“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.”
from the article linked above
I have been thinking and thinking about this for hours — ever since I told my mom that taku and his family should just leave now….they are in Katy which is right on the west side of Houston and now I am thinking about how I would feel in all of that mess with a 9 month old, a 3 year old in the car going nowhere fast. I am beginning to think that I did the wrong thing in encouraging them to come here…..
Let us know, Brinnaine … they must be a wreck. You too … but, they’ll surely be okay! Now I see that the Houston airport is a mess because a lot of workers didn’t show up?
Yep… would you? The screeners get paid what, $7 an hour?
Fuck the screening, just get the people on the planes and get them the fuck out…this has the possiblity to be WORSE than Katrina, they have been telling people for two days to leave, leave, leave, and people are TRYING and this is fucking mess, people are running out of gas, going 6 miles in 2 hours, this is insane — where is the PLAN??
Stupid stupid stupid fuckers.
I’m losing it, Susan, I really am.
Brinnainne,
Change what you can, and accept that, that you cannot change. Your love and passion that shows in your posts underlines that your heart and soul are in a mighty fine place. That is all that one can do. Your outrage is well placed, but when push comes to shove, acceptance is what is left. Prayers are always answered, occasionally God says no.. God is just, this is all happening for a reason…. Sad but true. Take care of yourself and loved-ones, and do what you can. Positive energy sent your way, EtJ
the energies are much appreciated — I’ll be fine…we will all be ok. I just had a little bit of a cul de sac there for a second…we are well prepared here….I just hope that my mom’s friends are ok — tried to call their cell phone just a minute ago and couldn’t reach them. All I can do is keep the door open for them if they get here….
Thanks again….
Oh honey .. want me to call?
This isn’t comforting, but i’d be just like you. I’m very upset about what this means to all those people, and to this country, and I’m nowhere near any of the danger or shortages. Yet.
Wolf Blitzer is talking to a motorist who’s very calm, although he’s been on the highway for nine hours and gone 20 miles. He has both of his Old English sheepdogs with him! He said one of the dogs got sick in the car, but they’re hanging in there…. oh….
The 2000 elections were a sad sad day for America. One of the most damning scenes in F911 covered this. NOT ONE Senator would stand up to the thugs, that now run our country.. NOT EVEN GORE. Fixed elections are a tell-tale sign that our country is basicly under the leadership of a dictator. Every day this dictatorship strenghtens. As boy bush continues to fuck things up, one wonders when his ship will sink… Some of his fellow rats have jumped ship… Even though bushs’ ship, may finally sink, I am sure THEY have a seaworthy ship ready to replace gw’s. The America we know sinks further in the muck at the bottom of the sea. Some of America is waking up to bushs’ incompetence, few however see the true gravity of the situation. Like Pinnochet, like Osama, Like Saddam, boy bush may have outlasted him welcome. Will boy bush meet the same fate, and who may replace him… Boy bush looks ill, easy for them to fake some illness, or some contrived death, to place somebody with competence and charisma in power. If there is any silver lining to hurricane george, it has woken up some of America to things aren’t right. The powers-that-be need to act quickly to replace this dimwit, or they may lose some of the control they have on America. Sadly the powers-that-be are crazy like a fox, unlike the fool that masquerades as our president. Keep an eye on what THEY do with bush, and how they do it. A smooth transaction to a more effective and charismatic dictator, could be the final nail in the coffin that we fondly remember as the good old US of A. Meanwhile get out in the streets.. Get to DC, get to one of the supporting events around the country. Get creative and do something in your own community… The American people are our only hope.
One can only hope that now that someone of Carter’s stature has said this we can start to chip away at the edifice of lies of the last four years, and slowly feed the antidote to the kool-aid to our countrymen/women.
This one bothers me, “”Houston-Area Evacuees Face Gas Shortages.”” The amount of gas in the area, seems so overwhelming by what you read. Huge concentration of refineries in this area. Seems like they are so prepared, yet this statement makes one wonder…. Are they really prepared for the sake of the people, or are they simply prepared to see how much they can make off of America’s suffering, once again. I am amazed after a huge rock concert, that a parking lot of 10’s of thousands can be quickly emptied in orderly fashion. Yet in a life and death situation, chaos is what the powers-that-be, bring to the table. They have days to evacuate the city, maybe they are too busy counting the money that this disaster could bring to their pocketbooks. Becoming way too cynical, or possibly not cynical enough. Soooooo confused, time to catch up some work, then head out for time in my gardens. Seems like the Indians wisely said, NOTHING is an accident. Food for thought, EtJ
The refineries are all shut down as are pipelines to major areas, such as the Midwest, said CNN just a bit ago … shortages will hit us all soon, I fear.
(Hey, fuckwad Bush … that corny conservation stuff doesn’t sound so bad now, eh?)
P.S. KUOW — NPR/Seattle — just reported that Ted Stevens’ pork projects in Alaska, like that ridiculous bridge to nowhere, may be axed to pay for Katrina/Rita.
I know he has been much maligned but Carter is my favorite president during my lifetime. He was the first president that I voted for who actually won. He was incredibly intelligent, genuinely kind and compassionate and he told the American public truths they didn’t want to hear — like our need to conserve and change our lifestyles and take the lead for global human rights thru diplomacy. So he got defeated by a blown-dried, red-dyed, charismatic phony who was a front-man for the oil/military-industrial complex/corporatists. It’s all been downhill for democracy ever since. I wish he wasn’t so old and could run for president again. I trust him and I can’t say that about any other politico. <sigh>