This is a spin-off from another page which demonstrates
that liiberals are wildly out of step with mainstream America and its traditional values.
Jimmy Carter has shown by his words and actions that he is a true radical. Whatever his motives may be,
he is slowly and steadily making a fool of himself. If he had just retired quietly and spent all his
time on Habitat for Humanity, he would have been a venerable and irrelevant old President, but instead he
has become quite a troublemaker. Evidently my opinion is shared by many others.
Profile in Incompetence: The Worst President in American
History. In this exclusive 10-part series, IBD takes a hard look at Jimmy Carter's administration and
compares it to that of George W. Bush, which Carter has called the worst ever.
Have You No
Shame, Leftists? [Scroll down slowly] Or consider Jimmy Carter, who has spent the past three decades
cozying up to the likes of Yasser Arafat and working overtime to prove that people who call him America's biggest
anti-Semite aren't just whistling "Dixie." But, not content with merely condemning Israel's Jews, he branched out a
while ago and condemned Southern Baptists for oppressing their womenfolk, going so far as to turn his back on the church he
has belonged to for his entire life.
Jimmy Carter, the
Jew-hater who cried racist. America's worst ex-president Jimmy Carter made a ridiculous charge
on Tuesday that Joe Wilson's outburst was "based on racism" and, more broadly, that "an overwhelming portion
of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black
man." It's ironic that a man who has such hate in his heart would call other people racists.
Put away the race card. There
is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president." That comment
comes from former President Jimmy Carter, which is fascinating considering Carter once ran for governor of Georgia
proclaiming himself to be a "Lester Maddox Democrat." (Maddox, a former Georgia governor, was an avowed
segregationist who opposed integration under the Civil Rights Act.)
Carter's
cries of racism are both wrong and destructive. Failed President and presumptuous fool that he
is, Jimmy Carter has looked into the heart of America and discovered racism among those who most strenuously
oppose the nation's first black occupant of the White House. Carter's diagnosis of prejudice in the
anti-Obama fevers was both an insult to the public and a damaging blow to rational debate over the hugely
contentious agenda that the President is seeking to advance.
Perhaps Jimmy Carter
is racist. Jimmy Carter time and again blames the Middle East's only true democracy, Israel, for
the woes in that region while providing excuses for Arab terrorists, and there we have it. This Sunday
school-teaching Baptist is an anti-Semite, a hater of Jews, someone whose political views on the subject of
Arab-Israeli peace are most persuasively informed by his deep-seated bigotry.
The White-Racism
Chorus. Did Attorney General Eric Holder really want honest talk when in February he called
for "frank conversations" about race? "Honest" talk, as the MSM and much of the chattering Left defines
it, consists of slamming most whites as racist. ...[Jimmy] Carter has concluded that Obama critics are
"overwhelmingly" racist.
Steele blasts Carter for comment.
RNC Chairman Michael Steele, the Republican Party's most prominent African American official, has issued a press
release criticizing former President Jimmy Carter for arguing that much of the opposition that President
Obama is facing is due to race.
Bias alert:
Michael Steele is the Republican Party's most prominent official, period, since he is the chairman.
Georgia Pharisee.
Jimmy Carter now has done to his ex-presidency what he did to his presidency, which is to say that he has,
through his incessant moral preening, converted mere incompetence into something more unseemly. Mr. Carter
thunders that those who oppose President Obama's plans to nationalize the health-care industry, and those who
oppose other elements of the president's agenda, are doing so for reasons of racism.
Jimmy
Carter plays the race card. Jimmy Carter has made an outrageous, unfounded and potentially
inflammatory remark about race. He has claimed that a great proportion of the vitriolic opposition to
President Obama's health reforms and spending plans are actually motivated by racial hatred: that this
president is being attacked not for his policies but for his colour. He offers no evidence for this
extraordinary assertion presumably because there is none.
The Liberals' Breakdown.
According to Jimmy Carter's libel against opponents of Barack Obama, "an overwhelming portion of the intensely
demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is black man." This
reminds us once again of what a pathetic and mean-spirited figure Mr. Carter has become.
Jimmy
Carter and the Elvis Factor. Jimmy Carter strikes again! The former President is not
content having left office with high inflation, high interest rates and high unemployment. Nor is he
content with having signed into law the Community Reinvestment Act — strengthened by President
Bill Clinton — which played a major roll in the eventual housing market meltdown.
