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."
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.
Now this is an absolute outrage. He's not only lost his mind, he's lost any tiny sense of decency.
If this is true why is he attacking Blair this is a case of eating your own.
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.
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.
Whoops spelt colour the American way :0)
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?
Yeah, he really did a stellar job 'dealing with' the Ayatollah, didn't he?
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.
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.
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".
Do his keepers know he's out? You'd think they wouold miss him at the institution.
BUMP!
this could be an call for retroactive Abortion that some Lib College types call for in regard to how to handle retarded children.
Once an amiable dunce, he gets more insufferably stupid and obnoxious as his arteries harden.
Precisely what I was thinking; the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. Knowing Jimmah, he would have counted to five before throwing it, though.
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.
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.
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