Posted on 08/16/2006 9:48:09 AM PDT by ncountylee
Former US president Jimmy Carter speaks with DER SPIEGEL about the danger posed to American values by George W. Bush, the difficult situation in the Middle East and Cuba's ailing Fidel Castro.
SPIEGEL: Mr. Carter, in your new book you write that only the American people can ensure that the US government returns to the country's old moral principles. Are you suggesting that the current US administration of George W. Bush of acting immorally?
Carter: There's no doubt that this administration has made a radical and unpressured departure from the basic policies of all previous administrations including those of both Republican and Democratic presidents.
SPIEGEL: For example?
Carter: Under all of its predecessors there was a commitment to peace instead of preemptive war. Our country always had a policy of not going to war unless our own security was directly threatened and now we have a new policy of going to war on a preemptive basis. Another very serious departure from past policies is the separation of church and state, which I describe in the book. This has been a policy since the time of Thomas Jefferson and my own religious beliefs are compatible with this. The other principle that I described in the book is basic justice. We've never had an administration before that so overtly and clearly and consistently passed tax reform bills that were uniquely targeted to benefit the richest people in our country at the expense or the detriment of the working families of America.
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Have seen them appear quickly on a Target's close out end cap.
Jimmy Carter was probably a functional nuclear submarine engineering officer, and that was the last thing he did that was noteworthy.
Jimmy Carter - what a maroon!
And the pictures with the green teeth!!! My God!
1) Allowing Khomeini [hawk, spit] to depose the Shah, thereby ushering in the era of Islamic "republics";
2) His utterly disasterous handling of the Iran hostage crisis; and
3) Destroying the dignity of the Presidency by refusing to STFU as a former President.
When is this waste of protoplasm going to stop stealing our oxygen?
"Jimmy Carter will be remembered for d things:"
Uh, 3 things.
Now that was a red state America--when are we gonna see the like of that again? Jimmy better go back to his plantation in Plains and give himself a rubdown with some peanut oil.
When I was in the news biz in Washington, DC, I used to call Billy from time to time at his gas station down in Americus, GA. He was always very nice. Quite a stutterer, though.
Remember "Billy Beer"?
Finish the thought you old goat - "WHEN our own security is threatened!!"
What a moron.
How mortifying it is to see my own MD part of the miniscule portion that went for CARTER. :-(
"This has been a policy since the time of Thomas Jefferson"
The "time of Jefferson" being what? His Presidency?
Nevermind even Jefferson didn't mean "never the twain shall meet" in an infamous letter (to a church, which incidentally was getting assurance that churches would not be forced to do what the GOV wants!).
When he wrote "separation of church & state", he MEANT "NON-ESTABLISHMENT OF A PARTICULAR REGLIGION".
Which is what's written in the Constitution.
Which was BEFORE Jefferson's presidency (and Jefferson was NOT present for creating the same). Don't give him so much credit!
Nnnaaaah! Israel didn't EXIST before 1948, don't you know that? The UN put it there, and Moslems created Jerusalem centuries ago!
Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy, still sufering from that constant core-dump of corrupted memory.....
Even the Jews didn't establish Jerusalem. It was before David's time known as Jebus, and the residents were Jebusites until David conquered them and took the city for his new capital (His old capital was Hebron) because of its strategic position..............
"Thought we'd seen the last of this loser but his cracker son wins the NV primary. Whodda thunk?"
His cracker son has zero chance against Ensign. Jack was hand picked by Reid I am sure, and the Dems follow Reid like lemmings.
I think that was LBJ, not Carter.
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