Posted on 09/07/2004 2:05:44 PM PDT by VMI70
The text of a letter former President Carter sent to Zell Miller over the weekend ...
You seem to have forgotten that loyal Democrats elected you as mayor and as state senator. Loyal Democrats, including members of my family and me, elected you as lieutenant governor and as governor. It was a loyal Democrat, Lester Maddox, who assigned you to high positions in the state government when you were out of office. It was a loyal Democrat, Roy Barnes, who appointed you as U.S. Senator when you were out of office. By your historically unprecedented disloyalty, you have betrayed our trust. Great Georgia Democrats who served in the past, including Walter George, Richard Russell, Herman Talmadge, and Sam Nunn disagreed strongly with the policies of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and me, but they remained loyal to the party in which they gained their public office. Other Democrats, because of philosophical differences or the race issue, like Bo Callaway and Strom Thurmond, at least had the decency to become Republicans.
Everyone knows that you were chosen to speak at the Republican Convention because of your being a Democrat, and its quite possible that your rabid and mean-spirited speech damaged our party and paid the Republicans some transient dividends.
Perhaps more troublesome of all is seeing you adopt an established and very effective Republican campaign technique of destroying the character of opponents by wild and false allegations. The Bush campaigns personal attacks on the character of John McCain in South Carolina in 2000 was a vivid example. The claim that war hero Max Cleland was a disloyal American and an ally of Osama bin Laden should have given you pause, but you have joined in this ploy by your bizarre claims that another war hero, John Kerry, would not defend the security of our nation except with spitballs. (This is the same man whom you described previously as one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders -- and a good friend.")
I, myself, never claimed to have been a war hero, but I served in the navy from 1942 to 1953, and, as president, greatly strengthened our military forces and protected our nation and its interests in every way. I dont believe this warrants your referring to me as a pacificist.
Zell, I have known you for forty-two years and have, in the past, respected you as a trustworthy political leader and a personal friend. But now, there are many of us loyal Democrats who feel uncomfortable in seeing that you have chosen the rich over the poor, unilateral preemptive war over a strong nation united with others for peace, lies and obfuscation over the truth, and the political technique of personal character assassination as a way to win elections or to garner a few moments of applause. These are not the characteristics of great Democrats whose legacy you and I have inherited.
I contacted President Carter's office for comment and his press spokesperson Deanna Congileo told me that the letter was a private communication and that President Carter would not be issuing further comment.
-- Josh Marshall http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
Oh yeah. Carter strengthened the military alright. The Soviet Military.
That is such an awesome paragraph. I'm just in awe that Miller provoked this kind of response from Carter, such a polite "You are full of it" kind of response.
"Jimmy Carter, among the worst and most ineffective Presidents of the Twentieth Century."
He is among the worst of any century, IMHO
Gosh...I'm sure Zell is going to miss having Carter as a friend. Fortunately, lifesized cardboard cutouts of Jimmy are available at his library and make a superb substitutes.
Howling at that picture - just woke MY cat up (which she hates).
its not rabid, its rabitt
"Great Georgia Democrats who served in the past"
Well Jimmy I guess this leaves you out. By the way, I want to congratulate you on how well you served us; you served us double digit inflation, double digit unemployment, and double digit intrest rates; how you protected us so well during the Iran hostage crisis;
Jimmy if you are so wanting to help the poor, please stay out of my pocket, get all your rich demoncrap friends to divest themselves of all but $100,000. per year or of their millions of dollar incomes, and use that money to feed the poor and build them houses. We, the working class, can't afford your charitable projects anymore.
So Jimmy, just to sum it up, GO AWAY!
What a jive turkey!
One question - what was he smokin' when he said that??
J. effing Carter? Let's just get right to it and state it clearly,, the leadership of the RAT party are dominated by communists! Not merely socialsts, communists, and they wish the worst for this Nation.
Now that's a pantload!
If Jimmah had had his way, we'd have been throwing rocks at the enemy.
The only thing he did for the military was to push a good pay raise thru for us.
Shoulda known the senile old bastard wanted us to buy our own weapons.
What an ass.
"and, as president, greatly strengthened our military forces and protected our nation and its interests in every way."
How could this man write something like this?? 444 days! We haven't forgotten his lack of leadership when the hostages were held in Iran. Only when Carter was completely and totally defeated by Reagan did they release the hostages. Reagan was willing to fight for Americans and Iran know that...Carter was not and Iran knew that too.
Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
441 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta, Georgia 30307-1498
USA
Telephone: 404-865-7100
Fax: 404-865-7102
Email: carter.library@nara.gov
AAAAAAAAARRGGHH!!! Where to begin? What he did to our military, how he humbled this country before Iran during the hostage crisis ... To see him shamelessly ignore how his failings harmed his country makes me only further unhappy with him.
Speaking of Age Old Tradition: All presidents up to Jimmy Carter would not criticize the seated President, at least until he was out of office. Jimmy has trashed that tradition. Bad enough he was the worst president in modern history.
"... as president, greatly strengthened our military forces and protected our nation and its interests in every way. I dont believe this warrants your referring to me as a pacificist."
All your pacificists are belong to us.
(What exactly is a "pacificist"?)
Jimmy seems to be more upset at Zell's "disloyalty" to the Dems than Kerry's disloyalty to his country.
Dear (THANKFULLY) former mistaken President Carter,
At one time you professed to be a "Born-Again Christian"...
I can only guess that means you were "born again" in the "Reverend Barry Lynn's" church of homosexual marriage, no God in the pledge, class warfare, welfare forever, steal from anyone rich enough to make over 30K, etc.
You are a disgusting disgrace of a former "President"...
Other than the propaganda machine that is in free fall meltdown that put you into office in the 70's, it's a good thing you will *never* be in office again.
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