Monday, October 02, 2006

Works and Days: America and its Discontents

Works and Days: America and its Discontents: "Jimmy Carter, the subject of the last blog, almost immediately was back in the news claiming that the United States was one of the world�s great abusers of civil rights (I wonder how our internecine body count in Plains, Georgia stacks up with that in Rwanda, Kosovo, or Dafur?). He adds that all Presidents�except the current one�have been supporters of human rights.
In his dotage, Carter is proving once again that he is as malicious and mean-spirited a public figure as he is historically ignorant. And for all his sanctimonious Christian veneer, and fly-fishing, �aw shucks blue-jeans image, he can�t hide an essentially ungracious and unkind soul. "

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