Posted on 04/29/2007 3:44:51 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
I have known Jimmy Carter for years. In 1976... he sent me a handwritten note asking me for my help in his campaign. A former student brought Carter to Harvard to meet with some faculty members, me among them. I immediately liked Jimmy Carter and saw him as a man of integrity. I...worked hard for his election. Recent disclosures of Carter's extensive financial connections to Arab money, particularly from Saudi Arabia, had shaken my belief in his integrity. When told that he received a monetary reward in the name of Sultan Al Nahayan, and kept the money, even after Harvard returned it I simply didn't believe it. How could a man of such apparent integrity enrich himself with dirty money... I know because I was involved, in a small way, to persuade Harvard University to return more than $2 million that the financially strapped Divinity School received. Initially, I reluctant to put pressure on Harvard to turn back money for the Divinity School, but then a student at the Divinity School showed me the facts. They were staggering. The extent of Carter's support from, and even dependence on, dirty money is still not known. What we do know is deeply troubling. Carter also received a million dollar pledge from the Saudi-based bin Laden family and despite the Saudi Arabian government's myriad human rights abuses, the Carter Center's Human Rights progam has NO activity whatever in Saudi Arabia. ... when reviewing the Center's human rights activities in other countries: essentially no human rights activities in China or North Korea, or in Iran, Iraq, Sudan, or Syria, BUT activity regarding Israel and its alleged abuses... 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.
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It's just his ox that got gored this time.
here here!
bump for good fortune!
A southern politician with integrity? LOL
People can’t be that naive.
All that time I simply thought he was a boob. He was in the tank for the bin Ladens.
Jimmy Carter helped make it a thing of shame to wear the uniform of this country.
Treasonous bass-turd.
You said — “One can only wonder if in 1979 when Iran held Americans hostage for over a year, the humiliating situation was prolonged because of Carter’s incompetence or because he was on the take. Perhaps both.”
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With Saudi money, they’re usually “on the take” after they get out of office. Apparently, it’s the “money trough” for many politicians. The Saudis are buying their way around with the money we pay for what we put in the tanks...
“A southern politician with integrity? LOL
People can’t be that naive.”
The wealthy Minnesotians winter in Arizona, the less fortunate tough it out while sharing e-mails about red neck southerners.
Here’s what gets me about this story: we Republicans scream and rant and carry on when a Democrat runs for president; we point out at great length how unethical they are. Kennedy, LBJ, Carter, Clinton—we warned everyone that they were not the angels of justice and compassion they seemed. Yet the American populace still does not pay attention to us, through all these examples.
And it’s happening again. We scream and rave and have convulsions and warn America that Hillary is a dangerous socialist, that Obama is a far-left-wing kook. But will the American electorate listen? Unlikely.
Is there hope for Alan?
Just a falling out amongst leftists. Nothing to see here.
All I know is, I’ll have to re-enlist beyond my retirment, because I will be damned if I have the name of She Who Must Not Be Mamed on my military retirement plaque.
If this is for real, I wonder why he doesn’t look into the Clintons.
Dershowitz is not exactly a quick study, is he?
Dershowitz is not exactly a quick study, is he?
Dershowitz is not exactly a quick study, is he?
It's just his ox that got gored this time.
Yeah... Alan's just a bit slow! He's known and supported Carter for almost 40 years -- and only in the last year(!) does he come to realize how shallow, biased, disingenuous, and intellectually dishonest he is/was and always will be. Hey, Alan: imagine if we had elected this bum for another 4 years during the depths of despair in 1980! Imagine our economy after 4 more years of Jimmah! Imagine the state of the Cold War with another 4 years of malaise and retreat! Imagine the millions of now freed former citizens of Iron Curtain countries being back in those communist ghettos. It's nice to know how bright the profs at Harvard are. And it's nice to know the level of intelligence of the intelligentsia who supported Algore, John Kerry, and others of their ilk in recent elections. Alan, you really should be ashamed of yourself.
He's still their puppet.
Haley Barber.
What about Zell Miller? And there are probably numerous others, as well. Just because Jimmah is a sleazebag on-the-take loudmouth idiot like BJ Clintoon is no reason to ignore the good ones.
I knew something stank, when he was spending 444 days mullahing over his “options”.
Courage!
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