Carter and the Panama Canal: A
liberal Democratic president has his heart set on pushing through a proposal strongly unpopular with most
Americans. Enjoying substantial Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate, he intends to
win. So it was in September, 1977, when Jimmy Carter signed the Panama Canal treaties to relinquish United
States control. An Associated Press opinion poll conducted that month found that only 29 percent of
Americans favored the pact. A solid 50 percent opposed it and 21 percent expressed no opinion.
Hamas and Mr. Carter. Former
President Jimmy Carter said this week that he plans to ask the Obama administration to take Hamas off the U.S. list of
terrorist organizations. This prompts the question, what part of the word "terrorist" doesn't Mr. Carter understand?
Jimmy 'n'
Fidel, &c. I have written a fair amount about Fidel Castro, over the years, and a fair amount
about Jimmy Carter, too. Perhaps readers are sick of hearing about those men. Sometimes I get sick
of writing about them. But let me do so here, briefly: for the two men have come together, again.
Will Jimmy Carter Meddle
in Obama's Foreign Affairs? Ever since he left the White House in defeat 28 years ago, Jimmy Carter's
freewheeling, freelance diplomacy has put him squarely at odds with his successors, but could he help President Obama?
The Anti-American President. Pre-Obama, Jimmy
Carter has long been reviled as the worst president in American history. Carter's bungling of the presidency was more
than his manifest inadequacy. Carter brazenly supported America's most dangerous enemies; enabling the rise of the
Islamofacist thugocracy in Iran. Islamic terrorism, including 9/11, can be tracked back in a straight line back to
Carter. The Shah of Iran was a friend of the United States. Indeed, he was a flawed leader, prone to despotism
but a real pussycat compared to the current Iranian thugocracy. Until former president Jimmy Carter took office, the
United States and Iran maintained a stable relationship. Carter couldn't abandon the Shah fast enough.
Should we call him Jimmy
Obama? Carter's paralysis as Soviet power expanded from Somalia to Ethiopia, and then to
Afghanistan, his feckless make-nice attempt to cajole the West Europeans to respond to Soviet missile
deployments, his abandonment of the shah and subsequent appeasement of Khomeini (his ambassador to the
UN, Andrew Young, described the Iranian fascist leader as "some kind of saint"), greatly encouraged our
enemies, all over the world.
Jimmy Carter and the Camp David Myth.
The truth is that Mr. Carter never wanted an Egyptian-Israeli agreement, fought hard against it, and only agreed to go
along with the process when it became clear that the rest of his foreign policy was in a shambles and he desperately
needed to log a success.
Obama's charm offensive and the global jihad. In a
commencement address at Notre Dame, he declared that Americans had shed their "inordinate fear of communism."
In the months that followed, Carter slashed the defense budget, scrapped the B-1 bomber, welcomed the
Sandinista coup in Nicaragua, and launched diplomatic relations with Cuba's dictator, Fidel Castro. It
wasn't until the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 that Carter finally woke up to his naiveté.
Carter: Hamas can be
trusted. Hamas can be trusted, former US President Jimmy Carter said Monday [1/26/2009], in an
interview on NBC's 'Today' show. Carter spoke with NBC's Meredith Vieira about his perspective on the
Middle East conflict, and his new book, "We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land."
Jimmy Carter's
delusions. Jimmy Carter now has the gall to claim on The Daily Show that he, not Richard
Nixon, opened up China. Is there any diplomatic accomplishment he will not claim credit for?
Jimmy Carter's myopia:
It appears that Jimmy Carter is revising history. The Benjamin Netanyahu I know was attending college
during the Camp David meetings. In fact, when I recommended him to Begin for a government job, the prime
minister did not even know who Benjamin was. I have no idea how Carter was so aware of Benjamin
Netanyahu's political ideology; he was selling furniture to help fund his schooling.
Age And Experience: Carter's
Catastrophes. [Jimmy Carter] came to power in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the resignation
of President Nixon. The public wanted change and someone new, and Carter was an ambitious, hands-on
politician who promised better days. As good as his intentions were, however, the things he tried were
not successful. In fact, he created far more serious problems than he ever solved.
Scaring Us to Death.
