Posted on 12/09/2006 5:06:53 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
When will Jews learn that leftists in general are not their friends.
when the majority of jews stop being leftist.
Carter is reverting to his old ways: acting like a mean little bigot.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/07/AR2006120701835.html
Jimmy Carter tells a strange and revealing story near the beginning of his latest book, the sensationally titled Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. It is a story that suggests that the former president's hostility to Israel is, to borrow a term, faith-based.
On his first visit to the Jewish state in the early 1970s, Carter, who was then still the governor of Georgia, met with Prime Minister Golda Meir, who asked Carter to share his observations about his visit. Such a mistake she never made.
"With some hesitation," Carter writes, "I said that I had long taught lessons from the Hebrew Scriptures and that a common historical pattern was that Israel was punished whenever the leaders turned away from devout worship of God. I asked if she was concerned about the secular nature of her Labor government."
Jews, in my experience, tend to become peevish when Christians, their traditional persecutors, lecture them on morality, and Carter reports that Meir was taken aback by his "temerity." He is, of course, paying himself a compliment. Temerity is mandatory when you are doing God's work, and Carter makes it clear in this polemical book that, in excoriating Israel for its sins -- and he blames Israel almost entirely for perpetuating the hundred-year war between Arab and Jew -- he is on a mission from God.
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To which I would add: "which includes most of the rest of us."
The was a book released a while back about the Secret Service, which was based on the reminiscences of retired Secret Service agents and the various First Families which they had served. Surprisingly, at least to those who've been snookered by Carter's sanctimonious facade, the First Family which was least well-liked, which treated the agents most disdainfully and overbearingly, and which most frequently committed acts or gestures of just plain meanness towards them was not the Clintons, but the Carters.
Jimmy Carter is not a nice man, and this fact becomes more and more obvious with each passing year.
The fellows who came to his restaurant were led by a couple of agitators who had threatened Maddox's life and had threatened to kill his wife (which made him a heck of a lot madder than anything they could have threatened to do to HIM.) They all piled out of a car and rushed the door, and people inside the restaurant started screaming. Maddox met them at the door with a pick handle and a pistol. Even in his prime Maddox was a skinny little guy, shorter than I am and maybe 130 pounds wringing wet, so it took some guts to stand up to a carful of folks who had threatened to kill him.
The city or county (can't remember which) brought charges against him for assault, but they were dismissed because all the witnesses testified that the accusers had threatened Maddox and had tried to enter the restaurant "in a boisterous manner."
The few times I have met the man he has been uniformly nasty . . . of course in his view I'm a nobody and he can't be bothered to treat me with even basic civility.
It's no surprise that his daughter lives very quietly, under her married name, and you never see them together.
Very interesting take on Jimmy and Lester, and stuff I never knew about Lester. Thanks for posting.
Since I actually knew the man, from time to time I just get sick of people slandering him based on biased newspaper reports by people who hated him as much as the moonbats hate President Bush.
Ironic that Jimmy Carter was the first of God punished on the US for turning away from our devout worship of God.
To be the fair, the author of this article is Jewish. Neal Gabler, though being a liberal, is also Jewish. I would expect a devout Christian like Cal Thomas also to be critical of a book that paints Israel in a negative light. So all these reactions are pretty much predictable. I have knocked Carter on many prior threads, but having brokered peace between Israel and Egypt, this is one issue he may actually have the right to speak out on.
A good sign that you've gone way beyond the pale, way beyond all measure of decency and reason, is when even a Liberal notices. 49 states rejected Jimmy when he ran for president. And now even many Liberals will reject Carter for the not too well-disguised anti-Semitism. Maybe Pat Buchanan and he can get together and talk about how unfair it is that you cannot unleash grotesquely ugly attacks on Jews. Sarcasm off.
Oh, no, I hope they never die - I couldn't live through all the "prayers going up", "condolences to the family" threads here!
Of course Carter has "the right" to speak out. He also has the right to his own opinions. He does NOT, however, have the right to his own "facts". It is his errors of fact, both of commission and of ommission, and his outright lies which render him despicable.
I seriously doubt Carter can read Hebrew, although anything is possible for a nuclear physist. What he probably meant was that he taught lessons from the Bible's Old Testament scriptures. His pomposity in phrasing it the way he did to Golda Meir, who actually was literate in Hebrew, was simply breath-taking." I guess he's not only a born-again Christian theologian, he's also a rabbai/rebbe!
No, he bought off Egypt with US taxpayer funds.
It isn't a "peace", it's an extortion scheme.
Think about it: if this Emory prof had "played ball" like so many "experts" do, then Jane Hall and the rest of the media elites would still be singing Jimmy Carter's praises.
Jimmy Carter has been a national joke ever since his malaise speech...what was that, 1978? And the LameStream Media for some reason has wanted to cover him like he's the American Dali Lama. The only liberal the press lauds more than Carter is Bill Clinton. None of them takes a critical look at these guys and how their attitudes/policies/behaviors affected America in a negative way.
Well, at last finally a highly respected expert on the Middle East pointed out Jimmy Carter for what he is: a liar. And the media now thinks they're being noble by playing along??
Jimmy Carter's book would NOT have received any critical analysis by the press--it would have been used as an example of "enlightened" thinking, and Tim Russert probably would have held it up on "Meet The Press" and asked David Broder and Doris Kearns Goodwin if George Bush could learn anything about diplomacy from the learned Mr. Carter.
I still think it is possible the so-called "journalists" in television and print may try to work up some lameass defense of Carter. You know they aren't reporting the Emory prof's claims, or Dennis Ross's plagiarism charge. At least not with the same kind of vigor they would if it were a plagiarizing Republican.
I'm done for now, but I hold in no esteem the liberals who have belatedly figured out Carter is a dolt. Thinking people have known that for years.
Thank you for the Maddox information. I've never heard the like of it anywhere else. Somehow, it has the ring of truth.
Thank you for giving insight into the much-maligned man, whom, I confess, I've joined in maligning.
Only here at FR!
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