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Carter claimed that people "in the real world" have been buying his book. However, Carter's allegations that people don't listen to him may indicate that he is aware of the fact that most Americans regard him as hopelessly addicted to self-promotion, mouthing platitudes of ultra-left sloganeers and sounding like Cindy Sheehan on a particularly bad day. His statements are disregarded because of his foolish policies and incompetent administration during his [thankfully] short tenure in the Oval Office. He managed to get double-digit inflation and interest rates at the same time as running the country into a recession after his seven economic plans---a true Trifecta of ineptitude.

His foreign policy was so badly-conceived and poorly-executed that Iran spiraled into Islamic Revolution, largely because this inept peanut farmer's Human Rights chief in the State Department, Pat Derian, refused to sign off on allowing the Shah's police rubber bullets---months later the Shah's police used live ammunition on students, killing hundreds, and then even the bazaari middle class opted for ridding Iran of the Shah. Another tale of Carter's serial brainlessness.

And his fact-checking makes even the third-rate New Yorker look competent by comparision, although Carter does not commit the solecism of "Saudia Arabia" in a Hertzberg column a while back.

And I must, while I'm at it, again express my sadness at the passing early this year of Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, who was one of the sole sane influences at Columbia University's Middle East department and was my mentor on the Middle East while I served as a Middle East consultant for John Anderson in the [ultimately successful] national effort to rid the country of the bane of the Carter Presidency.

I thank God every day for Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, who saved the US and UK from eventual capitulation to the Eurocommunism that Carter and his Labour analogues in Britain aspired to. And greased the skids for the final downfall of the Soviet Union into the dustbin of history.

1 posted on 12/08/2006 1:32:59 PM PST by daveinboca
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To: daveinboca

You know, I'll bet Carter didn't see this book before the publisher did. He may be many things, but he's politically astute enough not to write this trash.

On the other hand, you'd think he'd at least read the title.


2 posted on 12/08/2006 1:35:16 PM PST by AmishDude (I coined "Senator Ass" to describe Jim Webb. He may have already used it as a character in a novel.)
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To: daveinboca

It was Jimmy Carter who proved to me that Dhimmicrats weren't fit to lead... and in many cases, serve this nation.


3 posted on 12/08/2006 1:39:28 PM PST by johnny7 ("We took a hell of a beating." -'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell)
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To: daveinboca; All

Just the same old tripe! Nothing to see here floks just move along, citizens!


4 posted on 12/08/2006 1:42:05 PM PST by TMSuchman (American by birth, Rebel by choice, Marine by act of GOD!)
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To: daveinboca

So, we're starting to hear the specifics of the plagiarism accusation. I suppose it's going to be a trickle of information over the next week to prolong Carter's agony as he twists in the wind. Couldn't happen to a nicer fellow.


5 posted on 12/08/2006 1:47:21 PM PST by Rocky (Air America: Robbing the poor, and still unable to stay in business)
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To: daveinboca

With Carter and the Bipartisan Surrender Group having similar views on Israel, the Israelis must be feeling like the Czechs before WWII.


6 posted on 12/08/2006 1:50:52 PM PST by N. Theknow ((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
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