Posted on 08/29/2006 10:48:35 PM PDT by ncountylee
For an event that would turn a page in American history, former president Jimmy Carter has agreed in principle to host former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami for talks during his visit to the United States starting this week.
Carter's term as president was dominated by the rupture in relations after the 1979 Iranian revolution and the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, where 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days until the day he left office.
Iranians made the overture for the meeting, and the Carter Center in Atlanta is working on the possible timing, said Phil Wise, the former president's aide.
"President Carter, in his role since leaving the White House, has made his office and services and center available to basically anybody who wants to talk. He believes that it is much better to be talking to people who you have problems with than not to, and that's the approach he takes now," Wise said. "I can confirm that President Carter is open to a meeting if the former president of Iran would like to have one."
Despite mounting tensions between Washington and Tehran over the latter's nuclear program, the Bush administration issued a visa for Khatami yesterday, as well as for about a dozen family and staff members, for a visit lasting about two weeks, the State Department confirmed. Khatami is expected to arrive in the United States tomorrow.
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There he goes again. The man will do anything that hurts America.
Maybe Jimmy'll convert to Islam while they're here to make them feel totally welcome. That would be the Christian thing to do.
There's no fool, like an old DemonRat fool.
NSA ...do ur thang.....
Why is Khatami being allowed to visit?
He should be denied a visa.
If Carter wants to kiss his ass, he can go to Iran.
And stay there.
The senile ol' fart thinks he's going to get US citizens held hostage in Iran freed.
Here we go again... the biggest fool in American diplomacy is off to try to screw the things up again. He will try to appease these lunatics.
There should be a rule against ex-presidents meddling into international diplomacy after they leave the office...
Loony Toones.
What sort of liquor is a product of peanuts???
Oh that worked so well last time.
George Will was right again:
Jimmy Carter actually is an even worse former-president than he was a president!
And that's really saying something.
Where's the Easter Bunny when you need him?
Um, FORMER president.
He's just another overpaid retired American citizen now, he has no more standing to hold these talks than I do.
Somebody PLEASE tell him to sit down STFU!
Whatever pronouncement comes out of Ol' Peanut's mouth after his meeting with Khatami is going to be a humdinger.
The headlines will be interesting. We should have some real fun in a few days.
yitbos
In 1979, 444 days before the American public threw the fool out on his kiester! Only became a moderate islamofascist when the commies told him to go away.
That might be true in some cases, but I'd rather they didn't talk with a socialist idiot like yourself, Mr. Carter.
It was once upon a time that U.S. presidents displayed the daily prestige and cognizance of the office of president not only when in it, but also out of it. Principally, criticism of current occupants of the White House was most often relayed privately, and was rarely seen on the op-ed pages of any major news organs. Sadly, former President Carter has deferred to pageantry instead of principle, an apt conclusion for a man whose presidency was more caricature than commanding.
Well at least this time we don't have to depend on this clown to actually get anything accomplished.
Your reply is too eloquent for a failure of a man who should've been tarred and feathered.
Perhaps Khatami will take Jimmy hostage for allowing the Shah of Georgia medical care.
They punk'd him in the 70's and they continue to punk him to this day... Jimmy just go sit in a corner with your crayons and coloring book please. Leave politics to the non-politically challenged..
Let's see, Iran's prez comes to the USA and the most revered democrat ex-president hosts him, will be seen smiling that big ol' smile of his with him, and we will all have such happy memories of when the dems were in charge of things...right as we get into election season.
Karl Rove has slipped a microchip into Jimmuh's oat bran and even now is cackling as he works the controls!
He'll be in violation of his own concession to Iran in 1981:
Well, sort of.....
Point I: Non-Intervention in Iranian Affairs
1. The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United
States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran's internal affairs.
Stupid sand monkeys apparently don't realize that Carter isn't president anymore.
Jimmy Carter is pathetic.
Somebody needs to do a Photoshop pic of Carter wearing a turban.
Mindboggling. Carter would probably host Bin Laden if he had the chance.
"
It was once upon a time that U.S. presidents displayed the daily prestige and cognizance of the office of president"
When he and J walked during the inaguration parade - i had the feeling that we were in trouble - he gave all his power away from day one.
and - yes - I voted for him .... bought into the BS .. never again.
And that is no mean accomplishment.
Iran's former prez.
If I have some time I'll work on that later on today. I'll add a camel or jack-ass under his bottom side.
There is. It's called the Logan Act. It was passed in the 1790's. Wish someone would enforce it once in a while.
I know, sorry if I mistyped. Same difference--Carter and Iran's prez while we're going through all this with Iran.
target rich
Excellent - I'll look forward to that.
A nice companion piece to the old Jeff MacNelly political cartoon of Khomeni wearing an American flag turban.
Finding out that ABBA didn't speak english and yet were able to perform the songs that they did puts them in a similar class to our former president. They didn't understand what they were singing and he didn't understood what he thought he was saying.
This will put the words "Carter" and "Iran" in a same sentence again. Last time it happened, it was bad for Carter and Democratic Party.
Really? Waterloo, Fernando, Money, etc...?
Two useless former leaders pretending that they're still relevant.
No, Chamberlain had the good grace to resign once it was apparent just how wrong he had been - and then he said nothing to criticize Churchill (Jimmy did criticize Reagan shortly after Jimmah left office). He also had the good grace to die of cancer six months later.
Jimmuh made a conscious socialist effort to ruin this country. Like all committed losing ideologues, he is still trying. Why, he was a president, therefore always right, er, never wrong.
yitbos
Doesn't this Jerkoff realize he's not the President anymore? He should be in a straitjacket. The worst President in history.
Do you remember the late 1970's?
It was thee worst!!
A real Andy Jackson, he is.
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