WORST EX-PRESIDENT EVER TOO Yeah, but I hear he's a helluva drywall subcontractor.
Posted on 10/20/2004 10:18:10 AM PDT by lnbchip
Jimmy Carter: American Revolution Was 'Unnecessary'
Recently we described Jimmy Carter as the worst president of the past 100 years. We apologize.
He's the worst president ever.
In trying to compare the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, here's what the jug-headed Georgian said to fellow Democrat Chris Matthews on "Hardball" Monday night, according to MSNBC's own transcript:
'A Little More Sensitive'
Well, one parallel is that the Revolutionary War, more than any other war up until recently, has been the most bloody war we've fought. I think another parallel is that in some ways the Revolutionary War could have been avoided. It was an unnecessary war.
Had the British Parliament been a little more sensitive to the colonials' really legitimate complaints and requests the war could have been avoided completely, and of course now we would have been a free country now as is Canada and India and Australia, having gotten our independence in a nonviolent way.
I think in many ways the British were very misled in going to war against America and in trying to enforce their will on people who were quite different from them at the time.
Does the catastrophic ex-prez really think the war in Iraq is bloodier than the Vietnam War, the Korean War, World War II, World War I, the Civil War ...?
Note to Jimmy: Canada did not begin to gain independence until 1867. Australia did not receive partial independence as a commonwealth until 1901. India did not gain independence until 1947, and all the Indians who were killed by the British would hardly describe their deaths as "nonviolent."
WORST EX-PRESIDENT EVER TOO Yeah, but I hear he's a helluva drywall subcontractor.
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Oh! You naughty, naughty, FReeper!!! (snort!)
You are not sure if WWI, Korea, and Vietnam were bloodier than the Iraq War? You need your head examined.
Jimmuh Carter proves once again why he's an idiot.
Carter has no sense of history and human nature, nor does he understand the first thing about politics. Nuff said.
My thoughts exactly.
Jimmy,
Please fade away gracefully. Making an ass of yourself reflects poorly on the US. Your partisanship has infected your brain's thinking centers. Seek help immediately, ... and quietly.
No, the Revolutionary War. I'm not sure that the Korean War and the Vietnam War were bloodier than the Revolutionary War as a percentage of the population.
He REALLY means that"HE"is UNNECESSARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The more he speaks, the more ignorant he shows himself to be. I can just hear him now, telling the founding fathers that they got it all wrong. Should've listened to him, by golly!
You can shut up now, peanuts-for-brains!! You already have the Nobel Peace Prize!
So I have you to blame for waiting in those odd day even day gas lines when I was eight years old.(Just Kidding) He did make my mind up early though, my parents were always praising Reagan during the 80 election.
Maybe Carter has Alzheimers. Either that or he's insane. He's talking like he has lost control of his faculties.
Are there words to describe this idiot? It turns out he is not only the worst president, but also the dumbest.
I thought he said the Civil War was unnecessary.
The vocabulary of "sensitivity" is very Jimmy Carter and late 20th century, but haven't a lot of scholars and writers expressed just this very opinion? If you believe that unjustified British actions caused the war, what's wrong with saying that different actions on the part of the British government could have avoided it?
So according to Carter, there probably were prominent Parliamentarians over in London saying, "We just need to give the colonists more time"
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