Posted on 10/20/2004 2:33:43 PM PDT by Theodore R.
Jimmy Carter: American Revolution Was 'Unnecessary'
Recently we described Jimmy Carter as the worst president of the past 100 years. We apologize.
He's the worst president ever.
In trying to compare the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, here's what the jug-headed Georgian said to fellow Democrat Chris Matthews on "Hardball" Monday night, according to MSNBC's own transcript:
'A Little More Sensitive'
Well, one parallel is that the Revolutionary War, more than any other war up until recently, has been the most bloody war we've fought. I think another parallel is that in some ways the Revolutionary War could have been avoided. It was an unnecessary war. Had the British Parliament been a little more sensitive to the colonials' really legitimate complaints and requests the war could have been avoided completely, and of course now we would have been a free country now as is Canada and India and Australia, having gotten our independence in a nonviolent way.
I think in many ways the British were very misled in going to war against America and in trying to enforce their will on people who were quite different from them at the time.
"Up until recently"? Does the catastrophic ex-prez, who lately has been trying to pass himself off as a "historian," really think the war in Iraq is bloodier than the Vietnam War, the Korean War, World War II, World War I, the Civil War ...?
Note to Mr. Malaise: Canada did not begin to gain independence until 1867. Australia did not receive partial independence as a commonwealth until 1901. India did not gain independence until 1947, and all those Indians who were killed by the British would hardly describe their deaths as "nonviolent."
The Carter Presidency was unnecessary.
The most bloody war?
I guess he forgot about the Recent Unpleasantness Between the States.
lunacy
Does this mean California is actually in New England?
Gettysburg and Antietam were picnics....
Mr. Carter is unecessary. His mother regrets giving birth to him.
Jimmuh needs to forfeit the air he breathes to other more-deserving real humans.
All wars are "avoidable" if both sides are willing to be flexible. Problem is, one side NEVER is flexible. King George was one of these examples of never willing to be flexible. England began to relinquish it's control over some colonies only after itself had become more democratic. As always Carter is better kept keeping his mouth shut.
I agree. He's taking up too much space. Mr. Jimmy Failure Carter, the great "screw up" humanitarian.
Is there any way the Carter Years can be expunged from the history books?
Carter has a peanut for a brain. 4,435 battle dead in the Revolutionary war. Carter apparently missed the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam.
I guess he forgot about the Recent Unpleasantness Between the States.
No kidding! All the other wars we fought barely equal it. Carter is certifiably "Nuts".
Jimmi Carter is suffering from proggresive dimentia.
He thinks he was a British monarch not an American President.
I am glad that Peanut speaks up every once and awhile to remind me of what a lousy, useless president he was.
one parallel is that the Revolutionary War, more than any other war up until recently, has been the most bloody war we've fought. I think another parallel is that in some ways the Revolutionary War could have been avoided. It was an unnecessary war.
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Jimmy Carter is ill. No well person would ever say something so stupid and unintelligent. And he was the worst president in the entire history of the US.
"Is there any way the Carter Years can be expunged from the history books?"
Those had to be four of the longest years of my life. The only thing good to be said of them is that Saint Ronald got elected near the end of the last one.
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