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ATLANTA Former President Jimmy Carter offered a damning indictment of U.S. foreign policy and domestic affairs Tuesday, saying money in politics makes the nation more like an oligarchy than a democracy and casting President Donald Trump as a disappointment on the world stage.
Carters criticisms, offered at his annual presentation to backers of his post-presidency Carter Center in Atlanta, went beyond Trump, but he was particularly critical of the nations direction under the Republican presidents leadership.
The 39th president, a Democrat, offered this advice to the 45th: Keep the peace, promote human rights and tell the truth.
Carter, 92, did not mention explicitly Trumps threatening exchanges this summer with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, but the former president said the U.S. should engage directly with the insular leader and discuss a peace treaty to replace the cease fire that ended the Korean War in 1953.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/jimmy-carter-calls-trump-peace-truth-article-1.3492439?utm_content=buffere5aae&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts). . . to describe Democratic or foreign wealthy people . . .
But the Sheldon Adelsons, Donald Trumps and Rex Tillersons of the world are "leaders", "job creators", "Captains of Industry" or other such buuuulshit . . .
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)But it's tRump.
BigmanPigman
(51,642 posts)unblock
(52,387 posts)But give Donnie a full term, and yeah....
tanyev
(42,636 posts)Anything that criticizes him or makes him look bad has to be a lie.
ProfessorGAC
(65,248 posts)It's whatever "it" thinks. That simple. If "it" thinks it, "it" believes it is true.
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)malaise
(269,219 posts)Rec
He "walks the walk" and is fearless. His only naïveté was believing his domestic opponents wouldn't cut deals with America's enemies. A great president, a great human being.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,364 posts)once you hit them, you have to hit them harder the next time and the next time and ....
calimary
(81,527 posts)Remember when he said "I will never lie to you" during the 1976 campaign? After we'd suffered through Nixon and Ford's pardon. And everybody went "oooh..."
bucolic_frolic
(43,364 posts)too bad he lost to corporate control
fierywoman
(7,698 posts)C Moon
(12,223 posts)IMO, Trump is a dumb version of the rich and powerful. I believe they all think just like him; the difference being they are smart enough to keep their mouths shut, and not be in the public eye (out of site, out of mindand let the rest of the U.S. believe they are living in a democracy).
niyad
(113,628 posts)DemocraticWing
(1,290 posts)Jimmy Carter figured out a long time ago we don't live in a democracy anymore. It's government by the rich, for the rich.
The elections are just a show to keep us entertained.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)argyl
(3,064 posts)I remember when he admitted to " lusting in his heart" in a Playboy interview during his Presidential campaign.
He really took a lot of teasing for his honesty.
We were a much more secular nation then.