Recall that during President Carter's last year in office in 1980 what was called the "misery index", which was
defined as the sum of the inflation and unemployment rates, was about 22 percent: inflation averaged
14 percent; unemployment was 7.5 percent. Today's inflation just became 5 percent, having
been between 1 and 3 percent for a decade, and unemployment is 6.1.
Why
I'm Voting for John McCain: [Scroll down slowly] I bet some of you think I've already
forgotten about Jimmy Carter. I only wish. To my way of thinking, Carter was undeniably the worst
president. Among other things, he saddled America with 21% inflation and 12% unemployment. He
also turned his back on the Shah of Iran, thus opening the door to the Ayatollah Khomeini and thirty years
of world-wide Islamic terrorism. Then, not one to rest on his laurels, Carter became the worst
ex-president in American history….
Can America Afford
Another Jimmy Carter? When former President Carter took office in 1977, the Shah of Iran was
a staunch ally of the United States, a mainstay in our standoff with the Soviet Union, thwarting the dream
held since the time of the czars of pushing south toward the warm waters of the Persian Gulf. Former
president Carter's human rights deal, gave rise to one of the worst rights violators in history —
the Ayatollah Khomeini. Thanks to Jimmy and company, Khomeini's successors are preparing for nuclear
war with Israel and the West.
Report: Jimmy Carter to Meet With Hamas
Leader in Syria. Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting
with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist
threats in the world.
State Department: Carter Meeting With
Terrorists Not 'in the Interest of Peace'. Former President Jimmy Carter's upcoming meeting with
senior officials of the Palestinian terror group Hamas is not "in the interest of peace," according to State
Department spokesman Sean McCormack. FOX News confirmed on Thursday [4/10/2008] that
Carter will travel to Syria next week for an unprecedented meeting with the senior leadership
of Hamas.
Carter's foolish journey:
Former President Jimmy Carter … is reported to have scheduled a meeting with Khaled Mashaal, the political leader of
Hamas. … Over the years, Mashaal has claimed responsibility for many of Hamas' suicide bomb attacks in Israel. He
leads an organization that praised as "heroic" Palestinian terrorists who crossed into Israel and killed two civilians at a
fuel depot on Wednesday [4/9/2008]. Hamas allows — or instigates — the continuing barrage of
rockets into Israel, taking every opportunity to disrupt peace negotiations.
Analyze
This: Carter and Hamas. Given Carter's record in conducting such conversations with Hamas —
and with a long list of dictators over the past three decades, including Kim Il Sung, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez,
Slobodan Milosevic and many, many more — it is fairly safe to expect little good to emerge from that
discussion.
Israel
cools to visit from Carter. Former President Jimmy Carter brokered the first Israeli-Arab peace
deal, but he's getting a cool reception in Israel during his latest visit to the Mideast. Israeli
leaders are shunning the globe-trotting peacemaker for planning to meet with the head of Israel's archenemy
Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, and comparing the Jewish state's policies to apartheid.
Carter 'Quite at Ease' About Hamas
Meeting. Former President Jimmy Carter said he feels "quite at ease" about meeting leaders of
the genocidal Hamas terror group, because the organization is "essential to a future peace with Israel."
Carter, interviewed Saturday for ABC News' "This Week," also said he would oppose a U.S. Olympic boycott and
hopes all countries will join in the Beijing games.
Is Jimmy Carter in Violation of
the Logan Act? The Logan Act was enacted in 1799. … The origins of this law lie in the
activities of Dr. George Logan, a Quaker pacifist doctor who tried to lessen tensions between the French
Revolutionary government in Paris and the Federalists then leading the nascent American Republic, who tilted
towards Britain.
Carter: Arafat fought for just
causes. The former American president, who is on a week-long tour of the region, also met with
Nasr a-Din Shaar, Hamas' deputy prime minister and education minister in Ismail Haniyeh's government.
The two embraced and kissed each other warmly.
Jimmy
Carter Lays a Wreath at Arafat's Tomb. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter laid a wreath of red
roses at the grave of Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat during a visit to the West
Bank City of Ramallah on Tuesday [4/15/2008].
