Jimmy Carter will go down in history as the most unfortunate president ever.....
I say this in the sense that Jimmy Carter became our president between Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.... I believe that Carter was one of the best presidents we ever had who had little chance of getting anything of substance done! How else to explain the rightwing spewing of hate toward him?
Glen Beck says he is a waste of skins, Ann Coulter believes he should be tried for treason for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on the eve of the Iraq war!
Jimmy Carter was smart enough to know what We the People wanted back then, to be energy independent! He had solar panels put up on the White House, sadly, it was at a time when the Middle east was having a fit over the way American foreign policy was damaging the way those countries wanted to create itself and Reagan became the president. America has always claimed to be spreading democracy, but at the barrel of a gun, can anyone say: Iran/Contra?
If this country is to become energy independent, we need to have a leadership that is willing to go against the grain of corporate interests and invest many billions of dollars in solar, wind, hydro, and the infrastructure that exists today and some that is not even built yet!
We need to stop feeding billions to corrupt regimes in Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Pakistan and allow their people, who likely hunger for real freedom like we have here in America (except the 4th amendment of course, but thats for a different post) and to allow this country to be dependent on itself!!
The rightwing machine of course will scream that doing this will only anger those countries into wanting to attack us? Really? Since we have gone the direction that we have gone since the 1950's, we have only bred hatred of us..... perhaps a change in the opposite direction is the future of America? It seems to me that the last 60 years or so in the direction we have gone , as it pertains to foreign oil has only led to heartache, hatred, wars, and disaster....
Perhaps a 180 degree change in foreign policy is needed? I have a feeling that a large majority of this country would be all for it.... regardless of what the rightwing may say contrary about it!
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