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Bush presidency unbroken series of mistakes: Carter 7/28/2004 BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 27 (AFP) - Former US president Jimmy Carter came out swinging at the Democratic convention Monday, blasting George W. Bush for an "unbroken series of mistakes" he said had squandered the world's goodwill for the United States. Despite pledges to keep the four-day convention free of Bush- bashing, Carter used his opening-night speech to launch a fierce, partisan broadside on the incumbent that Democrats hope to oust in November's election. "Truth is the foundation of our global leadership, but our credibility has been shattered and we are left increasingly...

CARTER'S REMARKS TO THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, BOSTON Mon Jul 26 2004 19:45:57 ET My name is Jimmy Carter, and I'm not running for president. But here's what I will be doing: everything I can to put John Kerry in the White House with John Edwards right there beside him. Twenty-eight years ago I was running for president, and I said then, "I want a government as good and as honest and as decent and as competent and as compassionate as are the American people." I say this again tonight, and that is exactly what we will have next January...