Wow. I didn't realize the difference in prison populations since the 70's was so large. That is completely insane.
I think it speaks volumes that GW sells his paintings for charity and gives the money to the Carter Center. Carter is the only president in my lifetime that I have respect for or feel was honestly working in America's best interests rather than his own. Had we followed his policies instead of scrapping them with Regan, I believe our country would be in incredibly better shape, as would much of the rest of the planet.

Carter won for Bush bashing? Sure about that? Couldn't have anything to do with the humanitarian work done by the Carter Center ?

"I think they do some terrorist acts"
"I thought I could convince them to be more accommodating"
"...they agreed completely, and they authorized me from the top level, to make that announcement to the public"

"Nobody told me not to go.....

Jimmy Carter is one of the biggest fucks on the planet-follow the money, eh? King Fahd was a longtime contributor to the Carter Center until he died-his foundation continues to accept monies from those who wish the see Israel disappear

"Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid"-I'd consider it an insult to myself, and a glorious waste of brain cells to thuumb through it-here's one blogger's reminder, after the usual brain-damaged responses to the label, "anti-semitic" using bastardized semantics and leaving meaning at the doorstep-
[Carter's message is simple and clear: End the unjust occupation, then let's start talking about peace. That's not antisemitic, it's anti-oppression.]-

"Scholars, founding members, of Carter's own foundation resigned over the book's outright lies and distortions. Carter refuses to debate anyone who is knowledgeable enough about the subject and the totality of his own defense argument is merely that "my book is totally accurate." Carter accepts major monies from those who oppose the very existence of the State of Israel... Methinketh, therefore, that anyone with a minimal degree of intellectual honesty has to be somewhat weary of the "truths" in his book.'

Carter the Tool. He needs to go back to farming-and not be allowed to speak in public, ever again.

From a Google Search.
http://www.cartercenter.org/health/river_blindness/center.html

In 1987, The Carter Center became involved in the effort to control onchocerciasis by becoming an advocate for the Mectizan® Donation Program launched that year by Merck. In 1996, the official beginning of the Center's River Blindness Program, The Carter Center expanded its role in the coalition to fight the disease by absorbing most of the operations of the River Blindness Foundation, a nongovernmental development organization.

Today, the Carter Center River Blindness Program assists ministries of health in 11 endemic countries to help residents and local health workers institute and sustain Mectizan treatment and health education activities.

In the Americas, the Center is the sponsoring agency for the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program of the Americas (OEPA), the technical and coordinating body of a multinational, multiagency coalition working to end illness and transmission of onchocerciasis in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Venezuela.

The Carter Center is one of the only nongovernmental organizations combating river blindness in both Africa and the Americas. Since its inception, the Carter Center's River Blindness Program has assisted ministries of health in administering more than 100 million treatments of Mectizan.

The key challenge for the River Blindness Program is to continue to reinforce Mectizan distribution networks, educate the communities about the efficacy and safety of the medication, and enlist the support of community leaders.