NOW WE KNOW – AT 7:44 P.M. ET:  I've been worrying about this recently.  What kind of country are we?  What progress have we made?  Now we have the answers, from the definitive source.  No arguments after this:

America is no better off now than it was in the late 1970s and early 1980s, says former President Jimmy Carter. From national politics to relationships with other nations, there is a lot of room for improvement.

"We had almost complete harmony with every nation on Earth," the Nobel Peace Prize winner said of his administration. "We not only preserved peace for our country, we never went to war. We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a missile."

What an arrogant, pompous jerk.  He makes Obama look like Mr. Humility.  Our "almost complete harmony" included Iran taking American hostages and the USSR invading Afghanistan.  Other than that, things were ducky.

While the above issues may be similar, today's American political scene is vastly different. Carter says he had wonderful bipartisan cooperation, with Democrats and Republicans in both the House and the Senate supporting him.

That doesn't exist now.

Oh please.  There was such bipartisanship that the Republicans, in the person of a certain Mr. Reagan, threw him out of office. 

Among the proudest moments of his tenure was when he got two-thirds of the U.S. Senate to vote for the Panama Canal treaties, which guaranteed that Panama would gain control of the Panama Canal in 2000 — the United States had exercised control of the canal since 1903.

Easy to give things away.  Carter could have been elected president of Panama.  It was here that he had his problems.

I don't recommend this article.  You've suffered enough.

October 25, 2010