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Monday, February 02, 2015

Shunning Obama

Shunning Obama, let's Do It
http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/the-cost-of-disowning-jimmy-carter-20150130

"Even more humiliating is the treatment Carter receives from his fellow Democrats. At the party's convention in 2008, Steve Kornacki has noted in Salon, Carter "was pointedly denied a spot at the podium and allowed only a brief, non-prime-time video message. This led to one of the more awkward scenes from the Denver convention; while Carter and his wife walked onstage to wave to the crowd after the video, the podium was lowered into the floor—almost as if convention organizers were making sure he didn't get any ideas." In 2011, when Carter and the former president of Finland tried to brief the Obama administration on their trip to North Korea, no one from the State Department would see them. (According to The Nelson Report, an Asia policy newsletter, when aides suggested that Hillary Clinton meet the former presidents personally, she replied, "Hell, no!") Carter last year told Meet the Press that Obama never calls him."

What goes around comes around. Why not start shunning Obama now?

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