jimmy carter, we hardly know ye..

it's very difficult t get around the notion of jimmy carter as world statesman and trouble-shooter when he doesn't help much at home. reminds me of my father when i was a little girl -- he would come home after work and sit in "his chair", eat dinner, watch tv, and go to bed. he worked hard, but it wasn't till he retired and my mother got sick that he took home-making seriously.

yesterday's papers were full of jimmy carter's opinions about the palestinian political situation and arab control of six major u.s. ports -- but it seems that equal representation for u.s. women isn't even near the top of his to-do list. on 9/14 i faxed and then mailed the letter asking for his support, which is posted on my website withoutboundaries.com -- and so far no answer. oh, a few days after thanksgiving i did get a mass-mailed fund-raising request from the carter center (which has nary a word on it about equal rights for any women on its website). back went the letter in the postage-paid return envelope, and again no answer...

how can jimmy carter justify his international gallavanting on behalf of democratic ideals such as elections, when u.s. women hold a measly 15.4% of the seats in congress? where was he when president bush proclaimed equality for women to be a touchstone of the administration's foreign democratization programs, and we don't have equal rights here at home? how high on the hill is the jimmy carter center, anyway?

president carter, we are sick -- sick of being second-class citizens in a self-proclaimed world's greatest democracy. when are you going to come home and help right this gross injustice. seems like you could help...if you wanted to.