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The Real Jimmy Carter
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | April 27, 2007 | Alan M. Dershowitz

Posted on 04/27/2007 9:09:33 PM PDT by bnelson44

I have met cigarette lobbyists, who are supported by the cigarette industry, and who have come to believe honestly that cigarettes are merely a safe form of adult recreation, that cigarettes are not addicting and that the cigarette industry is really trying to persuade children not to smoke. These people are fooling themselves (or fooling us into believing that they are fooling themselves) just as Jimmy Carter is fooling himself (or persuading us to believe that he is fooling himself).

If money determines political and public views as Carter insists "Jewish money" does, Carter's views on the Middle East must be deemed to have been influenced by the vast sums of Arab money he has received. If he who pays the piper calls the tune, then Carter's off-key tunes have been called by his Saudi Arabian paymasters. It pains me to say this, but I now believe that there is no person in American public life today who has a lower ratio of real to apparent integrity than Jimmy Carter. The public perception of his integrity is extraordinarily high. His real integrity, it now turns out, is extraordinarily low. He is no better than so many former American politicians who, after leaving public life, sell themselves to the highest bidder and become lobbyists for despicable causes. That is now Jimmy Carter's sad legacy.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: alandershowitz; carter; dershowitz; israel; jimmycarter; worstpresidentever
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To: bnelson44

BTTT


21 posted on 04/28/2007 4:49:23 AM PDT by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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To: bnelson44

This is amazing considering Dershowitz at one time was a friend and supporter of Carter. I respect him for doing his homework on Carter and then having the guts to publish this.

This sentence stood out:
“ I sadly concluded that Jimmy Carter of the twenty-first century has become complicit in evil.”


22 posted on 04/28/2007 5:02:20 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet -Run, Fred, Run!)
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To: rockinqsranch
Such slow witted dolts as the author,when finally stumbling over a long established and widely known reality, shout it from the roof tops, fully convinced that others are as unenlightened as they.
23 posted on 04/28/2007 5:04:16 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Just one more gun could have reduced the death toll at VT to just one dead terrorist.)
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To: bnelson44
It pains me to say this, but I now believe that there is no person in American public life today who has a lower ratio of real to apparent integrity than Jimmy Carter.

Strong stuff. I have not seen the Dersh on T.V. lately; maybe this is why.

24 posted on 04/28/2007 5:45:23 AM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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To: elcid1970
Four years were never more perfectly summed up.

Only four years? It felt like a hundred.

25 posted on 04/28/2007 6:05:25 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (DemocraticUnderground.com is an internet hate site.)
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To: Doogle

Yep, works for me now too. Must have been a busy server.


26 posted on 04/28/2007 6:52:48 AM PDT by Islander7 ("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
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To: Pontiac
Alan Dershowitz

Dershowitz is one of the few liberals who has some level of integrity, that combined with the fact that he is Jewish, probably overrides the liberal policy of covering for other liberals.

27 posted on 04/28/2007 7:46:00 AM PDT by Michael.SF. ("The military Mission has long since been accomplished" -- Harry Reid, April 23, 2007)
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To: rockinqsranch

It should be common knowledge that the Clintons are on the payroll of the Chinese Communists and Indonesian Islamists. But is it?


28 posted on 04/28/2007 10:33:30 AM PDT by iowamark (What if the Right said Fred?)
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To: bnelson44

Excellent article from a certified leftist. Everyone right, left, and center should read it!


29 posted on 04/28/2007 10:35:17 AM PDT by iowamark (What if the Right said Fred?)
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To: Michael.SF.
"Dershowitz is one of the few liberals who has some level of integrity, that combined with the fact that he is Jewish, probably overrides the liberal policy of covering for other liberals."

I think that Dershowitz has been travailing for some time now concerning his loyalties.

He is a liberal intellectual who has actually argued FOR the appropriateness of torture under certain circumstances.

Not that Americans use torture as a tactic, but if we did, it ain't necessarily a totally bad idea.

30 posted on 04/28/2007 11:40:42 AM PDT by Radix (I'm not the sort person who believes something simply because my family, friends, and neighbors do.)
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To: rockinqsranch
....common knowledge that Carter was accepting monies from the Saudi’s even during his mis-Administration....

As it was common knowledge that his brother Billy was on the Khaddafi payroll.

31 posted on 04/28/2007 12:20:48 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Crazies to the Left of me. Wimps to the Right.)
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To: F.J. Mitchell

Now if the rest of the sheeple would read his article, they may believe it, coming from us, they won’t.


32 posted on 04/28/2007 3:35:55 PM PDT by tillacum
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To: ColdSteelTalon
Yep and he is a Jew hater too in my opinion.

For any who doubt, Google "If I get back in" Carter.

ML/NJ

33 posted on 04/28/2007 4:29:41 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: bnelson44
"Liberal-seeing-the-light" articles such as this are of particular use in getting convertable leftists to leave the plantation.

I sent it around to my Jewish friends. Thanks for posting it.

34 posted on 04/28/2007 7:18:35 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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To: tillacum

Sad but true.


35 posted on 04/28/2007 7:23:26 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Just one more gun could have reduced the death toll at VT to just one dead terrorist.)
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To: ml/nj
For any who doubt, Google "If I get back in" Carter.

Funny you quote that because I knew he was a Jew hater because of his policies against Israel and giving the Jewish homeland away to her enemies. I did not know he actually said something like that.

I guess its not just an opinion anymore Carter is a Jew hater and we have the proof.

36 posted on 04/28/2007 11:35:02 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon
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To: ColdSteelTalon
And remember, that quote is from 1980.

ML/NJ

37 posted on 04/29/2007 6:34:48 AM PDT by ml/nj
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