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I wouldn't be so funny if I really did believe they believe this type of trite can sell anything anymore.

p>Thank You. br> -- Paul Filler /p> p> SHUCKED PEANUT STATESMAN br> Re: The Prowler's Jimmy Carter Who? : /p> p>Let's face it, President Carter was and is the antithesis of "gravitas," ergo his presence in Rome would tend to give the solemn proceedings the air of a farce. For me, an epiphany on his record-setting fecklessness and wrong-headedness came last summer when I watched a shocking reprise of his 1980 Democratic Convention speech on C-Span. Here this snarling chihuahua of a man was sweating as profusely as a stevedore and landing one unclear-on-the-concept haymaker after another, such as "the Republican nominee advocates abandoning arms control policies...this radical and irresponsible course would threaten our security and could put the whole world in peril," "when Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan, we moved quickly to take action...I suspended some grain sales...and led more than 60 other nations in boycotting...the Moscow Olympics," and my personal favorite, "they want to eliminate the 55-mile speed limit." Well, I suppose we ought to give him some credit; at least he was being factually correct on that last assertion. br> -- Nelson Hernandez br> McLean, Virginia

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