A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election

The New York Times ^ | Peter Baker

[slag]

WASHINGTON — It has been more than four decades, but Ben Barnes said he remembers it vividly. His longtime political mentor invited him on a mission to the Middle East. What Mr. Barnes said he did not realize until later was the real purpose of the mission: to sabotage the re-election campaign of the president of the United States.

[Vaduz]

One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election

Jimmy killed a rabbit with an oar

[Bookshelf]

The over-sized ego of American political types is astounding.

[Chgogal]

So, the NYT is going back 43 years to talk about election fraud. Why not talk about the election MSM (aka NYT) and the Democrat Party stole in 2020?

[farmguy]

Outside of being total horse crap (there was no way jimma was going to be reelected), this is just the liberal media’s way of saying what they did to Trump was the norm.

It wasn’t.

[exnavy]

The slimes is a waste of time.

[Gene Eric]

Carter sabotaged Carter’s reelection

[hardspunned]

One man sabotaged Carter’s re-election. Jimmy Carter.

[Jess Kitting]

I don't read the New York Times.

Can anyone provide a paraphrased version of the article?

[slag]

I don’t even consider this to be election fraud, more like normal politics.

[tet68]

He must be close to being past tense...

[farmguy]

No argument there!

[Maskot]

Yep! Jimmah’s pronouns are soon to be were/was

[PAR35]

This seemed to avoid the paywall for me:

https://buffalonews.com/behind-carters-1980-election-defeat-lies-a-clandestine-trip-and-a-four-decade-secret/article_62cae4fa-b2dd-5883-84c9-556265d22f5f.html

[Gene Eric]

true, but at least he moved up a few notches in the list of Worst Presidents Ever.

[lee martell]

How long is he going to be ‘in Hospice treatment’ before suddenly declaring ‘Ahh feel like a NEW MAN!!..Nurse..your ex-president now requires a renewed prescription of Viagra!’?
This has been going on since a little after Valentine’s Day.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Ben Barnes has a feeling that John Connally made a deal so that Iran would keep the hostages so that Carter would lose.

[ConservativeInPA]

Carter’s loss to Reagan had nothing to do with Carter being an economic moron. Yeah, right.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Beat me to it. Yup! Carter sabotaged his own re-election, all by his onesies.

[Navy Patriot]

Jimmah Carter sabotaged his own re-election by his failure to help the Shah put down and eliminate his radical Islamist Terrorist Mullahs and opponents.

Iran has been an unnecessary tragedy since.