I am very pleased to see you follow in your fathers footsteps. a daughter does in fact take after her dad. nothing is better than to complement your father in the manner that you are doing. You are indeed an affirmation to something important to this world, the ability to temper knowledge with a touch of class.

In my eyes Barack Obama is a great change to George W. Bush – but unfortunately only externally. He has the same political stances like he, as well as McCain, Hillary Clinton or the other neoconservative politicans!

As I said before he doesn’t want to change the economy for the benefit of the people, he wants to keep the old system and add socialist components. In addition he wants more unnecessary wars for example against Iran or Pakistan and policing the world by increasing the number of troops worldwide drastically. The other stances are restricting civil rights, build up the surveillance state, starting a world government by helping to create the North American Union, disarm the people so they are unable to defend themselves against a corrupt government, control the inhabitants and so forth.

Quite contrary there was Ron Paul as a presidential candidate who is also influenced by Ayn Rand and the Austrian School of economics. He is a constitutionalist who defends the civil rights and propose only war when the country is really attacked, that means no false preemptive wars. He wants to make the politicians activities more transparant and is against a North American union. You should look up his wikipedia article, he would really make a content-related change. His message of freedom should be spread.

I wonder why you don’t endorse him?

More than just our image, the promise and actual persona of our nation is incredibly important. Without solid credibility and unquestionable desires for good we cannot motivate our enemies to change, and our friends to follow. Truth is you cannot possess a stick big enough to control the world. You actually need more.

And — Nice job landing the interview and summarizing Mr. Carter’s views.

PS Jimmy D…my Aunt Nellie was your grandmother, and I loved her more than everything!!!

What president Carter said to Kira, is really what Arabs hope to happen. Added to this, they hope that he takes a positive action towards the Palestinian-Israeli problems.

I can ensure that Arabs do love president Obama, that’s not because they do or dont understand politics .. But just because of his Islamic origins.
So they believe that he will really give Arabs their rights .. Whatever they are.

They believe that whatever president Obama did, it will be much better than what George W. Bush did!

When president Obama won the election, Arabs did believe that the reputation of the USA will be changed by being much better than before.

President Obama is a smart man and a good politician.
He was able to gain the trust of all major forces; such as Israelis, Arabs, and black Americans which form a huge percentage of the whole Americans.

I just wish that our wishes come true ..

Daniel from Buenos Aires

For what it’s worth, I’d say it never would have happened without Wikipedia and Google, the two most prolific enablers of honest public discourse since Gutenberg made literacy a talent worth having.