In Praise of ‘Malaise’:
The other night I was wasting time playing Game Neverending and Suzan called me in to the living room where she was watching part two of Jimmy Carter: American Experience, a biography from his election to his receiving of the Nobel Peace Prize this fall. I wasn’t in the mood to watch anything but I ambled in anyway. Now I’m glad I did.
Jimmy Carter is a great man. I don’t think I ever realized this when he was president (I was in the first grade) and never quite took a close enough look afterward. Here is a man who had a disasterous run at the most powerful job in the world, then turned around and devoted himself to building homes for the poor, building a center of international diplomacy and acting as a moderator for peace efforts around the world.
I know this is a PBS documentary intended to convey that message but call me converted.
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Jimmy Carter is a real Christian, too, not one of those guys who pays lip-service and then invades countries. I heard him say his presidency failed because he tried to model his leadership after Christ. He said America just wasn’t ready for a servant leader. Interesting.
Jimmy Carter is a real Christian, too, not one of those guys who pays lip-service and then invades countries. I heard him say his presidency failed because he tried to model his leadership after Christ. He said America just wasn’t ready for a servant leader. Interesting.