I read an interesting political comment today. The Democrats are saying that a vote for McCain is a vote for a third term of George Bush. (This is a silly comment, but that is the way of politics.) Now someone says a voye for Obama is a vote for a second Carter term. Actually there is some substance to this comment, since obama's foreign policy team includs a lot of Carter's followers, and Obama seems to agree with Carter on foreign policy, particularly with regard to the middle east. For those young people who weren't around during Carter's Presidency, Carter failed in all ways possible, and particularly in foreign policy. Like Obama, Carter wanted to talk to everyone, and to give in to them. Then he was astonished to discover that our enemies were deceiving him all along.