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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Prize specimen (DISS CARTER!)
The Daily Telegraph ^ | October 12, 2002 | The Daily Telegraph

Posted on 10/11/2002 4:58:13 PM PDT by MadIvan

So Jimmy Carter has won the Nobel Peace prize. This choice is surprising in itself; even more shocking is the Nobel committee's obvious bias against George W Bush. Yesterday, the chairman of the committee, Gunnar Berge, said publicly that the decision "must be seen as a criticism of the policy that the current US administration has adopted in relation to Iraq". Such a partisan display is unprecedented: this is supposed to be a peace prize, not a fractious protest.

Anyway, if Mr Carter ever deserved to win the Peace prize, it was in 1978, for the Camp David accord, when he negotiated a peace between Anwar Sadat, then president of Egypt, and Menachem Begin, prime minister of Israel, who shared the prize that year. Since the end of his one-term presidency, in 1980, Mr Carter has done little but potter about the world, generally making a nuisance of himself by meeting the likes of Fidel Castro.

The timing of this award is a political statement. Jimmy Carter is notorious for a disastrously meek policy of diplomacy on terrorism. He was president during the Iran hostage debacle in 1979, when militant Iranian students stormed the US embassy in Teheran and took 50 Americans hostage.

They languished in captivity for more than a year, as Mr Carter dithered, first trying to resolve the crisis without using force, then sending a rescue mission after five months, the botching of which humiliated America. In reaction to his politics of conciliation, America learnt that you can't reason with terrorists, that conciliation leads to even more violence.

Mr Carter's presidency severely undermined American self-confidence. It was the last time that there seemed a real imbalance of power against America, with the Soviet Union flexing its muscles by invading Afghanistan. America seemed to lack the will to resist any threat.

This award is a calculated insult to Mr Bush, but it will amount to little. It will merely annoy America and Mr Bush, and perhaps lend validity to those European sentiments inclined to anti-Americanism. The most noticeable consequence of Mr Berge's folly, however, will be to discredit the Nobel Peace prize, already marred by such questionable choices as Yasser Arafat and John Hume, even further. However some will be pleased. The streets of Baghdad will, today, be ringing with toasts to Jimmy Carter.


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: buggeroff; carter; daft; ridiculous
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21 posted on 10/11/2002 7:16:44 PM PDT by yield 2 the right
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To: MadIvan
Carter was so inept that he made Leonid Brezhnev, half dead by 1976 from multiple strokes, seem positively dynamic and dashing in comparison.

Well, let us NEVER FORGET Jimmah Cahtah at the Moscow airport, standing on tippy-toes to kiss (yes, KISS) half dead Leonid.

Didn't have any use for Carter before that; had much less use for him after seeing that silly exhibition.

22 posted on 10/11/2002 7:17:52 PM PDT by Ole Okie
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To: MadIvan
The most noticeable consequence of Mr Berge's folly, however, will be to discredit the Nobel Peace prize, already marred by such questionable choices as Yasser Arafat and John Hume, even further.

Amen. And don't forget that Nelson Mandela was also a recipient. You don't get this prize unless you're pathetically leftist.

23 posted on 10/11/2002 7:23:22 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: MadIvan
Ivan, he's also a rotten carpenter as well.His homes are as good as gov't issue ;-)But its the thought that counts with this small man..the thought of how others will think about his apparent humility and goodness.Clinton learned to fake it from a master in Jimmah.
24 posted on 10/11/2002 7:27:05 PM PDT by habs4ever
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To: MadIvan
"disastrously meek"is a good description of the Carter Presidency.
25 posted on 10/11/2002 7:29:13 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: MadIvan
Excellent comment on Brezhnev.

The brite side of this is now , having received a pat on the head, he will no doubt give us further examples of his barely adequate mental skills.
Soon even Demorats will be rolling their eyes and swooning at the mere utterance of a "Carter" quote.

And too, there is perhaps the chance that Bill C. will never
get one.( Wouldn't that be a pisser!)
26 posted on 10/11/2002 7:29:51 PM PDT by tet68
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To: MadIvan
It will merely annoy America

Not really, most Americans won't even bother to be annoyed. We just don't take Carter seriously anymore. After all, it was this president whose mortality was seriously tested by a bloodthirsty bunny rabbit. "It was hissing menacingly, its teeth flashing and nostrils flared and making straight for the president!" More here.

27 posted on 10/11/2002 7:41:37 PM PDT by concentric circles
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To: MadIvan
Proud Thatcherite Bump! Churchillian stature! Hear, hear!
28 posted on 10/11/2002 7:49:46 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: MadIvan
Would that our own papers would be so honest!
The Nobel Peace prize given to Carter is a slap in the face to our way of government. Carter, and the Nobel committee don't believe in the constitutional republic rule of law that we are barely hanging onto. They are determined, like the rest of the leftist socialists in our country, to push us over the edge into the utopia they envision. Indeed, Americas enemies, both foreign and domestic are rejoicing today over the payoff Carter received from his Socialist comrades for his traitorous actions on behalf of their cause.
29 posted on 10/11/2002 8:43:27 PM PDT by ladyinred
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To: MadIvan
This article speaks the truth!
30 posted on 10/11/2002 8:45:13 PM PDT by nmh
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To: MadIvan
This was a jolly good read and heart warming, to boot. Thanks, Ivan, dear, for the ping. :-)
31 posted on 10/11/2002 10:41:06 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Happygal
I beg to differ...they are SERIOUSLY lacking in one talented Irish lassie content! ;-)

Fair enough, darling. ;)

Love, Ivan

32 posted on 10/12/2002 12:50:47 AM PDT by MadIvan
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To: nopardons
This was a jolly good read and heart warming, to boot. Thanks, Ivan, dear, for the ping. :-)

You are quite welcome. It's always delightful to see the Telegraph rouse itself to battle. ;)

Regards, Ivan

33 posted on 10/12/2002 12:52:31 AM PDT by MadIvan
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To: Jimer
Carter should return the prize and demand an apology or he should sell it on E-bay to the lowest bidder. Being a liberal democrat, he will probably have it bronzed and keep it.

While there may be a trophy for the shelf or a certificate suitable for framing, a Nobel prize is basically a cash award of just over one million dollars.

34 posted on 10/12/2002 12:56:51 AM PDT by ihatemyalarmclock
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To: MadIvan
The fact that so many socialist in Europe want to praise Carter and Clinton tells us a great deal. It says what they want Americans to be. They want us weak and indecisive like Carter. They want sweet insincere talk without concern for consequences, like Clinton. In fact, they want us to become Parlor Socialists. America's character was shaped by the frontier and many other factors that created a people who value independence, generosity, and a will to act. Clinton and Carter are far from the American type. They belong in France or here in Germany in the backwaters of socialistic cant.
35 posted on 10/12/2002 1:37:05 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
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To: elhombrelibre
Very good points!
36 posted on 10/12/2002 5:05:39 AM PDT by maica
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To: ihatemyalarmclock
...prize is basically a cash award...

...and return the money....

37 posted on 10/12/2002 6:37:47 AM PDT by Consort
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