Posted on 09/02/2006 9:49:51 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Jack Kelly: Meet the worst ex-president
An odious Iranian will see Jimmy Carter on his U.S. visit
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The State Department has granted a visa to Mohammad Khatami, the former president of Iran, to visit the United States.
Mr. Khatami is coming this week chiefly to attend meetings at the United Nations. He also will speak at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard; at a function sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Arlington, Va., and at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. And he will meet with former president Jimmy Carter.
Mr. Khatami requested the meeting with Mr. Carter.
Perhaps to say "thank you."
For those with short historical memories, when the Ayatollah Khomeini began making trouble for the autocratic, but pro-American, shah of Iran, Mr. Carter essentially pushed the shah from the Peacock Throne.
Mr. Khomeini repayed Mr. Carter by authorizing the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, where Islamic radicals (among them Iran's current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
After a rescue attempt went awry, Ayatollah Khomeini reportedly sneered: "Neither does Carter have the guts for military action, nor does anyone listen to him."
The hostages were released on the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated. Ayatollah Khomeini recognized Mr. Reagan was made of sterner stuff than the man who flinched from the attack of a "killer rabbit."
Thanks to James Buchanan, Pennsylvania's unfortunate contribution to the presidency, Jimmy Carter can claim not to have been the worst president in U.S. history.
But he is unquestionably the worst ex-president, snuggling up to every tyrant who will allow his buttocks to be smooched....
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If only.
Ain't that the truth.
With Franklin Pierce as a distant relative, I thank Jimmy Carter for moving him up on the ex-presidents list. Jimmy, the bottom is all yours. Only a Kerry or a Gore could possibly displace you as the lowest of the low.
Does everyone remember that? Mike Wallace?
It's hard to make Bill Clinton look good, but Jimmy Carter (almost) makes Clinton look good (by comparison).
Carter remains the stain in Clinton's sink. It was never Lewinsky.
No, Wallace is too busy giving the "handsome" Ahmadinejad a tongue bath to bother reporting on this.
Yeah, thanks a lot. Jimmah is a distant cousin on my dad's side. And yes, we are ashamed.
I do like this Jack Kelly, though. the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, where Islamic radicals (among them Iran's current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
And what ever happened to them for this?
Lost diplomatic relations with the USA?
Bombed into oblivion?
Ahmadhamhead became president?
The idea of giving a visa to any terrorist "leader" to come to the USA is unfathomable to me.
We have terrorists INVITED to teach at leading American universities, to speak at the Kennedy School of Government (oxymoron), at a function sponsored by our own terrorist organization CAIR, and at the National Cathedral in our nation's capital, as well as meet with a former high profile politician that is single handedly responsible for the nightmare that is Iran today.
It's a world gone mad. I guess the WOT is over. Why worry about them finding their way here? We are freaking inviting them. This thing is insane!
Well .. what can you say .. nobody in Washington has a backbone anymore.
To reminisce about the Good Ol' Days, no doubt.
This is your corrupt "Two-Party Cartel" that is making every average citizen a throw away pawn to the New World Order. Why they get away with it is because you vote them back in each election.
ROTFL!
Some consistency is in order. The State Department is never on our side, it seems. Neither party seems to care.
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