Mediocrity, Jimmy Carter and race

The GOPNation.com ^ | September 16, 2009 | The GOPNation.com

[bmweezer]

Nobel laureate, 39^th president and failed human being, Jimmy Carter is at it again. Nearly thirty years removed from public life, the former president has decided to step into the Joe Wilson flap and with it exposes himself – again, to his own failures.

Let’s be clear: Carter was arguably the worst president of the 20^th century. Through a domestic policy highly shaded with socialism and a foreign policy of appeasement, Carter, in four years in office nearly ruined this nation’s economy and nearly gave the Soviet Union a new lease on life, while nearly killing the state of Israel.

Since he left office in 1981, however, Carter is never far enough away to make a stupid comment, attempt to make foreign policy by himself, or get caught up in current political discussions when other former presidents have kept their mouths shut.

During the Bill Clinton administration, Democrats in general pushed Carter out of the limelight and moved its party slightly towards the middle, where much of the country has hovered. However, since the time of George W. Bush, the Dems – now increasingly controlled by the hard left – have heaped praise on Carter, pushed his 2002 Nobel peach prize for which there was no peace, and actively tried to white-wash the history of the Carter administration to make attempt to remember it as a period of stability and progress, which it was neither.

In this latest fray, Carter is pushing the notion that those against President Obama are tried-and-true racists.

Telling NBC, the former president said:

"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American," Carter told "NBC Nightly News." "I live in the South, and I've seen the South come a long way, and I've seen the rest of the country that shares the South's attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African-Americans."

This from a man who in office and thereafter, has actively pushed an anti-Semitic agenda, pushed his way into international and domestic policies, whether his was asked to do so or not, and treats his Republican predecessors like dirt.

Let’s repeat a fact: racists exist in this nation, as they have for centuries. However, race barriers continue to fall and did especially so in 2008 when we elected an African-American, president. Our disagreements with the president have nothing to do with race, except when the Democrats bring the issue up in the first place. To accuse Republicans and much of the country otherwise is wrong, at best and divisive at worst. What Carter and others have done is opened old wounds, and divided this country once again.

Carter would be best served by keeping quiet and let our nation’s current leaders deal with the issues of today, rather than trying again and again to remake his time in the Oval office. This president had his chance, blew it and the nation has moved on.

If only Jimmy Carter knew that.

[TexasCajun]

Here's a Black Crutch for ya Jimma, Obamah, State Media!

[Deb]

Thanks for reminding us what a loser America elected in the year of our country’s bicentennial. Many have forgotten you granted complete amnesty for draft dodgers and gave away the Panama Canal, among other treasons like getting our soldiers killed in the Iranian desert.

[pepsionice]

What you failed to mention is that cleaned up DD214 that he helped John Kerry get...which paved the way for success in life but never could be shown in public.

[Kenton]

Would somebody ask Jimmuh when his family freed their last slave?

[jonrick46]

Obama was elected with the promise that he would unite the country and bring progress in the area of racism. Many accepted that idea seeing Obama as the product of both races. They saw his white mother and a Kenyan father and assumed that if any person in the Presidency could, Obama could tie the races together in harmony.

Now we are asking the question: Can we have an African-American President of the United States if they are going to use his race in the context of the race card that inoculates the President from any criticism? He was elected to unite us. Now they are using him to divide us. Obama is not even a full black man and they are using the color as a political tool against the opposition. What could have been noblest quality of Obama’s humanity, that the love one human being should have for another should not be subject to race, has now degenerated into political gamesmanship. Egg should be on the faces of all those who play that game.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Jimmy Carter is a fool. Best to ignore him in his dotage.

[TrueKnightGalahad]

A slight bit of editing required:

Let’s be clear: Carter was arguably certainly the worst president of the 20th century in US history.

[LomanBill]

>>like getting our soldiers killed in the Iranian desert.

 

Much more so than most folks realize.

 

Ol' Jimmuh and ZBig orchestrated the downfall of the Shah by covertly supporting the Ayatolah and deliberately fomenting the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

 

ZBigniew Brzezinski. Jimmuh Carter's NSA, and the architect of Operation Cyclone and the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

 

"...a special White House Iran task force under the National Security Council's Brzezinski.  Ball recommended that Washington drop support for the Shah of Iran and support the fundamentalistic Islamic opposition of Ayatollah Khomeini..."

[LomanBill]

And every time you open your mouth, Jimmuh; we’re going to shove that truth right in it.

[Stand Watch Listen]

FYI…

Flashback Video: Carter referred to Obama as 'this black boy' (video at link)

[Deb]

Forgot to mention the Shah travesty. You're right. Just like Obama these days, Democrats have always betrayed America's allies and thrown roses at her enemies.

Will the American voter every LEARN???!!!