Posted on 08/21/2006 4:38:32 AM PDT by IrishMike
In the history of any nation there are high and low points. There are events and people that make the nation proud or, frankly, cause it shame and embarrassment. I, for years, felt one of our proudest moments was Ronald Wilson Reagan telling Gorbachev, ''Tear down this wall.''
I always thought the shame of slavery would forever be our low point. That was right up until Jimmy Carter took office in 1977 and again last week when he spewed his hate-filled venom against his country and its president in Der Spiegel magazine. Jimmy, you are a disgrace to our nation.
The byline of the article read: ''Former U.S. president speaks with Der Spiegel about the danger posed to American values by George W. Bush, the difficult situation in the Middle East and Cuba's ailing Fidel Castro.'' Carter should have been front and center condemning such a headline. In any other time, with any other president, this would have been unheard of, but not from the new voices coming from the Bush-haters in the Democratic Party. Al Gore does it. Howard Dean does it. Maxine Waters does it. But that doesn't make it right. Jimmy Carter has allowed partisan attacks to escalate to dangerous levels.
So, I thought a stroll down memory lane would be appropriate. In the mid-1970s, Jimmy Carter, a fine peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia, ran for the highest office in the land and won. Congratulations Jimmy. Jimmy Carter appeared not to be your garden-variety politician and the country welcomed his down-home country approach. Within a year however, the welcome wore off. Carter's legacy is now inextricably linked to the ''Misery Index.'' No president in the history of the country had a Misery Index as high as Jimmy Carter's.
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Irish Mike: Thanks for bringing this to us!
John Carey
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1681380/posts
Jimmy Carter: The Untold Story
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"He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." -Psalm 121:4
The posterboy{old git} of what is destroying the demoratic party.Rove is behind this im sure! sarc.
I am, however, a big fan of my country. I believe in America and its goodness. I believe in the American people who make it work. So when I see an ex-president who is not qualified to run a five and dime offer his opinion to the world abouthow it is worse off due to the United States, it p - - - - - me off.
Jimmy Carter and Mike Wallace are shining examples of why forced retirement makes sense for anyone over the age of 80. Obviously, at that point in life, if you have experienced rejection, you become rather bitter. And while you are entitled to be bitter, it should not be at the expense of good, honest, hardworking folks who believe in their nation. So Jimmy, don't go away mad. Just go away.
Jimmy is quoted in the interview as saying: ''I don't think Israel has any moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and the Gaza. I do not think that is justified, no.''
Is this guy serious? Militants take one or two soldiers? This guy needs meds, a straightjacket and a rubber room ASAP. Israel was attacked by Hezbollah, Jimmy. A terrorist organization. They came across a sovereign border and killed eight Israelis soldiers and kidnapped two others. That, in anybody's book but a whacked out liberal appeaser, is an open act of war. Is Jimmy suggesting that if someone in America is kidnapped they can be traded for all the murderers on death row? The prisoners in Israeli jails have committed crimes, Jimmy. They are not there for sport. They are suicide bombers who failed. Terrorists who have killed innocent people. I guess in Jimmy's world one man's terrorist is another man's militant. This guy is dangerous. Talk about immoral thinking. Apparently that type of thinking comes from the Carter Center. America bad. Israel Bad. Militant good.
Thanks for the link.
This is an song we sang in grade school (sang to the Oscar Meyer bologna commercial). The song was first popular after the economic malaise set in but tt really took off during the Iranian "hostage crisis", long gasoline lines, and Nicaragua:
Oh, come on... The man's brother gave the world "Billy Beer"... Personally, I thought that alone would've given him a second term? /sarcasm
What a putz!
I would not call him a "national" disgrace. He's more of a disgrace to the Democratic Party.
I'd have to go with...
4) all of the above
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Wrong. The entire Democrat (Socialist) Party is a national disgrace.
Jimmy's not a big thinker. But then, not many Democrats are.
That' a funny pic. A coupla years back I tried to find the original photo of Jimmah sitting in a rowboat swinging his paddle at the rabbit but was unsuccessful. I think the media have successfully buried that photo for all time. Wouldn't want darling Jimmah to look bad now.
