Posted on 12/03/2006 6:55:22 PM PST by SkyPilot
Cheers.
All of that is true. however, China now has our nuclear technology aimed at us thanks to the sink emperor
And worst EX PRESIDENT!
hE SUCKS
Am I reading that correctly? Is Moyers an ordained Baptist minister?
Jimmy Carter's Dirty Tricks. It seems Jimmy has a past.
Yarbrough: Sanders led Georgia through trying times
| | Story updated at 2:03 AM on Saturday, December 2, 2006
Dick
Yarbrough
Two significant developments came out of Carl Sanders' race for governor of Georgia against Jimmy Carter in 1970. First, unlike Carter, Sanders refused to compromise his principles in order to get elected. Second, once the election was over, the former governor decided to leave the political arena and devote himself to building his law practice. Today, Troutman Sanders, which he serves as chairman emeritus, is one of the 100 largest law firms in the United States, with more than 650 attorneys. Sanders has done well.
At a recent lunch, Sanders was reluctant to get into the details of his defeat by Carter, saying simply, "The thought process I went through in every campaign I ever ran was to focus my energy on talking about education and things that were needed in my district or in the state. I always assumed that if I worked hard enough, my opponent would not be able to beat me using race, but Jimmy Carter effectively used the issue to drive a wedge between the races."
The dirty tricks he endured included a picture widely circulated in South Georgia showing Sanders, a part owner of the Atlanta Hawks professional basketball team at the time, celebrating a victory with his arms around Joe Caldwell, a black player.
Carter and his apologists have long denied any culpability, but veteran political columnist Bill Shipp told me he saw Bill Pope, Carter's press secretary, hand out leaflets with the photograph at a Ku Klux Klan rally.
Dot Wood, a good friend and former vice president of Gerald Rafshoon Advertising, which handled Carter's media, confirms the story and said she saw boxes of the leaflets in the office. Mysterious leaflets also criticized Sanders for attending the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. Carter made a point to say that he did not attend. (Aside: Remember Carter's sanctimonious performance at Coretta Scott King's funeral?)
Carter, by the way, got only 5 percent of the black vote in the campaign.
During the campaign, Carter also criticized Sanders for his support of then-President Lyndon B. Johnson. "I did support LBJ," Sanders said, "because he had given Lockheed one of the largest orders ever for C-5 airplanes and a lot of money for rural development in Georgia, and I wasn't going to turn my back on him after what he had done for the people of Georgia."
In his biography of Sanders, author Jim Cooke says Sanders underestimated Carter and thought people would see through Carter's facade of portraying himself as a George Wallace-styled redneck. He refused his staff's recommendations to fight back until it was too late, and Carter was elected governor. Of course, once elected, Carter changed his tune, severely disappointing the arch-segregationists who had supported him.
If you want to judge Carter's gubernatorial campaign for yourself, be prepared to wait. It seems that the papers from that campaign reside at the Carter Center and have not been "processed." Call me naive, but I don't think he and his apologists are anxious for you to see them. I can understand why. His image is bad enough. Why make it worse?
Carter's hypocrisy evidently knows no bounds. After a dinner for former governors at the Governor's Mansion, Carter told the news media he owed much to Sanders for making Georgia such a progressive state, and also talked about how much that image helped him in his presidential campaign.
Pondering that comment, Sanders just shakes his head and smiles.
I asked Sanders how he would like to be remembered by future generations. He thought for a moment and said, "I would like to be remembered for playing the game of politics fair and square, for having made a contribution to my state and for leaving Georgia better than I found it."
I couldn't have said it better. Sanders' leadership pulled Georgia through one of the most difficult periods in its history, and he left the state much better than he found it. Most importantly, he did it with integrity. The man is a class act.
• Reach Dick Yarbrough at P.O. Box 725373, Atlanta, GA 31139, or send e-mail to yarb2400@bellsouth.net.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on 120206
I would love to see what his secret service psychological file says about him. I wonder if the "US security agencies" consider him a threat.
All I can say to that is AMEN!
peaNUT has spent countless hours in toilet-bowl foreign ports of call, lusting in his heart after an open mic. and a running camera in front of broadcast gear and an audience of sycophant suck-ups to fawn upon him...
SO he can ingratiate himself to half the cheese-brained, tinpot, America-hating dictators and "socialist leaders" in the non-free world.
A coward and a traitor. I predict/expect, salvation question aside, all his works will burn like chaff. All his hammer-swinging for "habitat..." is not {IMHO} sufficient to counterbalance, nor atone for the evil of his treacherous words and actions whixch have damaged US security and prestige abroad.
A.A.C.
Yes, and bragged about it then.
I think that on some level, Bill Boy knows he is a jerk - Carter really believes he is the Messiah!
Jimmah has no use for Judaism - or Christianity for that matter. And don't start me on Amy Carter!
the caller is right!
Regardless, That bubblehead Carter would wreck a one-man-rock-fight.
He was my Commander in chief, and he was at best "ill-prepared" for the job. At one time, because the Congress wanted to cry about their pay increase, the military and other federal workers had to go without paychecks for a considerable time.
Carter is the reason I became a Reagan-Democrat/Republican, I voted for the puke as a Democrat. Nov. 2., 1976 I voted for Carter. Nov 3., 1976 I enlisted into the Navy. Did I learn my lesson or what?
SS
Taft could not fit into the White House bathtub! But to the subject at hand: Jimmah Carter is a dumb ass. Period.
Who is the broad in the middle? Is that Amy or Hillary?
You're confusing him with his father, William Howard Taft. Senator Robert Taft was known as "Mr. Republican" but never got the party nomination (for Prez).
That is a shock to me, and a tragedy for not only Moyers but all who are influenced by him.
I'd have just settled for the man calling Carter a naive dope. Which he is more than anything else.
I dunno...three peas in a pod...or perhaps pea-nuts in a shell.
Ignoring the Constitution, centralizing the government, etc.
"You're a racist and an anti-semite" Today people throw out these terms way too loosely, imho. And technically aren't the palestinians semites?
Since the question was regarding what constituted Semetic, I went back to the origin of Abraham.
The particular passage "wild ass of a man" refers to Ishmael, the father of all Arabs.
He will be a wild ass of a man;
his hand will be against everyone
and everyone's hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
toward all his brothers."
Genesis 16:12
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