Well when a Killer Rabbit can kick your ass; you manhood card is forever revoked.
Posted on 10/01/2014 9:00:05 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Former President Jimmy Carter claimed Wednesday that he would have been re-elected and beaten Ronald Reagan in 1980 if had been more “manly” in his dealings with Iran.
Interviewed by the show "CNBC Meets," Carter repeated his belief that the failed mission to free American hostages held in Tehran killed his chances, but then added that had he gone to war, America would have rewarded him with a second term in 1980.
“I could've been re-elected if I'd taken military action against Iran, shown that I was strong and resolute and, um, manly and so forth,” said the former president, who has established himself as a world human rights leader.
“I could have wiped Iran off the map with the weapons that we had, but in the process a lot of innocent people would have been killed, probably including the hostages and so I stood up against all that all that advice, and then eventually my prayers were answered and every hostage came home safe and free. And so I think I made the right decision in retrospect, but it was not easy at the time,” he said, according to a transcript provided to Secrets.
Interviewed with his wife, Carter said he also had to ignore Rosalynn’s pleadings to “do something.”
In the end, she said that she was proud of her husband. “Peace is very difficult. War is popular in our country,” said Mrs. Carter.
There’s no fool like an old peanut farming fool.
Yes, it was a very close vote, and Mr Carter was actually enormously popular.
Does he think being “more manly” would have made him NOT the 2nd worst president in US history?
Jimmy, you are who you are.
Yes, and if my aunt had b@lls she’d be my uncle.
Well when a Killer Rabbit can kick your ass; you manhood card is forever revoked.
Jimmah if a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his ass every time he hoped.
You were lilly white Jimmah and once the people caught on to how sorry you were you were toast..
Nixon got you in and Jimmah got you out. . . .
More manly, less clueless, less feckless and less totalitarian leftist. And smarter.
In your dreams moron..
I was living in Europe when this moron was elected..I was young and did not care about politics..and did not know anything about him..I do know now..
Completely high.
You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
What stopped Jimmy from being “manly”? Perhaps it wasn’t in his character? Is this man not satisfied with being the second worst president?
Uuuuuhhhh, Jimma, the first thing you need to know about being manly, is you don’t have to talk about being manly.
You either are or you are not.
You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. Now don’t go away mad...just go away.
I thought there was to be a satire tag on stories like this? </sarc
Yeah, maybe that would have happened on a planet with a green sky and four moons, but not here.
As well as encouraging the Iatollah Khumenies return and ousting the Shah of Iran. The whole middle east would be different today. Another case of choosing the wrong horse.
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