Jimmy Carter Embraces Hamas
Official. Former President Jimmy Carter embraced a leading Hamas figure Tuesday, according to
participants in a meeting that infuriated Israeli officials already upset by Carter's freelance Mideast peace
mission. Carter also laid a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat, whom the Bush administration and many
Israelis blame for the breakdown of peace talks seven years ago and the violence that followed.
Hamas' Useful Idiot: When former
president Jimmy Carter meets with terrorist Hamas leader Khaled Mashall this Friday [4/18/2008] in Damascus he
will apparently violate two federal laws. His eager defiance of the law threatens Americans at home and
our troops abroad.
Jimmy Carter: Emissary of Evil.
Jimmy Carter is an evil man. It is painful to label a past president of the United States as a force for
darkness. But it is dangerous to let a man like Jimmy Carter stalk around the globe cloaked in the garb
of American royalty, planting the seeds of Western civilization's destruction.
N.C. congresswoman wants Carter's passport
revoked. North Carolina's Rep. Sue Myrick wants America to "wake up" and stop allowing terrorism
to proliferate — and if that means revoking the passport of a former U.S. president or examining
the preaching of prison chaplains, that's what she's prepared to do.
The
Damage of Jimmy Carter: There he goes again! Former President Jimmy Carter, acting out his
stubborn, self-righteous moralism and his stunning vanity, persists in legitimizing terrorism. How else
can the Middle East see Carter's meeting in Syria with no less than the terrorist mastermind Khaled Mashaal,
the leader of Hamas?
Jimmy Carter meets
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal in Syria. Jimmy Carter, the former US President who brokered Israel's
first peace accord with an Arab state in 1979, held a controversial meeting yesterday [4/18/2008] with the
exiled leader of Hamas, the Islamist movement whose charter calls for the destruction of Israel.
Carter-Hamas Meeting Comes on 25th Anniversary
of Deadly Terror Attack. Former President Jimmy Carter met Friday [4/18/2008] with the exiled
leader of Hamas and the militant group's deputy chief — on the 25th anniversary of the deadly bombing of
the U.S. embassy in Beirut.
Jimmy Carter's excellent adventure:
So many terrorists, so little time. It was everything a Palestinian terrorist could hope for:
a wreath laid on Arafat's tomb, wet kisses from a former US, and a high profile meeting with leaders of Hamas
that flew in the face of US and European policy. But that didn't faze Jimmy Carter, who relished the
controversy, enjoyed the rough-cheeked nuzzles, and gave the top terrorist organizations the dubious legitimacy
of a president who has joined the actively anti-Israel club.
Carter:
Gaza blockade is an atrocity. Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip is an "atrocity," former US
president Jimmy Carter said after meeting with Hamas officials in Cairo. Carter also said he had asked
Hamas officials to stop rocket attacks into Israel and defended his controversial meetings with the Palestinian
terrorist group, saying it was necessary to talk to all parties to achieve peace.
Citizen Carter's
Ego Trip: Carter's current sojourn in personal diplomacy is just his most recent foreign foray in
post-presidential folly since being voted out of office in Ronald Reagan's 1980 landslide. During his
global quest for relevance, he rarely missed an opportunity to denigrate our country's interests, helping him
to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. But this week's expedition to Jerusalem, the West Bank, Egypt,
Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia may prove to be the most damaging excursion yet.
Jimmy Carter
Makes Me Sick. [It is] clear that these disastrous meetings aren't a question of misunderstood
or overlooked facts, or a matter of persuasion based on such facts. They come down to a stark choice
between evil and good: to meet with Hamas, or not to meet with Hamas; to lend legitimacy to a terror
group, or to shun it; to degrade the office of the presidency, or to honor it. Jimmy Carter has made
all the wrong choices.
Jimmy Carter: American Disgrace.
Carter, after the pounding he took in 1980 decided that America wasn't good enough to have him. He turned against the
democracy that gave him four years as President, after all if we didn't see the wisdom in reelecting him, if a democracy
turned him down, then democracy itself must go. Democracy, if it rejected Jimmy Carter, must be evil. If it is
evil then he will support the enemies of democracy. Carter hasn't found a dictator, thug, or terrorist, that he
hasn't wanted to embrace and validate.