You can find it HERE.
This is a good piece except he misses one crucial fact--the Carter administration actively midwifed the Khomeini government, giving the Shah of Iran the worst possible advice and enabling the revolution to occur. That one step took Isalmofascism from a possibly marginal Islamic heresy and made it into a true world force for unspeakable evil. Once the current regime in Iran gets a nuke and detonates it here in the US, Carter will also have a few hundred thousand dead Americans to his credit.
Going overseas and cheap shotting America, cheap shotting the war effort in a time of national crisis, cheap shotting Bush.............
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Danny Ocean is turning over in his grave.
Even better...
Jimmy Carter has allowedenabled foreign monies for partisan attacks to escalate to dangerous levels.
See the HRC.
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Great link! Thanks!
Actually, he looks like a Howdy Doody boblehead, or one of Alfred E. Newman, if either was an old, VERY stupid man.
There are very few people on this earth who's death I will celebrate. When the news of Jimmy Carters death reaches me I will celebrate. May God forgive me.
"I always thought the shame of slavery would forever be our low point. That was right up until Jimmy Carter took office in 1977 and again last week when he spewed his hate-filled venom against his country and its president in Der Spiegel magazine. Jimmy, you are a disgrace to our nation."
I quit reading here. Anybody who thinks Jimmy Carter is more of a disgrace to our nation than slavery is an idiot. Even if every other word in the article is true.
the institution of slavery was a product of it's time and not limited to the United states. Jimmy Carter is a living aberration a traitor that carries the title President. That is not acceptable.
OMg, I remember that song! I was in early grade school during the Carter years, and always thought that song was hilarious. Was also very amused whenever my folks would make fun of the hapless Goober-boy on TV—the beginning of young TonyRo's Republican loyalties.
I'll never forget going to school that day in 4th grade, on January 20, 1981 when Ronald W. Reagan was sworn into office. All day, I was excited thinking about how "The GOOD Guy" was going to be president, and our country would be safe and strong again.
Price controls were good then. 15%-16% mortgage rates, price of gas, US hostages, 'big pullout / abandonment', etc., you name. Even an 18 year old (then) could recognize stupidity, incompetence, cowardice, manipulation, Gore/Kerry recessive genes, Rodney King type pleas, etc.
As a person, I think Carter is a very nice compassionate human being. A person that would make a good neighbor, friend, but, as a leader inept, at best trying to have led a nation from a position of diplomatic compromises giving away so much for nothing and not comprehending the global respect that could have been garnered from a display of calm, wise, firm display of strength. His administration staff were jokes too.
Carter got upset (very nervous / mad / anxious) when in presence of The Gipper.
Great article and exactly right on Carter.
Imagine this idiot is still on a Taxpayer Pension.
Well, I can dream can't I?
Iseem to remember that Dean's son died piloting a CA National Guard fighter.
This is what I saw way back in sixth grade. All I could do was wonder "why doesn't someone go save them?". America isn't supposed to let a bunch of punks push us around. If a 11 year old boy could figure that out, why couldn't President Carter? He makes brother Billy seem like a common-sense genius.
Jimmy Carter is a poster boy for the feminised wimp who lets his wife boss him around. His wife roslin is the left wing lunatic who is the brains behind Carter's leftism.
He is a nuclear engineer but relied on his wife.
However that does not absolve carter of his treasonous acts. His carter center is a shadow state department which pushes the leftist lunacy. How many carter center interns now work for the sate department?
Association with anythng Carter should disqualify a person for any diplomatic post.
I don't think carter is a nice person personally.
He is the bitter vindictive college professor who is jealous of the fact that his students are smarter and will succeed where he failed.
He is a crazy control freak. He joint the habitat project as a calculation to humanize his image, he used to PERSONALLY set the WH tenis court schedule, when america was down he attacked citizens with the infamouse "malaaaaze" speech.
What you see is what you get with carter, a first class jerk.
One of the biggest mistakes of my life was to vote for him.
However, one good thing came out of it. When our hostages were released on the day President Reagan was sworn into office, I finally saw the light and changed parties.
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