The Other J.C. [Jimmy Carter Revealed]

Azure ^ | Summer 2007 | STEVEN F. HAYWARD

[finnman69]

[Enchante]

It is Carter’s presumption of his own great wisdom and judgment that has apparently led him to believe that the normal conventions of discretion that all ex-presidents have hitherto observed do not apply to him. He seems to suffer from Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to odious dictators who hate America–Carter admires, and has hugged, almost every one of them. Hence he has globe trotted as a de facto shadow secretary of state, breaking bread with Hafez al-Assad, Fidel Castro, North Korea’s Kim Il Sung (the last Stalinist, whom Carter inexplicably said North Koreans regarded “as almost a deity, as a George Washington, as a Patrick Henry, as a worshipful leader all rolled into one”), and, above all, Yasser Arafat. “There was no world leader Jimmy Carter was more eager to know than Yasser Arafat,” Carter biographer Douglas Brinkley wrote. At their first meeting in Paris in 1990, they prayed and cried together, according to one account.

[enough_idiocy]

Carter behaves “as if the election of 1980 had been only some kind of ghastly mistake, a technicality of democratic punctilio.”

Ummm, that’s how all Democrats have acted since then when they’ve lost; hence, the recounts and conspiracy theories (i.e. the machines stole the election). The Dems are the most arrogant people in the world in their views, they share this with their Socialist Euro and Communist Asian counterparts.

[Gay State Conservative]

While he was President and for some time after he left office I saw Jimmah as an essentially well meaning sort who was simply in way,way,*way* over his head while in office.

Today I recognize him for what is truly is...and always has been....a filthy,worthless Communist piece of garbage.

[Enchante]

"Carter has a long habit of engaging in what was once described as “blurt and retreat,” whereby he backs away from egregious statements when called on them. Yet circumstantial evidence suggests that this language was not mere verbal sloppiness, as Carter now wishes us to think. At the end of one of Carter’s freelance Middle East peace conferences a few years ago, he let slip a comment that ranks up there with many racially tinged remarks from his various Georgia political campaigns: “Had I been elected to a second term, with the prestige and authority and influence and reputation I had in the region, we could have moved to a final solution.” It is strange that an experienced politician would use that particular expression. Carter’s secretary of state, Cyrus Vance, incautiously wrote years after leaving office that Carter’s Middle East plan in a prospective second term was simple: Sell out Israel.

[Gay State Conservative]

Now, it is understandable that an ex-president would seek to couch his electoral humiliation in the least wounding terms, but is it really so hard to say, “since I lost the 1980 election”?

Jimmah left office due to ill health.The voters got sick of him.

[Roccus]

Ed Koch, former mayor of NYC used to say, “...the people threw me out! They didn’t want me anymore.”

Of course being a liberal, he is distorting the truth. The ‘people’ didn’t throw him out, his own party did! He lost the Dem. primary to Dinkins.

[Old Seadog]

[bcsco]

While he was President and for some time after he left office I saw Jimmah as an essentially well meaning sort who was simply in way,way,*way* over his head while in office.

That was an accepted view by many, both while he was in office and afterward.

Little did we know then.

[Calvin Locke]

489 to 49 electoral votes was a “ghastly mistake”?

[Ouderkirk]

Anyone of sound mind understands

Palestine: No peace without Apartheid.

[Christian4Bush]

SFH bump

[Farmer Dean]

Jimmah getting the 49 votes was a mistake.He deserved nothing,zero,zip.

[Gay State Conservative]

489 to 49 electoral votes was a “ghastly mistake”?

Jimmah even lost Massachusetts in '80.That's gotta tell ya something.

[picard]

Carter behaves “as if the election of 1980 had been only some kind of ghastly mistake, a technicality of democratic punctilio.”

Leftists in general refuse debate to their ideas. They are so sure of their manifest intellectual superiority to debate contradictions and hypocrisy with a non-believer, a enlightened intellectual barbarian, is a total waste of time.

Leftist credo: I’m right, you’re wrong. End of debate, heathen.

The more contradictions you expose in my arguments, the louder I will yell(Chris Mathews) and the more abusive(Moore) I will become.

Leftism really is a mental disorder. I mean it really is.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“At their first meeting in Paris in 1990, they prayed and cried together, according to one account”.....Jimmah cried for world peace...GAG me with a spoon!!!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

I think when Jimmah was on sub duty the sub came back up but his brain stayed on the bottom....

[Jimmy Valentine]

“seemed to experience opposition as a personal affront and as a consequence responded to it with attacks on the integrity of those who blocked his projects. He showed a tendency to equate his political goals with the just and the right and to view his opponents as representative of some selfish or immoral interest.”

This is the quintessential Hillary Clinton too. Self appointed zealots are dangerous; if you disagree with them you are a limb of Satan.

[D-fendr]

Old joke:

“Jimmy Carter is the best ex-president ever!”

“You’ve got to be kidding.”

“No, I’m serious. As soon as he was ex-president, the hostages were released. Soon after, the economy improved, the military got better, foreign policy improved immeasurably. America got stronger. Then the wall fell, communist Russia was defeated and on and on... Jimmy’s the best ex-president ever!”