Rice: U.S. Warned Carter Not to Talk to
Hamas. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday [4/22/2008] the Bush administration
explicitly warned former President Jimmy Carter against meeting with members of Hamas, the Palestinian faction
that controls the Gaza Strip and which is regarded by the U.S. as a terror group. Rice, attending a
regional meeting on Iraq's security and future, contradicted Carter's assertions that he never got a clear
signal from the State Department.
J.C., Superstar.
Ex-President Jimmy Carter thinks Hamas is ready to accept Israel's existence and to "live as a neighbor next
door in peace." Has there ever been a former U.S. leader so deluded about historical reality?
The
Democrats' Jimmy Carter Problem: So much for Jimmy Carter's triumphal peace mission in the
Middle East. Like everything else he has done on foreign policy, the world's biggest tool for jihad
propaganda created yet another bloody mess.
Jimmy Carter Disgraced
For Many Reasons. When it came time to judge Jimmy Carter's presidency, Americans voters thundered:
Carter, receiving 40% of the popular vote, carrying six states. With sound reasons: The prime rate
had soared to 20%, inflation to 12.5% and unemployment to 7.5%. More dismal than Carter's
domestic failures is the continuing damage his blunders did to international security.
The Sad End
of Jimmy Carter: The problem is not that he is, or is not, talking to the Syrians —
everyone does it to some degree. It isn't that he went to Damascus to meet with the exiled head of
Hamas — everyone, including the Israelis, will one day have to do that too, in accordance with
that old rule which says that in the end it is with your enemies not your friends that you have to come
to an understanding and make peace. No. The problem is how Jimmy Carter went about it.
The Lust in Jimmy
Carter's Heart: Jimmy Carter's recent negotiations with the terrorist group Hamas have been
called a bad idea, ill-conceived, counterproductive, self-aggrandizing, and naïve. However, what if the
meeting was not at all naïve, but a well-conceived execution of an unstated plan? What would a
former U.S. president do if he really lusted in his heart for the complete destruction of the Jewish state?
Jimmy Carter: A National Embarrassment. It
would be easy to blame the 83-year-old former one-term president's frequent excursions into irrational behavior on senility
were it not for the fact that he appears to have been senile most of his public life. Any recitation of his frequent
excursions into his personal Land of Oz where the good guys are bad and the bad guys are good sounds like a litany of
Carter-esque fantasies. His onetime White House Chief of Staff, Hamilton Jordan, once spoke about what he called
Carter's "weirdness factor."
Jimmy
Carter: Weak Then, an Embarrassment Now. Not only is Carter in the news over his
anti-Israel, pro-Islamist screed, but he and Bill Clinton have decided to create a broad and "inclusive"
Baptist movement to overcome what they see as a negative image of Baptists. … Carter and Clinton
are the perfect pair for subverting Baptists because both of them have difficulty telling the
truth. The world would be better off if both of them kept their mouths shut, but this is
unlikely to happen.
The madness
of Jimmy Carter: The book marks Carter's further disgraceful descent from ineffectual president
and international do-gooder to apologist for the worst Arab tendencies. … Carter always finds a way to
point a finger at Israel. In doing so, Carter thinks he is providing an extraordinary public service.
Jimmy Carter: Jew-Hater,
Genocide-Enabler, Liar. Even as Islamic Hitlerites gather in Iran to deny the first Holocaust of
the Jews and to plot the second, former president Jimmy Carter tours America with a new book that describes Jews
as racists and oppressors, and suggests they are also a conspiratorial mafia that intimidates "critics," controls
America's media and war policy, and are therefore also the source of Islamic terrorism and the Arabs' genocidal
campaign to eliminate them from the map of the Middle East. In other words, Americans beware of the Jew
in your midst.
Jimmy
Carter, The Muslims and Other Catastrophes. For me, personally, the worst thing
about Carter's longtime affection for the world's worst tyrants, ranging from Yasser Arafat to
Castro, Chavez and Ahmadinejad, is that it serves as a constant reminder — and source
of endless embarrassment — that I actually voted for this anti-Semitic clodhopper!
Brave Jimmy Carter? Having
scolded the Western world for its "inordinate fear of communism," Jimmy Carter is now, 30 years later,
attempting to legitimize the shameful Zionism Equals Racism resolution passed and later repealed by the United
Nations. The man has a seemingly unerring instinct for error. "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid"
is touted (by Carter himself) as an evenhanded analysis of the Israeli/Arab conflict — but one need
go no further than the title to suspect otherwise.
