Jimmy Carter examines America's endangered values - Supreme Barf Alert!

The Jamaica Observer ^ | 2/12/2006 | Rickey Singh

[Loud Mime]

AS the governments of Cuba and Venezuela continue to cope with enormous destabilising politics from the George Bush administration, it may be useful for those who insist on defending US foreign policy in our Caribbean to read what former President Jimmy Carter has to say.

Speaking with the conscience of a proud, self-confessed 'born again' Christian, and a widely hailed commitment to human rights, democracy and international peace, Carter's overview of the threats to long cherised values of the American people is a must-read.

In just 200 pages he presents in a most reader-friendly manner, free from cliches, demagoguery and abuse, a collection of refreshing analyses, supported by hard, relevant data, his latest and timely book Our Endangered Values.

This work by the Nobel peace prize laureate, whose name is associated worldwide with electoral democracy and human rights linked to projects and activities of the Atlanta-based Carter Centre, highlights his deep sense of disappointment and apprehension over 'America's moral crisis', including vexing attitudes on abortion, homosexuality and same-sex union."

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Having visited, at different periods, both Cuba and Venezuela, countries in which the Carter Centre maintains keen interest in governance, and is currently engaged in the latest displays of verbal warfare with Washington, the author of Our Endangered Values, the latest in a long line of books he wrote, says:

"Although there are many other complicating political factors, the tendency of fundamentalists (political and religious) to choose certain emotional issues for demagoguery and to avoid negotiation with dissenters has adversely affected American foreign policy...

"One notable example is that some American political leaders have adopted Fidel Castro as the ultimate human villain, and have elevated the small and militarily impotent nation of Cuba as one of the greatest threats to our nation's security and culture..."

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[Loud Mime]

The instability of Cuba and Venezuela is caused by George Bush? Is he stopping Castro from killing his detractors?

This is really free of demogoguery and abuse? Only to a radical liberal...

[pcottraux]

AS the governments of Cuba and Venezuela continue to cope with enormous destabilising politics from the George Bush administration...

Bush is bad, Commie dictators get a free pass.

[llevrok]

eNDANGERED LIVER LIPS

[Roy Tucker]

"In just 200 pages he presents in a most reader-friendly manner, free from cliches, demagoguery and abuse,..."

Wow, he must really have changed his speaking and writing style!

[onyx]

Jimmy Carter should be completely ignored, but since media will not cooperate, Carter must be ridiculed and demeaned.

[SALChamps03]

Georgia gets one chance out of 43 Presidents (I know; 42 if you only count Cleveland once)to have our state represented in the White House, and we got Carter. It's an embarrassment I don't think we'll ever live down.

[onyx]

NOT Georgia's fault... it's the damn people across the USA who elected the incompetent, fake, phony, fraud.

[BigSkyFreeper]

NOT Georgia's fault... it's the damn people across the USA who elected the incompetent, fake, phony, fraud.

C'mon! Tell us how you really feel!

:)

I agree though, he's an incompetant boring old goober.

[onyx]

I can't tell you how I really feel about that disasterous and dangerous, incompetent twit or I'd get banned for swearing.

:)

[binkdeville]

I couldn't even read the whole article ..Im so sick of hearing anything from this has been , failure, leftist moron anymore. When the hell will he GO AWAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BigSkyFreeper]

I can't tell you how I really feel about that disasterous and dangerous, incompetent twit or I'd get banned for swearing.

Same here! So, for now, your description is an apt description.

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[onyx]

You're not alone! I did not read it either. Why bother? LOL!

[binkdeville]

I can already imagine the insane ramblings of the article. The man has no sense of reality and zero critical thinking skills.

[A CA Guy]

Jimmy should go back to participating in his families most precious value, that of peeing on airport runways.

[onyx]

He's such a bitter, mean little zero of a man. It pains me that he gets attention. He's not only a left wing democrat, I think he's anti-American and will go so far as to say he's a traitor. It's seriously frightening that he still knows national security secrets.

[binkdeville]

I wish he would just shut the hell up or go move to a Socialist country and rot away .

[onyx]

I wish him worse than that... if you get my drift.

[binkdeville]

Ok , now you're reading my mind...Scary ...
What number am I thinking of right now ?

[MissouriConservative]

Jimmy Carter has been given a free ride from the liberal media, liberal historians, and even the American people, who excuse his political delinquencies and disasters on the grounds that he is a "good" man. But as bank robber Willie Sutton said of Carter: "I've never seen a bigger confidence man in my life, and I've been around some of the best in the business." It's time to set the record straight. Finally, an honest historian-Steven F. Hayward, author of The Age of Reagan-demolishes the myth of "Saint" Jimmy and exposes how he created today's leftist Democratic party of John Kerry and Hillary Clinton.

Jimmy Carter's laundry list of failures aren't just accidents of history: They're rooted in Carter's deeply flawed character and ideology-a smugly pious arrogance matched with a profound distrust of America. The Real Jimmy Carter reveals:

• Carter as meddling ex-president: Why a Time magazine columnist wrote that some of Carter's "Lone Ranger work has taken him dangerously close to the neighborhood of what we used to call treason"

• How Carter befriended North Korea during the Clinton administration, appeasing the communist regime and giving it cover for its nuclear weapons program

• How Carter made direct contacts with Soviet officials to try to subvert President Reagan's anti-communist policies

• The shocking extent of Carter's clandestine efforts to sabotage the first Gulf War in 1990 and how he used Gulf War II to publicly question the Christian faith of America's commander in chief

• How Carter befriended Yasir Arafat-making himself an enemy of Israel

• Carter as politician: a vicious campaigner-and even race-baiter

• The Carter White House during the disasters of the Sandinista takeover of Nicaragua, the energy crisis and stagflation, the Iranian revolution and hostage crisis, and the invasion of Afghanistan

• How Carter, the failed president, remade himself as Carter the humanitarian and freelance foreign policy critic of America

• How a Nobel official inadvertently revealed that Carter's Nobel Prize was actually meant as a slap at America The Real Jimmy Carter is a shocker, showing why the peanut president should never have left his farm.

This is all in a book I just recently purchased. It explains Carter and it is a must read for all.

The Real Jimmy Carter: How Our Worst Ex-President Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry

[onyx]

Thank you! As much as I hate him, I will buy the book just for the ammo.

Carter needs to be fully exposed!