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SeveneightyWhoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 12:56 PM
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Vote: Of the top 10 'screwing up America', whom do you admire most?
Edited on Fri Jul-15-05 12:58 PM by SeveneightyWhoa
Vote here, on the right side of the page: www.Counterbias.com

The choices:
They're all screwing up America!
Michael Moore
Arthur Sulzberger
Ted Kennedy
Jesse Jackson
Anthony Romero
Jimmy Carter
Margaret Marshall
Paul Krugman
Jonathan Kozol
Ralph Neas
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TheFarseer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 12:58 PM
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1. JImmy Carter
with Michael Moore right behind him.
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MN ChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 03:49 PM
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23. 1. Carter; 2. Krugman; 3. Moore
nt
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nickinSTL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 12:59 PM
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2. Carter
n/t
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 12:59 PM
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3. Jimmy Carter
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iconoclastNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 01:00 PM
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4. Michael Moore
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fujiyama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 01:00 PM
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5. I like Krugman and Carter
Both very intelligent people and the latter is a great public servant - personafies the term in every meaningful sense.
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politicaholic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 01:01 PM
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6. I would have to go with Moore...
Jimmy Carter is a close second.
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rkc3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 01:01 PM
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7. And no one drug-tested Bernie before he wrote this shit?
I'd love to hear from a RW nutter how Jimmy Carter is screwing up this country.

Unlike previous Repub presidents (who went into hiding after their terms were up), Carter has actually done things to make this miserable fucking planet a better place to live.

I think I'd break my foot off in someone's ass if they spewed hate over Carter in my presence.
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Malingerer Donating Member (39 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 01:05 PM
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9. funny
I just got a mental image of someone actually breaking a foot off in someone's ass.

I don't think it would be a fun thing to do. :)

Although it would DEFINITELY get their attention.
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rkc3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 01:10 PM
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12. I'd probably feel better afterwards. That's what really counts.
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katsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 01:10 PM
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11. I'm with you on this...
How can Carter be on this list?

How can ANY of this people be on this list?

Where's that pos in the white house?

Where's corporate/military/industrialists?

Where's reagan?

This is RW bullshit.



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Terran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 01:24 PM
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17. Because the asswipe who wrote the stupid book
is a right-wing ideologue, even though he claims not to be ("Ooo, I criticized Judge Moore over the Ten Commandments thing--see, I'm not a conservative jerk-off!")

You should have seen John Stewart taking him apart on the Daily Show the other night.
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katsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 03:42 PM
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21. I missed it.
:cry:
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Terran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 03:51 PM
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24. He made the guy look like a moron
and did it politely. Basically he told Goldberg that what goes on in our culture is not as important or influential as what goes on in our government, and he wished someone of his talent (see how polite?) would spend their time writing about how people in government (any government, not just Bush's) are the ones "Screwing Up America".

He also made it clear that for every left-leaning personality mentioned in the book, there's a right-winger doing something analogous. And that there are maybe three right-wing people mentioned in the book, "one of whom shot an abortion doctor".

It was a very good show for JS!
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katsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:01 PM
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25. Thanks for the brief...
and bravo Jon!

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Ready2Snap Donating Member (212 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 01:05 PM
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8. 1 for Anthony Romero
cuz he's an equal opportunity screw up.

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lvx35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 01:09 PM
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10. 2 for Anthony Romero
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lvx35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 01:11 PM
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13. What happened to George Soros?
He used to be the republican boogeyman, but he has just faded away!
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SeveneightyWhoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 01:24 PM
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18. Don't you worry!
He's definitely in the top 20, as are Howard Dean, John Edwards, and (I believe) Paul Begala.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 01:19 PM
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14. Jimmy Carter. Jesse Jackson is second
America needs to be more screwed up.
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Raiden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 01:23 PM
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15. Jimmy Carter - Hands down
What a great guy, and a TRUE Christian!
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 01:24 PM
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16. carter
definitely.

such a gentle man.
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Terran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 01:26 PM
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19. Carter
I must admit I don't know who some of these people are, though.

The temerity of Mr. Goldberg for putting Jimmy Carter in this book is appalling. Carter has done nothing since he left the WH but work on behalf of the poor and for democracy, here and abroad. How the FUCK is he screwing up America?? Besides, as an ex-President, he has the right to say whatever the hell he wants to say about politcal issues.
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booley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 01:27 PM
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20. Moore and Krugman
Moore for telling the truth and doing it well. he is a great film maker. Even without the politics involved.

and Krugman for telling me the truth about the economy in a way that makes it easy to understand.

I think that's one reason most people don't really get economics in politics..they hear tonnes of numbers and thier brains click off...
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 03:48 PM
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22. Jimmy, Michael, Paul, Ted.. .etc
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:03 PM
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26. I voted Carter
Of the top 10 of Goldberg's 100 people 'screwing up America', whom do you admire most? print
They're all screwing up America! 3
Michael Moore 9
Arthur Sulzberger 0
Ted Kennedy 1
Jesse Jackson 0
Anthony Romero 1
Jimmy Carter 37
Margaret Marshall 0
Paul Krugman 3
Jonathan Kozol 0
Ralph Neas 0
Total Votes Cast: 54
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long_green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:08 PM
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27. President Carter
How Goldberg could put such a man on a list of people he thinks are screwing up our culture is beyond me. What was the thesis of his project (I know, I'm making it sound like Goldberg put some thought into it)?
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kliljedahl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:12 PM
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28. Jimmy Carter
Anyone see Goldberg on TDS a couple of nights ago? Jon did one of his double segments to really skewer him.


Keith’s Barbeque Central
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:15 PM
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29. Not that goldberg filth again. Repukes think he's unbiased...
And only because he has a blurb on idiot Savage and Ken Lay (which lacks any editorial comments but has only statistics. Hmmm, does that mean he's only sorry Enron went kaput? I don't know. Maybe if he said something from his point of view than parroting statistical numbers...)

The guy's a shill. Nothing more.
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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:16 PM
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30. I haven't read the full list of names.
Odds are I admire all the ones I've heard of. After all, they're almost all liberals. Who else would screw up America?
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lancdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:17 PM
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31. Jimmy Carter
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The Revolution Donating Member (497 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:22 PM
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32. Carter
He just seems like a genuinely good guy, who has done a lot of good for a lot of people, yet never demands recognition. While republicans spend a lot of time spewing hate and talking about how great they are, Carter just keeps doing what is right.

I remember a few months ago, Al Franken was talking to his ditto head friend about Carter. Rush had been attacking Carter, saying something to the effect of "Carter hasn't done any good".

Al proved (again) that Rush was full of shit, as he showed how Carter had helped to fight river blindness in Africa.
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FredScuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:26 PM
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33. Jimmy Carter, no contest
His Nobel Prize tells Goldberg to shut the fuck up and sit down.
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Sapphire Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:57 PM
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34. President Carter... and here are some of my reasons...
Edited on Fri Jul-15-05 05:02 PM by Sapphire Blue
The Carter Center: http://www.cartercenter.org

Watch the video, “Waging Peace,” an overview of the work of The Carter Center @ http://www.body1.com/carter/WMP7.cfm?asxfile=waging.asx

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

The Nobel Peace Prize 2002

"for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development"



Jimmy Carter

USA

39th President of the United States of America
b. 1924

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Anwar Sadat (left), Jimmy Carter (center), and Menachem Begin (right) shake hands in celebration of the success of the Camp David Accords

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." - Matthew 5: 9


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JohnnyBoots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-05 04:58 PM
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35. Teddy
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