Thursday, July 17, 2008

SOME INTERESTING SIMILARITIES - Just a Minute for Thursday 7-17-08

Howdy Once More –

 

Time to do a little retrospecting. I couldn’t do it all in one minute – so, I’ll take two: one today – another tomorrow.

 

There’s a lot to be said in comparing Barak and John McCain. First they’re both running as outsiders – but note: That’s how Jimmy Carter ran his campaign. He was largely an unknown quantity to the ‘Old Bulls’ of the Democrat party in Washington. Hamilton Jordan (pronounced Jer-den) Jimmy Carter’s White House Chief of Staff -- saw how chaotic the Democrats had become in the wake of events leading up to the Carter-Ford race and thought it would be a great time for “Bro. Jimmeh” – to take a run at it. David Broder dug out an interview Ham had given about a year after the Carter presidency and before Jordan passed away. Ham pointed out there were four liberals in the field in the New Hampshire primary … and Jimmy, as the only conservative, consolidated an extremely chopped up pie fought over by Morris Udall (AZ), Sergeant Shriver (MA), Birch Bayh (IN), and Fred Harris (OK). Hamilton saw an opening he thought Jimmy Carter could squeeze through and he took it.

 

Just like Carter, Obama, has profited from the splintering of the Democrats in the primary battles. --- And like Carter, while he hasn’t claimed the White House yet, he is campaigning as if he’s already there. The problem is if elected, he’ll have to go around and patch up the fences and smooth out the bomb craters he’s left in his path on the campaign trail. Although Jimmy Carter tried to appease his Washington critics by giving the VP post to one of them – Walter Mondale – that apparently simply heightened their disrespect. Carter even awarded some Cabinet posts and important responsibilities to people who were not his loyalists. That just meant the liberals figured they had landed a dumb Southern who couldn’t figure out the score.

 

Most seasoned observers think those same land mines await an Obama presidency. Only Dick Morris seems to talk about it – and his venom is largely discounted as being a oft repeated song of sour grapes. Nonetheless, left unresolved they’ll be back to bite an Obama administration where it hurts – and are liable to further exacerbate race divisions within the Democrat’s party.

 

I have a couple more observations about Jimmy Carter’s place in American history and the likelihood of history repeating itself. I plan to do that tomorrow.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack Buttram

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

SOME INTERESTING SIMILARITIES

Just A Minute – I’m going to depart from our usual format and do a couple of programs on the similarities Jimmy Carter and Barak Obama evidence.

Remember the late Ham Jordan (jer-den) – He was Carter’s Chief of Staff who recognized the “chaos” (his word for it) in the Democrat party and figured good ole Jimmeh could make the most of it and sneak off with the prize. Carter won the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary with about 30 percent of the votes, while a quartet of more liberal contestants (Udall, Shriver, Bayh and Harris) fought over the rest.

Carter and Obama bill themselves as outsiders able to reform Washington but once the peanut farmer from Plaines was in the White House, the liberals who pulled the congressional strings, put their loyalties to their own special interests ahead of his and after three years his presidency had become unraveled mostly because he could not control his fellow Democrats.

We’ll conclude the comparison on tomorrow’s Just a Minute.  Tune in –

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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