I suggest they shelve it in "housewares."
Posted on 12/26/2005 4:06:30 PM PST by presidio9
It's been said that the best way to get a heated discussion going is to bring up one of three subjects: religion, politics or sex.
In his book "Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis," former President Carter does all three - sometimes simultaneously.
Where is America going wrong - or right? Carter has many strong opinions, and although he says that he is a major advocate of separation of church and state, this book weighs in with a bent that's more religious than not.
It's no secret that Carter was a spiritual sort before, during and after his years in the White House. Although Carter says he attempted to keep his religious beliefs out of the office, as dictated by law, he says he did discuss religion with many world leaders at different times, including Deng Xiaopeng of China and President Park Chung Hee of South Korea.
Here, Carter offers his opinions on the moral problems with which he sees Americans and American politicians struggling, including the equality of women in private and religious sectors; the abortion debate, birth control and stem-cell research; creationism and the Bible; the right and politics; and terrorism and the war in the Middle East.
Much of "Our Endangered Values" reads like a college thesis, and although many readers are going to agree with what Carter says, others are going to see overgeneralizations.
Carter, of course, is no stranger to book bins. Previous works, including his Civil War novel "Hornet's Nest," and several memoirs - the most recent being "An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood" were critical successes and instant bestsellers.
He has also written with some success on religious matters, as in 1999's "Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith."
But "Our Endangered Values" tends to ramble in several directions and never really settles into a comfortable reading groove. And it never quite becomes one type of book or another, which is going to be a nightmare for booksellers and librarians.
Will they shelve it in the religion section, the current events section or in biography?
We're in a national malaise...............about Jimmy Carter.
Even at best Carter was a well meaning bumbling fool. I have not always held this view of him. At times it was just too hard to pass of what he was doing by this measure.
Isn't Knight-Ridder the newspaper chain that's trying to sell itself, but can't find anyone who's interested in making an offer?
Did anyone see the interview with Carter tonight on Brit Hume's show? I didn't--as soon as I saw it coming up I switched to the Shopping Channel.
Yeah, and Xena finds Jimmy Carter in a mental crisis. So what's new?
Jimma Carter couldn't find his ass with both hands and
a hired nurse.
Carter has no further to look than his buddy, Bubba.
Jimmy....you're adored by the Norwegians and the French.That's all I need to know about you.
LOL - I did the same. He does not have a thing to say that I want to hear - A complete fool AND tool.
Ah, yes, Jimmy Carter returned home one day from his tiring foreign expedition and found his own country in moral crisis. Then his compatriots saw Ronald Reagan and believed, and morning again rose in America. End of story.
I suggest they shelve it in "housewares."
Wherever they place it, it will gather more dust than readers.
Islamofascism could have been eliminated before it even got off the ground if Carter had protected the Shah of Iran in 1978 and early 1979. Carter's unwillingness to protect American lives in late 1979 and 1980 is surely among the most despicable events in our history.
He will get the historical respect he deserves when the Iranians start lobbing nuclear missiles all over the Mideast and Europe.
It's even money if the three of them could break a 175 IQ collectively.
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