[SJSAMPLE]

Why should I listen to a crappy president or a kid who wrote crappy poetry. Sorry, but his poems were crap and the only reason he became famous is because of a) his Muscular Distrophy and b) Oprah.

Nothing personal against the kid, but he never stood on the West-East German border and wondered if the tanks were coming. In ten years, he might have thought differently. But, the UN flag on his coffin said it all.

[Mockingbird For Short]

Show Mattie a little respect; he suffered pretty badly, and it's nice that he enjoyed a little limelight in his short life. This is about Carter's shortcomings, not a dead little boy's. Mattie was a precocious child--- but a child, nonetheless... naive... He can't really be held responsible for his misdirected worship. But that's just MY 2¢. As for Carter, you are right on.