February 12, 2006
Office of Jimmy Carter
The Carter Center
One Copenhill
Atlanta, GA 30307
Re: Your behavior
Dear Jimmy:
If my Mother were still alive, she would scold me for not using a salutation like Mr. President or The Honorable, but after your performance at the Coretta Scott King Memorial Service, where you showed no respect for a sitting President, I don't think you deserve any yourself. I doubt that Miss Lillian would be too pleased with you either.
If you have read any of Faulkner's novels, you will know that he created a fictional, but true to life family he named the Snopes. They were the epitome of what all of us raised in the South recognize in an instant as "white trash," and I'm sure you are familiar with the term. Your tasteless, inappropriate and classless, except for ultra low class, political remarks at the service for Mrs. King indicate that you might have a pedigree from this group.
During your administration, most of us felt sorry for you because you seemed to have a buffoon for a brother, poor Billy. In recent years, I have begun to think that Billy was the rational and stable one of the two of you.
I don't believe for a second that you would have made such remarks in a Jewish synagogue or mainstream Protestant white church, or Muslim mosque, if a similar service were being held there for a similarly good person. The fact that you made them at a black church indicates to me that at best, you have a condescending attitude toward blacks and at worst, even bigger problems.
George W. Bush possesses an attitude and demeanor that nearly always demonstrates a "turn the other cheek" style. You, who fancy yourself a moral and Christian compass seem to display a "cast the first stone" attitude. You also are the most vain do-gooder I know. I sincerely doubt that you would have pounded those nails for Habitat for Humanity if there had not been TV cameras present and microphones for you to extol your good works to the public.
You ran a campaign as focused and deliberate as any of your election campaigns to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and you succeeded. Now you share it with Yasser Arafat, an admitted terrorist and killer who denied his people a chance for a separate state and peace when it was offered to him and chose war for them instead. Some prize you got there.
Go take an anger management course and quit acting a fool in front of the public. Bush has made mistakes, but you had the most failed presidency in the 20th century and your opinions don't persuade many people.
Sincerely yours,
Evan Davis
478 Campbellsville Road
Pulaski, TN 38478
931-424-6902
evanpoo@earthlink.net
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2 comments:
Does our President REALLY deserve respect? He didn't seem to respect our troops, he apparantly doesn't respect poverty (notable in the gas prices that he is getting rich from), he doesn't respect our security (port deal and nuclear deal with India). I think he deserves what he gets.
Anony, you're busy today.
Does the President "deserve" respect.
Well, let me answer by saying that RESPECT is not something anyone deserves. Respect is a GIFT given by others to others. It's never a thing to be 'earned' because gifts are not earned. Gifts are given with nothing expected in return. And a TRUE GIFT is given not only without expecting anything in return but also not 'for' a specific action or reason; a gift of respect is not a payoff for services rendered. If a person receives a return on his investment of respect, he is rewarded. If a person receives nothing for his gift, he comes out even. If the other person does not value the respect of the person giving it, then that person looses the gift. But no one can take away RESPECT once given any more than you take away a gift after giving it. (And what kind of person takes away a gift after giving it?) (Answer: Not anyone I care to be friends with.)
So that's part of the answer to your reply.
The deeper question here is "does the President cherish the respect given by the population?" "Does President Bush think so lightly of the respect of those who voted for him (and those who voted against him and didn't move to Canada as they promised they would) that he has taken the respect, crushed it into a ball and tossed it into the trash can?"
I cannot answer that, since I'm not privy to the inner sanctum at the White House. And unless Karl Rove is your best-bud, neither can you.
Does the President deserve what he gets? Do YOU deserve what YOU get?
What do I deserve? I don't deserve the Grace of God, freely given, but I am extremely thankful for it. I don't deserve the very breath I inhale and exhale, but I am very thankful to the God of Creation for it. I don't deserve for a gentle man to be put to death on a cross in order to die in my stead so that I don't get what I deserve. But I am most thankful for that. I don't deserve the gifts of the Holy Spirit, but I am grateful to God for them.
So, what does the President deserve according to you?
But what I really want to know is, what do YOU deserve?
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