Jimmy Carter: “I have today signed the Federal Employees Part-Time Career Employment Act of 1978.”

Our great nation now teeters on the brink of a widening abyss. Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.

Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.

This is a very wise and very courageous thing for President Obama to do. And in my opinion, is long overdue.

But, when a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States of America as an animal, or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have…