Jimmy Carter: “We do not feel like strangers at all, but as if we were at home in our own village.”

I fear for our democracy.

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.

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…

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