Letter to former Pres. Carter

03-09-03

[Slick Nick]

Mr. Carter's recent outrageous anti-American and anti-Bush statements have disturbed me to the point where I felt I needed to vent my spleen by sending the Carter Library an e-mail expressing my views. Below is my e-mail to him:

Hello. I don't know if anyone will read this but I felt a need to speak out against the anti-war and anti-American statements that former President Carter has been making lately. You, Mr. Carter, should know better than most what it's like to be embroiled in an international crisis and to be besieged by critics on all sides. Sir, why, in this time of extreme crisis, are you persistently trying to undermine President Bush and his efforts to fight the war on terrorism? It's very unbecoming of you and close to being anti-American, in my opinion. And why do you make these statements overseas? A while back, you received the Nobel Peace Prize, and the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Gunnar Berge, stated that the honor "can also be interpreted as a criticism" of the Bush administration. You not only accepted the award without any objections to that statement but, in your acceptance speech you further criticized President Bush and the job that he was doing in regards to Iraq. For shame, Mr. Carter! If you can't support our nation in this time of crisis, please keep your ill-advised thoughts to yourself. Of course, you have a 1st amendment right to say anything you wish at any time. However, I feel that you are blatantly violating an long held unwritten rule that former Presidents do not openly criticize a sitting President. If you have a problem with President Bush, speak to him in private about it. Do not give aid and comfort to our enemies by making public statements siding against our leader. Surely you remember Jane Fonda and the aid she gave to the Viet Cong. I feel that your legacy in American history will be diminished as a result of your present actions. Sir, I used to have a great deal of respect for you and your great work as a humanitarian. However, my opinion of you has, sadly, gone negative because of your constant public criticism of President Bush and his policies. Please let our President do his incredibly difficult job without the added burden of you being against him. Thank you for your time.

[McGavin999]

You were far too nice to him. I have to wonder just what makes this foreign policy failure think anyone with two brain cells would listen to him.

This is the same man how allowed the Shah of Iran to be replaced with Islamic clerics who financed and developed the terrorism we fight today. He allowed US citizens to be seized and held for 444 days while he dithered in the oval office and US prestige was squandered. This is the fool who gave the terrorists the impression we can be had.

This man was a disaster when he was in office and he's an even bigger disaster now.

[AgProf]

A very diplomatic email to Carter.

Carter must be stupid. His foreign policy brought a great deal of harm to America. You would think this experience would have caused him to reflect on his approach.

[Jolly Green]

I sent the only telegram in my life to Carter shortly after the 52 hostages were taken in Iran - 30 years ago. He had no guts then and has even less brains now.

There is no fool like an old fool

[DoctorMichael]

I feel that your legacy in American history will be diminished as a result of your present actions.

Extremely kind of you.

Bump.

[John Valentine]

We may have to endure these idiots mouthing off (i.e. Clinton and Carter); they do have their constitutional rights.

But we used to have a tradition in the United States that ex-Presidents would go back to the farm permanently, perhaps to write their memoirs, perhaps not.

This new tradition of sniping from the left is new and is seriously disturbing to the conduct of government.

Let's move some legislation.

How about this: Any ex-President may in his post-Presidential lifetime write one volume of memoirs and three books of 350 pages or longer for which he may be paid. He may also make three public speeches per year on non-policy issues for a reasonable honrarium.

No television, radio, newspaper, or magazine interviews permitted.

If an ex-President violates these guidelines, he foregoes his Presidential pension and Secret Service protection.

We may not be able to shut these nitwits up, but we sure shouldn't have to subsidise them

[blam]

The next time you write him, ask what he did with the $11.5 million he got from the BCCI bank. Remember that scam?

[U S Army EOD]

Carter saying what he did may not be as bad as you make it sound. You have to remember that every view or every thing that Carter supported in the past always failed. Since he is openly supporting the side of Saddom, this means Saddom's days are truly numbered.

[FirstTomato]

re Carter: I feel that your legacy in American history will be diminished as a result of your present actions

His legacy can get further diminished?

I think you were much more diplomatic than I would have been, lol.

[FirstTomato]

re Carter: I feel that your legacy in American history will be diminished as a result of your present actions

His legacy can get further diminished?

I think you were much more diplomatic than I would have been, lol.

[steveyp]

Don't know why, but I am on the peanut farmer's mailing list. I've gotten two large packages from him lauding the Carter Center for International Appeasement. Anywho, I take great pleasure in scribbling snide remarks on every sheet of paper included in the aforementioned solicitation package. I then stuff it all back into his self-addressed, postage-paid envelope-- cross out Jimmy Carter, and scrawl in Neville Chamberlain and drop in the post.

[Dick Bachert]

Jimma really should stay in the recording studio.

[dighton]

Dear Jimmuh . . . .

[yooper]

"A very diplomatic email to Carter."

Its called "manners" and "etiquette", and I'm very proud of the sender for using manner and etiquette to a man undeserving of them. This is what sets us conservatives apart from the rabble.

Good e-mail amigo!

[Travelgirl]

Thank you.

[4integrity]

Great idea! I've tried to find website for Carter but only found his library. Is there an email address on the material you receive? Carter's a disgrace. He should stick to growing peanuts!

[MoveOnThis!]

I AGREE!! I once sort of liked Jimmy, thought he was a decent and concerned person, but.... NO MORE! I'm writing to his library at (email address from his library website: http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/library/):
carter.library@nara.gov

[RaceBannon]

Here's my letter:

Mr Cater:

I was one of the Marines you sent to Iran in 1980. I floated off the coast for 53 days. I was there off the coast for the Rescue Attempt.

For 22 years, I have heard people blame you for it's failure, and I have stuck up for you. I know it wasn't your fault. I called you an honorable man. Many do not know, you authorized training for that mission before Thanksgiving of 1979, and you followed the advice of the Generals in command as to when it shuld be accomplished. You waited several times when it appeared diplomacy might prevail, and when the decision had to be made, you authorized the mission to proceed.

You acted like a man and took the responsibility for it's failure when it failed in no way due to you. I commend you for that, and I tell people to this day to stop blaming you for it.

But since then, you have proven to be a traitor. You have been connected to the KGB, in asking them for assistance in defeating Ronald Reagan in 1984.

You allowed a sham treaty to be created between the US and North Korea that allowed them to build nuclear weapons to threaten your own country.

I was politically unaware then, I didnt see how your policies affected us. I have woken up. I might still defend you against a false charge, but I will be certain to inform any person of the recent information we have learned about you and what your policies have done to our nation regarding the former Soviet Union and the KGB, and what you did in allowing North Korea to build nukes to threaten us.

Your conduct in making open statements against a sitting president, when NONE of your predecessors made comments about you, shows a total lack of character, especially when your failure to initiate serious military action against an Islamic Iran is one reason we have the Islamic world thinking we are such paper tigers. It may have meant my death back then: so be it. It would have meant a respect for the United States that is absent in the Islamic world.

I no longer can call you an honorable man. I thought you at least had a sense of decency. I guess it was just Clintonian: Done only for the camera.