I’ll hold a celebration on the 9th. I normally go Low Carb, but for Jimmy? I’ll have some cheesecake with a bit of ice cream & imagine Joe Biden joining him soon.
National Review is often full of horse manure these days, but they’ve got an article that gets it right. This is a small excerpt:
But when that failed, he took things to an extraordinary level. Carter wrote a letter to the leaders of every country on the U.N. Security Council, as well as a dozen other world leaders, Brinkley recounted, making “a direct appeal to hold ‘good faith’ negotiations with Saddam Hussein before entering upon a war. Carter implied that mature nations should not act like lemmings, blindly following George Bush’s inflammatory ‘line in the sand rhetoric.’”
As if this weren’t enough, on January 10, 1991 — just five days before a deadline that had been set for Saddam to withdraw — Carter wrote to key Arab leaders urging them to abandon their support for the U.S., undermining months of careful diplomacy by the Bush administration. “You may have to forego approval from the White House, but you will find the French, Soviets and others fully supportive,” Carter advised them.
It is one thing for a former president to express opposition to a policy of the sitting president, but by actively working to get foreign leaders to withdraw support for the U.S. days before troops were to be in the cross fire, Carter was taking actions that were closer to treason than they were to legitimate peace activism.”
He was the liquid turd that kept squirting, year after year after year.
Yep. People here should NOT say Carter was a “good man “ - he hated Jews and he was proabortion….
Just because he was mild mannered didn’t make him good.
Carter stuck his nose into all kinds of foreign policy disputes after he was no longer president. He was one big PIA.
I remember him saying of his wife, “She’s a perfect extension of me.” When he first campaigned, she followed him around with a stenographer’s notebook, making notes about the difficulties people were experiencing. Jimmy would fix everything! His massive ego far exceeded his limited abilities. As president he was a walking disaster. I remember him embracing Breshnev in a bear hug.
He admitted he committed the sin of lusting after a woman in his heart. He wore his religion on his sleeve but had the coldest, meanest-looking blue eyes I’ve ever seen in a human being.
Then there was the killer rabbit; Jimmy scheduling the White House tennis courts; his obsessive jogging that led to a photo of Secret Service agents holding him up after he almost collapsed during a jog.
He was awful. Biden has topped him, though. Why is it that Democrats keep producing the most horrible, cringe-inducing presidents that make us laughing stocks all over the world? Bill Clinton was another international embarrassment.
Carter was a horrible President and a Horrible backstabbing man.
Does anyone recall Carter’s confrontation with a rabbit during a whitewater rafting event? The man was frightened silly by the small animal. The pics of him trying to get it out of his boat were hilarious, and were in all the papers.