Posted on 09/16/2009 7:27:45 AM PDT by UnknownVariable
I'm sure you'll hear and read about this ad nauseam today.
Jimmy Carter:
"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."Wow. According to Rasmussen Reports, the President had a 65% approval rating on his inauguration day. This approval rating now stands at 49%. Did 16% of the populous just suddenly become racist?
Rather than racism, could it be that many Americans just don't like the idea of socialized medicine? Could it be that many Americans just don't like the idea that the Obama administration intends to enact legislation that will ultimately increase taxes and the deficit? Could it be that many Americans just don't like the idea of wasteful government spending?
Maybe it's because many Americans remember the Carter years and see that the path the Obama administration is taking will take us right back to the era of double digit unemployment (we're here) and inflation (it's coming).
Seriously, is this all the Democrats have? Will they be pulling and playing the race card every time they lose the battle of ideas?
1222 days to go...
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lol the old hate monger and racist speaks out...
Hey Jimmah
I voted you out of office and yet you were white.
Whoops.
Something new for Mr. Peanut: He didn’t wait to leave the US before he criticized the US.
I will gove you 444 reasons why Jimmy Carter is a moron and the WORST president of modern times (but he did beat Ted Kennedy in the dem primaries!)
Don’t worry Jimmah, I still think you were a worse president.
Jimmah,
You got this guy Obama. The bulk of his support , better yet... 97 percent of the “black community” voted for the man cuzz he wuzz a brutha. Now the rules change? They didnt vote for the man, but his skin tone. (AND he aint even Black!!!!! )
So, where does racism come into play? Tell me Jimmmah...
Sheeze, Carter, you do not know when to stop digging your own hole. You were wholly rejected 29 years ago, and nothing you can do will ever change that.
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Yeah. He is a Jew Hater and a liar as well as an incompetent idiot.
Yep, you’re right Jimmuh. Lord KNOWS it couldn’t have anything to do with the fact that Hussein is an arrogant, America-hating, communist front-man, working 24/7 to destroy the US and trample on the Constitutional rights of the people.
Carter...bought and paid for by the Saudis.
http://frontpagemagazine.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=1001
....Especially lucrative have been Carter’s ties to Saudi Arabia. Before his death in 2005, King Fahd was a longtime contributor to the Carter Center and on more than one occasion contributed million-dollar donations. In 1993 alone, the king presented Carter with a gift of $7.6 million. And the king was not the only Saudi royal to commit funds to Carter’s cause. As of 2005, the king’s high-living nephew, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, has donated at least $5 million to the Carter Center.
Meanwhile the Saudi Fund for Development, the kingdom’s leading loan organization, turns up repeatedly on the center’s list of supporters. Carter has also found moneyed allies in the Bin Laden family, and in 2000 he secured a promise from ten of Osama bin Laden’s brothers for a $1 million contribution to his center. To be sure, there is no evidence that the Bin Ladens maintain any contact with their terrorist relation. But applying Carter’s own standard, his extensive contacts with the Saudi elite must make his views on the Middle East suspect.
High praise for Carter’s work — and not inconsiderable financial support — also comes from the United Arab Emirates. In 2001, Carter even traveled to the country to accept the Zayed International Prize for the Environment, named for Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, the late UAE potentate and former president-for-life. Having claimed his $500,000 purse, Carter enthused that the “award has special significance for me because it is named for my personal friend, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahyan.” Carter also hailed the UAE as an “almost completely open and free society” — a surreal depiction of a rigidly authoritarian country where the government handpicks a select group of citizens to vote and strictly controls the editorial content of the newspapers and where Islamic Shari’a courts judge “sodomy” punishable by death. (To appreciate the depth of Carter’s cynicism, one need only compare his gushing encomia to the emirates with his likening of Israel, the most modern and democratic country in the entire Middle East, with the racist “apartheid” of South Africa.)
On top of these official honors, Carter was offered a forum at the Abu Dhabi-based Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow Up, the country’s official “think-tank.” For his part, Carter declared his intention to forge a “partnership” with the center; in a 2002 letter, Carter praised its efforts to “promote peace, health, and human rights around the world.” Inconveniently for Carter, the center has since become famous for a different reason: It has repeatedly played host to anti-Semitic speakers who have denied the Holocaust, supported terrorism, and alleged an international conspiracy of Jews and Zionists to dominate the world. (Harvard University, in contrast to Carter’s enthusiasm for Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, rejected a $2.5 million from the ruler in 2004 due to his ties to the Zayed Center.)
Nor does this exhaust the list of Carter’s backers in the Arab world. Still other supporters include Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who sits atop Oman’s absolute monarchy. An occasional host to Carter, the sultan has also made generous contributions to his center. Prior to inviting Carter for a “personal visit” in 1998, the sultan pledged $1 million to the Carter Center, promising additional support in the future. Similarly, Morocco’s Prince Moulay Hicham Ben Abdallah, the second in line to the kingdom’s throne, has in the past partnered with Carter on the center’s initiatives.
On its face, there is nothing objectionable about these contacts. What has raised critics’ eyebrows is Carter’s immense chutzpah: In securing the financial support of assorted Arab leaders, Carter has gradually come to parrot their anti-Israel political agenda — even as he styles himself as a dispassionate mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This was nowhere more evident than in Carter’s credulous support for the late Yasir Arafat. Although Carter had championed Araft as a committed peacemaker since his presidency, in the face of ample evidence to the contrary, his apologies for the terrorist chieftain became particularly shameless in the 1990s. When Arafat and his PLO backed Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, thereby loosing the support and — more important for the corrupt Arafat — the funding of neighboring Sunni Arab powers, Carter embarked on a Middle East publicity tour to revive Arafat’s diminishing fortunes. As recorded by Carter biographer Douglas Brinkley, “together [Carter and Arafat] strategized on how to recover the PLO’s standing in the United States.” In desperation, Carter turned up in Saudi Arabia on what Brinkley called “essentially a fund-raising mission for the PLO,” pleading with King Fahd to restore Arafat to the Saudi dole....
People don’t change. They can either increasingly work on their worst personality traits or enrich the lives of others through stressing their positive attributes.
Carter has clearly chosen the first route. He was a little man and will remain a little man.
I was initially infuriated by the barrage of racism charges from the left since BHO took office, especially in the last week. However, I am now coming to the conclusion that the charges aren’t sticking—the race baiting is more obvious to the general public than the phony racism. Three more years of the race card being played with phony indignation by the left should effectively eliminate it as a weapon against republicans.
It’s truly chilling to learn that a former president is crazy.
This aged, cracked peanut farmer is still sprouting his vitriol for America? I wonder when Ted Kennedy’s going to invite him to a party. I’m sure the hottest club in the universe would give Carter a very warm welcome.
LLS
Jimmy is an old-style, redneck racist. His progressive buddies would turn away in disgust if he spewed hate at African-Americans these days; he's had to abandon that part of his shtick and fall back on the last remaining respectable bigotry. So he goes around the world blaming everything on the nefarious Jews.
When Carter says Obama’s enemies are racists it tells you nothing about Obama’s enemies but it speaks volumes about Carter. Jimmy is a national embarrassment of the first order.
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