This isn't the real America

In recent years, I have become increasingly concerned by a host of radical government policies that now threaten many basic principles espoused by all previous administrations, Democratic and Republican.

These include the rudimentary American commitment to peace, economic and social justice, civil liberties, our environment and human rights.

Also endangered are our historic commitments to providing citizens with truthful information, treating dissenting voices and beliefs with respect, state and local autonomy and fiscal responsibility.

Poor Jimmy Carter. He is perpetually so close, yet so far away. It's like he can see the problem clearly, yet he's doomed to pursue the wrong solution. This is exactly how his Presidency went.