Posted on 12/18/2006 8:29:15 AM PST by george76
There appears to be no bottom to the pit of specious vacuity in which former president Jimmy Carter has been falling since his massive repudiation by voters in his 1980 election loss to Ronald Reagan.
Carter’s latest book — “Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid” — poses a ridiculous argument and commits unforgivable intellectual sins while doing so.
The ridiculosity underlying Carter’s book is his assertion that Israel is imposing apartheid on the Palestinians by such measures as constructing the West Bank fence intended to keep suicide bombers and other terrorists from crossing into Israel to kill and maim.
Carter clearly doesn’t care that Israel remains the sole true democracy in the Middle East and affords Arabs living within its borders voting rights and economic privileges unknown anywhere else in the region.
To classify anti-terrorist measures as forms of apartheid is to indicate a complete lack of understanding of the reality facing Israel every day.
Since Carter’s book appeared, it has sparked heavy and unrelenting criticism from thoughtful people across the political spectrum, as well as the resignation of Dr. Ken Stein, one of the nation’s most respected Middle East scholars, from a Carter-led academic institute at Emory University.
At the root of Carter’s Middle Eastern perspective, of course, is his unalloyed blindness toward the Palestinians in particular and the political Muslim world’s long-running antipathy towards Jews.
Carter’s latest tome is “replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions and simply invented segments.”
Carter would do himself and his countrymen a favor by permanently resisting the urge to offer any further commentary on world affairs.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Jimmy did accomplish one thing...he made it easier for Reagan to win.
http://www.presidentelect.org/images/e1980_ecmap.GIF
Thanks for the link.
He can always do a commercial for "Cheap Dentists Ass'n." JK
Agreed. Almost anybody could have beat Jimmy in 1980.
Ah yes, the good old days when Republicans were blue and Democrats were red (they still are -- but the MSM has conspired to re-write that out of the election history books).
I don't think he's nuts. He's been on the Saudi payroll for years.
I'm afraid that light has been dim for some time now. His age has only succeeded in making that dimness more difficult to conceal.
ROTFL!...The Examiner editorial board hit a home run with that one.
When I was 18, I voted for him. Even then, the Democrats mis-information machine affected young voters.
Thank God Reagan won and that was my last vote for a Democrat.
"He wanted it to be renamed the "MAGMA CARTER"
Bad joke alert.......
Impeaching ex-Presidents... is that allowed?
Except for Ted "the swimmer" Kennedy.
If he'd been better organized himself, I think he could have beaten Carter too. There was a movement to release the deligates at the convention that failed.
"Carter heard that the Jews were training killer rabbits to get him"
Not a joke.....Rabbits can be quite fierce....especially on peanut farms.....
There are a few things I remember about the Carter era, and they're all bad:
1. High Interest Rates
2. Gas lines
3. Iranians capturing our embassy personnel in Teheran
and next, possibly the worst of them all,
4. DISCO!!!!
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