TWO MORONS - JIMMY CARTER & HUGO CHAVEZ
Posted on 05/20/2007 5:23:34 AM PDT by pubjohn47
TWO MORONS - JIMMY CARTER & HUGO CHAVEZ
Desperate to avoid that label, aren’t ya, Jimmah?
The Jimmy Carter Follies
Hollister Free Lance ^ | Sunday, February 26, 2006 | Al Kelsch
Posted on 02/28/2006 9:14:09 AM PST by presidio9
Has Jimmy Carter ever met a dictator he did not love? Unfortunately, this darling of worldwide leftists cannot seem to disappear from the world stage. Listed herewith are some of the more egregious of our 39th President's follies. The consistent theme is his unwavering support for socialist dictators.
n President Jimmy Carter invited Robert Mugabe to the White House in 1980 and fully supported this dictator's rise to power in Rhodesia. Moderate black Bishop Abel Muzorewa had been elected to the post of prime minister. However, President Carter with the support of the world press succeeded in declaring the election null and void. Mugabe, an avowed Marxist, was elected in a second election. The totals of the Zimbabwe disaster under Mugabe are still being tallied: 70 percent unemployment, a total dictatorship, the displacing of productive white farmers and the resulting destruction of productive farms, an exodus of three million Zimbabweans from the country.
n Jimmy Carter has shown a special dedication to the cause of leftist dictators in Central America. He used the full power of the office to undermine and set the stage for the overthrow of the duly elected Anastasio Somosa in Nicaragua, to be replaced by the Marxist Sandanista Daniel Ortega. No matter that the Somosa election had been certified by the OAS. He continues to offer moral support for Marxist dictators Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.
n The Iran hostage crisis occurred under Jimmy Carter's watch. From Nov. 4, 1979 until Jan. 20, 1981 some 66 Americans were taken hostage and held in the American Embassy in Teheran. They were released within hours of President Ronald Reagan's swearing in ceremony. Just prior to his inauguration, President Reagan was asked if perhaps the captors should wait until he became president so as to make a better deal for the captives release. Reagan replied, "That would be foolish."
n Ex-President Jimmy Carter has been instrumental in the rise to power of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Hugo Chavez was saved from recall by the voters in Venezuela in 2004 with Carter "monitoring" the election. The election was suspicious on many fronts. The exit polls conducted by an independent New York poling firm declared one half hour before the polls closed that Chavez had been defeated. When the official results were announced, Chavez was declared the winner by nearly the exact opposite percentages as the independent poll had determined. Jimmy Carter certified the Chavez victory anyway. Chavez has shown himself to be a continual hater of the United States.
n One of the most serious threats to global security is the nuclear threat posed by Marxist dictator Kim Jung Il of North Korea. In 1994, without governmental authority, Jimmy Carter went to North Korea and brokered a deal with Kim Jung Il that was supposed to keep that rogue state from attaining nuclear weapons. Jimmy's "negotiation" called for the United States to provide the North Koreans with $4 billion worth of light water reactors and $100 million in oil in exchange for a promise not to develop weapons plus assurances that inspectors would be allowed in. On Aug. 28, 2003 North Korea announced that it possessed nuclear weapons.
n Perhaps the most egregious and far reaching of the Jimmy Carter failures was his bringing down of the Shah of Iran in 1979, to be replaced by radical Muslim cleric Ayatollah Khomeini. The history of Iran is such that a secular government friendly to both the West and their trading partners along the ancient trade routes, such as India and China, had been an important stabilizing element in Mid-east politics for centuries. Jimmy Carter pressured the Shah, a longtime friend of the United States, to leave Iran. Then he denied him asylum and medical treatment. At the same time he supported the fundamentalist Mullahs who opposed the Shah. A religious revolution followed and the rise of Muslim fundamentalism had begun in the Middle East. The terrorism and overall unrest that plagues the world today can be properly traced to this specific failure of the Jimmy Carter presidency.
It is popular in some circles to blame others such as the United States, or Israel, or George Bush for the instability and radicalism in the Middle East while overlooking the role that Jimmy Carter played in the current situation. But it is a fact of history that Jimmy Carter played a key role in creating the two most important threats to global security today, namely Iran and North Korea.
Just because this president doesn’t act like FDR in time of war doesn’t mean he’s not been effective. I’ll argue he’s among the most effective ever. Reagan came to the same conclusion on what to do with the illegals in the country. Reagan, yeah that Reagan, the be-knighted as the greatest of all time one. Meanwhile Bush probably pulled off the greatest accomplishment of his storied international list of accomplishments when he got SA and Russia to blink last month. This stock market move is a celebration of the fact we engineered a back door solution whereby SA paid off Russia to leave Iran high and dry re the completion of Busheur (sp).
