Posted on 05/17/2006 11:11:51 AM PDT by anotherview
Have to have brain to have alzheimers...must be something else.
Not for the lack of trying. I heard the Rabbit turned him down.
....wait for it
Carter definitely had the more entertaining family. If only William Faulkner or Tennessee Williams had lived to meet the Carters, they would have had a field day writing about them
Jimmuh's sons did coke in the White House, and his sister was a faith healing motorcycle evangelist, usually found roaring around the Ozarks. Her most noteable Christian convert was Larry Flynt, the owner of Penthouse Magazine, but Larry apparently fell off the wagon and that seems to be over. His brother was a paid lobbyist for the Libyans, except when he wasn't marketing his own creation, Billy Beer. The family matriarch, Ms. Lillian had wisely been shuffled off to India in the Peace Corps, a few years prior to the 1976 election, but on her return she had a lot to say.:)
The Clintons are rich white trash, agreed, but you couldn't buy entertainment like the Carters. Who else but Jimmuh could be chased in a fishing boat by a great big aquatic killer rabbit, for instance?:)
Perfect cartoon Alouette! Carter can burn in hell!
About time someone invented a new word for " a loose cannon"
Tennessee Williams (died 1983) did meet them. He was their guest in the White House on at least one occasion, if I recall correctly (forgive me if I'm wrong).
I apologize for imputing more class to the Carters than they deserved. It's just that Clinton was so flamboyant about everything that all that seemed so dull!
thats why no one can find it !!! :)
He is also the most horrid ex-president, we have ever had.
He should stick to building houses for poor people, and stay out of foreign policy!
What so many don't know, or seem to forget that Carter has been a friend of feinds; Castro, Chavez, Aristed, warlords Mohamed and Hussein Aideed to name a few....read on:
Jimmy Carter (Democrat) pulled us out of the Olympics, and hurt the American farmer when he halted the sale of wheat to Russia in response to the soviet invasion of Afghanistan. His brother was given $250,000 from the terrorist nation of Libya, while his . He allowed 50 diplomats at our embassy to become hostages of terrorists in Iran. For 5 months Carter (Democrat) allowed those people to be held, while he attempted "diplomatic" and "economic" pressure to free them. This failed. His ill planned military rescue attempt ended with 3 damaged helicopters and 8 dead military troops. The hostages were held for over 14 months. When Ronald Reagan (a Republican) was elected President, the captors fearfully offered to negotiate release of the hostages. They were freed while Mr. Reagan (Republican) took his oath of office.
In 1993, clinton (Democrat) expanded the limited humanitarian mission in Somalia, to include rebuilding the nation. The UN "peacekeepers" embarked on a war against Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed. clinton (Democrat) included our troops in this war. Aideed and the Somalis never attacked us. In October, the forces of Aideed brought down two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters, in Mogadishu and precipitated a vicious daylong firefight, wounding 77 and killing 18 Americans, whose naked, mutilated bodies were drug through the streets. This horrifying act was broadcast around the world. This, despite clinton (Democrat) sending former President Carter (Democrat) to negotiate peace talks with Aideed. Afterward, clinton declined to bring Aideed to justice, when offered his capture by frightened clan allies, instead clinton (Democrat) decided to cut and run--quit the mission in Somalia. In fact, two months later to the day, US soldiers were escorting Aideed to the Mogadishu airport by motorcade and flying him to Addis Ababa in a US Army airplane! Aideed remained in power until Aug. 1995. Clinton's retreat broadcast a signal of weakness around the world. It sent a message to our foes, that America will change her policies if terrorists kill our people. During the war with Aideed, the clinton administration sent Mohamed Aideed's son, Hussein to Somalia as a Marine Corps translator. He left the military, and remained in Somalia, becoming a warlord himself and being responsible for the deaths and displacement of 50,000 Somali's. clinton (Democrat) invaded Haiti. Haiti never attacked us. A brokered deal instigated by former President Carter (Democrat), allowed clinton (Democrat) to send in our military to place Jean-Bertrand Aristide in power, knowing full well what a despot the man was. This is one of foreign policys all-time worst liberal bungles. Today, the disastrous results of Clintons experiment in Caribbean colonialism are painfully evident. On Oct. 12, 2000, terrorists bombed the USS Cole as it sat in the Yemeni port of Aden. The bomb killed 17 U.S. sailors. American officials quickly linked the attack to bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Nothing was done.
Rats, I knew I should have looked that up.:)
You made me look it up, though, and among many other things I didn't want to know about him was that he died in 1983 from choking to death on a bottle cap.
This could be a lesson to us all, use the bottle opener, not your front teeth.
Tennessee Williams died about the same time as an uncle of mine, so I remember the news about his death well. The official story is that he committed suicide by swallowing a bottle cap, but there are others (including his brother Dakin) who insist he was actually murdered.
You know he was homosexual, right?
I've been looking for the Cliff's Notes version of The Carter Blunders beginning when he first took office in the WH. Do you know where it's posted? I've seen it... a while ago.
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