Posted on 01/03/2012 5:58:29 PM PST by yup2394871293
ATLANTA (AP) -- Former President Jimmy Carter has some advice for Barack Obama as he gears up for the 2012 election: Don't alienate voters with controversial positions.
The Georgia Democrat told The Associated Press on Tuesday that just about everything he did alienated voters, from sealing a treaty to hand over the Panama Canal to establishing diplomatic ties with China.
Carter said: "If your main goal is to get re-elected, avoid a controversial subject as much as you can in the first term."
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How many people know that Carter actually met with the Russian diplomat in DC and personally asked their help in his re election against Reagan?
“Former President Jimmy Carter has some advice for Barack Obama as he gears up for the 2012 election: Don’t alienate voters with controversial positions.”
Too late.
Wow them with your competence like Carter did.
Dementia is hell, Jimmy!
Who woke Jimmuh up? Not even Obama is stupid enough to heed advice from a man who lost in one of the greatest electoral landslides in history.
Little late there, Jimbo. OTOH, at least with him, we never had to worry about his having a long form ... the Empty Suit just keeps looking worse by the day.
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