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In reply to the discussion: Jimmy Carter's message to Ted Cruz and his Tea Party allies: [View all]Midnight Writer
(21,765 posts)His Carter Center has nearly eliminated the guinea worm, a truly nasty parasite that enters the body as a fluke in the drinking water and emerges (either through a bodily orifice or by digging its own tunnel) as a 3 foot long worm. When he started, there were 3.5 million known cases. Today it is less than 200. It will be the second human disease in history to be expunged (following smallpox).
He is now working on river blindness, which has 25 million victims. He has already removed it from Central and South America and is now working in Africa.
Along with Habitat for Humanity and other charities, he is using his name and status to HELP PEOPLE. Name one Christian Republican with Carter's record of accomplishment.
Please. I truly hope you can.