posted August 21, 2006 02:05 PM            

Never has there been a President as bungling, boobish, irresponsible and wrong on virtually every issue as Jimmy Carter.

Nor has there ever been a President who despised the United States as Carter does and continues to prove it every day.

Never has there ever been a President who uplifts our enemies, who praises communist dictators or excuses the murderous acts of dictators and terrorist groups around the world.

All those grand prizes belong to Jimmy Carter.

It's time for the US State Department to yank Carter's passport and confine him to the United States.

If there's one thing we don't need, it's an ex-prez flying around the world bashing a current President and the United States. Those kinds of words are music to the ears of every enemy of the United States on earth and constitute the "aid and comfort" of "treason" as defined in the US Constitution.

Jimmy Carter – a national disgrace
Posted: August 21, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

In the history of any nation there are high and low points. There are events and people that make the nation proud or, frankly, cause it shame and embarrassment. I, for years, felt one of our proudest moments was Ronald Wilson Reagan telling Gorbachev, ''Tear down this wall.''

I always thought the shame of slavery would forever be our low point. That was right up until Jimmy Carter took office in 1977 and again last week when he spewed his hate-filled venom against his country and its president in Der Spiegel magazine. Jimmy, you are a disgrace to our nation.

The byline of the article read: ''Former U.S. president speaks with Der Spiegel about the danger posed to American values by George W. Bush, the difficult situation in the Middle East and Cuba's ailing Fidel Castro.'' Carter should have been front and center condemning such a headline. In any other time, with any other president, this would have been unheard of, but not from the new voices coming from the Bush-haters in the Democratic Party. Al Gore does it. Howard Dean does it. Maxine Waters does it. But that doesn't make it right. Jimmy Carter has allowed partisan attacks to escalate to dangerous levels.

So, I thought a stroll down memory lane would be appropriate. In the mid-1970s, Jimmy Carter, a fine peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia, ran for the highest office in the land and won. Congratulations Jimmy. Jimmy Carter appeared not to be your garden-variety politician and the country welcomed his down-home country approach. Within a year however, the welcome wore off. Carter's legacy is now inextricably linked to the ''Misery Index.'' No president in the history of the country had a Misery Index as high as Jimmy Carter's. Carter had an average Index of 16.27 percent during his term (1977-80). When he finally left Washington in 1980 is was at an all-time high of 21.98 percent. Not a record I would be proud of if I were you Jimmy.

Of course, who could forget the 444 days America was held hostage by Iran? The now-famous program, ABC's Nightline, was birthed to cover the day-to-day events. Each night we would watch the news, counting the days our captured Americans were being held by radical Islamic terrorists while President Jimmy Carter sat by powerless and did nothing. The appeaser didn't want to upset the Ayatollah Khomeini. The leader of the free world had been reduced to a thumb-sucking peacenik by a gang of 7th-century hoodlums.

Suffice it to say, the Carter years were very bad for our nation. 16 percent inflation, 22 percent interest rates, and 70 percent marginal tax rates did little to endear Jimmy to the hard working people he claims to now protect against George W. Bush. Today, under Bush, we have 2.7 percent core inflation rates, historically low interest rates and 35 percent marginal tax rates. Looks like Jimmy is jealous.

I have to stop myself from going any further, for if Carter's own words are not enough to show his stupidity and hatred for our country and the president then nothing will. Jimmy Carter has done more than any single president to hurt this nation, not only while in office, but even more so since he was booted from office in complete humiliation. The American people rejected him and his insane policies. We in America couldn't get rid of this guy quick enough. His anger toward the country and its current leader is no surprise given how soundly he was rejected. He needs therapy to heal, not worldwide attention.

Carter is the first former president I can think of who has openly attacked a sitting president. Carter should thank his lucky stars Nixon, Ford and Reagan were men of character, for if they operated like Carter and Gore he would have been under an attack that would have made his head spin. And he would have actually deserved it.

Make no mistake about it. Jimmy Carter is not an American citizen. He is a citizen of the world. His views are so misguided that he would be relegated to a spot next to Michael Moore or Cindy Sheehan had he not been president of the United States. My God in heaven, what were we thinking at the time to elect a nut case like this in the first place?

