New Carter book tells life of 'remarkable mother'

AP ^ | 5/10/08 | DORIE TURNER (Associated Press Writer)

[Nick Thimmesch]

ATLANTA - Former President Jimmy Carter often sent his mother to meet with foreign dignitaries and attend state funerals, but it wasn't until he started researching a new book about her life that he learned just what the woman known as "Miss Lillian" did on those visits.

"Mama had developed a reputation for expressing unorthodox opinions and not being constrained by any outside advice," Carter writes in "A Remarkable Mother," which chronicles Lillian's life from her birth in 1898 to her death from cancer in 1983. "The officials in the State Department were always quite nervous about what she would do or say that might violate protocol and damage relations between our government and that of the country she was visiting."

[Nick Thimmesch]

Okay: I certainly don't want to say anything unpleasant about someone's mother -- even Jimmy "Hama" Carter so close to Mother's Day, but this part is what really blew me away:

One such tidbit? His mother, on visiting Rome, brushed aside prepared remarks and told the media she was happy to be there for three reasons, among them that she had "never met an ugly Italian."

Maybe Carter's mother used to party with the Not Very Reverend Wright:

(From The American Thinker)

This is a matter of considerable moment. Obama must come forward and clearly disassociate himself from Reverend Wright's ethnic slur. He must show his sincerity by announcing publicly that Italians do not have "garlic noses" and that their noses are, to the contrary, among the natural wonders of the world.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/the_fine_italian_nose.html

[LtKerst]

If Jimmy Carter is any evidence...His Mother was a “Failure”

[Non-Sequitur]

She didn’t drown the little jerk at birth. That’s pretty remarkable to me.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

".....would do or say that might violate protocol and damage relations between our government and that of the country she was visiting."

- Like mother like son.

[SlapHappyPappy]

He sent his mother as a representative of the US to events where he knew she would be speaking with foreign leaders but had no idea what she said or did on those trips?

[Nick Thimmesch]

Again, this is what really caught my eye in this mangled AP story:

“One such tidbit? His mother, on visiting Rome, brushed aside prepared remarks and told the media she was happy to be there for three reasons, among them that she had “never met an ugly Italian.”

God only knows what the OTHER two reasons were for her to be “happy” to be visiting Rome!

And don’t forget Billy Beer and his sweeheart deals with them Arabs and you begin to really get an idea that maybe The Krazy Karter Klan are actually more whacked than The Krazy Klintoon Klan.

[george76]

Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, “Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.”

[LucyT]

Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, “Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.”

Thanks George76, I was hoping to be the first to post Miz Lillian's quote. That about covers Jimmah's book, doesn't it.

[FlingWingFlyer]

A "book" about Jimmah Cahtah's mother! Just what America needs!!!

I guess we can expect to see one about Billy too!

Those pesky "peace prize winners." They never go away as long as there is a buck to be made.

[Enchante]

UNREAL. Jimmuh think it adds to the entertainment value of his Clampett administration, and it does that...... BUT, when you are the POTUS arranging matters sensitive international relations you DO NOT entrust US lives and state-to-state relations to such a wild card..... so he didn’t even KNOW what she did and said on these visits but he thought it was fine to be sending her out representing the USA? What a tool.

[rod1]

I want to see a book about the rabbit. Maybe even a movie.

[Richard Kimball]

Well, I’ve called Jimmy a remarkable mother for over thirty years, now.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Remember. Amy is still out there somewhere too! We may be in for a whole line of Cahtah books. I know we need one explaining the symbolism of her tree house while she was living in the White House.

[NTHockey]

>>I want to see a book about the rabbit. Maybe even a movie.

Already been done - it was called “Harvey”. Only Jimmy Stewart’s character was saner than Jimma Cawta.

[Cyman]

I just realized that the woman that Jimmuh lusted in his heart for was probably Babwah WaWa

[MosesKnows]

"Mama had developed a reputation for expressing unorthodox opinions and not being constrained by any outside advice,"

This causes me to finally believe this quote.

"When I look at my children, sometimes I wish I remained a virgin." — the late Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy Carter, as quoted by White House reporter Helen Thomas at the N.Y. Women in Communications breakfast at '21'