Posted on 08/26/2006 10:14:18 PM PDT by hipaatwo
Former US president Jimmy Carter lashed out at British Prime Minister Tony Blair for being "so compliant and subservient" to the Bush administration in Washington.
"I have been surprised and extremely disappointed with Tony Blair's behaviour," Carter told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper as he promoted his new book "Faith and Freedom."
"I think that, more than any other person in the world, the prime minister could have had a moderating influence on Washington, and he has not," said the 81-year-old former head of state.
He faulted Blair for not having been a constraint on US President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq in March 2003 -- an invasion which, he said, subverted the fight against global terrorism.
"We now have a situation where America is so unpopular overseas that, even in countries like Egypt and Jordan, our approval ratings are less than five percent," said Carter, who was in the White House from 1977 to 1981.
"It's a shameful and pitiful state of affairs, and I hold your British prime minister to be substantially responsible for being so compliant and subservient."
The only thing Jimmy Carter should slap down is a few lithium to calm his frequent bouts of dilusionary visions of importance disorder.
I really think that this man is losing it. He is so critical about everyone but his own presidency..
I am with you...I think. To hell with approval ratings and popularity contests! Let's do what is right and to hell with the consequences!
Thank God he's not in power and the ones who do have power shun him.
This from a man who was a total disaster as president.
Don't forget Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and Kim Jong.
What is the matter with this idiot anyway? Blair is just trying to protect his own nation from freaking Islamic terrorists as is Bush! Too bad Carter and Clinton didn't!!!! What a freaking moron!
Quite a landslide. I voted for carter the first time...I learned the next time.
We need to get our color back. The democrats were always represented by red and the Republicans represented by blue ever since I can remember. They hijacked our blue, but the red sure fits them better.
Like brother like brother.
He's Billy Carter, with a better haircut.
Jimmah continues to open his mouth to confirm the wisdom of the American people in 1980.
Words fail me. I can't say anything printable.
Yeah, and the sooner the better.
Remember when Helmut Schmidt was Chancellor of Germany and he used to tell jimmy how stupid he was?
Hey Jimma!!...don't let that rabbit get you!...swing that oar Jimma!...swing that oar!!!
Today in Odd History, President Jimmy Carter was attacked by a rabbit during a fishing trip in Plains, Georgia. The rabbit, which may have been fleeing a predator, swam toward his boat, "hissing menacingly, its teeth flashing and nostrils flared." President Carter was forced to swat at the vicious beast with a canoe paddle, which apparently scared it off.
Upon his return to the White House, Carter told his staff about the furry amphibian's assault. Most of them refused to believe him, insisting that rabbits can't swim (although since most mammals can swim, there's no reason to believe that rabbits cannot), and that even if they could, they certainly wouldn't attack humans, and certainly not presidents. Fortunately, a White House photographer had been on the scene, and had recorded the bizarre attack. The photograph showed Carter with his paddle raised, warding off a small creature which might, or might not, have been a rabbit. One staffer was quoted as saying, "You couldn't tell what it was." Undaunted by their skepticism, Carter had the image enlarged, and there it was--a killer bunny rabbit, apparently bent on assassinating the president.
The story might have ended there, except that White House Press Secretary Jody Powell mentioned the incident to Associated Press reporter Brooks Jackson in August. JawsThe Washington Post ran it as front page news. The original photograph was not available (until the Reagan administration leaked it in 1981), but the paper filled the gap with a cartoon modeled on the poster for the movie Jaws, starring the rabbit and entitled Paws. Powell made a belated attempt to impress the public with the seriousness of the attack, calling the creature a "swamp rabbit," but since Carter had to appease his rabbit-loving constituents by insisting that he had not actually smacked his buck-toothed opponent with his paddle, but only splashed water at it to drive it away, it seemed unlikely that he had been in danger. The entire episode became a I'm a Bunny for Cartersymbol of Carter's floundering presidency. According to Powell, "[I]t shows the extent to which an insignificant incident can snowball and end up in newspapers and news shows across the country.” Carter biographer Douglas Brinkley says, “It just played up the Carter flake factor.... I mean, he had to deal with Russia and the Ayatollah and here he was supposedly fighting off a rabbit.”
<< Says the worst President to ever be elected to serve this country.
Quite a feat for a ONE TERMER Jimmy.
I really doubt Blair cares what you have to say. >>
Prime Minister Blair could give a s**t -- but his every British domestic political enemy -- and he has many of those (and they are the deadly enemies of both Mr Blair and of his allies_ and the every enemy of the Greco/Roman/Judeo-Christian/English/American/Human Civilization that both Mr Blair and his every domestic and international ally, George Walker Bush preeminent among them, have their knackers and their necks on the block to defend, care very much indeed.
the execrable Carter, still, all these years after being tossed out on his arse and despite being meanwhile seriously challenged for the role by the likes of the Cli'tons, Gore, Kohn-Kerry, Peolosi, Reid, Murtha et al, the world's most dangerous dullard, has always been a bloody traitor.
Who as he ages becomes, as improbable as it seems, more and more envy, hatred and rage-driven -- and ever more bloody dangerous.
Bastard -- and his every-bit-as-hateful mean and mealy duck's-arse mouthed spouse should long ago have been awarded the Nicolae and Elana Ceausescu trip to the garden!
The gift keeps giving
That's a very good point about the Great Incompetent. He's like Robert McNamara - publicly lick the boots and undersoles of every leftist he can find (in the wretched McNamara's case, its trash the soldiers who fought HIS war) and they might say something nice about how he's "grown" our of office and is the best ex-somtehing or other the country ever had.
When confronted with vicious foul tempered rodents,always have your holy hand grenade by your side.
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