Comments on: My Hero http://www.peacebang.com/2005/11/03/my-hero/ The manic mind of the minister -- Auntie Mame Meets Cotton Mather Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:30:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: fausto http://www.peacebang.com/2005/11/03/my-hero/#comment-1009 fausto Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:44:33 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2005/11/03/my-hero/#comment-1009 Larry King interviewed him last night on CNN. He made a lot of sense. He had a lot to say, too, about the differences between his personal old-time Baptist faith and the fundamentalists who have taken over the right wing of Protestantism, including his own SBC. Larry King interviewed him last night on CNN. He made a lot of sense. He had a lot to say, too, about the differences between his personal old-time Baptist faith and the fundamentalists who have taken over the right wing of Protestantism, including his own SBC.

]]> By: Adam Tierney-Eliot http://www.peacebang.com/2005/11/03/my-hero/#comment-1008 Adam Tierney-Eliot Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:28:56 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2005/11/03/my-hero/#comment-1008 Mine too. Dad used to do some campaign work for him back in the day (Dad was in the Maine House then). I remember going door to door in 1980 and having Carter brochures thrown back at me and (one time)a guy threatened to release his dogs! I was, incidentally, five years old when he was elected and 9 when he lost... Man, people were angry!<br/><br/>Once (during the 1988 Democratic Convention, I was a Jackson Page and Dad was a Dukakis delegate) I got to meet him at a Carter Center reception. I believe I remember the entire very brief conversation word for word.<br/><br/>A great man. I will read this book as I have read all the others... Mine too. Dad used to do some campaign work for him back in the day (Dad was in the Maine House then). I remember going door to door in 1980 and having Carter brochures thrown back at me and (one time)a guy threatened to release his dogs! I was, incidentally, five years old when he was elected and 9 when he lost… Man, people were angry!

Once (during the 1988 Democratic Convention, I was a Jackson Page and Dad was a Dukakis delegate) I got to meet him at a Carter Center reception. I believe I remember the entire very brief conversation word for word.

A great man. I will read this book as I have read all the others…

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