14 Carter Center advisers resign in protest over book

Florida Times-Union / AP ^ | January 11, 2007 | GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO

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ATLANTA - Fourteen members of a Carter Center advisory board who worked to build support for the human rights organization started by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife have resigned in protest over Carter's latest book.

The resignations, announced Thursday, are the latest in a backlash against the former president's book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," which has drawn fire from Jewish groups, been attacked by fellow Democrats and led to the resignation last month of Kenneth Stein, a Carter Center fellow and a longtime Carter adviser.

[groanup]

200

[sitetest]

It helps to read the article at the link:

"The 200-member board is responsible for building public support for the Carter Center."

14 out 200 isn't all that many.

[sitetest]

Thanks.

[Ahithophel]

That's hilarious! Nice job.

[MarineBrat]

ARE-OH-EFF-ELL!!!!! :) < Wiping tears! >

[wmc-50]

I respectfully disagree.

If 14 of 200 cops resigned in one day in protest, the chief of police would be in the mayors office explaining things.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

That's almost as funny as the "kitten breaking the sound barrier" pic that flew around here a few months ago. Wish someone would repost it.

[sitetest]

Dear wmc-50,

I understand your view, but nonetheless, I have a different perspective.

Mr. Carter wrote a blatantly anti-semitic piece of lying propaganda.

93% of his advisory board is fine with that.


sitetest

[Rembrandt_fan]

I had a strange revelation while watching Carter's antisemitic meltdown when I found myself suddenly thinking of Pat Buchanan. Here you have two men, polar opposites on virtually every political issue, who give in to the worst aspect of their natures and essentially blow up their respective legacies and become dark figures on the fringe. Both Carter and Buchanan, respected if not admired for their dearly held political beliefs, impulsively sacrificed their reputations by going public with that most ancient prejudice--even though couching that particular prejudice in coy 'Israeli Lobby' or 'Zionist apartheid' terms.

I can't get my head around it--antisemitism, I mean. As a Christian, I worship a God who, while a Human Being on this earth, was addressed as Rabbi, who epitomized Jewishness, who proclaimed His Jewishness with every word spoken and miracle made. From my perspective, at any rate, antisemitism is incompatible with Christian faith. Why staunch, self-proclaimed Christians like Carter and Buchanan don't come to a similar conclusion baffles me.

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At least Mel Gibson was drunk. Carter doesn't have an excuse. What's even more frightening? Carter was President.

[Rastus]

Hanging out with murderers isn't limited to the men in the Carter family.



;-)

[krunkygirl]

***clapping!***

[OldFriend]

Wow, us joooooosssssss are sooooooooo powerful!

[OldFriend]

Just read on FR yesterday that Carter and bubba are starting a new Southern Baptist organization for Southern Baptists who aren't narrow minded.

Should we laugh or cry!

[brooklyn dave]

Great Picture---silly wabbit!

[OESY]

That's the bad news.




The good news is Carter has picked out a final resting place on his front lawn.

[Doogle]

Did you do it?

naw it's not mine, found it on the net a year or so ago, but it is a favorite of mine..*smiles*

Doogle

[04-Bravo]

I like Jimmy Carter about as much as I like Jane Fonda.

[SunkenCiv]

self ping.

[LouAvul]

Oh my. Carter looks exactly like the demon/ghost in Poltergeist II. You don't think...........?