Jimmy Carter, on Israel and the Jews
1979: "I have never met an Arab leader that in private professed a desire for an independent Palestinian state. Publicly, they all espouse an independent Palestinian state -- almost all of them -- because that is what they committed themselves to do at Rabat (the 1974 Arab League summit conference)."
--President Jimmy Carter
a 1979 press conference
Early 1980: …at a March 1980 meeting with his senior political advisers, angrily snapped, "If I get back in, I`m going to f--- the Jews."
Jimmy Carter, March 1980
Late 1980: Cyrus Vance…confirmed to then-New York mayor Ed Koch that Carter, if reelected, would "sell out" the Jews
Jimmy Carter shortly before the 1980 election
2003: …had I been elected to a second term, with the prestige and authority and influence and reputation I had in the region, we could have moved to a final solution
Jimmy Carter, 12-1-2003
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Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand of its neighbors that they recognize those facts. I have personally followed and supported Israel's heroic struggle for survival, ever since the founding of the State of Israel 34 years ago. In the pre-1967 borders Israel was barely 10 miles wide at its narrowest point. The bulk of Israel's population lived within artillery range of hostile Arab armies. I am not about to ask Israel to live that way again.
Ronald Reagan
"We take the world like you find it; and Israel is a small state with a small population. It's a democracy and it exists in a neighborhood that in many - over a period of time has opined from time to time that they'd prefer it not be there and they'd like it to be put in the sea. And Israel has opined that it would prefer not to get put in the sea, and as a result, over a period of decades, it has arranged itself so it hasn't been put in the sea."
Donald Rumsfeld
Jimmy Carter = 2nd worst President in the history of the US.
Why would anyone think that Jimmy Carter who hates decent people.
I base this conclusion on the fact he refused to attend the dedication of the World War II Memorial at the end of May showing his disrespect for the Greatest Generation of Americans. Why would anyone think that just because he hangs around "supervising" elections in banana republics, that he would support human rights in Israel?
My other reason for drawing this conclusion is Jim-boy inserted himself into the North Korean crisis in the 1990s. If he cared about human rights, he would have stayed off the Korean peninsula and would have insisted President Clinton act to prevent North Korea from developing nuclear (or as he pronounces it NUKE-lar, and Democrats make fun of President Bush's pronunciations) weapons. But what did he do? He guaranteed North Korea would have nuclear weapons. Why would anyone think that just because Jim-bo hammers a few nails for Habitat for Humanity that he gives a hoot about human rights?
His comments concerning the death of President Reagan spoke volumes. He made some necessary bows, but then when forced to compare, as he had to, their respective Presidencies, he issued the 'but Jesus is glad I did what I did, and conducted myself the way I conducted myself, and that's good enough for me' rationale for his failed 4 years in office. Please find me a more vain statement, if you can.
This guy has never met a dictator he didn't like and wasn't willing to help wisk away to greener pastures, and I have never heard him utter one, solitary word in defense of the United States, so Israel of course, would be out of the question. He's a vain, supercillious, inept man, and men like him are a huge danger to the Country, and a huge burden on the electorate.
Oh my goodness, did he really say this?
Maybe someday he'll advocate "freedom" or "property rights" instead. I guess he doesn't think those are human rights.
Boggles the mind why so many American Jews vote Democratic, year after year.