Posted on 03/03/2006 9:45:05 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
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.
The story, as Mr. Carter recalled, began with a recent dinner for 17 he attended in New York, where the guests included the president of the U.N. General Assembly, Jan Eliasson; an unidentified American representative, and other U.N. ambassadors from "powerful" countries at Turtle Bay, of which he mentioned only three: Cuba, Egypt, and Pakistan. The topic was the ongoing negotiations on an attempt to replace the widely discredited Geneva-based Human Rights Commission with a more accountable Human Rights Council.
"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," Mr. Carter said. However, on the next day, Carter said, Mr. Bolton publicly "demanded" that the five permanent members of the Security Council will have permanent seats on the new council as well, "which subverted exactly what I have promised them," Carter said.
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So call them back and explain that you aren't the President any more, peanut brain.
Poor, addled little man.
Somebody confiscate this man's US assets, property & citizenship NOW!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asshole
(Jimah, not you WCC)
What a pathetic putz.
Umm, did anyone appoint Mr. Carter to something that I wasn't aware of? Was he recently elected to some position of power that I missed?
Why in the world would anybody accept a promise from him concerning US policy?
Don't be too hard on the old peanut. After all, it was the American public that was stupid enough to put a disloyal globalist in the WH (three times, actually).
It is one thing for a private citizen to "try to urge and advocate" a position different from your government's. That is a minor faux paus.
But for a private citizen to "assure" and "promise" is lunacy. The man is out of touch with reality.
What a pompous a$$. He must be too senile now to realize he no longer speaks for the United States.
Maybe people will stop listening to him when they find out his promises are worthless. I know I sure have....
Don't make promises you can't keep, Jimmuh.
Who the hell is this buck toothed peanut farmer to be promising anything to anyone on behalf of the USA? The administration needs to bring him down about 10 notches and do it publicly. Humiliate the moron.
Remember that scene in "Braveheart"?
Jimmy Carter is more of a traitor than William Wallace ever was. I wish it was 800 years ago.
The day that twisted traitorous bastard drops dead I swear I will dance in the street.
When will this petty, obstructionist POS climb back in his hole? He's an embarrassment to the US.
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