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Can America Afford Another Jimmy Carter?
americanthinker ^ | Oct 10, 2008

Posted on 10/23/2008 1:15:37 AM PDT by PRePublic

October 10, 2008 Can America Afford Another Jimmy Carter?

When former President Carter took office in 1977, the Shah of Iran was a staunch ally of the United States, a mainstay in our standoff with the Soviet Union, thwarting the dream held since the time of the czars of pushing south toward the warm waters of the Persian Gulf.

Former president Carter's human rights deal, gave rise to one of the worst rights violators in history -- the Ayatollah Khomeini. Thanks to Jimmy and company, Khomeini's successors are preparing for nuclear war with Israel and the West. When President Carter threatening the use of military force, he was mocked by Khomeini with the response: "U.S. cannot do a damn thing."

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: carter; election2008; elections; issues; nobama; obama

1 posted on 10/23/2008 1:15:37 AM PDT by PRePublic
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http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=20172840&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=8 The Iranians know what others have already said - Sen. Obama is a Jimmy-Carter type, only worse. They know how President Carter locked himself in the White House and did not face down international lawlessness after the Iranian took American hostages at our embassy in Teheran.


2 posted on 10/23/2008 1:18:59 AM PDT by PRePublic
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To: PRePublic

No.
We’re still paying off the last one.


3 posted on 10/23/2008 1:44:56 AM PDT by Salamander (Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?)
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To: Salamander

You mean Benedict Arnold.


4 posted on 10/23/2008 2:28:27 AM PDT by screaminsunshine
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To: screaminsunshine

All of them.

Different faces, different names, same goal; destroy America from within.

With this new one, they have finally found their perfect stealth Marxist.

He must be defeated if our country is to survive.


5 posted on 10/23/2008 2:34:57 AM PDT by Salamander (Joe McCarthy was a Prophet.)
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To: PRePublic

Jimmy Carter was small change compared to Hussein O’Bama.


6 posted on 10/23/2008 4:00:25 AM PDT by arthurus (Old age and guile beats youth and enthusiasm.)
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To: PRePublic

America barely survived the last Jimmy Carter, Obama would be much worse.


7 posted on 10/23/2008 4:21:05 AM PDT by BuffaloJack
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To: arthurus

Jimmy Carter?? How about Jane Fonda in a suit?


8 posted on 10/23/2008 5:59:53 AM PDT by ScottinVA
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