January 28, 2006 at 20:56:46

Jimmy Carter: the Anti-Bush

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Jimmy Carter's God has given him a higher calling:

� �I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith.... [M]y faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.

� �War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.� --Jimmy Carter, Nobel Lecture, 12/10/02

� �My concept of human rights has grown to include not only the rights to live in peace, but also to adequate healthcare, shelter, food, and to economic opportunity. I hope this award reflects a universal acceptance and even embrace of this broad-based concept.� --Jimmy Carter, statement on the Carter Center's website

Bush's faith inspires his �compassionate conservatism�, which comes across as a fantasy to the millions of Americans who are being left out in this latest version of �trickle-down economics�. In his book, Carter quotes a Christian friend, telling him that �the new economic philosophy in Washington is that a rising tide raises all yachts� (p. 4). Bush's base probably finds this little quip amusing, but Hurricane Katrina showed us that some people don't have yachts; and when the water rises too fast, they drown and/or lose their homes. That is their reality.

As a young man, Jimmy Carter was deeply influenced by a sermon called, �If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?� Now, with a lifetime of evidence presented, I think Jimmy Carter will be convicted of being a Christian in the first degree, and I bet The Judge will sentence him to life.

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Mick Youther is an American citizen, an independent voter, a veteran, a parent, a Christian, a scientist, a writer, and all-around nice guy who has been aroused from a comfortable apathy by the high crimes and misdemeanors of the Bush Administration.

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