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Comments on: The More Things Change… https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/07/13/the-more-things-change/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:42:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/07/13/the-more-things-change/comment-page-1/#comment-46907 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:42:25 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=10059#comment-46907 I saw Eisenhower during his visit to Germany when I was in middle school, from the sidewalk when he drove by.

Jerry Ford when he was still in Congress and I was stationed outside of DC. I forget the details, but it was in a store in the suburbs.

Clinton came to Eglin a couple of times, but I was too far away to recognize him, until someone said that’s who it was on the flight line. I was attending classes on the base at the time.

The Shrubbery drove by in a bus a block away.

Carter has been down a couple of times for Habitat events, before and after Katrina, but he was hammering, not talking.

Can’t say I ever heard any of them giving a speech live.

Carter understood the problems and developed solutions, but everyone was looking for an easy out. If we had stayed with his energy program we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in over imported oil and the global warming wouldn’t be as bad.

People didn’t want to sacrifice anything, and we are paying the price.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/07/13/the-more-things-change/comment-page-1/#comment-46905 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:06:27 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=10059#comment-46905 I’ve often said that Carter is the best human being of our time to have lost the presidency. As to his ability to be uninteresting in his prose, suffice it to say that I’ve read about half of his novel, and I doubt I’ll finish it…

It may turn out that Reagan’s election was the beginning of the end for our nation; I am not sure. It certainly was the beginning of the opportunity for the neocons to start swinging the wrecking ball.

(Aside: Carter is the only president I’ve ever seen speak live, in Houston’s Hermann Park in 1980. Earlier, I saw LBJ debark from a helicopter almost a mile from me on the Rice U. campus, but I don’t think that counts.)
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