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Former US president slaps down 'subservient' Blair (Peanut head)
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Posted on 08/26/2006 10:14:18 PM PDT by hipaatwo

Former US president Jimmy Carter lashed out at British Prime Minister Tony Blair for being "so compliant and subservient" to the Bush administration in Washington.

"I have been surprised and extremely disappointed with Tony Blair's behaviour," Carter told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper as he promoted his new book "Faith and Freedom."

"I think that, more than any other person in the world, the prime minister could have had a moderating influence on Washington, and he has not," said the 81-year-old former head of state.

He faulted Blair for not having been a constraint on US President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq in March 2003 -- an invasion which, he said, subverted the fight against global terrorism.

"We now have a situation where America is so unpopular overseas that, even in countries like Egypt and Jordan, our approval ratings are less than five percent," said Carter, who was in the White House from 1977 to 1981.

"It's a shameful and pitiful state of affairs, and I hold your British prime minister to be substantially responsible for being so compliant and subservient."


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To: hipaatwo
As I have said before, the Carter years were like dog years....each one seemed like seven.

I was a young married woman in those years, and I have never forgotten how MISERABLE they were.

I have zero repect for the Peanut, not as a former president, nor a fellow American, nor a a human being.

61 posted on 08/27/2006 2:51:34 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: hipaatwo

"I am ashamed that peanut-brain is from the great state of Georgia!"


62 posted on 08/27/2006 3:01:07 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: hipaatwo

Now this is an absolute outrage. He's not only lost his mind, he's lost any tiny sense of decency.


63 posted on 08/27/2006 3:35:57 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: paudio
I think he's a megalomaniac who enjoys sucking up from the leftists--regardless where they are from

If this is true why is he attacking Blair this is a case of eating your own.

64 posted on 08/27/2006 3:54:21 AM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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To: hipaatwo

You may have said a bad thing, but I'm betting the farm it was accurate. We knew Carter was a fool when he was in office. Now we know he is a hateful, petty little man.


65 posted on 08/27/2006 3:56:22 AM PDT by Bahbah (Goldwasser, Regev and Shalit, we are praying for you...and now Steve and Olaf.)
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To: scan58

Coming from England this is something I cannot understand red is alway socialist or labour but Blue is conservative.

Remember amount of blue outfits Mrs T wore she rarely wore red but I suppose today that might be different seeing as red is often seen as a power color.


66 posted on 08/27/2006 3:58:32 AM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME) and a true blue Conservative)
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To: scan58

Whoops spelt colour the American way :0)


67 posted on 08/27/2006 4:02:21 AM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME) and a true blue Conservative)
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To: Darkwolf377
"one of those wannabes who found the key to gaining acceptance by the intelligencia."

But why would "gaining acceptance by the intelligencia" be something that anyone would want to do at all, yet alone an important thing to do?

68 posted on 08/27/2006 4:07:33 AM PDT by LZ_Bayonet
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
I mean, he had to deal with Russia and the Ayatollah and here he was supposedly fighting off a rabbit.”

Yeah, he really did a stellar job 'dealing with' the Ayatollah, didn't he?

69 posted on 08/27/2006 4:07:51 AM PDT by Bob
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To: LZ_Bayonet

Don't ask me, ask Jimmy. He sure does love to hang out with those sorts. Oh, and dictators. I mean, someone who helps write a speech for Yassir Arafat has some kind of mental problem.


70 posted on 08/27/2006 4:11:39 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Happy Laorb Day! "The Eye" is watching you!)
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To: hipaatwo

Jimmy Carter - as dumb as they come.
I may just have to rethink my assessment that LBJ was the worst president in my lifetime. At least Johnson had the good sense to die at a reasonable age rather than inflict himself on the country and its best friends for years after he was (mercifully) out of office.


71 posted on 08/27/2006 4:39:39 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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To: lndrvr1972

That is the most frightening thing about him.

He typifies the far left mindset - he can destroy everything around him, and nothing gets through to him. He still thinks he was right.

I look at him and think, what if another Carter gets in? In today's dangerous world, he could end up destroying the country and see nothing wrong with it, because he is "advancing peace and justice".


72 posted on 08/27/2006 6:00:55 AM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: hipaatwo

Do his keepers know he's out? You'd think they wouold miss him at the institution.


73 posted on 08/27/2006 6:17:51 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: snugs
Yes, when one thinks of democrats (or communists)...one sees RED. It must have been a political strategy for them to steal the blue from Republicans...I think it was in 2000.
It has always irked me.
74 posted on 08/27/2006 7:18:29 AM PDT by scan58
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

BUMP!


75 posted on 08/27/2006 7:18:33 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell
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To: top 2 toe red

this could be an call for retroactive Abortion that some Lib College types call for in regard to how to handle retarded children.


76 posted on 08/27/2006 8:30:43 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( When are we going to draw a line a say"this far and no farther")
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To: hipaatwo

Once an amiable dunce, he gets more insufferably stupid and obnoxious as his arteries harden.


77 posted on 08/27/2006 11:45:46 AM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: Uncle Meat

Precisely what I was thinking; the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. Knowing Jimmah, he would have counted to five before throwing it, though.


78 posted on 08/27/2006 4:11:19 PM PDT by Roberts
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To: sanchmo

I wish Prime Minister Blair would publically respond that Carter was a total and abject failure in every respect as a United States president, a joke actually, with nothing whatsoever to show for his term in office but failure economically, internationally or domestically, (and a pretty nice pension and benefits for himself for such a failure who only served four years) and was therefore not re-elected. And Mr. Blair should say that "little Jimmy's" opinions of Mr. Blair are of no concern to Mr.Blair in that Carter has no influence anywhere on anything that might concern a British Prime Minister and is just a little pufferbelly and pissant and farthead who had his fifteen minutes of fame and failed to capitalize on it. If "Little Jimmy" can sing or play an instrument, maybe he could become a Dixie Chick. "Little Jimmy" and Cindy Crawford and that rabid rabbit should perhaps form a "menage de trois" which probably wouldn't amount to anything more with the three of them together than any one of the three has so far.


79 posted on 08/27/2006 6:30:58 PM PDT by mathurine (ua)
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To: sanchmo

I wish Prime Minister Blair would publically respond that Carter was a total and abject failure in every respect as a United States president, a joke actually, with nothing whatsoever to show for his term in office but failure economically, internationally or domestically, (and a pretty nice pension and benefits for himself for such a failure who only served four years) and was therefore not re-elected. And Mr. Blair should say that "little Jimmy's" opinions of Mr. Blair are of no concern to Mr.Blair in that Carter has no influence anywhere on anything that might concern a British Prime Minister and is just a little pufferbelly and pissant and farthead who had his fifteen minutes of fame and failed to capitalize on it. If "Little Jimmy" can sing or play an instrument, maybe he could become a Dixie Chick. "Little Jimmy" and Cindy Crawford and that rabid rabbit should perhaps form a "menage de trois" which probably wouldn't amount to anything more with the three of them together than any one of the three has so far.


80 posted on 08/27/2006 6:31:00 PM PDT by mathurine (ua)
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