As my grandma used to say....you're known by the company you keep.
Posted on 03/03/2006 6:44:15 AM PST by SJackson
President Carter personally called Secretary of State Rice to try to convince her to reverse her U.N. ambassador's position on changes to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, the former president recalled yesterday in a talk in which he also criticized President Bush's Christian bona fides and misstated past American policies on Israel.
Mr. Carter said he made a personal promise to ambassadors from Egypt, Pakistan, and Cuba on the U.N. change issue that was undermined by America's ambassador, John Bolton. "My hope is that when the vote is taken," he told the Council on Foreign Relations, "the other members will outvote the United States."
While other former presidents have tried to refrain from attacking the sitting chief executive, Mr. Carter's attacks on President Bush have increased. The episode he recounted yesterday showed how he tried to undermine officials at lower levels in an effort to influence policy.
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What an annoying little worm...
Why did she take the call?
I hope Secretary Rice had the good sense to hang up the phone!
I hope that's carved on his tombstone. Fear of being banned stops me from posting when I think that should happen.
"Mr. Carter said he made a personal promise to ambassadors from Egypt, Pakistan, and Cuba on the U.N. change issue that was undermined by America's ambassador, John Bolton."
Carter needs to be slapped publicly with an injunction forbidding him from attempting to speak for the United States of America, and a memorandum to all Nations stating that he has no authority to speak for USG.
I think what he really meant is that he made a personal promise to these ambassadors that undermines the current administration's foreign policy position.
Maybe that is why Bush appointed Bolton instead of carter as Ambassador to the UN.
Great post
Very nicely put.
This idiot is an evil menance.
John Bolton is the best thing that ever happened to us. .
Ex-presidents should be forbidden by law, to continue to engage in politics. Carter has zero authority to act in behalf of the American people, yet he arrogantly continues to do so..
I don't know where he gets his chutspah!.
My spelling can be a menace too.
Welcome aboard.
Carter is more full of shite' than a Christmas Turkey BUMP!
Mr. Carter said he made a personal promise to ambassadors from Egypt, Pakistan, and Cuba on the U.N. change issue that was undermined by America's ambassador, John Bolton...One of the things I assured them of was that the United States was not going to dominate all the other nations of the world in the Human Rights Council...
I'm sure there's an ex-President exception.
The Logan Act, codified at 18 USC 953 states:Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may by, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. The Logan Act
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