Maybe Der Spiegel should have departed from the Bush-bashing questions and asked real questions of Jimmy, like what about the alleged million dollar contribution from the bin Laden family to your library? Or perhaps digging into his involvement with Saddam Hussein and the ''oil for food'' scam? What about accepting the Nobel Peace Prize knowing it was bestowed upon him by liberal socialists who love a Bush basher? Der Spiegel apparently follows the lead of fine journalists like 88-year-old Mike Wallace when interviewing Ahmadinejad. Don't ask the man why he wants to wipe Israel off the face of the earth or on what basis he believes the Holocaust was fiction. No. Couldn't do that. That might actually be of some journalistic value and we can't have that. We have to bash Bush.

Look, I am not the biggest fan of George W. Bush and I think he has made some serious mistakes. I am, however, a big fan of my country. I believe in America and its goodness. I believe in the American people who make it work. So when I see an ex-president who is not qualified to run a five and dime offer his opinion to the world abouthow it is worse off due to the United States, it p - - - - - me off.

Jimmy Carter and Mike Wallace are shining examples of why forced retirement makes sense for anyone over the age of 80. Obviously, at that point in life, if you have experienced rejection, you become rather bitter. And while you are entitled to be bitter, it should not be at the expense of good, honest, hardworking folks who believe in their nation. So Jimmy, don't go away mad. Just go away.

Jimmy is quoted in the interview as saying: ''I don't think Israel has any moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and the Gaza. I do not think that is justified, no.''

Is this guy serious? Militants take one or two soldiers? This guy needs meds, a straightjacket and a rubber room ASAP. Israel was attacked by Hezbollah, Jimmy. A terrorist organization. They came across a sovereign border and killed eight Israelis soldiers and kidnapped two others. That, in anybody's book but a whacked out liberal appeaser, is an open act of war. Is Jimmy suggesting that if someone in America is kidnapped they can be traded for all the murderers on death row? The prisoners in Israeli jails have committed crimes, Jimmy. They are not there for sport. They are suicide bombers who failed. Terrorists who have killed innocent people. I guess in Jimmy's world one man's terrorist is another man's militant. This guy is dangerous. Talk about immoral thinking. Apparently that type of thinking comes from the Carter Center. America bad. Israel Bad. Militant good.

He talks about how he was troubled by the celebrations of Cuban exiles in Miami on the news of Castro's illness. Of course, he has no problem with the Arab world rejoicing in the streets when 3,000 innocent Americans died on Sept. 11. Of course not! Those were just militants on those planes fighting the injustice of the American pigs. Jimmy, get a grip.

He ends his interview with a statement that says it all: ''I think (that was his first mistake ... thinking) that at this moment the United States and Israel probably stand more alone than our country has in generations.''

If fighting terrorism and taking a stand against radical Islamic terrorists who kill their own children, fellow Muslims, innocent Americans (241 dead Marines in Beirut and 3,000 on Sept. 11), and Israelis means standing alone, then I am proud to be on the side that stands alone. I would rather be right and alone than wrong and in the company of those who think they're right merely because a poll or a crowd says so.

posted August 22, 2006 06:09 PM            

I've already done that neptune5. Perhaps you remember the Jimmy Carter clones...Algore/Albore and the traitor John Heinz Kerry...both of whom have done and are doing exactly the same thing the incompetent, bungling, moronic Jimmy Carter is doing now. The 3 Stooges of the radical American left.

I'm kind of in a holding pattern, waiting to see which of the leftist radicals emerge as candidates in 2008.

Who will it be next time?

A rerun of Algore/Albore who was so incompetent in 2000 he couldn't win even when he cheated like hell.

A rerun of the flip-flopping traitor John Kerry who has given aid and comfort to every enemy who opposed the United States, who lost in 2004.

The leftist Russ Feingold who is trying desperately to get to the left of Hillary Clinton...and who floated a censure resolution against Bush that had every democrat in the Senate running for cover.

The leftist radical Hillary Clinton who attempted to impose a socialist health care system on America, obstructed justice by hiding her subpoenaed Rose Law Firm billing records, participated in a land sales scheme to defraud an Arkansas Bank and the FDIC, passed a bribe through to her husband Bill from Tyson Foods when Bill was Governor of Arkansas...among some other felonies she committed over the years.

The plagiarist Joe Biden, Senator from one of the most corrupt states in the United States..who voted for the war, says he supports the war, that we must win the war but gives aid and comfort to the terrorists and terrorist states by constantly attacking the Commander in Chief of the Military Forces.

Difficult to say who it will be at this point but whoever it turns out to be, I'll be ready

posted August 30, 2006 02:12 AM            

Don't forget that the Democratic Party leadership embraces Carter, as witnessed by his prominent role in the party's national convention, where he called President Bush – in no uncertain terms – a liar. Remember that when you're tempted to think of Carter as just a benign senior statesman.

