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After leaving the Oval Office he started the humanitarian Carter Center and now reflects on the nonprofit's 25th anniversary in a new book, Beyond the White House. Jimmy Carter will now take your questions...
Lesson: the improbable sometimes happens. And what's true in sports is true in politics. There hasn't been a major upset in a presidential-nomination race since Jimmy Carter's victory in 1976. We're due. And the 2008 presidential campaign is an especially good candidate to provide a surprise...
...Knick and New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley talked about being a "small-town boy" from Missouri; Gary Hart launched his 1984 bid by describing himself "as the son of Dust Bowl farm parents who never finished high school"; and in the opening paragraph of his announcement in 1974, Jimmy Carter said "I am a farmer, an engineer, a businessman, a planner, a scientist, a governor and a Christian." In this approach, biography is destiny...
...there, on the whole it was a credible and fair count. The opposition did not agree. So we said: 'Let's check. Let's review the counting in the presence of foreign observers.' We did that. After we did that, two groups of observers the African Union and the Carter Center said that while there had been some mistakes, the outcome of the election was credible. The observers from the European Union did not criticize counting per se, but they said the environment was such that the outcome of the election was not credible. Their view was not shared...
...Sept. 4 warning about lead paint in 675,000 accessories for its iconic Barbie dolls--were the largest in the history of the world's largest toymaker and have put the entire industry on high alert. "This year's recalls were not a happy thing for us," says Carter Keithley, president of the Toy Industry Association (TIA), a trade group whose 500 members make about 85% of all the toys sold in the U.S. Even companies that haven't been hit with recalls are scouring their production lines for problems, and testing labs say they have been deluged with work...