{"id":3018,"date":"2004-11-15T11:01:31","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3018.html"},"modified":"2004-11-15T11:01:31","modified_gmt":"2004-11-15T16:01:31","slug":"a-discouraging-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-discouraging-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"A discouraging comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"

I noticed that Jimmy Cater was asked, during a recent Newsweek interview<\/a>, whether today’s political climate reminds him of any other time in American history. I found his response discouraging.<\/p>\n

“I don’t remember any time in my lifetime when there was this much antagonism and as sharp a division between the political parties or the supporters of the two candidates as there is now. I don’t [think] it’s ever been this way.<\/p>\n

“And I don’t think there’s ever been this sharp a partisan division in the Congress, although obviously during slavery times, the abolitionists and those from the pro-slave states were filled with vituperation. But it didn’t carry over to all the ancillary bills on which they were voting. Now almost everything that comes up in Washington, there’s a direct and sharp and sometimes antagonistic partisan division. That’s a new development, and I think it carries over from the negative advertising that has now become a standard ploy in getting elected — a very effective ploy I might add.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Carter is drawing a comparison of the political divisions within the country between now and the Civil War era — and he concludes that it’s worse<\/i> now.<\/p>\n

I guess the whole “uniter, not divider” thing hasn’t worked out so well for Bush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I noticed that Jimmy Cater was asked, during a recent Newsweek interview, whether today’s political climate reminds him of any other time in American history. I found his response discouraging. “I don’t remember any time in my lifetime when there was this much antagonism and as sharp a division between the political parties or the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}