By John Lillpop ——Bio and Archives--August 7, 2012
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Former president Jimmy Carter won't be attending the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, but he'll address the gathering by videotape. "Rosalyn and I regret that we will be unable to be at the Democratic Convention this year in Charlotte. However, we remain steadfast in our support for President Obama and the progress he will make in the next four years," Carter said in a statement released by the Democratic convention.”Carter’s irrelevant blathering will surely haunt the convention hall with memories of 20 percent mortgage interest rates; economic ruin all about; the word “malaise”; being held hostage by the Islamic Republic of Iran; fascist control of the White House tennis courts by a president better suited for shelling peanuts than running America, and other awful, awful recollections from the 1980 campaign in which the decline and fall of American Exceptionalism was an accepted fact, directly traceable to the Oval Office and the incompetent fellow situated therein. What next? Whom else can the DNC dig up to make Obama look sharp and focused? Any chance of exhuming the remains of FDR for a quick reminder that “We have nothing to fear but fear itself,” and a scolding from the old man to Mitt Romney about the evil of not paying taxes for 10 years?
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John W. Lillpop is a recovering liberal. “Clean and sober” since 1992 when last he voted for a Democrat. For years, John lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the very liberal sanctuary city which protects, rather than prosecutes, certain favored criminals. John escaped the Bay Area in May and now lives in Pine Grove California where conservative values are still in vogue.