and wise patriots.

and why?

They just don't have an interest in politics... most of them...


In fact one of truly great ones, is from Minnesota.. look what happened to him.....

public office. That may sum up what ails our country, but I would still advise them to go another career direction.

Walter Cronkite would have had his ass kicked off the air by the corporatists of today. There is no integrity, no ethics, nothing but "where's my paycheck coming from."

Murdoch, Clearchannel, Disney, Comcast. All purveyors of alt-news and ads.

Good night, America.

and stamps and envelopes.

"Social Media" ruined everything. No one wants to think, to consider, to ponder. Shooting from the hips whether the items are true or not.

Include 24-hr cable where they feel they have to fill time with endless chattering. I got more news when I read the tape below the screen.

(Yes, I know. I am a dinosaur...)

How much we need them now!

Thanks for your service to this country!

Saw Jimmy Carter debate Gerald Ford at college, meeting the Pres. years later at a book signing event was memorable.

Oh could we use them right now

My wife (the erstwhile conservative Republican, and since the rise of Trump, an outspoken Democrat) and I were watching From The Earth To The Moon a number of years ago, long before she did a hard turn to the left.

We were caught up in the second episode, about the fire in Apollo 1 and the subsequent government investigation. Then-Senator Walter Mondale (portrayed by John Slattery) cited the tragic deaths of the three Apollo astronauts as a reason to shut down the Apollo program and use the billions saved to fund benefit programs for the American people.

Mrs. Aristus, who had never been an especially fervent admirer of the American space program, agreed that it seemed to be a waste of money, and that tax-payer dollars should be spent on things like education, infrastructure, etc.

I looked at her and told her: "You're agreeing with a liberal. That's good for you!"

She wasn't especially amused at the time...

It was due to an oil embargo and other economic factors that had nothing to do with Carter's policies. If he had been re-elected in 1980, it would have passed, as economic cycles do, and we would have moved on without the crushing debt that Reagan's tax cuts initiated.

...because of "an appearance of conflict of interest." When he left office, he had to completely rebuild his family's income-producing peanut farm.

Deplorable bastards.

They did so many dirty and illegal things to keep him from his second term.

My family had long been personal friends with two generations of the "Minnesota Democratic Mafia."

When Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of NYC kicked my grandmother off his team as labor liason (she was TOO friendly with labor for Hizzoner's tastes), she got involved with fundraising for the Senatorial campaign of the Mayor of Minneapolis. Her husband, my paternal grandfather, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, but she was a born-and-bred Noo-Yawkah. The Minneapolis mayor's name was Hubert Humphrey. That campaign was successful, and HHH subsequently introduced us to his protégé, Fritz Mondale. Even the (then-) youngsters of our family called him "Fritz."

By the way, happy new year to you and yours.

That plus a few coincidences that landed in my lap through no doing of my own. Still, they do add up to an interesting collection. And by the time I met Franken and Klobuchar it was because I was ME and not because of some generation before me.

With integrity.

Much of my family volunteered for Mondale's DNC convention in SF '84.
I was a lowly runner but that meant I ended up going everywhere - it was rather amazing.

Jimmy Carter is the only president whose hand I shook. Good men, both of them!

I was officially legal to vote in 1980 and guess who I voted for!? My grandmom was invited to the inauguration in 76 (I have Dem DNA). My Italian ancestors have been Dem since they came here at the turn of the century. Some were going to come over to join them on The Titanic but an illness prevented that from happening, thank goodness. My family votes staight Dem on every ballot ever since! Proud of it!

for the greedy mouthbreathers.

Into his 90s and still so active, productive, and just generally awesome.