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Posted on 02/12/2006 11:21:52 AM PST by Reagan Man
Washington (CNSNews.com) - "Jimmy Carter is the president who had a wishbone where his backbone should've been," quipped Van D. Hipp, Jr., former deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Army during a speech delivered at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.
The conservative barbs came on the heels of comments Carter made Feb. 7, at the funeral of Coretta Scott King in Atlanta, Ga. Cybercast News Service previously reported that the former president stoked anger about the federal response to Hurricane Katrina during his eulogy.
"The struggle for equal rights is not over," Carter said. "We only have to recall the color of the faces of those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi -- those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans."
Hipp reminded his audience about Carter's administration, which lasted from 1977 to 1981. "Do people remember the 18 percent interest rates? The endless gas lines?" asked Hipp. He also said Carter was responsible for low troop morale and low military preparedness during his administration.
Iran was an ally of the U.S. when Carter took office, Hipp said. "It was on Carter's watch that we lost Iran.
"[Carter] now spends his time criticizing Bush, with apparently a deep-seated hatred," Hipp added, but he asserted that the former president has yet to grasp the "full extent" of his own failures. "Jimmy Carter to this day still doesn't get it," Hipp said.
"Thank God we have the right president at the right time," he added, referring to President Bush.
The comments were made during a forum on the Iranian threat. When U.S. Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas) took the podium he reminded Hipp about another controversial chapter during the Carter administration. "You forgot to say he gave away the Panama Canal."
During Tuesday's funeral for Mrs. King, Carter also made a veiled reference to the current National Security Agency domestic surveillance program, when he referred to the damage done by the "secret government wiretapping" of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., many years ago." President Bush and the first lady were seated on the speakers' podium during the comments.
"It was difficult for them personally - with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated as they became the target of secret government wiretapping, other surveillance, and as you know, harassment from the FBI," said Carter.
Many at the funeral stood to applaud Carter.
Between 1962 and 1963, Democrat Robert F. Kennedy, then U.S. attorney general, authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to wiretap King's home telephone, as well as the phones of several of his closest friends and advisors. Wiretaps placed on the telephones of King's Southern Christian Leadership Council soon followed the surveillance placed on King's home phone.
U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, (D-Mass.), also present at the King service, mentioned his brother Robert in his eulogy, but not the wiretaps. Kennedy referred to the jailing of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1960 on a minor traffic violation and spoke of how his brother intervened for King's release.
Actually when Carter mentioned wiretapping I did not think it was a slap at Bush but more at the Kennedy's who were in office at the time.
You know why all the victims of Katrina seemed to be black? Because that's what the MSM showed.
Actually when Carter mentioned wiretapping I did not think it was a slap at Bush but more at the Kennedy's who were in office at the time.
Wishful thinking!!!
Fidel and Hugo are his blood brothers.
And his daughter is ugly.
So there.
There is equal opportunity for all Americans.
Whether or not you take advantage of that opportunity or merely sit on your ass waiting for the Government to wipe it, even when a storm surge is coming your way, are two totally separate issues.
Carter, the RAT who convinced me that I was a Republican.
Carter is evil.
"Not just conservatives. The elder President Bush launched into him the other day as well."
Tell me more, please.
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Guess that means 'the truth hurts'. . .
Mega-Dittos.
"U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, (D-Mass.), also present at the King service, mentioned his brother Robert in his eulogy, but not the wiretaps. Kennedy referred to the jailing of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1960 on a minor traffic violation and spoke of how his brother intervened for King's release."
Of course, he had to get him home so he could start yapping on the phone...couldn't have those feds sitting round just listening to Coretta!
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