Carter apologizes for 'stupid' book passage (Worst Prez Alert!)

Washington Times ^ | 01/26/07 | Eric Pfeiffer

[Recovering_Democrat]

Jimmy Carter has apologized for what he called a "stupid" passage in his book that critics say is a de facto endorsement of Palestinian violence against Israelis. The former president had spent most of the past two months defending his new book, "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid," after 15 board members at his Atlanta-based Carter Center resigned in protest of the book's content. "I apologize to you personally and to everyone here," Mr. Carter said when asked about the passage by a student during his appearance at Brandeis University on Tuesday. After explaining that the passage was "worded in a completely improper and stupid way," Mr. Carter said he has asked publisher Simon & Schuster Inc. to change the wording in future editions of the book.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Carter is full of crap. The heat on him hasn't gone away, despite the LAMESTREAM MEDIA ignoring the issue...people who think about the issues are holding him accountable.

Carter is a joke.

I'm ashamed I used to support him.

[sheana]

After explaining that the passage was "worded in a completely improper and stupid way," Mr. Carter said he has asked publisher Simon & Schuster Inc. to change the wording in future editions of the book.

so fake but accurate?

[Right Cal Gal]

However, Carter still believes it's all Israel's fault.

[theDentist]

"worded in a completely improper and stupid way,"

Carter-speak for "I still believe it, but I won't admit it anymore".

[EagleUSA]

Carter is beyond belief. In many ways, he makes Clinton LOOK GOOD -- if such a paradigm could ever exist. Carter needs to be sent to a rest home in Havana -- there he can continue his anti-American crap and associate with the Communists he loves.

Totally repulsive.

[DAC21]

His apology is about 30 years, and 18% interest rates short of being accepted.

[mikeus_maximus]

Every time he opens his mouth, he makes Reagan seem like that much more of a hero.

[ElkGroveDan]

Rodney King apologized too (after most of the fires were out, and the dead were buried)

[Brilliant]

Grovel, Jimmy, just grovel and grovel some more.

[UpAllNight]

Carter apologizes for 'stupid' book passage (Worst Prez Alert!)

Carter apologizes for stupid book (Worst Prez Alert!)

Fixed?

[Post-Neolithic]

Carter will go down in history as the most Anti-Semetic, Pro-Terrorist United States President(even President associated with his name make me want to wash my mouth out).

This on top of his absolute failure as President.

[Spok]

I always thought this man a fool, but I'm starting to wonder if he's not a bigot, too.

[Wings-n-Wind]

Carter is a joke.
I'm ashamed I used to support him.

S.L.G.A....
S_tandard L_itany of Georgia A_pologies....

For the peanut man... and his rants...

[Miss Marple]

LOL, aside from the many things I blame him for on a national/foreign policy level, the PERSONAL damage he did to me with high interest rates and the collapse of certain energy businesses is something that affects our economic well-being even today.

Worst. President. Ever.

[Thywillnotmine]

Look, the mere TITLE is hate-mongoring. This is not just one passage. Get a grip!

[mel]

IMHO, Rodney King and Carter are from 2 different worlds. Comparing the two is impossible. Carter as a former world leader bears a lot more responsibility for his deeds than King who was just continuing on his stupid ways that caused the stupid people to react like that.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

LOL, aside from the many things I blame him for on a national/foreign policy level, the PERSONAL damage he did to me with high interest rates and the collapse of certain energy businesses is something that affects our economic well-being even today.

A loud and boisterous "ME TOO" on behalf of my entire family. Jimmy Carter's interest rates killed my grandparents AND my parents ability to keep running their businesses and doing capital investment improvements. We are still literally paying the price.

[LazarusMan]

Carter has sanctified his legacy in history which can described in one word, "Moron," and that is being very kind.

[lepton]

How long did it take for him to realize this after it was pointed out to him?

[Dr. Frank fan]

It just occurred to me that it's odd that people assume that this "books" was actually written by Jimmy Carter.

Most likely, Jimmy sketched a basic outline but farmed out the actual writing to some lefty ideologue. This would explain why when scandals like these surface, there's often such a disconnect and lack of responsibility exhibited on the "author's" part for the things that he "wrote". Carter is essentially saying "oops, I didn't mean to write that", which makes no sense if he did write it, but makes perfect sense if he didn't.

Which is not to say that in this case, Carter doesn't believe what is in the book; most likely he does. But if he had written it, he would have perhaps self-edited enough to make his vicious leftism more palatable.

The episode would serve as a pretty decent argument against viciously hateful ideologues using ghostwriters, if they want to preserve credibility. Carter had a somewhat successful political career gussying/phonying/hiding his beliefs for public consumption; he probably shouldn't entrust that task to anyone else anymore.

