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One of my very first blogs on this site, from October 2017, labelled former President Jimmy Carter as “the Democrats’ voice of reason.” I decided to give that moniker to America’s 39 th President after he correctly stated during an interview with The New York Times that the media had not treated any previous President as unfairly as they have treated President Trump in addition to expressing reservations about the theory that Russia had a significant impact on the results of the 2016 Presidential Election. However, Carter’s public appearance last week has forced me to dethrone him as “the Democrats’ voice of reason.” During an interview with Trump-hating historian Jon Meacham, the 94-year-old Carter appeared to reverse the position he espoused in his New York Times interview nearly two years ago.  After previously questioning the Russia conspiracy theory, Carter appears to have fully bought into it.  Carter told Meacham that “a full investigation would show that Tru...

Yesterday marked the eighteen-month anniversary of the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, which means that President Obama has now held the title of Former President for a year and a half.   As President Trump wrapped up his trip in Europe, Former President Obama took a trip to Africa, which included his first trip to his father’s home country of Kenya since he left office.   He spoke in South Africa Tuesday in honor of Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s 100 th Birthday.   During the speech, he took quite a few veiled shots at President Trump.   President Obama echoed the left-wing talking point that President Trump has dictatorial tendencies, complaining that “strongman politics are ascendant suddenly.”   Laura Ingraham pointed out that “Trump was elected in part because many Americans were fed up with the ‘weak-man’ leadership of Barack Obama.” President Obama railed against the horrors of “closed bor...

Of all of the five living former Presidents, President Trump has surprisingly found his most loyal ally in Former President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat.   In a recent interview with The New York Times , President Carter admitted that the media has not treated any previous President as unfairly as they have treated President Trump.   In that same interview, he said that he doubted that Russia had any significant impact on the results of the 2016 Presidential Election.   Making such a statement amounts to heresy in today’s Democratic Party, as would his stance on abortion .          President Carter’s election came in the middle of an “Era of Bad Feelings”.   At the time of America ’s bicentennial, The Watergate scandal that prematurely ended the Nixon Presidency had destroyed the faith of many Americans in our political system.   They looked to the little-known Georgia Governor as a breath of fresh air.   While they did not ...