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Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”
The Intercept/First Look Media ^ | July 30 2015, 7:09 p.m. | Jon Schwarz

Posted on 07/31/2015 9:37:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.”

Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter said, “look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves.”

Carter was responding to a question from Hartmann about recent Supreme Court decisions on campaign financing like Citizens United. …

(Excerpt) Read more at firstlook.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: blasphemer; cancer; carter; citizensunited; georgia; homosexualagenda; jimmuh; jimmycarter; liberalagenda; oligarchy; plutocracy; socialism
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To: rikkir

Don’t you? Except he’s so vile & toxic, I’m not sure how best to dispose of him safely.


21 posted on 07/31/2015 10:10:55 PM PDT by KGeorge (Hell no- we ain't forgettin')
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To: Olog-hai

Peanuts are beans!


22 posted on 07/31/2015 10:16:08 PM PDT by JmyBryan
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To: Lee Enfield

Jimmy jumps in whenever he thinks 0bama may take his place as the worst president in US history.


23 posted on 07/31/2015 10:23:51 PM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: 9YearLurker

Blind squirrel/killer rabbit


24 posted on 07/31/2015 10:34:34 PM PDT by Pelham (Deo Vindice)
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To: Olog-hai

His wrongness so overwhelms the incredibly few right things he says. I can’t remember the last thing he said that was right, apart from this narrow couple sentences in the first paragraph.


25 posted on 07/31/2015 10:36:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Olog-hai

He’s not wrong. He participated in promoting the conditions which allowed it to happen.


26 posted on 07/31/2015 10:37:55 PM PDT by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
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To: 9YearLurker

He would know- he was on Saddam Hussein’s payroll via Samir Vincent and Oscar Wyatt


27 posted on 07/31/2015 10:42:50 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Lee Enfield

“Jimmy who?”

Jimmy Catarrh.*

*catarrh
[kuh-tahr]
noun
1.
Pathology. inflammation of a mucous membrane, especially of the respiratory tract, accompanied by excessive secretions.


28 posted on 07/31/2015 10:50:48 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Olog-hai

Carter - the man who brought the Iranian islamonazis to power You know, obama’s pals who are preparing, with all his help, to nuke us


29 posted on 07/31/2015 10:51:16 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (up)
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To: Olog-hai

The conclusion may be right but he came to it for all the wrong reasons. CFR was nothing more than the death penalty for the First Amendment.


30 posted on 07/31/2015 10:54:55 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Is that Jimmy Qatar?
31 posted on 07/31/2015 11:01:36 PM PDT by Lee Enfield (I identify as rich, cut me a check.)
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To: 9YearLurker
He's just spilling the beans because he knows his time on this earth is short. He was no stranger to either side of bribery from the time he was Governor until he left office as President.

In fact, a major reason for his animosity toward the Shah of Iran was because the Shah flatly refused to pay bribes on command rather than in return for specific favors.

Don't get me wrong, the Shah was a dictatorial turd that thought of the Iranian people like his own herd of sheep to do with as he pleased. That was all fine with the US up until the Shah told Carter to stuff it when it came time to pay into the DNC and a few other things he hadn't been asked to do in the past.

32 posted on 07/31/2015 11:07:06 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Olog-hai

Yeah! Why doesn’t everybody just take hundreds of millions from the Saudis, like Jimmy?


33 posted on 07/31/2015 11:07:24 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Olog-hai

Why do so many FReepers spell it “Jimmuh”? Nobody ever pronounced it that way.


34 posted on 07/31/2015 11:15:58 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Olog-hai

Even a broken calendar is right about once every 28 years.


35 posted on 07/31/2015 11:17:32 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Resistance to Tyrants is obedience to God)
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To: Olog-hai

At the link the guy is asking for examples of $$ influencing politics. I emailed him recommending “Clinton Cash”.


36 posted on 07/31/2015 11:38:29 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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I never thought I’d agree with Carter on anything. However people like George Soros and the various billionaires who are getting establishment Republicans to turn their back on us regarding immigration are a problem.


37 posted on 08/01/2015 12:08:11 AM PDT by Reaper19
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To: Olog-hai

Silly Democrats don’t know the difference between a Plutocracy and an Oligarchy. Just like the way they don’t know the difference between Socialism and Democracy.


38 posted on 08/01/2015 2:06:10 AM PDT by Fhios (I hope Trump can keep us entertained for the next 6 months.)
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To: Olog-hai

Tell us something we don’t already know


39 posted on 08/01/2015 2:07:34 AM PDT by Bluewater2015 (There are no coincidences)
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To: 9YearLurker
no doubt pubs do bad things, but by and large, its the RAT party that subverts the citizens...

because of a compliant media, too many people think the rats represent the poor people....we all know they have a lock on most of the richest people in this country, as well as other countries, and it shows...

40 posted on 08/01/2015 2:26:41 AM PDT by cherry
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