“Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter delivered a shocker at an American University panel in Washington Monday … he told the crowd he was certain Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election,” reports Raw Story. (AUDIO)
There is “no doubt in my mind that Gore won the election,” the erstwhile President declared, saying the 2000 election process “failed abysmally.”
He also snubbed the Supreme Court for getting involved, saying it was “highly partisan.”
In the [Q&A after] his talk intended to discuss the Baker-Carter commission report on election reform, he also savaged President Bush’s handling of FEMA in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
When I founded FEMA “we put it together with three specific commitments,” Carter remarked. “One, that it would be led [by] highly trained professionals in dealing with disasters. Secondly, that it would be completely independent and not under another agency that would submerge it. And third, that it would be adequately funded.”
[Carter] said the key reason for creating the agency was to respond to governors who asked for a consolidation of the 16 bureaucracies previously responsible … he hoped that the changes he ordered would have remained permanent. … Read all.
Carter’s history of FEMA is a great aid to understanding the real purpose of the agency. And, have you seen the reports about the hopeless traffic mess near Houston? “Houston-Area Evacuees Face Gas Shortages.”