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Jimmy Carter Released From Cleveland Hospital
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyFormer President Jimmy Carter, recovering from an apparent viral infection, was released Thursday from a Cleveland hospital, where he was taken after becoming ill on a flight to the city earlier this week. Carter, bound for Cleveland for a book-signing event on Tuesday, suffered an upset stomach aboard a Delta flight and was rushed from the airport to the MetroHealth Medical Center. Officials told The Plain Dealer on Thursday that he is recovering from the infection and would be discharged. Carter was in the midst of a national tour for his new book, "White House Diary," when he took ill. He ...
Jimmy Carter Hospitalized Briefly; Release Expected Wednesday
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyFormer President Jimmy Carter will stay overnight Tuesday at Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center after he took ill on a Delta flight headed to the lakefront city. Carter apparently suffered an upset stomach during the flight. Carter, who turns 86 on Oct. 1, was going to Cleveland to sign copies of his new book, "White House Diary," in suburban Lyndhurst, The Plain Dealer reported. About 500 people -- some in line for hours -- had waited for him at the Joseph-Beth Booksellers store. His grandson, Georgia state Senator Jason Carter, said on his Facebook page the former president "got a ...
Bloggers Matthew Yglesias and John Hawkins Prove Politics Is Broken
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyPolitical bloggers have the job of reporting on -- and analyzing -- politics, but they are also becoming a sad reflection of our bitter and broken political system. On Friday, two blog stories came to light that serve to illustrate the decline of domestic political bonhomie. To be sure, we will not be talking about either of these stories a month from now. Still, they provide a snapshot of the current state of political discourse. On the conservative side, RightWingNews' John Hawkins asked several conservative bloggers to help compile a list of "The 25 Worst Figures in American History." ...
Are Democratic Presidents Smarter Than Republican Presidents?
By David Corn - Politics DailyWatching President Barack Obama at the White House health care summit last week, it was hard not to have an obvious thought: Could George W. Bush have done this? It is tough to imagine Bush leading a seven-hour gabfest on a complex policy matter, being able to master the specifics and nuances, and field questions about in-the-weeds details as Obama did. Which brings me to another idea: Are Democratic presidents smarter than Republican presidents? Before proceeding, let me stipulate that there are different sorts of intelligence, and conventional (or book) smarts does not guarantee a president ...
Chaos Theory - The Obama Whisperers
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President Obama One Year Later: He's Doing All Right, Considering
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyIt's a rare day when liberals and conservatives agree on anything in Washington anymore, but when it comes to assessing President Obama, the conventional wisdom from right and left has coalesced into a similar story line: He's heading south, and his plummeting poll numbers and the fate of three statewide Democratic candidates who've run -- and lost -- since he took office proves it. Historical context, however, suggests an alternative view: namely, that other presidents confronted by similar tribulations facing the 44th president of the United States have also seen their popularity decline. ...
Former President Carter Apologizes to Jews
By not in system - AOL NewsATLANTA (Dec. 23) – Former President Jimmy Carter apologized for any words or deeds that may have upset the Jewish community in an open letter meant to improve an often-tense relationship. He said he was offering an Al Het, a prayer said on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. It signifies a plea for forgiveness. "We must not permit criticisms for improvement to stigmatize Israel," Carter said in the letter, which was first sent to JTA, a wire service for Jewish newspapers, and provided Wednesday to The Associated Press. "As I would have noted at Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, but ...
Jimmy Carter's Grandson Runs for Office in Georgia
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe grandson of former president Jimmy Carter has announced he is entering the race for the Georgia Senate. Jason Carter, a Democrat, said Tuesday he will run for a DeKalb County seat soon to be vacated by David Adelman, President Obama's nominee to be ambassador to Singapore, the Athens Banner-Herald reported. A special election will be held in the Atlanta-area district in March. Carter, 34, will officially kick off his campaign at an event in Decatur Wednesday evening. Carter is an attorney who focuses on voting rights at an Atlanta firm. He graduated from Duke University and the ...
Carter's Grandson Follows Him Into Politics
By not in system - AOL NewsATLANTA (Dec. 9) -- Jimmy Carter's grandson plans to run for the Georgia state Senate. Democrat Jason Carter says he will run for an Atlanta-area seat that's being vacated by President Barack Obama's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Singapore. If David Adelman is confirmed as ambassador in January, a special election could be held in March for his Senate seat representing part of DeKalb County. Jason Carter is the only person so far to say he'd run for the seat, a Democratic stronghold. The 34-year-old said his grandfather, an ex-president and former Georgia governor, encouraged him to ...
CETA: A '70s Government Jobs Program That Didn't Work
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyIn the late 1970s in the Jimmy Carter administration, I had a ringside seat for the political collapse of the last modern attempt to replicate a massive New Deal jobs program. This repudiation of public service employment marked the symbolic end of 20th century big government liberalism, although as an aide to Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall I only dimly sensed the coming Reagan Revolution. Normally, this is not a story that turns me into a prized raconteur at dinner parties. But this half-forgotten attempt to deal with the human cost of high unemployment (7.5 percent when Carter took office) ...
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