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Post #228,670
by dmcarls
10/7/05 8:19:39 PM
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New I don't think Jimmy Carter had a double meaning, but...
(posted a few months after the 'accountability moment')

[link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=190217|http://z.iwethey.org...?contentid=190217]

I always got a smile out of Jimmy Carter's title for his book:

"A government as good as its people" (Now unavailable)

[link|http://www.amazon.co...?v=glance&s=books|http://www.amazon.co...?v=glance&s=books] [*]

I wonder if he worried about the double entendre? We now have exactly that type of government.
Post #228,673
by Ashton
10/7/05 8:48:27 PM
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New Ben Franklin had that number, though
.. allegedly part of the "If you can keep it!" reply to someone [with a pen?], outside Constitutional Convention.

Something like, "... it will last? function? for a time - until the corruption of the people causes it to fail."
I see I should pin that one down better, anon.


Are we all That predictable? [rhetorical]
     Ohio: more on the manufacturing of consent - (Ashton) - (6) - Oct. 7, 2005, 03:54:06 AM EDT
         The pity is that "We, the People" do not care. - (mmoffitt) - (5) - Oct. 7, 2005, 12:54:41 PM EDT
             I don't think Jimmy Carter had a double meaning, but... - (dmcarls) - (1) - Oct. 7, 2005, 08:19:39 PM EDT
                 Ben Franklin had that number, though - (Ashton) - Oct. 7, 2005, 08:48:27 PM EDT
             Speak for yourself bucko. - (Silverlock) - (2) - Oct. 7, 2005, 10:59:21 PM EDT
                 While the observation belongs elsewhere, - (Ashton) - Oct. 8, 2005, 12:08:06 AM EDT
                 I didn't say "all of us." I said, "the majority." -NT - (mmoffitt) - Oct. 9, 2005, 10:45:23 AM EDT

If you don't know, then I'm not allowed to tell you.
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