Seems I recall that Jimmy made Roselin buy an 'off the rack' dress for their Inaugural Ball.....talk about stingy!
Posted on 02/16/2012 4:03:10 PM PST by jazusamo
The 39th president’s transformation from preening liberal to full blown America-hating Gollum seems to be complete.
The remarks came at a Duke University event that also featured his oldest grandson, Jason, who was elected to the Georgia Senate in May 2010.
The former president said his travels abroad since he lost the 1980 election helped him realize the U.S. is “extra stingy” about sharing its wealth with developing nations, particularly when compared to European democracies that put an emphasis on foreign aid. Helping the less fortunate, he said, should be viewed as a moral obligation and not an act of charity.
“It dawned on me they were just as intelligent, they were just as ambitious, and their family values were just as good as mine,” he said. “It’s not a matter of superiority or generosity or handing out gifts to others who are less than you. They just haven’t had a chance in life.”
I think it’s that “lost the 1980 election” bit that’s key. Carter has never forgiven America for choosing Ronald Reagan over him, and then re-electing Reagan and essentially rejecting Carter’s liberalism until the election of Barack Obama (and Obama had to lie about his true beliefs to get elected). The United States has saved the world from Europe’s wars twice and then faced down the Soviets, while leading the world in economic freedom, funding the UN despite its obvious counter-productivity toward American interests and being the go-to nation whenever there is a crisis anywhere in the world. We spend billions as a nation and as organizations and individuals to do what we can to make the world a better place. America is the most generous nation in world history; that shouldn’t be a partisan issue or dispute. Carter hates it because America turned right in part in reaction to his own failures as president. How he must loathe hearing “It took a Carter to get a Reagan.”
Plus, Jimmy Carter has simply lost touch with reality.
The Georgia Democrat said at an event in Atlanta that Occupy organizers have succeeded in forcing the media and Congress to realize the “chasm is getting greater than leaps and bounds” between the rich and the poor.
“It‘s been relatively successful even acknowledging there’s no leadership, there‘s no coherence and there’s no single list of issues they want to succeed,” the former president said of the movement started late last year in lower Manhattan to decry corporate influence in government and wealth inequality.
The only way that occupy can be seen as a success at all is if you already agreed with its anti-capitalist and occasionally anti-Semitic message (Carter has made it abundantly clear over the years that he does), and you ignore the rapes and various other crimes that went along with the occupy camps. So, sure, discounting the occupy movement’s idiocy and criminal activities, and the damage it did to public spaces and the general pointlessness and sense of entitlement it fostered, it was a barn burner.
Liberals ought to find both Jimmy Carter and the occupiers a collective source of embarrassment.
He was deee-mented from crib, there is no medication for stooopid (and RAT)
Now he will be outshined by Kenyan
“It‘s been relatively successful even acknowledging there’s no leadership...Well, other than the "relatively successful" part, what he said pretty much sums up his presidency. Of course, by comparison to his presidency, anything would look relatively successful.
Agreed...Zer0 has already replaced him as the worst sitting president, he’ll no doubt replace him as the worst former president and it better happen next January.
Can he name a country less stingy in real dollars?
You got that right. I think Jimmy made the mistakes he made out of stupidity but Zer0 makes them out of hatred for our country, sadly the results are about the same.
I'll have my order of fries extra stingy please, Mr. X-Prez.
I wish Jimmy were more stingy in sharing his stupidity and his hatred of Jews and America.
Shouldn’t Peanut Boy be hammering cardboard shacks together or something?
Formerly known as “The Worst President Ever” !
Seems I recall that Jimmy made Roselin buy an 'off the rack' dress for their Inaugural Ball.....talk about stingy!
ROFL!!
That’s great. Jimmy tried to put Billy down over his Billy Beer but I’d bet Jimmy loved it.
Lol, I’ll bet he did too. He and Billy were probably the biggest fans! Maybe Jimmy had one too many when that rabbit tried to attack him in the river..........snicker
When a man whose life demonstrates that he is a complete, assinine, bumbling loser slips into dementia, is it a blessing or a curse?
LOLOLOL! AWESOME post!
When Jimmuh didn’t make the final cut in 1980, ole Rosalynn was very bitter, and remains so today.
I think both of them are bitter over losing to Reagan, and that’s why they hate us.
And, now they are both crazy people.
Billy was a good ole boy, though. He was an entrepreneur. ;o)
“Zer0 has already replaced him as the worst sitting president, he’ll no doubt replace him as the worst former president and it better happen next January.”
Wouldn’t every new president become the new worst sitting president (or best)? I wouldn’t put Carter as the worst ever either, nor would I name BO as the worst ever. I would rate the worst as Wilson (Income Tax founder), followed by Roosevelt (SSIP), then Nixon (EPA and WOD) and then Barack (health care).
50 years from now Barak will have moved ahead of Nixon if we aren’t able to successfully repeal it.
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