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from Tales from the Trail:
Thirty-two years after leaving office, Jimmy Carter gets big cheer
Jimmy Carter got a big hand and roar of approval from a festive and perhaps somewhat charitable crowd on Monday at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Thirty-two years after leaving the White House as a defeated one-term president, the mostly Democratic gathering screamed approval for Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, as they arrived for the ceremony just outside the U.S. Capitol.
To be sure, former President Bill Clinton and his wife, outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a potential 2016 White House contender, received a much louder embrace.
But a grinning Carter was back and so were at least some of the cheers and applause that showered him when he was sworn in as reform-minded president in 1977 in the wake of the Watergate scandal that drove Richard Nixon from office.
from Tales from the Trail:
Campaign’s over, so start campaigning
Finally get some shut-eye after Tuesday's election? Well, rise and shine. 2012 is just around the corner and the presidential campaign is already getting under way.
Folks at the White House may be asking themselves if the humbled, chastened President Barack Obama will face a primary challenge from the Left.
from Summit Notebook:
Dodd Rejects Carter Criticism of Ted Kennedy
U.S. Senator Chris Dodd on Monday came to the defense of his old buddy, the late Senator Edward Kennedy, against new criticism by former President Jimmy Carter.
Dodd rejected Carter's charge that Americans could have begun enjoying the benefits of sweeping healthcare long ago if Kennedy hadn't stopped a plan by Carter in 1979.
from Tales from the Trail:
Dodd Rejects Carter Criticism of Ted Kennedy
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U.S. Senator Chris Dodd on Monday came to the defense of his old buddy, the late Senator Edward Kennedy, against new criticism by former President Jimmy Carter.
Dodd rejected Carter's charge that Americans could have begun enjoying the benefits of sweeping healthcare long ago if Kennedy hadn't stopped a plan by Carter in 1979.
from Africa News blog:
To observe or not to observe?
This is likely to be the question hotly debated in the more self-aware international observer missions covering Sudan’s elections, due to start on Sunday and marred by a wave of boycotts and claims of fraud.
Sudan's first multi-party polls in almost quarter of a century had promised to be fiercely contested until revelations of irregularities caused boycotts by several parties.
from Tales from the Trail:
Brzezinski sees encouraging signs emerging from Haitian catastrophe
It might sound Pollyannaish coming from anybody other than Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hard-nosed intellectual who was Jimmy Carter's national security adviser. But he says the gigantic catastrophe in Haiti may suggest some good things about the state of the modern world.
"As I look at this tragedy and as I look at this enormous human suffering, I'm also a little bit encouraged by the symbolism of the collective global response," Brzezinski said in an interview with MSNBC.
from Tales from the Trail:
The First Draft: Bill Clinton on race and the healthcare debate
Bill Clinton has tons of respect for Jimmy Carter. But he doesn't agree that racism is a driving factor behind angry opposition to President Barack Obama's healthcare reform agenda. 
Like Carter, Clinton is a former Democratic governor of a Southern state who has spent years battling entrenched racism against blacks.
from Tales from the Trail:
Protests against Obama: race or policy?
Former President Jimmy Carter said out loud what Democrats had been whispering for a while, that the protests against the country's first black president are tinged with racism.
Carter's forceful words threw the issue into the forefront of public debate.
"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American," Carter said in an interview on NBC.
from Tales from the Trail:
The First Draft: Healthcare, anger and race
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus is due to release a proposal Wednesday for reforming the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare system, giving a boost to President Barack Obama's top domestic policy goal.
Or maybe not.
Baucus has been working with two fellow Democrats and three Republicans -- the so-called Gang of Six-- to produce a bipartisan healthcare compromise. None of the other healthcare reform bills introduced so far have had Republican support.
from Tales from the Trail:
Carter says race is issue for some Obama opponents
Some of President Barack Obama's more demonstrative opponents list any number of reasons why they oppose him and why they're angry -- from the bank bailout, to his plan to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, the direction the country is heading and the ballooning U.S. deficit. But former President Jimmy Carter thinks a lot of the opposition is really about Obama's race.
"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man," Carter said in an NBC interview on Tuesday.
