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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I remember Carter telling the crowd at Madison Square Garden when he received the Demo nomination “I’ll never lie to ya! I guaranteeeeee it!” And from that moment on, I knew he was a lying slime.
I also remember seeing (for the first time thanks to what can only be one of the first mainstream media coverups) his brother Billy on election night 1976 and thinking “why didn’t we know about this degenerate earlier?” By the way, people forget that brother Billy was on General Moamar Quadaffi’s payroll back during the Carter administration — representing Libyan oil interests and such. It seems that Jimmy learned something from brother Billy.
I had a contractor who built a room on my house. When he started a sentence with, "I'm going to tell you the truth...", he lied. Every time.
Believing now that Carter is motivated by payoffs will be as misguided as having previously believed that he was motivated by humanitarian idealism.
If corruption fueled Jimmy Carter, how do you explain his support for the penniless Anti-American tyrants of Sandinista Nicaragua, Castro's Cuba, Kim Jong-il's Korea... ? And why was he never corrupted by pro-American tyrants like the Shah of Iran, Duvalier's Haiti, Somoza's Nicaragua...?
Money from anti-American & anti-Israeli Middle East tyrants can only be seen as icing on the cake of a position that primarily undermines America's most important ally in that area - Israel. What better way is there to betray American interest?
No, Carter's support is not for sale to any buyer. It is given only to those who are undermining American Interests - and money is optional.
Carter is an easy study. Anybody who hasn’t figured him out is stupid or doesn’t want to.
lol I figured you were kidding but just in case you needed a reminder Haley is one of the good ones. ;)
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