Power Line: Pious the first
The Powerline post above is about a new book by Jimmy Carter. They quote from someone who really, really doesn't care for the ex-president:
IT IS DIFFICULT, WHEN confronting the miasma of tired bromides strung together in this book, to point to a single childlike sentimentality that fully expresses the smallness of Jimmy Carter's soul, but this one comes close: "[Rosalynn and I] have been amazed at the response of people to these new latrines, especially in Ethiopia, and to learn that the primary thrust for building them has come from women."...
....he trades on his humanitarian good works to burnish his image as an elder statesman, brimming with oracular profundity. The result, as in his current book, is as empty and embarrassing as the naked emperor's new clothes....
Our Endangered Values makes Al Gore's Earth in the Balance read like the Critique of Pure Reason by comparison.
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