Jimmy Carter: Poll Watcher

IBD Editorials ^ | December 19, 2008

[Kaslin]

Mideast: Our worst ex-president and confidant of thugs and terrorists everywhere will monitor upcoming Lebanese elections, part of Hezbollah's ongoing attempt to swallow Beirut whole. Is he going as a monitor or a cheerleader for terror?

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Former President Jimmy Carter recently paid a visit to Lebanon to assess whether his Atlanta-based Carter Center will take part in monitoring parliamentary elections set for next May or June. The vote will be hotly contested between the terrorist group Hezbollah and rival pro-Western groups struggling to preserve Lebanon's democracy.

Carter made the offer during a Beirut meeting with Lebanese Interior Minister Ziad Baroud, who said he welcomed the offer but that it must be approved by the Lebanese Cabinet. Earlier this year, Hezbollah obtained veto power in the Lebanese Cabinet as part of a siege of the Lebanese government that stopped short of a new civil war.

Obtaining this veto power was Hezbollah's key demand that triggered a year-and-a-half-long crisis as Lebanon struggled to select a new head of state to replace the pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud, who finally left office on Nov. 23, 2007.

The upcoming parliamentary elections, which by law must be held between April 20 and June 20, involve the Western-backed anti-Syrian groups trying to maintain their majority in the 128-seat parliament against a Hezbollah-led coalition backed by Iran and Syria. Carter offered to meet with Hezbollah leaders but they refused, saying it's their policy not to meet with current or former U.S. presidents.

[DoughtyOne]

I can see him in the bathroom now...

...the world’s village idiot.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Maybe he can take ACORN there with him to help monitor the situation
Jimmy Carter = Barack Obama

[Ann Archy]

Amy Carter’s named her son, HUGO!! What does THAT tell you!!

[Red_Devil 232]

I guess Ohio and Penn. weren’t on his list in Nov.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

I see the probability of Barack Obama taking over the title of worst POTUS ever, but I also see the possibility of Obama still being POTUS for a second term, thanks to the MSM ignoring the majority of Obama’s problems while also overly praising Obama 24/7. There really will be more politically ignorant voters and more politically stupid voters by the time the ‘12 election cycle officially starts (if there even are elections in ‘12).

[cayuga]

(if there even are elections in ‘12).

It will be elections, or war.

[rod1]

I thought he was still busy certifying the last Zim elections?

[oiler]

I can now sleep tonight./s