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BUSYBODY JIMMY CARTER A MAN WITH NO EX APPEAL
New York Post ^ | 3/20/03 | STEVE DUNLEAVY

Posted on 03/10/2003 12:47:19 AM PST by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:12:34 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

March 10, 2003 -- ALEXANDER Hamilton, who founded this great newspaper in 1801, said, "Once presidents complete their terms, they should leave the country. Otherwise, they would be a great mischief."

He added that former presidents are "like discontented ghosts, sighing for a place which they were destined nevermore to possess." President Calvin Coolidge added a note: "I should like to be known as a former president who minds his own business."


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1 posted on 03/10/2003 12:47:19 AM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks

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2 posted on 03/10/2003 12:52:36 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Are you going Freeps Ahoy! Don't miss the boat. Er ship...)
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To: kattracks
Jimmy Carter: "Useful Idiot" or "Traitor"?

"[Marshall Tito] is a man who believes in human rights.
[He is] a great and courageous leader [who] has led his people
and protected their freedom almost for the last 40 years."

-- Carter, while still in office, hailing Yugoslavia's communist dictator

"Our goals are the same: to have a just system of economics and
politics ... We believe in enhancing human rights."

-- Carter comparing himself to Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu

"Our concept of human rights is preserved in [Communist] Poland."
-- Carter speaking to Stalinist Edward Gierek, Poland's First Secretary

"[I am] ashamed of what my country has done to your country."
-- Carter speaking to Haitian dictator Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras

"I don't see that they [the North Koreans] are an outlaw nation."
-- Carter in North Korea, lauding Stalinist Kim Il Sung,
   one of the most destructive and repressive dictators in history

"Ill-informed commentators in both countries have cast the other side
as a villain and have even forecast inevitable confrontation
between the two nations."

-- Carter making exquisite moral equivalence between the giant and
   repressive Chinese Communist state and America

Carter gave away US oversight of the Panama Canal, "the most
important waterway in the world," says Adm. Thomas H. Moorer (ret),
which is now "packed with Chinese communists."

Sadat, appalled that Carter wanted the Soviets in on Middle East peace
negotiations, decided to directly offer peace to Israel's Begin. When
their plan was essentially worked out, they then called the White House,
because obviously, "they needed someone to pay the bill" (Bernard Lewis).

Not resting on his laurels, Carter demanded the Shah of Iran step down
and turn over power to the Ayatollah Khomeini, an Islamic madman. Carter
had the Pentagon tell the Shah's top military commanders - about 150 of
them - to acquiesce to the Ayatollah and not fight him. The Shah's
military listened to Carter. ALL OF THEM were murdered in one of the
Ayatollah's first acts. By allowing the Shah to fall, Carter created one
of the most militant anti-American dictatorships ever. Soon the new Iranian
government was ransacking our embassy and held hostage its staff for over
a year. More than 20,000 pro-Western Iranians were put before firing
squads. With the Shah gone, the whole region was destabilized.

Iraq took advantage of the Shah's departure to invade Iran, a war that
killed more than 500,000 people. It also created the regional instabilities
that led to Iraq’s later invasion of Kuwait and to Operation Desert Storm,
which cost the lives of hundreds of thousands more. But Carter meant well.

In the closing days of the 1980 election, Carter's White House contacted
the Soviets in a quid pro quo to plead for assistance in stopping Reagan
from winning. In 1984, Carter himself visited Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin
to ask the Soviets to intervene on behalf of Democrats. Damning evidence
that Jimmy Carter, as both president and citizen, may have committed treason
by enlisting the help of our enemies in presidential elections.

Since leaving office, Carter has:
- praised Syria's late Assad (killer of at least 20,000 in Hama)
- praised Ethiopian tyrant Mengistu (killer of many more than that)
- secured Saudi funding for Arafat after he sided with Iraq against the US
- wrote the UN Security Council after Iraq invaded Kuwait, urging them
to thwart President Bush's pre-Gulf War coalition (designed to reverse
that act of aggression) - another action some called "treason"

"Our people, who face Israeli bullets, have no weapons: only a few stones
remaining when our homes are destroyed by Israeli bulldozers."

-- from a speech written by Carter for Yassir Arafat

"[Arafat's] election [was] democratic, well organized, open and fair."
-- Carter describing the "rigged" 1996 Palestinian election

"[Arafat] may well see the suicide attacks as one of the few ways
to retaliate against his tormentors, to dramatize the suffering of
his people, or as a means for him, vicariously, to be a martyr."

-- Carter in an apologia for the Pali homicide-bombings

And yet, with the blood of perhaps a million people dripping from his hands,
Carter stalked the earth in his sick quest to be given a Nobel Peace Prize.

If he had any moral center at all, he would return his recent peace prize.

Carter is the smiley face of evil.

R E F E R E N C E S:

Jimmy Carter: America basher
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/jg20020515.shtml

Carter: Cuba Terror Claims False
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/682807/posts

There He Goes Again
http://www.nationalreview.com/20may02/nordlinger052002.asp

You Didn’t Ask for It, You Got It: Carterpalooza!
http://www.nationalreview.com/impromptus/impromptus050302.asp

Carter & Castro
http://www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/ponte05-08-02.htm

Jimmy Carter’s Trail of Disaster
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/5/12/164726.shtml

'Idiotic' Carter Castro's Dupe
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/5/15/202903.shtml

Carter, Democrats Asked Soviets to Stop Reagan
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/10/16/214040


3 posted on 03/10/2003 1:20:26 AM PST by polemikos
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To: DoughtyOne
Carter is a destructive megalomaniac.
4 posted on 03/10/2003 1:21:01 AM PST by MEG33
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To: kattracks
And let's not forget that Carter's idea of terrorism was being attacked by a rabbit in a Monty Pythonesque fishing episode. This man should not stray from his funny farm.
5 posted on 03/10/2003 1:41:27 AM PST by pt17
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To: kattracks
President Calvin Coolidge added a note: "I should like to be known as a former president who minds his own business."

This is some very good advice Carter and Clinton should follow. But we all know that Clinton is a narcissist who can't bear to be out of the public spotlight.

6 posted on 03/10/2003 5:46:40 AM PST by 2nd_Amendment_Defender
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To: kattracks
What is the story about Jimmy's rent a jet so on long or short trips, he looks more important? What a sorry little man - another ex-president who hates his country.
7 posted on 03/10/2003 5:49:39 AM PST by yoe
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To: polemikos
Excellent review of Carter's actual performance in office.
8 posted on 03/10/2003 6:17:15 AM PST by George W. Bush
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To: kattracks
In late 1912, after going through four turbulent years of the turbulent ex-Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft suggested that "Dr. Osler's method" would be a good antidote for restless ex-Presidents:
"the proper and scientific administration of a dose of chloroform, or of the fruit of the lotus tree... the funeral pyre... might make a fitting end to the life of one who has held the highest office, and at the same time would secure the country from the troublesome fear that the occupant could ever come back.
That, or a permanent, compulsory non-voting seat in the Senate. Dr. Osler's method would be the lesser punishment.
9 posted on 03/10/2003 8:39:24 AM PST by nicollo
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