Jimmy Carter not fit to judge Kavanaugh’s fitness for job
Former President Jimmy Carter on Thursday called Judge Brett Kavanaugh “unfit” to be a Supreme Court Justice. He did so without a shred of evidence or supporting witnesses.
Jimmy Carter was “unfit” to be president of the United States. He couldn’t get anything through either the Congress or the Senate. He pardoned the Vietnam War draft dodgers.
During the four years of his administration, inflation rose from 5.8 percent to 11.3 percent. And the gasoline crisis occurred during his tenure.
The main proof he was “unfit” is because he allowed 54 American diplomats, military members and civilians to be held as hostages by the Iranian government for 444 days with no retribution of any kind, just words of condemnation.
Jimmy Carter was one of America’s least effective and least qualified presidents. He is in no position to discuss anyone’s “fitness” for office.
This is not a caravan of people at our border; it’s an invasion
A well-funded horde of people from South American countries is on their way to our southern border, intent on invading America, saying the magic word “asylum” which, under our current law, means they cannot be turned around and sent back to where they came from.
Who is providing the vehicles they’re using? Who is feeding them? Video shows them as pretty well fed and hydrated. The media would have you believe this “caravan” of people are all walking over 1,000 miles with no food, no water, just trudging across Guatemala, then across Mexico, intent on invading our country.
The left is rooting for them to get here, get asylum and soon be turned into Democratic voters.
We need the military on the border, turning all of these people around and sent packing. This is not how people immigrate to this country.
This is an invasion, pure and simple. Ray Spitzer, Glendale
Given our political climate, I’m afraid to attach a bumper sticker
Because I have donated to Kyrsten Sinema’s campaign for the U.S. Senate, I received a bumper sticker for my car. I was ready to attach it; then I thought twice.
I realized that in today’s acrimonious political climate, my bumper sticker might inspire someone with opposing views to smash my windshield or slash my tires.
Our Constitution guarantees freedom of expression, but in midterm election season in 2018 America, this has become an unaffordable luxury. Marta Labus, Phoenix
Contreras serves the public interest, not partisan interests
If your endorsement of Mark Brnovich was my only source of information for the two candidates for Attorney General, I would see him as the presumptive candidate. Having met January Contreras I know this is the wrong conclusion.
I find your editorial inadequate in fairly presenting both candidate’s experiences, perspectives and promises. Even when you acknowledged Contreras’ experience as a prosecutor for Maricopa County and the state, it is in reference to her opponent’s.
Candidate Contreras speaks movingly about working as an assistant attorney general under a Republican attorney general and her appreciation that the office was not pulled into the partisan politics of the day. She can separate politics from policy — something her opponent is not committed to.
As a fifth-generation Arizonan, she appreciates what she learns from citizens today. By listening to the concerns of citizens and learning about their public interests, she can relate policies to serve the public interest, not private interests or a political agenda.