Just speculation, of course.

[avacado]

It's just a simple case of "botched" wording...

Move along folks...

[OldCorps]

[albee]

"Jimmy Carter has apologized for what he called a "stupid" passage in his book that critics say is a de facto endorsement of Palestinian violence against Israelis."

That's Okay, Jimmah! We already know how stupid you are and always consider the source of the comments you make.

[TYVets]

When will Carter apologize for his presidency?

[God luvs America]

bump

[sanchmo]

The questionable passage, which appears on Page 213 of the book, reads: "It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the Roadmap for Peace are accepted by Israel."

Does any passage anywhere in his 288-page book about Paletinian-Israeli relations urge Palestinian and Arab groups to stop suicide bombing and terrorism unconditionally. Anywhere? If not, this apology is meaningless.

[UpAllNight]

President Carter's "official" UFO sighting report:

http://www.presidentialufo.com/Carter_Sighting_Report_2.gif

[teawithmisswilliams]

...future editions of the book.

What an egomaniac.

[RetSignman]

..."worded in a completely improper and stupid way,",so he's blaming the publisher?

[sanchmo]

Does the book even acknowledge that even after the PLO / PA "officially" agredd to a two-state solution, Arafat's speeches in Arabic to his Palestinian constituents called for Israel's destruction? Does it once acknowledge that the current Hamas government still officially and unofficially state its objective as the elimination of the state of Israel?

If not, Little Jimmy is either too ignorant or too dishonest to even speak on the matter.

[SerpentDove]

>>"It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the Roadmap for Peace are accepted by Israel." <<

This was the man who praised Khomeini as a deeply religious man, and completely failed in the Iranian hostage crisis.

Now that you have admitted your stupidity, Mr. Carter, will you now leave the world stage?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Just speculation, of course.

I think your speculation has some merit. If Carter really wrote this book, that means he wrote at least three or four drafts of the "questionable" language, an editor or team of editors read/analyzed/antagoinzed over it scores of times, and he (Carter) saw it again, in galley form, before the book was printed---to say nothing of the teams of lawyers who vetted the language. If that's the case, he's 100% responsible for every flippin' word in the book, and he should be surprised by exactly none of it.

[kennedy]

The former president had spent most of the past two months defending his new book

I guess he finally got around to reading it.

[rom]

I'm waiting for: "Carter apologizes for Presidency"

[LexBaird]

That passage is found on the pages between the flyleaf and the index. All of them.

[LexBaird]

Carter is beyond belief. In many ways, he makes Clinton LOOK GOOD -- if such a paradigm could ever exist.

Clinton was bad because he was self serving, but competent. Carter was self righteously incompetent. Of the two, Carter was definately the worst, because, to this day, he doesn't know how much damage he personally caused. He is personally responsible for the rise of radical Islamism. What he did in Iran midwifed the movement.

[bkepley]

I don't know...I'm kinda shocked he admitted a mistake. Maybe there's hope for him after all.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Carter wants to re-write history. Again.

[parisa]

Although a recovering dem myself, I was one in spite of carter. I despise this man to the very core of my being.

He is a perfidious snake through and through, and we will still be paying for his debacles and treachery long after he's gone.

[elhombrelibre]

However, he's a bad joke with ideas that are far more malicious in effect than most people realize.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Laugh about it all you want, but if we had been smart enough to lock in 30-year bonds during his presidency, we'd all be able to retire quite comfortably.

:-)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

He should apologize for his disastrous presidency, devaluing the American dollar, 21 percent interest rates, etc, etc.

[Recovering_Democrat]

I don't know...I'm kinda shocked he admitted a mistake. Maybe there's hope for him after all.

The guy is 80, and he has been a liberal whackjob all his life. There is no hope. He is sorry he's getting so much flack. That is the extent of his sorrow.

[colorado tanker]

They let Carter appear despite his refusal to appear with Dershowitz. The peanut-head knew he'd be shredded by someone who really knows the facts about the conflict.

[motorola7]

Carter showed the Shah of Iran the door and ushered in
the original "modern" terrorist, Ayatollah Khomeini.

That makes him not just stupid but a terrorist enabler.
Doe he really hate Isreal that much? The evidence seems
to be building.

[stan_sipple]

I was for terrorist suicide bombers before I was against them

[philman_36]

I rather loved the 'apologizer' on Hannity and Colmes tonight.
What I got out of it was, basically, that Jimmah wrote the book 'cause people were 'dissin' him' so he wrote the book to get back at them.
Jimmah is claiming victim status.