Castro's friend. We've
discussed Jimmy Carter's legacy of friendship and warm support for the world's dictators many times already,
notably on Venezuela, but a return to Carter's Cuba legacy may be an even worse experience, because of an
unmistakable whiff of treason.
Jewish
Group Slams Carter Over 'Apartheid' Analogy. A row between American Jewish leaders and former
President Jimmy Carter over his attempts to link Israel with apartheid deepened Tuesday [12/19/2006], when a
leading Jewish group called for an apology, decrying the role Carter has taken "with regard to Israel and
American Jews."
Why
won't Carter debate his book? You can always tell when a public figure has written an indefensible
book: when he refuses to debate it in the court of public opinion. And you can always tell when he's
a hypocrite to boot: when he says he wrote a book in order to stimulate a debate, and then he refuses to
participate in any such debate. I'm talking about former president Jimmy Carter and his new book "Palestine
Peace Not Apartheid."
Carter: Sympathy for the
devil. Want to know where the Democratic Party stands and where America would be under their
leadership? Just ask Jimmy Carter. Carter is certainly not bashful about bashing the United
States, even on foreign soil or to the foreign press. He sat for an interview with Der Spiegel recently
and fired with both barrels at President Bush, "fundamentalist" Christians and Israel. But do Carter's
views represent those of the Democratic Party? Well, he sure seems to think so.
Will
Jimmy Carter please just go away? How is it that Jimmy Carter, that sanctimonious phony who was
a disaster during his four years in the White House and a disgrace in the quarter of a century since, can pass
himself off as equal parts statesman and saint? While most of us wished that he would simply slink back
to his peanut farm after Ronald Reagan [defeated him] in '80, we hadn't realized how starved he was for
the spotlight.
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Reasons Democrats Are Weak On Defense And Can't Be Trusted To Govern In Wartime. Today's
Democrats are nothing like Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy, who with courage and decisive action kept
on top of their jobs and aggressively confronted one national defense crisis after another. Jimmy
Carter, elected during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, and (1) believing Americans had an inordinate
fear of communism, (2) lifted U.S. citizens' travel bans to Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia and
(3) pardoned draft evaders. President Carter (4) also stopped B-1 bomber production, (5) gave away
our strategically located Panama Canal and (6) made human rights the central focus of his foreign policy.
Skip
the book, read the column. In a column published in last week's Boston Globe, former US president
Jimmy Carter complained that ever since his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" came out, he has been
called "a liar, plagiarist, anti-Semite, racist, bigot, ignorant, etc." I have not read the book.
But the column alone proves that some of those epithets are justified.
Castro's
true legacy is a trail of blood. For decades, journalists and celebrities have showered Cuba's
despot with praise, extolling his virtues so extravagantly at times that if sycophancy were an Olympic sport,
they would have walked off with the gold. Norman Mailer, for example, proclaimed him "the first and
greatest hero to appear in the world since the Second World War."
In Cuba it is illegal to change jobs, to change houses, to travel abroad, and to read
books or magazines without the express approval of the state. It is against the law for more than three
Cubans to meet without permission. Neighborhood Watch programs do not look out for criminals. Instead,
they monitor their fellow citizens — keeping track of neighbors' comings and goings, who visits them, and
what radio stations they listen to. The sense of community and the simple trust between human beings
is gone.
Jimmy
Carter's Li'l Ol' Stink Tank. Jimmy Carter says he's just being fair-minded by continuously
condemning Israel. Meanwhile, his Carter Center draws ever more money from anti-Israel sources.
Follow the money. The ex-president's irritating opinions on Mideast matters are one thing. But
the funding of his Atlanta think tank by big-money, state-linked Arab sources is quite
another — and points to a conflict of interest.
Adviser to Jimmy Carter resigns in dispute
over book on Palestinians and apartheid. An adviser to former President Jimmy Carter and onetime
executive director of the Carter Center has publicly parted ways with his former boss, citing concerns with the
accuracy and integrity of Carter's latest book, "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid." … In a two-page letter
explaining his action, [Kenneth] Stein called the book "replete with factual errors, copied materials not
cited, superficialities, glaring omissions and simply invented segments."
