Memo To Jimmy Carter:
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Posted on 01/16/2007 5:33:41 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Following are excerpts from an interview with former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on January 14, 2007.
Jimmy Carter: Most of the condemnations of my book came from Jewish American organizations, which think that I believe there is racial segregation inside Israel. I don’t base it on that. My whole book is written about Palestine and its lands, and about what is going on against the Palestinian people, which is, in my view, very similar, and in some cases even worse, than what happened to the blacks in South Africa.
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I don’t consider... I wasn’t equating the Palestinian missiles with terrorism. But when the Palestinians commit terrorist acts, and I mean when a person blows himself up within a bus full of civilians, or when the target of the operation is women and children – such acts create a rejection of the Palestinians among those who care about them. It turns the world away from sympathy and support for the Palestinian people. That’s why I said that acts of terrorism like I just described are suicidal for the popularity and support for the Palestinian cause. In my book, I talk about violence from both sides, and I describe very carefully and accurately the number of casualties among Palestinians and Israelis, including children. The number of Palestinian children who died because of the violence is five times greater than the number of Israeli children, and I condemn this kind of violence on both sides.
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Last January, after the elections were over and Hamas won, I went to London to meet the International Quartet. I urged them not to impose any kind of economic sanctions against the Palestinian people, but they decided to do so. When alternatives were proposed by the Arab countries and by the United Nations, the U.S. rejected the alternatives, and [refused] to transfer money to the Palestinians.
Interviewer: Why, in your opinion?
Jimmy Carter: I think the reason is that the U.S. wants to topple Hamas and [believes] that if it punishes the Palestinian people severely, the Palestinians will have to change their minds. I don’t know how true this is, but it’s not legal, proper, or morally right to deprive an entire people of the basic necessities of life, because they participated in a democratic process and voted freely.
Oh that Jimmah he is such a funny little man
What a turd.
I take comfort in the fact that when this guy is done filling the history books with damning evidence of his incompetence he'll pass away and STFU.
And the rest of us will nevermore be burdened by the weak minds of the MSM reporting his every ineffectual belch.
Geez!
When did it become our responsibility to give them a blessed thing? Why can't they provide for themselves? Oh wait, I know...they are fixated on the destruction of Israel, and this is more important than a decent future for their children.
GO TAKE A FLYING LEAP!
The ol’e (taken out of context) gambit.
His book contains a chronological history of the Jewish people from Biblical to modern times. A major event appears to be the "Camp David Accords" presided over by Himself. Less important - not even mentioned - is the Holocaust.
The sad part is that his bilious ravings are actually being published, when someone that really cared for him should have thrown the manuscript straight into the trash.
I don’t know how true this is, but it’s not legal, proper, or morally right to deprive an entire people of the basic necessities of life, because they participated in a democratic process and voted freely.
Dear Free Republic:
What's the straight dope on Jimmy Carter's once being attacked by a killer rabbit? I hear there are actually photos of Carter swinging for his life at this rabbit, but his people refused to release them because "some facts about the president must remain forever wrapped in obscurity." What the hell is going on? --Donald Lilly, North Hollywood, California
Dear Donald:
Well, right now I'd say it's pretty quiet, which is about what you'd figure, seeing as how the killer rabbit thing happened in 1979. Not that stories about feckless good ol' boy presidents don't have their pertinence these days. Say what you will about Bill Clinton's PR problems, though, Jimmy Carter was in a class by himself. Nice man, but he was one president whose image a couple accusations from bimboes would have probably improved.
The rabbit incident happened on April 20 while Carter was taking a few days off in Plains, Georgia. He was fishing from a canoe in a pond when he spotted the fateful rabbit swimming toward him. It was never precisely determined what the rabbit's problem was. Carter, always trying to look at things from the other guy's point of view, later speculated that it was fleeing a predator. Whatever the case, it was definitely a troubled rabbit. "It was hissing menacingly, its teeth flashing and nostrils flared and making straight for the president," a press account said.
The Secret Service having been caught flatfooted--I'll grant you an amphibious rabbit assault is a tough thing to defend against--the president did what he could to protect himself. Initially it was reported that he had hit the rabbit with his paddle. Realizing this would not play well with the Rabbit Lovers Guild, Carter later clarified that he had merely splashed water at the rabbit, which then swam off toward shore. A White House photographer, ever alert to history's pivotal moments, snapped a picture of the encounter for posterity.
