Tag: Jimmy Carter
Why 2012’s presidential election shouldn’t be compared to 1980
As James Hohmann writes for Politico, any comparisons between Republican Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign and the successful 1980 presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan may appear to be apt superficially, but might not stand up under closer scrutiny. A handsome former governor faced a vulnerable incumbent, a weak economy and…
Topic of the Week: Global war on drugs
In an op-ed appearing in the Washington Post on Thursday, former President Jimmy Carter called for an end to the global war on drugs. In a message to Congress in 1977, then-President Carter said the country should decriminalize the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, with a full…
Republican rhetoric on our national debt doesn’t match their history
From Harry S.Truman to Jimmy Carter, every U.S. president – Republican and Democrat – steadily paid down the debt our nation incurred during our fight against Germany, Japan, and the rest of the Axis powers in World War II, but that pattern came to an end during the presidency of…
An “extraordinary gathering”
President-elect Barack Obama may have called Wednesday’s gathering of the three living ex-presidents, the current president, and the future president an “extraordinary event,” but I call it a full house – Democrats over Republicans.
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