President Carter mentioned on Larry King Live that no president in the history of the United States has had as much difficulty with Congress or has faced such difficult problems in Office perhaps even greater than what Lincoln faced during the Civil War.
He also said that this problem was made worse by media like Fox News which deliberately distorted facts on so many subjects which many people in the U.S. then believe as fact when it isn't. He said he was grateful that media like Fox News didn't exist during his presidency so he could actually get things done and be allowed to be more effective as president than the present national and world situation is allowing Obama to be. end paraphrasing from Larry King Live interview.
With so much fiction now masquerading as fact on all sides it is hard to imagine the ship of state of the U.S. staying afloat. It would be like the starboard lookout on a ship saying, "There are icebergs to the starboard and the port side lookout saying, "There are icebergs to the port side." And both being wrong because the icebergs were actually straight ahead.
But with lookouts like these the ship of state would sink unless the captain got the correct information from somewhere. There are elements on both sides like this who take the attitude, "My ideas or no ideas." Anyone who is not pragmatic and practical is helping to end this nation.
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