katysails wrote:
You obviously don't remember Jimmy Carter....the puppet Presidnet....


???
I do remember Carter as President (in fact it doesn't seem
that long ago). Whose puppet was he?

What I recall of President Carter's political maneuvering is
that he consistently tried to do what would be best in the
long run, and as a result consistently alienated just about
everybody. His whole philosophy was the President should not
work for the benefit of special interest groups.

Sounds great in theory, didn't work so well in practice
(partly, I think, because of Carter's personality).


Criminal negligance on the part of the Silent, Boomer, and post Boomer
generations, namely most of the people born from 1925 to the early
80's. Never have there been so many Americans with their collective
heads up their collective asses.


I disagree with that entirely...those people you speak of are
responsible for the civil rights movement, great scientific gains, and
overall progress....


I think he meant now, not then.

DSK

DSK wrote:
katysails wrote:

You obviously don't remember Jimmy Carter....the puppet Presidnet....


???
I do remember Carter as President (in fact it doesn't seem that long
ago). Whose puppet was he?

What I recall of President Carter's political maneuvering is that he
consistently tried to do what would be best in the long run, and as a
result consistently alienated just about everybody. His whole philosophy
was the President should not work for the benefit of special interest
groups.

Sounds great in theory, didn't work so well in practice (partly, I
think, because of Carter's personality).


Criminal negligance on the part of the Silent, Boomer, and post Boomer
generations, namely most of the people born from 1925 to the early
80's. Never have there been so many Americans with their collective
heads up their collective asses.



I disagree with that entirely...those people you speak of are
responsible for the civil rights movement, great scientific gains, and
overall progress....


I think he meant now, not then.

DSK

His cabinet ....which he ahd to replace...over and over again...ok,
so he was a poor choice of character, but he kept making the same
mistake...I'll retract the puppet and replace it with naive...

about President Carter

katysails wrote:
His cabinet ....which he ahd to replace...over and over again...ok, so
he was a poor choice of character, but he kept making the same
mistake...I'll retract the puppet and replace it with naive...

I'd agree with that.

Partly being naive and partly his idealistic convictions.

It's great for people to be idealistic, don't get me wrong.
But it's a bummer to be consistently sideswiped by
do-gooders... and I think the whole country go tired of it.

DSK

Me too.. and I'm a liberal.

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about President Carter

katysails wrote:
His cabinet ....which he ahd to replace...over and over again...ok, so he
was a poor choice of character, but he kept making the same
mistake...I'll retract the puppet and replace it with naive...

I'd agree with that.

Partly being naive and partly his idealistic convictions.

It's great for people to be idealistic, don't get me wrong. But it's a
bummer to be consistently sideswiped by do-gooders... and I think the
whole country go tired of it.

DSK

On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:28:09 -0500, DSK wrote:

katysails wrote:
You obviously don't remember Jimmy Carter....the puppet Presidnet....


???
I do remember Carter as President (in fact it doesn't seem
that long ago). Whose puppet was he?

What I recall of President Carter's political maneuvering is
that he consistently tried to do what would be best in the
long run, ........

I agree with that statement. I don't remember if it was Powell or
Schwartztcoph who when asked about who was mostly responsible for the
effectiveness of the weapon systems during Desert Storm said that
Jimmy Carter hated war so much he wanted them, when necessary, to be
quick with minimal loss of life. So he approved and proposed many of
the smart weapon systems research projects.

While I don't always agree with his positions today, I do admire him
as the most active and involved ex president ever.

Frank



DSK