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Why won't Carter debate his book?
boston.com ^ | December 21, 2006 | By Alan Dershowitz

Posted on 12/21/2006 5:24:44 AM PST by cloud8

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To: cloud8

"Why won't Carter debate his book?"

My answer: He didn't really write it. I think he added a few lines and a few personal stories, but for the most part, it was researched and written by others. That's why he can't defend it.


41 posted on 12/21/2006 6:29:23 AM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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To: cloud8

Carter's presidential legacy is muted irrelevance, and he's desperate to leave some trace of his passing. The fact is, he's such a lightweight he couldn't leave a footprint in a snow storm.


42 posted on 12/21/2006 6:34:47 AM PST by Spok
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To: Farmer Dean

"When a homo-infested commie rag like Slate calls your work moronic,you have to know the jig is up."


Either that or you are a conservative.


43 posted on 12/21/2006 6:36:21 AM PST by Francis McClobber
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To: cloud8
Der-shovel-shitz is the founding father of the "race card, anti-semitic, biased" defense when he starts or gets in the middle or ends or is losing an argument.

IIRC, he was also the one on the OJ Dream Team that threw the race card into the mix.

44 posted on 12/21/2006 6:42:07 AM PST by N. Theknow ((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
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To: cloud8
When asked whether he believed that Israel's "persecution" of Palestinians was "[e]ven worse . . . than a place like Rwanda," Carter answered, "Yes. I think -- yes."

The Rwandan Genocide was the massacre of an estimated 800,000 to 1,071,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda, mostly carried out by two extremist Hutu militia groups, the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi, during a period of about 100 days from April 6th through mid-July 1994.

For Jimmy Carter to say such a thing, he must now either be senile, an ignorant fool or completely amoral.

45 posted on 12/21/2006 6:51:08 AM PST by Polybius
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To: yankeedame; nuconvert

I'm sure you two are right. It's almost certainly a ghost-written tome, based on a couple of interviews and phone confabs with Carter, his published speeches, and some ghost-writer input. He probably hasn't even read it.


46 posted on 12/21/2006 6:57:19 AM PST by JennysCool (This is the United, not Diverse, States of America.)
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To: Gideon Reader

ROFL!!!


47 posted on 12/21/2006 6:58:18 AM PST by beyond the sea ( All lies and jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.)
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To: Gideon Reader
Dershowitz dressed up like like Ralphie

LOL

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48 posted on 12/21/2006 7:00:27 AM PST by beyond the sea ( All lies and jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.)
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To: cloud8

There's a thought! Who would you most like to see debate Jimmah over his book??

Our Anne (Coulter) would be my top pick from a strict entertainment point.

For a serious debate, David Horowitz would be another really entertaining debater considering the subject matter...

For a Moderator, I'd settle for Rush...but for sheer entertainment value, we would need to have a good Producer for the the debates who can arrange for a wild rabbit to run across the stage every time Carter goes to open his peanut-hole to say anything...

Brang it on!!


49 posted on 12/21/2006 7:02:29 AM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts!!)
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To: cloud8
Jimmah would happily debate you Mr Dershowitz. In a secluded place with no one present except you and him and a zillion reporters from the MSM to give us (the public) their opinion of what was said and who in their opinion won the debate.
50 posted on 12/21/2006 7:17:55 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell ( BP agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, Patriots betrayed and punished for their competence!!!!)
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To: 3AngelaD

> I have noticed that since 9/11, Dershowitz seems to have come to the realization that as a jew his, personal, neck is on the line now, thanks to the terrorists, and as a result he has changed his tune on a number of issues relating to national security.

Ed Koch appears to have come to this realization, too.

I was amazed at the severity of Dershowitz's tone, at the Boston Globe for publishing the piece, and that Larry King asked the old fool a tough question.

As for Carter, maybe, just maybe he'll get the point that his being a Nobelist ex-President does not entitle him to shoot his mouth off without being held accountable. I love that he is being denounced by all sides, but it would be too much to hope that the ridicule and jeers would drive him into retirement.


51 posted on 12/21/2006 7:18:02 AM PST by cloud8
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To: Spok

Aha! So Jimmie is also light in the loafers?


52 posted on 12/21/2006 7:22:29 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell ( BP agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, Patriots betrayed and punished for their competence!!!!)
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53 posted on 12/21/2006 7:48:14 AM PST by SJackson (had to move the national debate from whether to stay the course to how do we start down the path out)
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To: beyond the sea

Ralphie the alter ego of Jean Shepherd. The double dog dare Daisy air rifle kid.
But,...I bet my wife a kiss that someone would post a Kramden pic.
We both won. :~)


54 posted on 12/21/2006 8:01:39 AM PST by Gideon Reader (" All of us know who the enemy is, and where the threat comes from, except for the politicians.")
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To: Kolb

My impression is that to many Jews, liberalism is Torah, or their substitute for it.


55 posted on 12/21/2006 8:10:55 AM PST by RobbyS ( CHI)
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To: cloud8

He probably figures that, since he's not the original author of much of it, why bother debating.


56 posted on 12/21/2006 8:18:42 AM PST by Schnucki ("When a mullah calls, an undertaker is sure to follow." -- old Persian saying)
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To: cloud8

Yeh, but I bet Alan voted for him. Twice.


57 posted on 12/21/2006 8:18:55 AM PST by az wildkitten
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To: All

Every head full of mush crumb cruncher has to defend his/her thesis....why not the former president of the United States?

Einstein had to defend his work, is Jimmy smarter than that?

But hold on....Jimmy lost a debate to a giant rabbit.


58 posted on 12/21/2006 8:24:44 AM PST by Basheva
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To: par4

The Lord was watching over us.


59 posted on 12/21/2006 8:47:35 AM PST by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: Gideon Reader
LOL

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60 posted on 12/21/2006 9:10:19 AM PST by beyond the sea ( All lies and jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.)
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