"Friends now? :)"
Yup!
Carter is an ignorant enigma. Assininely stupid. His words today prove even more so than when he first demonstrated the intelligence of a peanut.
In the mid-70's when he was POTUS another fellow and I were travelling in Georgia on business. We called on a man in Americus one morning. After we had completed our business this man asked if we had ever been to Plains. We hadn't. We got into his pickup and drove with him the 10 miles to Plains. On the way, he commented, "I use to have a lot of respect for the Presidency. But I know Jimmy Carter. I went to school with him. I have had business dealings with him. I have been on various committees with him. Jimmy is not smart. He is shady. I no longer have the respect for the office that I had before he became President." While in Plains we stopped in Billy's gas station. Had a look at his red "Redneck Power" pickup. Went into his gas station, where we were greated by many stacked sixpacks of Billy's Beer.
David Rockefeller picked this nobody from Plains because this nobody from Plains could be manipulated. David Rockefeller, Founder and Honorary Chairman of the Trilateral Commission; Honorary Chairman of the Americas Society, the Council on Foreign Relations. With credentials like that, is it any surprise that David should like our man Jimmy? Is it any wonder that Jimmy still does the bidding of this man? David Rockefeller, one of only two men from this country who had anytime access to the Kremlin (Armand Hammer was the other).
And don't get me started on the Clintoons - this site might run out of bandwidth.