Good thing, too. Carter's own staff was skeptical when he told the rabbit story back at the White House. Some ventured the opinion that rabbits couldn't swim, didn't attack people, and sure weren't about to take on a sitting president, even if it was Jimmy Carter. Miffed, Jimmy ordered up a print of the aforementioned photo, but this failed to resolve the issue. The picture showed the president with his paddle raised, and there was something in the water, "but you couldn't tell what it was," an anonymous staffer was quoted as saying. The average politician would have said, goddamit, I'm president of the United States and I say it was a rabbit. But Carter was not that kind of guy. He ordered a blowup made, establishing at last that his attacker was, well, a bunny, or "swamp rabbit," to use press secretary Jody Powell's somewhat fiercer sounding term.
OK, not one of the shining moments of Carter's career, but so far not a major train wreck, inasmuch as nobody outside the White House knew anything about it. Jody Powell took care of that problem the following August when he told the rabbit story to Associated Press reporter Brooks Jackson over a cup of tea. Powell ought to have known that you cannot tell anything to reporters in August because there is nothing else to write about and they will make any fool thing into a front page scandal. Which is exactly what happened. The Washington Post put the bunny story on page one complete with a cartoon takeoff of the famous "Jaws" movie poster entitled "Paws." The media ran with the story for a week, the worst aspect from Carter's perspective undoubtedly being the columnists, who basically all said, yeah, it's just a rabbit, but it shows you the kind of president we've got here. The administration refused to release the photos, although I seem to recall that Reagan's people later found and leaked them. Carter's subsequent drubbing at the polls was a foregone conclusion, hostage crisis or not. Lesson for life #1: if it moves, kill it. Lesson for life #2: if you can't kill it, for God's sake don't talk about it to the Associated Press.
Breathtakingly void of the fact that Hamas traces its roots as a terrorist wing of the Muslim Brotherhood from which al Qaeda sprang. Carter is terminally ill from the effects of smoking industrial strength commo wire. No wonder 14 members of his Carter Center staff have bailed.
One of the best things I did as a teenager was cast a vote for Reagan in 1980 to send Jimmah Carter packing south.
I despise the use of that acronym, but for use with ex- president Carter, it does seem fitting.
He gave himself away in the first sentence.
ML/NJ
We can only hope the Democrats see fit to put this man on the stage in Denver in 08.
I agree. The Palestinians should create their own wealth rather than mooch off of others while building bomb belts. The Palestinians have been mistreated more by their own leaders and other Arab nations than by the Israelis. Hey Jimmy, if you want to know who deprived the Palestinians, look in Arafat's old bank account you pitiful little man.
FOAD Jimmy and do you have your plane ticket for Fidel's funeral?
Tell us now, ol' Jimmah Chiclets, just what it is you don't like about Jewish people, especially those who defend the state of Israel?
-You arrogant worthless near-treasonous old reprobate!
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Jimmy needs to get a clue. His book was so offensive that some of his staff members resigned in protest.
Mr. Carter, you are pathetic!
Memo To Jimmy Carter:
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I thought Carter might be an anti-Semite. I am glad Carter went ahead and removed any doubt.
Sometimes I read what Carter has to say and think I am reading scrappleface. Unfornately, it is not a parody -- he really says these things. The man doesn't have a clue and is getting worse by the day.
Unca Cecil doesn't give candy to Teeming Millions who don't credit him.
Stuff it, Carter, you son of a bitch.
"Mr. Carter, you are pathetic!"
My thoughts EXACTLY!
How ironic! I've come to equate Jimmy Carter with terrorism.
Jimmy, just go back to burying peanuts. We're quite tired of you.
Carter is an idiot and should tend to his peanut farm which he might know something about. I seriously doubt he even understands peanuts. They have more intelligence.
First principle: There is no "palestine" nor any "palestinian" people.
"Most of the condemnations of my book came from Jewish American organizations" (the former POTUS)
"He gave himself away in the first sentence." (you)
You, along with the MSM, give him way too much credence.
He is already condemned to an eternal hell.
I am designated volunteer honor guard #544/79/08, and will be there, in hell, to make certain he stays in hell, and that the devil doesn't take it easy on him...
***I don’t know how true this is, but it’s not legal, proper, or morally right to deprive an entire people of the basic necessities of life...***
They were given Gaza . Look what they did with that.
Say it ain't so. I haven't read the book, but the sooner this mean, little old man bids his fnal farewell, the better.
Then, and only then, will he improve with age.
The useful/useless idiot...
S.L.G.A.
(Standard Litany of Georgia Apologies)
The only way Carter will improve with age is when they state his age on his tombstone.
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