Someone said this morning on radio that Jimmy will probably go to Venezuela and certify Chavez's election. Always struck me as funny -- Carter declaring a dictator's election as fair and regular. He just loves malevolent despots. Now I guess I know why -- apparently, he wasn't above dirty deals himself.
Yeah, quid pro quo, ya know...socking it to the rest of America to support Georgia. What's wrong with just plain giving the order to the best bidder and not using the taxpayer's money to buy goodwill? What's the need to thank LBJ for "doing something" for the people of Georgia, if the decision were simply fair?
Sounds like there was sleaze on both sides of the fence... :-(
I wish he would just play golf.
Pretty funny
The Cuban boat people sank his re-election bid....
Along with a very massive number of other reasons.
Drudge has a link to Youtube of some caller to C-span calling Carter a bigot, racist, and a few other choice names. naturally, the C-span cow hung up on the caller.
Worst President Ever
The part of his legacy he'll never be able to rewrite is LANDSLIDE, BABY!!!
So Carter campaigned as an anti-black redneck, eh? There's an awful lot of African-Americans that don't know that.
Jimmy Carter had a lot of experience with the race card. Before he retired as a submarine skipper, he was a senior officer. A sub skipper requires that the officer be at least Lt. Commander, but most likely a full commander.
the navy, during his tenure had gone through a complete renovation as it hugged affirmative action. Not knowing what events occurred on any of his (Carter's) commands, it can only be assumed he saw issues involving negative race related issues.
As a senior administrator in the sub fleet, Carter was well versed in how to deal with military justice - both NJP, and Art. 15's for Courts Martial. I believe there are a number of page 13's with his stamp on them saying he visited the issue at Captain's Mast more than once.
This guy is a snake - a liberal by any other name. he sold the N. Koreans nuclear capability under the Clinton administration. As President, Carter subjugated the military into giving up military control of "special weapons" to unqualified civilian control - his belief (as a liberal) that the world would be safer if the military did not have control of said items.
Carter would sell out his country to save his own skin, and he most likely has "Bubba's" fingerprints on his ears - go figure if you don't know what I mean.
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Thanks for the post, I sent a copy to Chris Matthews, whom, I am confident will be outraged (again) at the use of racism in southern politics.
Wow!
Oblique, hardly worth a glance ping.
Jimmy looks like the Evil Emperor in Star Wars!
At a recent lunch, Sanders was reluctant to get into the details of his defeat by Carter, saying simply, "The thought process I went through in every campaign I ever ran was to focus my energy on talking about education and things that were needed in my district or in the state. I always assumed that if I worked hard enough, my opponent would not be able to beat me using race, but Jimmy Carter effectively used the issue to drive a wedge between the races." The dirty tricks he endured included a picture widely circulated in South Georgia showing Sanders, a part owner of the Atlanta Hawks professional basketball team at the time, celebrating a victory with his arms around Joe Caldwell, a black player. Carter and his apologists have long denied any culpability, but veteran political columnist Bill Shipp told me he saw Bill Pope, Carter's press secretary, hand out leaflets with the photograph at a Ku Klux Klan rally... Mysterious leaflets also criticized Sanders for attending the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. Carter made a point to say that he did not attend... Carter, by the way, got only 5 percent of the black vote in the campaign.