The World According to J.C.: A Tedious Book By One of America's Worst Ex-President

Wall Street Journal ^ | 11/02/2005 | Bret Stephens

[SirLinksalot]

The World According to J.C.

"Tedious" doesn't begin to describe the new book by America's worst ex-president.

BY BRET STEPHENS

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.

Everything about "Our Endangered Values" is wrong, beginning, obviously, with the title. The values Mr. Carter says are "ours" are certainly not mine and probably not yours and therefore, necessarily, not ours. In fact, it is not at all obvious that the things Mr. Carter speaks of even qualify as values, properly speaking, unless you believe that "economic justice" is a value, or you subscribe to Marxist liberation theology (Mr. Carter considers the Catholic priests who practiced this theology to be "heroes"), or you would like to pay your "personal respects" to Syria's dictator (never mind that he just had the prime minister of Lebanon assassinated), or you can think of nothing bad to say about Saddam Hussein except, perhaps, that he is "obnoxious."

[McGavin999]

Didn`t Jummy once say he had sinned in his mind ??????

Yeah, but I think he mispoke. What he meant was his mind is a sin.

[goldstategop]

The Democrats have welcomed him back because he's drifted over to the Far Left. He may have have been small-minded and incompetent as President but there's no doubt he considers America as being incapable of true greatness. Who can forget his infamous "malaise" speech as President. It said all every one wanted to know about Carter's worldview. The American people couldn't wait long enough to boot him from office after one lousy and totally forgettable term as our nation's Chief Executive.

("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")

[TC Rider]

JC is as irrelevant as Prince Charles...

..and I bet Rosalyn doesn't own 50 dresses.

[DeaconRed]

Jimmah is in a pissing match wiff Slick.
To see who is the worst of the worst.
I can't decide who wins.
Right Now Jimmah is leading by a HARE! ! ! !

[ArrogantBustard]

George McGovern

Walter Mondale

Michael Dukakis

[river rat]

"What is it with the democrats? They used to have decent....."

The difference is -- starting in the 60's, the party became a toxic sandbox that attracted ONLY the worse factions in American society.

Think through all the "groups" in America that repulse you, and I'd bet granny's Rum bearing cow -- they look to the "Democrat" party for their welcome and power - rather than some tiny ineffective party of their own...

A small list of the Democrat "base": Lazy leaches, Unions - Most especially Teachers and Civil Service Employees, Welfare cows and pimps, Socialists, Fascists, Communists, Marxists, Anti-America kooks of all stripes, Homosexual Activists, Abortion Activists, NAACP, "teachers", Felons - both in and out of prison, etc, etc, etc......

Hell, there are even folks already in the cemetery that STILL vote Democrat with regularity!!!
The two possible explanations for the tendency of the dead to vote Democrat - is the living are becoming more aware or the dead is how the Democrats wish to see all Americans.

The DNC leadership (Dr. "Screaming" Dean) and most Democrat politicians have declined in quality to reflect their constituency -- otherwise they COULDN'T get elected.

Semper Fi

[layman]

Jimmy Carter's 20th book is a tedious meditation

Tedious, huh? Well, that's quite an improvement over his previous efforts.

[FormerACLUmember]

What an amazing collection of dangerous losers the rats put forth to be President.

[FormerACLUmember]

The evil rat party must be utterly destroyed.

[ArrogantBustard]

I'm sure they'll keep the tradition going in '08.

[b-cubed]

Somebody needs to give you a pat on the back for the "HARE" remark.
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[phillyfanatic]

JimmahCarter today, gave into the Moore-DNC conspiracy malarky of the 'lies' of the Bushies starting the Iraq war. This is another reason not to trust ex-Presidents when they reach senior status. As a senior, I don't trust me on some issues. Carter has drifted into madness along with the Reid-Pelosi-Moore axis. Perhaps, the RNC should steal Rush's bumper sticker: If you are still voting Democrat, you are stuck on stupid!

[DeaconRed]

TANK U TANK U TANK U
I wondered if anybody would catch it.

[Vigilanteman]

What do you mean One of America's Worst Ex-Presidents???

Jimmy's greatest positive accomplishment was this:

1980
1984

Two landslide elections for Ronald Reagan!

[Tim Long]

And to think he doesn't even credit the space aliens for their moral instruction. Doesn't sound very moral to me.