I don’t believe this warrants your referring to me as a pacificist.
Posted on 09/07/2004 2:05:44 PM PDT by VMI70
The text of a letter former President Carter sent to Zell Miller over the weekend ...
You seem to have forgotten that loyal Democrats elected you as mayor and as state senator. Loyal Democrats, including members of my family and me, elected you as lieutenant governor and as governor. It was a loyal Democrat, Lester Maddox, who assigned you to high positions in the state government when you were out of office. It was a loyal Democrat, Roy Barnes, who appointed you as U.S. Senator when you were out of office. By your historically unprecedented disloyalty, you have betrayed our trust. Great Georgia Democrats who served in the past, including Walter George, Richard Russell, Herman Talmadge, and Sam Nunn disagreed strongly with the policies of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and me, but they remained loyal to the party in which they gained their public office. Other Democrats, because of philosophical differences or the race issue, like Bo Callaway and Strom Thurmond, at least had the decency to become Republicans.
Everyone knows that you were chosen to speak at the Republican Convention because of your being a “Democrat,” and it’s quite possible that your rabid and mean-spirited speech damaged our party and paid the Republicans some transient dividends.
Perhaps more troublesome of all is seeing you adopt an established and very effective Republican campaign technique of destroying the character of opponents by wild and false allegations. The Bush campaign’s personal attacks on the character of John McCain in South Carolina in 2000 was a vivid example. The claim that war hero Max Cleland was a disloyal American and an ally of Osama bin Laden should have given you pause, but you have joined in this ploy by your bizarre claims that another war hero, John Kerry, would not defend the security of our nation except with spitballs. (This is the same man whom you described previously as “one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders -- and a good friend.")
I, myself, never claimed to have been a war hero, but I served in the navy from 1942 to 1953, and, as president, greatly strengthened our military forces and protected our nation and its interests in every way. I don’t believe this warrants your referring to me as a pacificist.
Zell, I have known you for forty-two years and have, in the past, respected you as a trustworthy political leader and a personal friend. But now, there are many of us loyal Democrats who feel uncomfortable in seeing that you have chosen the rich over the poor, unilateral preemptive war over a strong nation united with others for peace, lies and obfuscation over the truth, and the political technique of personal character assassination as a way to win elections or to garner a few moments of applause. These are not the characteristics of great Democrats whose legacy you and I have inherited.
I contacted President Carter's office for comment and his press spokesperson Deanna Congileo told me that the letter was a private communication and that President Carter would not be issuing further comment.
-- Josh Marshall http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
Senile old coot.
It's not about loyalty. It's about patriotism. There's a difference, Dismal Jimmy.
I'll bet Zell's response letter will be much more interesting. Hope he writes one.
That is just pathetic. I am looking forward to reading Zells response. It should be amusing.
President Carter just validated Zell Miller's view of the current Democratic party. Party first, Country second.
very disappointing
I know a few Iranian hostages that might disagree with you.
Hey Carter: By your historically unprecedented disloyalty, you have betrayed America's trust!
Sounds like those blocked arteries were the ones that fed his brain.
Jimmy is one of the spitball defenders himself.
Maybe ol' Jimmah needs to lighten up on the meds! He can't seriously think he strengthened our military!
I didn't think we were allowed to post from The Onion.
BTTT
C'mon, this is a joke, right?
You seem to have forgotten that loyal Democrats elected you as mayor and as state senator. Loyal Democrats, including members of my family and me, elected you as lieutenant governor and as governor. It was a loyal Democrat, Lester Maddox, who assigned you to high positions in the state government when you were out of office. It was a loyal Democrat, Roy Barnes, who appointed you as U.S. Senator when you were out of office. By your historically unprecedented disloyalty, you have betrayed our trust.
"Now sit down, shutup, and agree with your party no matter what we say."
It was a loyal Democrat, Roy Barnes, who appointed you as U.S. Senator when you were out of office.
to replace a Republican of course ;)
You got it.
I don’t believe this warrants your referring to me as a pacificist.
Looks like old Jimmah is back off his meds again. Eiter that, or he has been smoking dope with Willie again.
Jimmy Carter, among the worst and most ineffective Presidents of the Twentieth Century. He now presumes to preach to others?
Rabid and Mean Spirited are Jimmah Cahtah's middle names.
"...greatly strengthened our military forces and protected our nation and its interests in every way."
Oh man! This is just beyond pathetic.
Zell said it very clearly in his speech, he decided to put his family ahead of his party.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
attack!
let me see if I understand this....the letter is a "private communication" but is now public? What a pompous jackass.
Ha. Ha ha. HA HA. HAH HAH. ROFL! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
(former President Carter)I don’t believe this warrants your referring to me as a pacificist.
My elderly aunt's the same way. I bought her a computer but she can't quite figure out how to use the spell checker.
Carter is a doddering old fool.
Hi Jimmie wheres the Canal now, you traitorous home depot loving fool
Except that no one ever made that claim. One of the major reasons Americans are questioning Kerry's credibility is that Kerry et al have been making claims of attacks against their patriotism and loyalty that have never been made and are indeed extremely far-fetched. This is one such claim.
Zell decided loyalty to America was more important than loyalty to Marxists no matter what color jersey they were wearing...
America first
party second....
Toby Keith:
"I'll never smoke weed with Willie Again..."
Oh yeah. Carter strengthened the military alright. The Soviet Military.
That is such an awesome paragraph. I'm just in awe that Miller provoked this kind of response from Carter, such a polite "You are full of it" kind of response.
"Jimmy Carter, among the worst and most ineffective Presidents of the Twentieth Century."
He is among the worst of any century, IMHO
Gosh...I'm sure Zell is going to miss having Carter as a friend. Fortunately, lifesized cardboard cutouts of Jimmy are available at his library and make a superb substitutes.
Howling at that picture - just woke MY cat up (which she hates).
its not rabid, its rabitt
"Great Georgia Democrats who served in the past"
Well Jimmy I guess this leaves you out. By the way, I want to congratulate you on how well you served us; you served us double digit inflation, double digit unemployment, and double digit intrest rates; how you protected us so well during the Iran hostage crisis;
Jimmy if you are so wanting to help the poor, please stay out of my pocket, get all your rich demoncrap friends to divest themselves of all but $100,000. per year or of their millions of dollar incomes, and use that money to feed the poor and build them houses. We, the working class, can't afford your charitable projects anymore.
So Jimmy, just to sum it up, GO AWAY!
What a jive turkey!
One question - what was he smokin' when he said that??
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