I'll concede that Carter has done some good works since he was defeated in 1980, but why that should insulate him from scrutiny for the many inappropriate and mean-spirited statements he's made since then escapes me.

I thought Democrats unanimously agreed that one of America's highest aspirations should be to ingratiate itself to its allies and other nations. Above all else, we should strive to be the most popular player on the international block.

They have brutalized President Bush for acting "unilaterally" and alienating the rest of the world. They say that by attacking Iraq he has made peaceful Muslims the world over – who are otherwise inclined to love us dearly, of course – hate us and become homicidal suicide bombers.

Why, then, does Carter get a pass for constantly contributing to America's negative image by telling the world how bad we are?

Well, now he's not just telling them how bad we are, but how bad our greatest single ally in the war is. Carter told The Sunday Telegraph: "I have been surprised and extremely disappointed by Tony Blair's behavior. I think that more than any other person in the world the Prime Minister could have had a moderating influence on Washington – and he has not. I really thought that Tony Blair ... would be a constraint on President Bush's policies towards Iraq."

Carter said he holds Blair "substantially responsible" for his "compliance and subservience" to Bush, which has exacerbated America's unpopularity overseas "in countries like Egypt and Jordan," where "our approval ratings are less than five percent."

Notice that Carter gets a twofer here, blasting both Blair and Bush with his rhetorical popgun. His unstated premise is that if Muslim countries disapprove of our policies in the war, they must be right and we must be wrong. Wouldn't it be shocking if – just once – people like Carter would draw the opposite conclusion: that Egyptians and Jordanians are improperly sympathetic to the terrorist cause? And don't tell me this isn't about sympathy for Muslim terrorism.

Would you prefer to believe the Jordanians and Egyptians are righteously angry with us for deposing an incredibly evil dictator who enslaved, tortured and slaughtered his own people? Does that sound more reasonable to you?

Look at the Lebanese people's overwhelming support for the Hezbollah terrorists. How much more evidence do we need that it isn't our actions that cause them to hate us? Or, even if it is, that we can't quit fighting this war just so we can score higher in foreign popularity polls? (This is just a wild hunch, but I'll bet Jimmy's best buddy, Fidel Castro, disapproves of Bush's foreign policy, too.)

Since Carter has no plans to rebuke himself for slamming the leader of America's strongest ally, perhaps other Democratic leaders will step up to the plate and at least gently admonish him for alienating our allies and trying to validate the Muslim world's complaints against us.

Right.

The truth is that Tony Blair has been a courageous statesman and a refreshingly reliable ally throughout the war. He's stood tall against those in his own country and ours who have, in the spirit of Neville Chamberlain, turned their backs on the realities of 9/11 and pretended the evils we face don't exist, rather than confronting them.

By contrast, Jimmy Carter only sees evil in those who are fighting for good and opposing evil, like George Bush, Tony Blair, the United States and Great Britain.

Since the Democratic ex-presidents club is so determined to violate the traditional rule that former presidents don't criticize sitting ones, maybe President Bush should consider breaking that rule in reverse. As the sitting president, he might apologize to Tony Blair and the British people for the uncharitable, unfair and reprehensible remarks of former president Jimmy Carter, who has dishonored the sacrifices of America, Britain and their respective armed forces.

posted September 15, 2006 02:29 PM            

Like crazy uncles of old, it's time Jimmy Carter was locked in the attic. Never in the history of America has an ex President trotted around the globe criticizing and attempting to undermine the current President or current administration by putting forth a different foreign policy than the one being pursued by the current occupant of the White House.

Perhaps all that could be overlooked if...the United States was not at war...after being viciously attacked repeatedly all through the 1990's culminating in the 9/11 attack on the WTC.

Perhaps all that could be overlooked if...Jimmy Carter had shown an ounce of competence when he actually was President.

But, Jimmy Carter was a colossal failure in both domestic AND foreign policy.

Jimmy Carter is the weak kneed moron who stood idly by for nearly a year and a half while our diplomats were held hostage in Iran..and bungled a rescue attempt which got some American service personnel killed when their helicopter went down due to a maintenance problem. God, one would think a President would send only the best equipment in such an attempt.

To show just how weak, how vacillating this incompetent boob really is, Carter gave orders that if the rescue team was fired on by the Iranian military...or presumably anyone else...they were NOT to return fire.