Part of the deal was surely to allow Ah-Mahdi-Nejad to visit the Gulf states for the first time ever for a Mullohcracy rep from Iran. The Gulf state fear the fundamentalist pull of IRan for their Shiites. However he did get a visa to give a speech in Dubai last month, probably part of the brokered deal. Also Putin has been calling us Nazis recently, probably to satisfy the old folks in Russia who are getting wind of the return of many scientists from Iran. Bush can’t bang the drum for this war. It’s got to be done on the QT.
Our stock market says scoreboard.
Bush is trying to clean up the mess that Carter brought upon us by not coming down HARD on Iran during the hostage crisis. He gave radical Islam a pass at a time when it had announced its goals but was still trying to gain traction. He is one of the chief enablers of the mess in the ME today.
Hey, Jimmy, How’s that Iranian hostage crisis coming along?
I don’t think that Jimmy Carter has any right to say anything bad about Bush. While Bush may not be the best president ever, Carter easily takes the cake as the worst president of modern times.
Can’t tell you how much disdain I hold for this guy. 20% interest rates, gas lines, something like 15% unemployment. Yep, he was the worst of all time. Lest I forget: “Please set your thermostat to 68 in the winter and wear a sweater.” Yep, definitely the worst! Oh, did I forget the failed attempt in the desert to go into Iran and free the hostages?
Send in the rabbits.
I doubt we could have done anything in Afghanistan, due to the lack of any national governmental infrastructure. We should have backed Massoud (in hindsight), but there were only the tribes running things and they all hated each other, it was easy for the Taliban with Bin Laden’s help to take over.
Jimmah Earl Carter is insane. His Presidency was the worst of the worst. 12% inflation, 20+% mortgage interest rates, rising high unemployment, price controls, created the energy and education departments, gave us the Iran Hostage crisis and the birth of Islamofasicsm, gave away the Panama Canal and was generally a weak leader who blamed the American people for a malaise in the nation, when the real malaise was in the person of Pres Carter himself. The man was a idiot 30 years ago and remains an idiot today. A full fledged embarrassment.
LOL - good one!
Jimmy Carter is certainly an expert when it comes to WORST Presidents. While Dubya is trying very hard to prove Carter’s point, with the amnesty/sellout, he may need a few more months to actually knock Jimmy out of the “top” spot.
I agree 100%. This is simply disgusting. Is it so freaking hard to understand that the American People rejected you long ago..... just go, and be quiet.
Maybe Congress should revoke his Secret Service protection. Oh wait, we lost control of Congress.... Anyway, if they did, W would veto it.
Bush is coming close with the amnesty, I have turned my back on him with this - looks to me like he is standing alone now.
“Jimmuh” gave up Panama, yes, but with the help of Republicans John Wayne, William F. Buckley, Jr., Howard Henry Baker, Jr., Gerald R. Ford, Jr. It’s a pretty long line of sellouts on that one issue alone.
Coming from him, that’s a compliment. Imagine if he said otherwise?
As much as I despiiiiiiiizzzze Carter, I find myself agreeing that GWB just might go down as the worst president in history if this suicidal insane amnesty for illegal border jumpers is passed.
If you listen closely, you can already hear the distant rumbling of the hoardes of third world footsteps stampeding toward the US border -— ANY border.
If this bill passes, my grandkids and great grandkids will be taught and required to speak Spanglish - a hybrid of Spanish and English — not to mention the probability that the soon-to-be 70-percent Hispanic/poor populations will force major revisions of the US Bill of Rights and/or constitution in order to better ‘accomedate’ the throngs of third worlders.
It’s amazing how many latin American socialists are so cock-fire certain that America is an oppressive racist country, but want to come here none-the-less to live off the fat of our land.
Since when is Carter bashing W breaking news?
FYI: The Carter administration did very little to support the war against the Soviets before he left office in January 1981 (See George Crile’s Charlie Wilson’s War). People forget that Carter has been a mouthybastid for years. During the early nineteen nineties he as a consistent supporter of the Islamofascist government in the Sudan and its military dictator General Bashir. When Sudan was placed on the list of terrorist supporting nations Carter publicly stated that the State Department did not have the relevant information to do so. That it was misinformed even though it was providing camps to train terrorists and a meeting place in Khartoum for a plethora of terrorist leaders including Bin Laden and Zawahiri. Meanwhile, Carter was flying around Africa on a plane supplied by Abedi, the director of the infamous Bank of Credit and Commerce International — the same Abedi who provided millions for his feckless Carter Center in Atlanta. When all is said and done, Carter is a greedy individual; greedy for fame and greedy for the almight dollar. He is the kind of southerner that Faulknew knew so well and wrote about so adroitly.
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