a steward’s mate (waiter). If you were Black, you worked in the boilerroom. He changed that.
    He was decisive whether it came to his country or his family. He made the decision to use the atom bombs on Japan. It was estimated that we would have lost a million men if we had to invade Japan. His choice was having us lose the men or our enemy. In his mind, there was no doubt who it should be
    Every four years or so, when historians get together to rank the presidents, Harry Truman climbs up a notch. I truly believe that he was our last great president.
    There’s more I could say about him, but this should suffice to show why I feel as I do about him.

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