Maps in
Carter's book are questioned. Harsh allegations over President Carter's new book on Israel and
the Palestinians came into sharper focus Thursday [12/7/2006] when a former top aide to Carter said the book
appeared to contain maps that were "unusually similar" to those in an earlier book.
Carter's book prompts more
resignations. Fourteen members of an advisory board to Jimmy Carter's human rights organization
resigned on Thursday [1/11/2007] to protest his new book, which has been attacked as unfairly critical of
Israel and riddled with inaccuracies.
As Carter controversy
grows, Jews resign from center's board. Fourteen Jewish members of the Carter Center's board of
councilors have resigned to protest the former president's new book blaming Israel for the failure of Middle
East peace efforts.
The same story appeared in the
NY Times, but with no mention that the people who resigned were all Jewish:
Carter
Center Advisers Quit to Protest Book. Fourteen of the city's business and civic leaders resigned
from the Carter Center's advisory board on Thursday to protest former President Jimmy Carter's recent criticisms
of Israel and American Jewish political power.
Jimmy
for Terror. How did this man ever become president of the United States? He's gone from
failed president to friend of left-wing tyrants and global scold of anything that represents America's
legitimate interests. Now, in his bid to demonize Israel (recall that he secretly gave PR and political
advice to Yasser Arafat), Carter has turned mythmaker — distorting history and misrepresenting facts,
when he isn't making them up altogether.
America had enough of
Jimmy Carter, now if he would just go away. "When I studied history in college we
were taught that James Buchanan was the worst president of the United States and we will not see
the likes of him again; but no-one could have foreseen Jimmy Carter." So wrote columnist
Joseph Alsop. No matter how hard the left tries, facts are facts and Carter remains the
most inept president of the post-war period.
Jimmy Carter's Trail of
Disaster: It seems that almost wherever he goes and whatever positions he pushes,
Jimmy Carter leaves a wake of devastation and disaster.
Jimmy Carter's
Outrage: Jimmy Carter is the worst. The absolute worst. He's more dangerous than most
evil types because he runs around with a smile and looks like a well-intentioned peanut farmer.
Our Worst
Ex-President. It is sad that a President whose cardinal accomplishment was a peace accord
between Israel and one of its neighbors should have devolved into such a seething enemy of Israel. It
will be sadder still if this same man, whose other achievement was to elevate the cause of human rights,
ends his career by helping to make anti-Semitism acceptable once again in American discourse. There
is little doubt, in sum, that the electorate was right in 1980 when it judged Carter to be among our worst
Presidents. It is even more certain that history will judge him to have been our very worst ex-President.
Academic Separation and
Jimmy Carter: Given that these bishops and clergy believe wholeheartedly that the academic center
of a president linked with a Methodist school [SMU] is inappropriate because of that president's actions, when
will these bishops and clergy circulate and/or support a similar petition urging Emory University to cease its
relationship with the Carter Center?
Carter
Center OK, But Bush Library 'Heresy?' While United Methodist leaders wrangle over whether a
church-owned university should host George W. Bush's presidential library, another school from the
same denomination houses a center dedicated to former President Jimmy Carter, with no similar controversy.
The apparent discrepancy has prompted a conservative group to ask: "Is affiliation with the current
administration the only 'heresy' unacceptable to liberal bishops and clerics?"
Flashback...
The Panama Canal Giveaway:
It was a terrible mistake for President Jimmy Carter and the U.S. Senate to give away our Panama Canal in 1978,
and the majority of the American people knew it was wrong. America had paid for this most expensive piece
of real estate four times: we paid Panama for sovereignty "in perpetuity," we bought the Zone again from
Columbia, we paid the French Canal Company for its assets, and we bought the deeds from the private property
owners, and then we built the Canal with our ingenuity and investment.
Carter blasts Bush on his global impact.
Former President Carter says President Bush's administration is "the worst in history" in international relations,
taking aim at the White House's policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy. The criticism
from Carter, which a biographer says is unprecedented for the 39th president, also took aim at Bush's
environmental policies and the administration's "quite disturbing" faith-based initiative funding.
The Editor says...
President Carter isn't exactly a master of international relations himself. He is the president who sat
paralyzed with timid indecision while more than fifty Americans were held hostage in Iran for over a year.