Imagine that. Iran has committed an act of war against the US. Iran refuses to release American diplomats covered by every diplomatic convention on earth, including the UN Treaty and this moron gives orders not to shoot back at them. Presumably, the rescue team were to become additional hostages if they were discovered..or eat Iranian bullets until they were dead.

One can only conclude Carter was and is deranged. It's time Carter's passport be revoked and he be restricted to the United States..where he cannot undermine the US on foreign soil.

Carter has done enough damage to the US and the world...even paving the way for North Korea to develop nuclear weapons when he put forth an agreement whereby North Korea would take 2 nuclear power plants and hundreds of thousands of tons of food...and fuel..for their tanks no doubt..if they would just agree to stop development of nuclear weapons. Of course, we were to trust the insane dictator of communist North Korea that he would keep his word. Well, what's a crazy communist dictator to do in the face of such an offer to simply agree...he agreed. Clinton oversaw that fiasco.

Enough is enough. Most Americans had had enough of Jimmy Carter when they threw his sorry ass out of the White House in 1980 after one term...in one of the most lopsided defeats in the history of Presidential elections.

Now, this bungling idiot is criticizing and attempting to undermine a foreign leader...and a close ally of the United States...in his own country.

posted September 15, 2006 02:36 PM            

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter accused British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday of simply copying U.S. foreign policies instead of acting as a moderating influence.

"I have been really disappointed in the apparent subservience of the British government's policies related to many of the serious mistakes that have been originated in Washington," Carter told the BBC's Newsnight programme.

Carter, a Democrat who was president from 1977 to 1981, cited Britain's stance alongside Washington during the recent war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon and its participation in the U.S.-led 2003 invasion of Iraq.

He said there had been some reports Blair had tried behind the scenes to influence U.S. President George W. Bush but, if true, it had been to no avail.

Carter, who now tours the world promoting peace through his foundation, said Britain had acted as a moderating influence in the past through the so-called special relationship between the two countries but this was no longer the case.
"This time no matter what kind of radical or ill-advised policy is proposed from the White House it seems to me that almost automatically the government of Great Britain would adopt the same policy," said Carter.

"When the British have a public news media appearance there seems to be a total acquiescence to whatever America proposed at the beginning," he said.

Blair's opinion poll ratings have dropped over a combination of the conflict in Iraq, sleaze within his ruling Labour Party and infighting in Labour's ranks over a successor when he steps down next year.

posted January 12, 2007 12:49 AM            

The resignations from The Carter Center board are the latest backlash against the former president's book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," which has drawn fire from Jewish groups, been attacked by fellow Democrats and led to the resignation last month of Kenneth Stein, a center fellow and a longtime Carter adviser.

"You have clearly abandoned your historic role of broker in favor of becoming an advocate for one side," the departing members of the Center's Board of Councilors told Carter in their letter of resignation.

The 200-member board is responsible for building public support for the Carter Center. It is not the organization's governing board.

The board's members "are not engaged in implementing work of the Center," Carter Center Executive Director John Hardman said Thursday in a news release.

Deanna Congileo, a spokeswoman for Carter and the center, issued Hardman's statement in response to The Associated Press' request for comment from Carter.

The book follows the Israeli-Palestinian peace process starting with Carter's 1977-1980 presidency and the peace accord he negotiated between Israel and Egypt. It doles out blame to Israel, the Palestinians, the United States and others, but it is most critical of Israeli policy.

Steve Berman, an Atlanta real estate developer among those who resigned, said members have "watched with great dismay" as Carter defended the book, especially as he implied that Americans might be afraid to discuss the conflict in fear of a powerful Jewish lobby.

Berman said the religious affiliation of the resigning members, which include some prominent Jewish leaders in the Atlanta area, didn't influence their decision.

posted January 12, 2007 01:37 AM            

Carter is a bungling incompetent boob who came close to destroying the US economy, ushered in the Islamic radicals in Iran, helped overthrow Somosa in Nicaragua, which ushered in the communist regime of Daniel Ortega, negotiated the agreement with the insane communist leader of North Korea..which contained no inspection regime..we were supposed to just take his word he wouldn't attempt to make nuclear weapons and he turned out to be a liar...like all communists.

Presidents who came after Carter have been putting out the fires all over the globe the bungler Carter started.

America was sick of Carter after 4 years and he lost his reelection bid in one of the biggest landslide losses in history.

Carter gave America 21% interest rates and inflation rates of more than 15%.

posted January 12, 2007 10:07 AM            

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