Jimmy Carter: “I will nominate William B. Schwartz, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the…”

Carter says the animosity directed at the president over health care, the big bailouts, is being driven because Mr. Obama is a black man.

But inside Palestine, outside of Israel, where the Israelis occupying forces are there, the persecution and deprivation of the Palestinians is horrendous.

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.

That our country for the first time in my lifetime has abandoned basic principles of human rights.