Text 25377, 90 rader
Skriven 2006-11-21 18:31:35 av Mimi Gallandt (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 25376 av Stan Hardegree (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Analysis
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Stan Hardegree -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 MG>> Can you believe that he "thinks" that because Kissinger said we've lost
 MG>> the Iraqi war that (in George's "mind") we've lost the Iraqi war.
 MG>> Apparently George is unfamiliar that frequently former politicos
 SH> rant on
 MG>> cluelessly on any and every subject. Here's an example of Jimmy Carter
 MG>> doing just that:
 MG>> ===========
 MG>> Carter's book a distorted view of Israel

 SH> Carter's anti-Semitism is well documented.  I recall him dragging that
 SH> greasy little Jew-killing terrorist Yasser Arafat all over the United
 SH> States, including Georgia, several years ago.  I don't remember what the
 SH> two
 SH> creeps were doing as they traveled the country, but I recall with clarity
 SH> Goober introducing Arafat as his friend wherever they went.

 SH> Less known about Carter was the racist nature of his campaign for Georgia
 SH> governor in 1970.  Now, racist/segregationist campaigns here were not
 SH> unusual here at the time, but Carter was supposed to be a new school
 SH> Southern democrat, a social liberal and political antithesis of Lester
 SH> Maddox.

 SH> During the summer of the 1970 campaign, civil rights and religious leaders
 SH> from all over the Georgia met in Macon for a conference, lead by Hosea
 SH> Williams, an old friend of MLK, Jr.  While the conference was going on,
 SH> candidate Carter called Hosea and asked him to come to Atlanta for a
 SH> meeting.  During the meeting, Carter promised that if Hosea would go
 SH> back to
 SH> Macon and endorse him for governor, he would appoint blacks to state
 SH> judgeships, to seats on the state Board of Pardons and Paroles and to
 SH> leadership positions in the Georgia State Patrol.  Hosea, in good faith,
 SH> returned to Macon and in endorsing Carter personally, told the conference
 SH> what Carter offered if blacks would turn out and vote for him.  The
 SH> conference adjourned by endorsing Carter for governor.

 SH> The night Carter was elected (with overwhelming black support), Hosea
 SH> traveled to his campaign offices in Atlanta to present the governor elect
 SH> with list of possible black candidates for the positions Carter promised.
 SH> Not only did Carter have no intention of keeping his promise, he refused
to
 SH> meet Hosea at all, instead sending his attorney to say, "Hosea, you know
 SH> Jimmy can't appoint these people."  He dismissed Hosea as if he were some
 SH> uppity field hand asking for better working conditions.

 SH> Hosea Williams was a good man - a fearless man, but trusting Carter hurt
 SH> him
 SH> in the eyes of other civil rights leaders and black church members.  They
 SH> felt betrayed by both men and regarded Hosea to be a fool for trusting
 SH> Carter.  It took Hosea more than 10 years to regain his reputation after
 SH> that debacle, and he had an unlikely ally to assist him.

 SH> During the 1980 presidential campaign, candidate Ronald Reagan called
Hosey
 SH> and asked if they could meet in Detroit to discuss the upcoming election.
 SH> Hosea agreed and flew to Michigan and to Reagan's hotel room in Detroit.
 SH> Reagan told Hosea, "If you go back to Georgia and endorse me, I will make
 SH> Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday if I am elected
 SH> president."
 SH> Once bitten twice shy, Hosea balked at the offer.  At first.  After more
 SH> than an hour of haggling, Reagan convinced Hosea that he was sincere, so
 SH> Hosea flew back to Atlanta and - to the astonishment of the civil rights
 SH> community - endorsed Ronald Reagan for president on the basis of his
 SH> promise
 SH> of a King holiday.

 SH> The King holiday bill met with a great deal of congressional opposition,
 SH> but
 SH> on the strength of presidential support and urging, it passed.  Reagan
 SH> signed the bill into law in November 1983.

 SH> During one of the last interviews before he died, Hosey told historian Mel
 SH> Steely, "Only two politicians never told me lie, Lester Maddox and Ronald
 SH> Reagan."

That really sucks. He certainly seems to have fooled some of the people some of
the time...  :(

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