Condemning Carter Brings FNW Together: 'He Should Have Stopped A Few Books Ago'

Fox News Watch/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[elhombrelibre]

How many times has he argued we should have never fought Hitler? I mean I won't play this game. Pat's been all over the Jews and is too willing to side with the Jew haters for me to play that game. Pat was even in favor of Saddam during the first war, or at least he didn't want Saddam thrown out of Kuwait. And he never changed his tune when Saddam shot Scud missiles at Israel. Pat was in the "Amen Choir" for Saddam before it was cool. He could be an honorary first member of the "We were better off with Saddam" bandwagon so self-satisfied today. He was a consistent apologist for Saddam, and he's been a passionate critic of Israel any time it defends itself.

So don't tell me Pat's merely got policy differences. It's visceral and it's ever present with him. And he whines about it like a little girl, especially when people call him on his weirdo propensity to see Jews as the root of all evil in the world. So he's even more disgusting since he giggles and whines when he's caught at it. Probably Carter will be more manly about it than Pat is.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Jimmy Carter isn't merely a fool...he's a dangerous fool. Maybe people are starting to wake up to this fact.

This was obvious to me when I lived in Alabama in the 60s and early 70s. Most conservatives from the south had his number then. But he fooled a lot of people with his ..."I'm a born again Christian" malarkey.

The susceptibility of evangelicals to con men continues to amaze me. e.g. Barack Hussien Obama's love fest with Rick Warren and his gullible congregation.

... a dangerous fool

[Redbob]

"I just can't hate Jimmy the way some folks do. He ran for governor here in Georgia when I was a little boy."

Carter was a loss even back then; of course you wouldn't remember this, but he was so roundly detested by the time he'd been governor for 4 years, he couldn't even get re-elected - he was defeated by another Dimocrat, if I recall.

Sound familiar? Folks in Georgia voted for him for President just so he'd leave!

[Valin]

I just checked with God, and God says "Jimmy..don't give up your day job."

[Redbob]

"Jimmy Carter has been a national joke ever since his malaise speech..."

Correction Jimmuh Cartuh has been a national joke ever since shortly after he stopped being a Georgia-only joke - right about the time he took the ofice of President, and made it a laughing stock.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

The key quote in my article - "Carter should have stopped a few books ago" - is from Jane Hall. She is neither Jewish nor an evangelical. It is possible to criticize Carter without having any particular personal motives.

[SubMareener]

How about: 1999: "After World War II, Jewish influence over foreign policy became almost an obsession with American leaders."

- A Republic, Not an Empire. P. 336.

[AnAmericanMother]

I agree with you, all these liberals are about 30 years late to the fair -- but here's my question: why now?

Has Carter stepped over some liberal line in the sand somewhere? Has he gotten too hateful and/or weird to support? Is his day almost done? Why all of a sudden is it safe to criticize him?

[Lurker]

I just can't hate Jimmy the way some folks do.

That's ok. I'll pick up your slack.

Regards,

L

[FreedomPoster]

>>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.

Bump for that. Great post.

[veronica]

I hear that he is accused of plagiarizing certain elements of his book. From what source did he steal - Mein Kampf?

[veronica]

But he is the quintessential "nice guy" ...

And Hitler made the trains run on time.

[Recovering_Democrat]

;-) Thanks.

[gondramB]

>>Carter was a loss even back then; of course you wouldn't remember this, but he was so roundly detested by the time he'd been governor for 4 years, he couldn't even get re-elected - he was defeated by another Dimocrat, if I recall.

Sound familiar? Folks in Georgia voted for him for President just so he'd leave!<<

I had never really looked that kind of thing up until this discussion started - its interesting to see how my recollections about politics when I was little don't match any objective analysis now.

For example, I couldn't understand in grade school how many of my classmates families opposed Carter for President in '76 -he was a Democrat and our whole state was Democrat. What I didn't understand was that Georgia was divided between conservative and liberal Democrats and ready for a Ronald Reagan to break the party barrier.

[gondramB]

>> That's ok. I'll pick up your slack.

Regards,

L<<

Yeah, its funny how at 5-12 years old I saw the race thing in such simple terms and I thought of Jimmy Carter as the good guy. My grammer school was integrated naturally - in 6th grade I went to a middle schoolthat had been forcebly integrated.

After a fight with a friend of mine who had transferred from the same grammer school, these three large black 8th graders came to beat me up.

I had to get them to explain three times why they were mad at me - to me I hadn't been fighting black verus white - I was fighting with my friend Alonzo and since it started with him shoving my head into a water fountain I felt completely justified. The older boys walked away without beating me up.

[gondramB]

>>But he is the quintessential "nice guy" ...

And Hitler made the trains run on time.<<

I think that Mussilini. Trains didn't run on time in Germany because even troops trains had to stop for trains carrying Jews to be exterminated.

But I get your point.

I meant, and I still believe, that Jimmy Carter is a nice guy who should have been in some other line of work.

[gondramB]

>>Trivia: 30 ago when President Carter was elected Newsweek ran a giant headline declaring that meant it was the year of the evangelical.
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Many well meaning christians were duped into voting for this "christian", this should be a good reminder to believers.<<
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Just speaking for myself, I don't judge other people's Christianity - that's between them and God. I think as a Human, I am only entitled to judge other's actions so I have no problem saying Jimmy Carter was a damn bad President and a meddling ex-President but he may be sincere in his Christianity.

What NewsWeek was that it really was the beginning of the rise in evangelical political activity in America but that Jimmy Carter was not at all representative of that movement.

Jimmy Carter was Southern Baptist but back then every white person I knew in every little small Georgia Town my family was from was Baptist, except for my maternal Grandmother's next door neighbor who went to a nearly boarded up Methodist church. My Grandmother told me it was would be impolite to mention this to the neighbor - that it wasn't her fault - she had been born into a Methodist family.

[gondramB]

>>Actually, that isn't true either - just "them lyin' Atlanta newspapers."<<

That is the exact phrase my maternal Grand Daddy used. :)

Thanks for the replies about Lester Maddox - looks like I need to read up on the history - my perception at the age of five was limited.

BTW, that was strong language for Granddaddy - he was Baptist Preacher and mayor of a tiny, tiny little town. Nobody in the family was permitted to swear in any way -except to say damnyankee because Granddaddy said it was not really two different words.

[AnAmericanMother]

LOL! That's exactly how my grandparents felt too.

Both your mama's daddy and Lester Maddox stole the phrase from Gene Talmadge, who was the first to use it.

BTW, I had forgotten that Maddox called Carter "the most dishonest man I ever met." I had also forgotten that Zell Miller was Maddox's chief of staff when he was governor.

[razorback-bert]

I met Jimmy as a peanut farmer not as politician, he struck me as one of those "baptists" who made me grab my crotch and wallet to keep them safe.