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 ...
He was responsible for the term: "Stagflation." And he breathed new life into the term: "The misery index."
Applause, applause!
"4. DISCO!!!!"
Um...that's Bush's fault
I voted for him when I was 18 also. That was my last vote for a Democrat.
And they say the bunny was rabid ... gotta dead rabbit?
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Remember Jimmy walking on the White House roof in his sweater looking for the furnace ?
What a tool.
What about Jimmuh Carter trying to surrender to the Soviets???
Let's not blame his anti-semitism on senility. This a$$hole has always hated jews.
Jimmy cured me from ever voting for another RAT, ever.
Well he is getting on a bit. Just sayin' .....
Rich old famous guys don't end up in an Alzheimer's home. Very few are honorable like Reagan was.
This guy is way past his prime (what little of it he ever had). He needs to ride off into the sunset.
I'd love to see Roslyn in a chador...
In closing the conference, Ahmadinejad urged everyone to read former president Jimmy Carter’s new book, “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid” to get the “real story on the Jewish threat to humanity.”
also,
Former President Jimmy Carter said the ISG report confirms that Bush’s venture into Iraq was the worse calamity in U.S. history. “This is far worse than sitting idle while your embassy is taken hostage and diddling for more than a year without getting any results, really, it is,” Carter claimed. “This is worse than running the economy into the ground and losing your reelection bid to an actor. It’s worse than having your brother urinate in public. I think this will help the American people realize that I wasn’t the worst president.”
read more...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
He was the first president I voted for, and 2 years later, I made the same mistake and voted for a RAT for governor. Both those men proved to be complete idiots, and I have voted almost all 'pub since. I have voted for a few RATS in protest of a RINO incumbent who was going to win regardless.
The fact is Jimmah is just another liberal who has sniffed too much elitism in his life. His views must not have been formed when he served nobly in the US Navel Academy and in Nuclear Sub duty. He has now become another lefty Quisling.
that was on American Dad last night. (what America was would be like after Carter surrendered to the Soviets)
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