someone put the heat on instead of the air conditioning at the office today

[threeplusfire]

Does anyone honestly take the president seriously anymore? Iran? Calling Jimmy Carter "sad" and "irrelevant?" Oh, my, stars. Jimmy Carter may not have been the most brilliant president of the 20th century but he does a lot of good work with his life right now that has a positive impact on ordinary people instead of the Haliburton shareholders. Ugh. Reading the news makes me want to throw things.

In less grim news, I signed up for the me_rse ficathon because I need a small short term goal. I am bad about being rigorous or dedicated when it comes to writing. Quite honestly, most of the time I finish the story in my head and since I know how it ends I see little incentive to actually write it down. If only I had a psychic connection to my word document, and did not rely on these fragile fingers.

All I can think about is going home and taking a bath.

Comments

[curmudgn]

Jimmy Carter is, IMO, ideally suited for the job he's doing now, and was disastrously mismatched for the job of POTUS. He's a *good* man and expected the governments of the world would follow his example and behave likewise which, to almost no one's surprise, they didn't. In that way, he reminds me a good deal of Woodrow Wilson, a man who also thought that setting a Christian example would lead the world to be a better place and was just as utterly wrong about it.

(Note: I voted for him in '76 anyway, as I've voted for every Democratic presidential candidate since.)

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Poor Carter. He was really thrust into an absurd situation as president, and you're right - he expected people to behave decently and they didn't. I have so much respect for the work Carter does that I find it almost impossible not to just love the man.