I'll be re-registering Ind if the party keeps favouring the oligarchy.

I couldn't agree more.

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I think the photographer may have even asked Carter to move in and Carter said, "I'm fine where I am."

Let's send him out love for all his die hard dedication the IDEA of a real UNITED STATES, by the people for the people, and being a good international neighbor.

Yes! Hey that would make a great bumper sticker!

that, years ago, my wife and I worked to get Jimmy Carter elected president...

was sabotaged at every turn and ridiculed as a failed president. Bless you, President Carter. I don't share your religious faith, but you deserve Heaven, as you believe it. AND you never shoved your beliefs down our throats as so many phony devout politicians have been doing for years.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95311

Former President Carter, a longtime Sunday school teacher, is walking away from the Southern Baptists because of the church’s stance on equality for women.

In an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published today, Carter says Southern Baptist leaders reading the Bible out of context led to the adoption of increasingly “rigid” views.

“I’m familiar with the verses they have quoted about wives being subjugated to their husbands,” he told the paper. “In my opinion, this is a distortion of the meaning of Scripture. … I personally feel the Bible says all people are equal in the eyes of God. I personally feel that women should play an absolutely equal role in service of Christ in the church.”

Southern Baptists are the United States’ largest Protestant denomination, with 15.9 million members.

this is what the US has become....

Just a word to those in the neoliberal camp contemplating doing just that . . .
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[font size="5"color="red"]NOTICE[/font]
[font size="3" color="blue"]An Oligarchy cannot be a Democracy[/font]
Just because the authorities allow elections doesn't mean it's a democracy,
especially if they're the ones doing the all the nominating
Just because because your people win and enact a raise the minimum wage and a ban on fracking
doesn't make it a democracy, especially not when the authorities can
appeal to a panel of unelected corporate shysters and order taxpayers to cough up
fines payable to injured corporations for unrealized "expected" profits
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I have no problem with capitalism, but what we have in 21st-century America isn't capitalism, it's Financial Feudalism.

It's just fraud.

They're taking way more than they contribute to society (which in most cases is near absolute zero).

Coming from a moderate Republican family, who voted for Nixon (BTW more progressive than Obama). Jimmy Carter is a national treasure. He always spoke from the heart.

puppets of these billionaires that own our government.

They are supporting candidates who are hell bent on doing things that are against those supporters interests.

and since I don't get the paper I did not have a heads up on it, and the local TV media said zilch about it. I read in Sunday's paper that over 1,000 people (!) lined up to have him sign and shake his hand. He also had people with special needs come to the start of the line. Bless that man!!!

Corporate media and all.

Thanks for the thread, BeanMusical.

great pressure or stress and there's no room for lies.

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Of course it can also be argued that Jimmy takes the virtuous elements of his faith seriously and it's not just for show.

Probably a combination of the two.

nuclear submarine,
nuclear submarine

Sorry, you gave me that earworm and I couldn't help posting it.

But, that is a clever post.

Here's the thing: on my very first political message board, circa 2005, I posted something like, "Maybe Carter was not a rocket scientist, but he was far from stupid." Whereupon, a fellow Democrat corrected me with the nuclear submarine info.

Thank you for the anecdote.

America is an imperfect democracy but not among those other ones. Jimmy Carter ought to show some respect for the country he once led instead of attention mongering.