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The World According to J.C. (Jimmy Carter)
OpinionJournal.com ^
| Bret Stephens
| November 2, 2005
Posted on 11/01/2005 9:13:45 PM PST by gpapa
"Tedious" doesn't begin to describe the new book by America's worst ex-president.
BY BRET STEPHENS
Wednesday, November 2, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST
Jimmy Carter's 20th book is a tedious meditation about the appropriate uses of moral values in political life--as wisely and humbly exemplified by Himself--and of their misuses under the current Bush administration.
But tedious isn't quite the right word here, because it suggests mere boredom while Mr. Carter's prose manages to be irritating as well. Is there an English-language equivalent to the German Rechthaberei, which loosely translates as the state of thinking and behaving as if you're in the right and everyone else is in the wrong? Yet even such a term doesn't quite capture the sanctimony, the self-congratulation, the humorlessness, the convenient factual omissions and the passive-aggressive quirks that characterize our 39th president's aggressively passive world view. Mr. Carter is sui generis. He deserves his own word.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: boredom; carter; humorless; jimmy; jimmycarter; tedious
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:13:47 PM PST
by
gpapa
To: gpapa
"He deserves his own word."
Carterrhoid?
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:20:06 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: gpapa
Mr. Carter is sui generis. He deserves his own word.Malaise works for me whenever we talk about the Peanut Man.
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:20:50 PM PST
by
JRios1968
("Cogito, ergo FReep": I think, therefore I FReep.)
To: gpapa
Just thinking of Jimmy's smug, self rightious mug pisses me off.
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:20:51 PM PST
by
zarf
To: gpapa
"Tedious" doesn't begin to describe the new book by America's worst ex-president. Nor does it begin to describe his presidency.
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:21:53 PM PST
by
No Longer Free State
(No event has just one cause, no person has just one motive, no action has just the intended effect.)
To: gpapa
You get a free t shirt with it
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:22:39 PM PST
by
al baby
(Father of the beeber)
To: zarf
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:24:39 PM PST
by
RockinRight
(It’s likely for a Conservative to be a Republican, but not always the other way around)
To: gpapa
Carter's written 20 books? Wow! We can all have fun guessing at what their titles might be, as I'm sure most of us have little to no idea.
Here's mine - "In Bed With Castro - He's Really a Nice, Thoughtful Guy".
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:26:03 PM PST
by
Theresawithanh
(You'll get me to stop posting on FR when you wrench my laptop from my cold, dead fingers!)
To: gpapa
I just looked at Webster's for a definition of "buffoon" and it really said, "See Jimmah Carter".
Nam Vet
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:27:23 PM PST
by
Nam Vet
("I was present at the birth of a political jihad.")
To: gpapa
Any Turtledove fans out there?
10
posted on
11/01/2005 9:27:31 PM PST
by
Redcloak
(We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singin' "whiskey for my men and beer for my horses!")
To: gpapa
Is anyone
REALLY that stupid?
Nam Vet
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:29:30 PM PST
by
Nam Vet
("I was present at the birth of a political jihad.")
To: Theresawithanh
How To Watch Islamic Terrorists Take Your Countrymen Hostage and Do Nothing About It
How to F**k Up a Nation
Purchasing Real Estate at Twenty Percent Interest: An Investor's Guide
How Being President Was a Lot Like Growing Peanuts
How To Remain Irrelevant and Still Keep Your Name in the News
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:30:15 PM PST
by
RockinRight
(It’s likely for a Conservative to be a Republican, but not always the other way around)
To: Theresawithanh
"When Rabbits Attack"
"Lust in my heart - a confessional"
13
posted on
11/01/2005 9:31:28 PM PST
by
JRios1968
("Cogito, ergo FReep": I think, therefore I FReep.)
To: gpapa
Is there an English-language equivalent to the German Rechthaberei, which loosely translates as the state of thinking and behaving as if you're in the right and everyone else is in the wrong? Yes.
Liberalism.
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:33:38 PM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: zarf
Damn that's hilarious!!! My stomach hurts from laughing.
To: gpapa
you subscribe to Marxist liberation theology (Mr. Carter considers the Catholic priests who practiced this theology to be "heroes"),
The Pope would disagree...rather strongly....I imagine.
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:37:06 PM PST
by
Valin
(Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum)
To: gpapa
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:40:52 PM PST
by
kAcknor
(Don't flatter yourself.... It is a gun in my pocket.)
To: Nam Vet
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:43:32 PM PST
by
Valin
(Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum)
To: gpapa
I took the time after my post to go to the site and read the rest of the column. Wow. What a Space Cadet!
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:44:49 PM PST
by
Theresawithanh
(You'll get me to stop posting on FR when you wrench my laptop from my cold, dead fingers!)
To: gpapa
Ever had a Jimmy Carter sandwich?
It's peanut butter and bologna.
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posted on
11/01/2005 9:45:02 PM PST
by
Nasty McPhilthy
(Those who beat their swords into plow shears….will plow for those who don’t.)
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