Jimmy Carter's Son: Chasing Father's Legacy

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Jimmy Carter has lost the ability to speak out loud without embarrassing himself. His son, Jack Carter is taking up the mantle in his effort to gain elective office in Nevada. Having a dualist position on a moral issue reveals either an ignorance of the moral question or an effort to be deceptive about one's actual opinion.

Jack Carter, 58, the eldest son of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has announced he is seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate to represent Nevada. At his launch, Carter spoke with reporters revealing his schizophrenic stand on abortion - a stand similar to that of his father.

Speaking with the Associated Press' Kathleen Hennessey, Carter described his abortion views saying, ""I'm a personal freedoms person. I don't want the government to come in and tell my child or whoever it is that they can't have an abortion. I'm pro-choice as far as a woman choosing, but I'm against abortion."

Being a personal liberties person and discounting the personal liberty of the child yet to be born is just such dualism. Personal liberty for one person at the expense of another's is not liberty but tyranny. To subvert one's position on a question of morality to the opinion of those of a particular demographic betrays a moral relativity which is no moral foundation at all.

Having one Carter gallivanting about uttering nonsense is entertaining enough, but to have two at the same time may supply us with crazy quotes at such a rapid rate that we may suffer overload.