Carter's attack worth
peanuts. Looking at Carter's record, he is in no moral position to pass judgment. … Carter
is the president who criticized Ronald Reagan's Cold War strategy, which would eventually lead to the
collapse of Soviet communism. If Carter had been around in the 1980s instead of Reagan, it is conceivable
the U.S.S.R. would still exist and countries like Ukraine and Latvia would be under Soviet control.
Peanut Envy: Almost always, when former President
Jimmy Carter opens his big, smug mouth, he has already made the psychological mistake that is going to reduce
his words to absurdity. When he told the press last week that the Bush administration had aroused
antipathy around the world, he might have been uttering no more than a banality. But no, he had to
try to invest it with a special signature flourish.
Democrats
Need To Reprimand Carter — Now. As if we haven't had enough sour grapes from Carter, this
weekend he took his level of outrageous behavior to an all-time high. Speaking to a reporter from Arkansas, Carter
labeled the Bush administration the "worst in history," and criticized everything from Bush's foreign policy to
his privatization approach with social welfare.
Jimmy Carter: Failure to Support
Hamas 'Criminal'. Former US President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that the United States,
Israel and the European Union must stop favoring the Fatah terrorist group over the Islamist Hamas.
Carter's Nutzpah:
Has Jimmy Carter gone off the deep end? He's now scolding the West for refusing to bankroll Hamas
terrorists who've just seized power at gunpoint in Gaza. It's a new low in coddling terrorism.
Jimmy, Bill, and Herb:
For a long time after [President] Carter headed back to Plains, Georgia, after a single frustration-laden term, I often thought that
he was a better ex-President than he was a President. … But frankly, I liked Habitat for Humanity Jimmy much better than
the Hurray for Hamas cheerleader who has lately been conducting his own misguided and counterproductive shuttle diplomacy without
portfolio.
As a former officer in the US Navy, Carter
should know, "Loose lips sink ships."
Carter
says Israel has at least 150 atomic weapons. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has said Israel
holds at least 150 nuclear weapons, the first time a U.S. president has publicly acknowledged the Jewish state's
atomic arsenal. Asked at a news conference at Wales's Hay literary festival on Sunday how a future U.S.
president should deal with the Iranian nuclear threat, Carter put the risk in context by listing atomic weapons
held globally.
Revoke Jimmy Carter's Security Clearance.
One of the perks that former presidents receive, if they choose to utilize it, is a daily security briefing from the CIA. This
is how Jimmy Carter came to know (or at least claim) that Israel has 150 nuclear weapons, considering the fact that the Israeli
government has pursued a policy of deliberate ambiguity about its nuclear weapon capability.
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat house sits
rejected. The house is neat and new, with three bedrooms, white concrete walls and a pretty
lawn. And no family searching for a deal could ask for a more generous seller: Habitat for
Humanity. But it seems Habitat can't find a buyer willing to live in Bartlett Park, even in a brand
new house that comes with a zero percent interest loan.
Nashville
Habitat for Humanity project stirs unease. Habitat for Humanity's plans to build a 450-home
community in northeast Nashville are creating tensions in the area as some middle-class residents worry
about an infusion of low-income housing. Marcus Jordan, president of a homeowners association near
Habitat's site, said members of 37 neighborhood groups are banding together to protest Habitat's plan.
Man Arrested In Bank Robbery Set To
Get Habitat For Humanity Home. Saturday [9/29/2007], we were going to cover a story about a
Tyler family getting a new home from Habitat For Humanity, but instead we discovered the father of that
family is Derrick Hodges, 33. Hodges was arrested Friday [9/28/2007] by Henderson Police for allegedly
robbing a bank there back in November, and police say they believe he's involved in a string of bank robberies
all over East Texas. Habitat For Humanity says despite recent revelations, he's still set to get the
house.
Somewhat related...
'Habitat' Home Becomes Drug Haven.
Only Eyewitness News was on the scene when as Kissimmee police moved in to make a drug bust at a home built
by Habitat for Humanity. One of the women arrested at the home is an employee of the Osceola County
school district.
Charity homes built by Hollywood
start to crumble. Residents of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by
Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart. Fairway Oaks was built on northern
Florida wasteland by 10,000 volunteers, including Carter, in a record 17-day "blitz" organised by the charity Habitat for
Humanity. Eight years later it is better known for cockroaches, mildew and mysterious skin rashes.
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