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Jimmy Carter courageusly goes against his Democratic brethren on numerous subjects
thoughts?
Well I went straight to the source (NY Times) given in your link,so I could read a less filtered account of the Carter interview. I think the most important thing Carter said is this:
“I’m afraid, too, of a situation,” he [Carter] said. “I don’t know what they’ll do. Because they want to save their regime. And we greatly overestimate China’s influence on North Korea. Particularly to Kim Jong-un. He’s never, so far as I know, been to China.” (Who knows if he made a surreptitious trip.) Carter continued, “And they have no relationship. Kim Jong-il did go to China and was very close to them.”
He [Carter] said that the “unpredictable” Kim Jong-un makes him more nervous than his father, Kim Jong-il, and that if the young leader thinks Trump will act against him, he could do something pre-emptive. “I think he’s now got advanced nuclear weaponry that can destroy the Korean Peninsula and Japan, and some of our outlying territories in the Pacific, maybe even our mainland,” Carter explained.
Obviously, Carter is as upset as everyone else by the childish manner in which Trump has been indulging in an exchange of name calling and saber rattling with crazy man Kim Jong-un. Carter feels that diplomacy is better than escalation when it comes to a country with nukes and a nut job dictator. It's not so much that Carter longs to work for the Trump admin, but rather that he'd like a shot at preventing an exchange of nuclear attacks.
As for the rest, Carter is a genuine Christian, NOT some wild-eyed fundamentalist - he's just not going to attack his successors in some mean spirited fashion. Plus he's 93 and just had brain surgery two years ago, for Dog's sake. He hasn't been at the top of his game for some years now.
I do find it amusing that the right is now doing what they attacked the left for doing - approving the words of a president from a different party now that they are in sync with their own.
Theoretically, the left is now in love with GW Bush, you guys are now in love with Jimmy Carter.
Well I went straight to the source (NY Times) given in your link,so I could read a less filtered account of the Carter interview. I think the most important thing Carter said is this:
“I’m afraid, too, of a situation,” he [Carter] said. “I don’t know what they’ll do. Because they want to save their regime. And we greatly overestimate China’s influence on North Korea. Particularly to Kim Jong-un. He’s never, so far as I know, been to China.” (Who knows if he made a surreptitious trip.) Carter continued, “And they have no relationship. Kim Jong-il did go to China and was very close to them.”
He [Carter] said that the “unpredictable” Kim Jong-un makes him more nervous than his father, Kim Jong-il, and that if the young leader thinks Trump will act against him, he could do something pre-emptive. “I think he’s now got advanced nuclear weaponry that can destroy the Korean Peninsula and Japan, and some of our outlying territories in the Pacific, maybe even our mainland,” Carter explained.
Obviously, Carter is as upset as everyone else by the childish manner in which Trump has been indulging in an exchange of name calling and saber rattling with crazy man Kim Jong-un. Carter feels that diplomacy is better than escalation when it comes to a country with nukes and a nut job dictator. It's not so much that Carter longs to work for the Trump admin, but rather that he'd like a shot at preventing an exchange of nuclear attacks.
As for the rest, Carter is a genuine Christian, NOT some wild-eyed fundamentalist - he's just not going to attack his successors in some mean spirited fashion. Plus he's 93 and just had brain surgery two years ago, for Dog's sake. He hasn't been at the top of his game for some years now.
I do find it amusing that the right is now doing what they attacked the left for doing - approving the words of a president from a different party now that they are in sync with their own.
Theoretically, the left is now in love with GW Bush, you guys are now in love with Jimmy Carter.
We live in strange times.
Yeah you have to be a senile old man to think Dems crying about the election being stolen by Russia is ridiculousness
I’ve met the President on 2 occasions and he is an admirable and honorable man. That being said I do agree with some of what he said. However I disagree with his opinion on Obama and his promises. When he made them he didn’t know that he would run up against a virulent opposition that was against everything he tried to do and who put power above country.
Trump would have won the election regardless, but that doesn't mean Trump's campaign didn't collude with Russians to influence the election. It's pretty clear that Russia attempted to influence our election, whether they were successful or not doesn't excuse it.
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