Jimmy Carter Calls on Congress to Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

[innerSpaceman]

I'll take that from you, JW ... but, if I'm not mistaken, scaeagles was barely a teen during the Carter administration. Historical revisionism hindsight being so much greater than 20/20.

[Alex]

I don't think Carter was a bad president, just an ineffective one. (No, I didn't really experience first hand but did one pay $1,000 for the privilege of studying it.)

In terms of natural resources regulation he was generally full of very good ideas and just didn't have the political acument or power to follow through on them and then worsening political and economic crises forced him to throw those ideas under the bus for short term wins that were more politically necessary.

But for a very short window in 1977 and 1978 there was actually a chance that the president was going to stand up to the BLM and Army Corps of Engineers and rationalize our very broken water resource management and land use regulations. But the window closed and hasn't come close to reopening.

[€uroMeinke]

Is that John Lennon?

[Tramspotter]

kein heir Chris, (quit looking in the background) aber Blickende bei, welcher Firma er ist.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

A bookstore? Color me confused once again...

[Scrooge McSam]

I think we're supposed to conclude that a picture in close proximity to another picture in a store window denotes some kind of connection.

[Strangler Lewis]

I think we're supposed to conclude that a Jewish group is not surprised to see an Arab bookstore grouping a Jimmy Carter book with Mein Kampf. I am not surprised that such a group is thus not surprised.

[wendybeth]

I think Tram has just committed a pictorial Godwinism.

[SacTown Chronic]

I think we're supposed to conclude that both Jimmy Carter and Adolf Hitler committed adultery and/or genocide in their hearts many times.

[Tramspotter]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

I think Tram has just committed a pictorial Godwinism.

I assumed Godwins law is null and void around here, as you in particularly are complicit in far too many Bush=Hittler hyperbolistc indulgances for me to count.

This is not a random book display but a best seller section. (that is all)

To answer EM's humerous derail bait, I don't care to discuss what F-ing red herring hippy icon he might or might not see in the background shelf.

If you think that carter is just an anti-zionist not an anti-semite then fine. If you wish to defend him or his views then fine.


The comparison probably goes too far for some comfort zones becaue if your all bent about it then you probably are either: 1.) A moral relativist or 2.) confused on the issue behind the dig on Carter being a useful idiot champion for a completely manufactured group of disenfranchised people.