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Remembering Theodore Sorensen
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 1) -- Theodore Sorensen, former speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy, died Sunday at 82 from complications from a stroke he suffered a week ago. Sorensen drafted Kennedy's 1961 inaugural speech, in which the president famously said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." Sorensen is also credited with drafting a letter from Kennedy to Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev in 1962 that helped resolve the Cuban missile crisis. The memories from friends and other admirers have begun to pour in. Here's The Atlantic's James Fallows, former ...
Former President Carter Arrives in Pyongyang
By not in system - AOL NewsSEOUL, South Korea (Aug. 25) -- Former President Jimmy Carter arrived Wednesday in the capital of communist North Korea on a mission to bring home an American sentenced to eight years' hard labor for trespassing. A young North Korean girl handed Carter flowers after he landed at the Pyongyang airport on Wednesday, according to footage aired by TV news agency APTN. Top North Korean nuclear envoy Kim Kye Gwan and No. 2 nuclear official Ri Gun were among officials on hand to welcome Carter with handshakes, according to APTN. The state-run Korean Central News Agency also reported Carter's ...
Carter Traveling to NKorea to Try to Free American
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 24) -- Former President Jimmy Carter was preparing to leave for North Korea on Tuesday to try to gain the freedom of an American imprisoned for illegally entering the communist nation, U.S. officials said Monday night. North Korea agreed to release Aijalon Mahli Gomes if Carter were to come to bring him home, a senior U.S. official told The Associated Press. Gomes, of Boston, who was arrested on Jan. 25 after entering North Korea, was sentenced in April to eight years in prison and fined $700,000. Stan Honda, AFP / Getty Images Former President Jimmy Carter, here in 2007, ...
Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyAfter more than 60 years together, Jimmy Carter has announced himself at odds with the Southern Baptist Church -- and he's decided it's time they go their separate ways. Via Feministing, the former president called the decision "unavoidable" after church leaders prohibited women from being ordained and insisted women be "subservient to their husbands." Said Carter in an essay in The Age: At its most repugnant, the belief that women must be subjugated to the wishes of men excuses slavery, violence, forced prostitution, genital mutilation and national laws that omit rape as a crime. But it also ...
Jimmy Carter Was Wrong
By Dave - Politics DailyIn response to David, Jimmy Carter deserves his reputation as America's worst president in popular memory. He was wrong on energy then, and it would be wrong to emulate his ideas now. Let's let him speak in his own words, and remember, this is 1977: World consumption of oil is still going up. If it were possible to keep it rising during the 1970s and 1980s by 5 percent a year as it has in the past, we could use up all the proven reserves of oil in the entire world by the end of the next decade. I know that many of you have suspected that some supplies of oil and gas are being withheld. You ...
1972 or 1976
By Dave - Politics DailyI'm struggling to find within myself a gut feeling for how this election is going to shake out. This is odd for me. I usually have a definite opinion and people who know that I am into politics are used to receiving a definite answer. My problem is that I like reading about history, especially political history, and this election is really close to either 1972 or 1976, and it could shakeout either way depending on which context matches best. In 1972 we had a ton of energy on the Democratic side, rallying around an antiwar candidate and having a lot of fun pointing out the inadequacies and ...
Carter Sleeping with the Enemy
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyAs has become his tendency, former-President Jimmy Carter has determined to forge American foreign policy in the absence of ... the consent of America. Al-Jazeera, the Arabic news agency with a too-cozy rapport with terrorists, has broken the news that Carter will be traveling to Syria next week to meet with the leader of Hamas. Of course, America is presently pursuing a policy of isolation regarding Hamas, which has been designated a terrorist organization. Carter, however, seems nonplussed by such insignificant details. A nation unto himself, Carter will be joined by former UN Secretary ...
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