Bill Clinton, for sure
Posted on 08/18/2006 10:34:25 PM PDT by Kaslin
Want to know where the Democratic Party stands and where America would be under their leadership? Just ask Jimmy Carter.
Carter is certainly not bashful about bashing the United States, even on foreign soil or to the foreign press. He sat for an interview with Der Spiegel recently and fired with both barrels at President Bush, "fundamentalist" Christians and Israel.
But do Carter's views represent those of the Democratic Party? Well, he sure seems to think so. He told Der Spiegel, "I think I represent the vast majority of Democrats in this country." If so, that's scary.
Expanding on the theme of his latest book, "Our Endangered Values," Carter said the Bush administration has abandoned the nation's "old" moral principles. That's a curious concept: By upholding traditional moral values President Bush has diverted the nation's moral course?
Carter is particularly exercised about Bush's foreign policy. He said: "Under all of its predecessors there was a commitment to peace instead of pre-emptive 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 pre-emptive basis."
But no less an antiwar Democrat than Sen. John Kerry – after savaging President Bush for his "pre-emptive" attack of Iraq – admitted in the first presidential debate that "The president always has the right, and always has had the right, for pre-emptive strike. That was a great doctrine throughout the Cold War."
No matter how persistently Carter's Democrats attempt to rewrite history, President Bush attacked Iraq because he believed it was a threat to America's security – and it was, just as Iran is today. Carter is delusional if he believes Bush was just recreationally flexing America's "imperialistic" muscles to spread democracy.
The debate here between Democrats and Republicans isn't over the use of pre-emptive war – as Kerry reluctantly confessed – but on the assessment of threats to our national security. Specifically, the debate centers on the parties' respective views of the nature and scope of the terrorist threat, whether Israel is seen as more of a victim surrounded by hostile regimes bent on its destruction or a bullying, aggressive nation, and whether we should defer on these questions to anti-American leaders in Europe and the United Nations.
Carter states the Democrats' position quite clearly. Islamo-fascist terrorists aren't that bad. They are probably peace-loving people like the rest of us who just have their noses out of joint over Bush's "unilateral" foreign policy and his "pre-emptive" attack on Iraq. Indeed, Carter said the Arab world hates us because we invaded Iraq, and even more so for "supporting and encouraging Israel in its unjustified attack on Lebanon."
So the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, occurred because we attacked Iraq in 2003? Israel was unjustified in retaliating against Hezbollah, which is supported by (and a part of) the Lebanese government and its people? If we would just talk to these reasonable terrorists – such as Hezbollah and Mike Wallace's hero, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, we could achieve peace?
In the interview, Carter pointedly blamed Bush's foreign policy on his Christian "fundamentalism." He nicely articulated the position of today's Democratic leaders, who, while scrambling for "values voters," consistently insult them, and while holding themselves out as superior guardians of our national security, see America, not the terrorists, as the problem.
Carter, after unmistakably implying that Bush is a fundamentalist, said that fundamentalists believe "they are speaking for God" and "anyone who disagrees with them is inherently wrong" and "inherently inferior." "In extreme cases – as is the case with some fundamentalists around the world – it makes your opponents sub-humans, so that their lives are not significant." Since "the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality" the fundamentalist (read: President Bush) "can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them."
Carter also said that since the fundamentalists believe they are speaking for God, they think they are above making, much less admitting, mistakes. "So when we permit the torture of prisoners in Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib, it's just impossible for a fundamentalist [read: Bush – again] to admit that a mistake was made."
Carter couldn't be more wrong. Bush, though not even close to a fundamentalist, is a Bible-believing Christian who by definition believes in the equal dignity of all people.
But leave it to Carter to say Bush "permitted" torture, which is an outright lie. Leave it to him to believe the worst about "fundamentalist" Christians and the best about Islamo-fascist terrorists.
Sadly, I believe Carter does speak for the Democratic leadership, and that speaks volumes about the Democrat leadership.
Jimmy carter. Idiocy incarnate. The first and last RAT I ever voted for.
He is a dufus traitor.
God he's a worthless piece of sh!t. If he wasn't surrounded 24-7 by the finest security detail my tax money can buy, I'd wish somebody would bitch-slap the assclown hard enough to knock the liver spots off him.
Actually, that's the behavior I notice in non-believers, whether it is mainline Christians or scientists or atheists or whatever. If you admit you believe that G-d actually cares what we do then you are treated as an intellectual inferior.
This is nothing more than projection on Carter's part.
Shalom.
Unfortunately, he DOES represent the vast majority of Democrats in the US: Clueless;
Spineless;
Deep seated hatred for the values that made America great;
Never met a dictator that he didn't love, as long as that dictator hated America.
this man deserves to be stricken from history as having been a US President. Who has ever done so much to dishonor that heritage? It's just unbelievable , and sad.
"Actually, that's the behavior I notice in non-believers, whether it is mainline Christians or scientists or atheists or whatever. If you admit you believe that G-d actually cares what we do then you are treated as an intellectual inferior."
An astute observation.
When Carter doesn't like your foreign policy you know you're doing it right.
"Jimmy Carter: Sympathy for the Devil"
May this fool's soul be "laid to waste."
I used to think Carter was a Christian, but just terribly misguided. Since then though, most Southern Baptists have fled the Democratic party as they realized what the Dems really stood for.
Perhaps Jimmuh "gained the whole world, but lost his soul."
Carter was a pathetic failure as an American president and, amazingly, an even bigger failure as an American.
I remember feeling sorry for him in the Rose Garden.. excuse me I was way young.. But now I see him as a total failure,, and he continues to speak I see him as a traitor
I hope he shuts up... What a failure
I always find it amazing when the libs say that the Islamic world started hating us only after we went into Iraq. For one thing we had five attacks against us by A-Q including 9/11 before we went into Iraq. But I find it curious that they don't mention Afghanistan as though it wasn't an Islamo-fascist country whose government we destroyed. Why didn't that make them mad at us? Actually it did, but the libs mostly support our action there, so apparently that didn't make the I-Fs mad at us. Typical screwy lib "logic".
Bill Clinton, for sure
Rush's retrospective on Carter's incompetence, and evil ways more than enlightened those who were too young to remember his presidency or have forgotten those terrible days.
Carter used to say that he was a "born again Christian" (a Christian believer who had truly given his life to G-d) and, as an evangelical myself, I wondered how he could be a real believer and behave as he did...particularly toward Israel.
This article puts the nail in the coffin of that old lie about his faith.
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that people who say, "I am a Christian" but whom you would not ever guess they were by their actions, tend to dance with the devil by their very un-Christian actions which further evil?
Absolutely.
Carter could best be described as a wolf in sheep's clothing. Christ said a tree is known by its fruit. Judging by Carter's behavior over the years, he is not a brother in Christ in my eyes.
The man standing next to him, however, is.
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