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Carter Nixes Debate With Outspoken Prof
The Associated Press ^ | Dec 15

Posted on 12/16/2006 7:23:43 AM PST by george76

Former President Carter turned down a request to debate Alan Dershowitz about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the outspoken Harvard law professor "knows nothing about the situation."

Carter, author of a new book advocating "peace not apartheid" in the region, said he will not visit Brandeis University to discuss the book because the university requested he debate Dershowitz.

"I don't want to have a conversation even indirectly with Dershowitz," Carter said in Friday's Boston Globe. "There is no need ... to debate somebody who, in my opinion, knows nothing about the situation in Palestine."

"President Carter said he wrote the book because he wanted to encourage more debate; then why won't he debate?" said Dershowitz,...

Brandeis was founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian university under the sponsorship of the American Jewish community. Carter said he initially was interested in going there.

"I thought it would be a good idea to go to a campus that had a lot of Jewish students and get a lot questions," he said. But then the initial proposal evolved into a plan for a debate.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Israel
KEYWORDS: alandershowitz; carter; chicken; corruption; democrat; democrats; dershowitz; fibbermcgee; gwot; israel; jews; jimmycarter; wot
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To: cajungirl
Am I wrong,,but,,are his pants like way too short?

Not to mention the bow tie is to big and his head is to small.

41 posted on 12/16/2006 8:23:33 AM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: Prodigal Son

You know, I haven't read any of his books. I was basing my opinion on a debate he had with Alan Keyes once, his support for Clinton during impeachment and (of course) his defense of OJ.

But you're right - I should probably check out his books on terrorism. Probably I would agree with a lot of it.


42 posted on 12/16/2006 8:23:36 AM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: NittanyLion

Killer rabbit ! Reminds me of the movie, "Monty Python - In Search for the Holy Grail". Classic !


43 posted on 12/16/2006 8:24:10 AM PST by CORedneck
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To: TruthWillWin

Billy Carter had some dealings with Omar Khaddafi in Libya.

Bob Hope had a line that "the main difference between Jimmy Carter and his brother was that Billy had a foreign policy."


44 posted on 12/16/2006 8:24:10 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

chrissy wallace would be better choice no?


45 posted on 12/16/2006 8:27:23 AM PST by italianquaker (Democrats its time to fish or cut bait, no more blaming Prez Bush.)
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To: george76

What Jimmy Carter is really saying is: "Don't want to be confused with facts, my peanut sized brain is already made up."


46 posted on 12/16/2006 8:29:57 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell (Only liberals and RINOS can escape full speed through cracks that would challenge a cockroach.)
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To: george76

I think, I hope, we are witnessing the early stages of a total Jimmy Carter breakdown.


47 posted on 12/16/2006 8:31:29 AM PST by zook (America going insane - "Do you read Sutter Caine?)
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To: zook
I think, I hope, we are witnessing the early stages of a total Jimmy Carter breakdown.

That has already happened years ago. Started with the Iran hostage situation in 79.

48 posted on 12/16/2006 8:34:11 AM PST by TruthWillWin
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To: george76
Carter is a chicketsh*t loser who NEVER should have held the reigns of power ANYWHERE.

He's the gift that keeps costing and costing.

He is an embarrassment to America.
49 posted on 12/16/2006 8:36:29 AM PST by Peter W. Kessler (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: operation clinton cleanup
Jimmah posed for the artist who created "Alfred E ('what, me worry?' Newman".
50 posted on 12/16/2006 8:37:10 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell (Only liberals and RINOS can escape full speed through cracks that would challenge a cockroach.)
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To: Peter W. Kessler; Grampa Dave; BIGLOOK

Was Jimmah' told to leave the navy early ?


Quit today or we fire you tomorrow ?


51 posted on 12/16/2006 8:41:11 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

"Was Jimmah' told to leave the navy early ? "

I have known 2 Annap grads who were nuclear officers while Jimmy was in the Navy. They would not comment about him.


52 posted on 12/16/2006 8:47:14 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The Bush haters on both sides have elected the government they have dreamed of!)
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To: george76
Former President Carter turned down a request to debate Alan Dershowitz about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the outspoken Harvard law professor "knows nothing about the situation."

Hmmmm.....Palestinians?
Oh yes, the unwanted children that the Jordanians, the Saudis, the Egyptians and the Emirates dropped off on Israel's doorstep.
53 posted on 12/16/2006 8:49:22 AM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
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To: george76

If the guy supposedly knows nothing about Palestine, all the more reason to debate him and confront him with his ignorance.


54 posted on 12/16/2006 8:50:15 AM PST by CharentonChina
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To: george76

Spineless coward.


55 posted on 12/16/2006 8:51:59 AM PST by 444Flyer (Nuke Iran and claim it never happened.)
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To: george76
S L G A

Standard Litany of Georgia Apologies

(...For Jimmah's endless rants & rambles)

56 posted on 12/16/2006 9:06:46 AM PST by Wings-n-Wind (The answers remain available; Wisdom is obtained by asking all the right questions!)
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To: george76

Let me see if I have this straight: Carter, a Baptist, knows more about the Palestinian [and Israeli] situation than a Jewish law professor?


57 posted on 12/16/2006 9:07:32 AM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: george76

Interesting. Carter has been able to say absolutely anything his whole life long, and the MSM has bowed down and worshipped him. He has been able to hug and kiss all the world's worst tyrants, and the MSM has applauded every hug and kiss. He shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Yasser Arafat to the world's applause.

Now, suddenly, he has crossed some sort of invisible line of politically unacceptable behavior, and even the AP is after his blood.

Pass the popcorn.


58 posted on 12/16/2006 9:08:00 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

bauk bauk bauk


59 posted on 12/16/2006 9:09:57 AM PST by stickandpucknut
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To: george76
Mr. Carter, you are a disgrace to the office of the Presidency. If you had two brain cells to rub together, you would have kept your mouth shut and avoided putting your ample stupidity on public display like this.

Mr. Carter, you are a coward.
60 posted on 12/16/2006 9:12:23 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (A liberal is a suicide bomber without the guts)
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