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White House fires back: Jimmy Carter 'irrelevant'
Worldnetdaily ^ | May 20, 2007 | May 20, 2007

Posted on 05/20/2007 5:08:54 PM PDT by SJackson

White House fires back: Jimmy Carter 'irrelevant' Bush spokesman defends 'W' after 'worst in history' claim

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Posted: May 20, 2007 4:52 p.m. Eastern

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Jimmy Carter at 2004 Democratic convention

The White House is firing back at former President Jimmy Carter, calling the Georgia Democrat "increasingly irrelevant" in the wake of his remarks labeling the Bush administration the "worst in history."

In an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette yesterday, Carter was quoted as saying, "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history."

White House spokesman Tony Fratto refused to respond yesterday, but launched a counterattack today from Crawford, Texas, explaining, "I think it's sad that President Carter's reckless personal criticism is out there."

"I think it's unfortunate," he added. "And I think he is proving to be increasingly irrelevant with these kinds of comments."

In the interview with the Arkansas paper, Carter said Bush had taken a "radical departure from all previous administration policies" with the Iraq war.

"We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened, if we want to change the regime there or if we fear that some time in the future our security might be endangered," Carter said.

In another interview with the BBC, Carter also ripped the close relationship between Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, calling it "Abominable. Loyal, blind, apparently subservient."

"I think that the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world," Carter said.

As WND previously reported, five years after the controversial 2000 presidential election, ex-President Jimmy Carter announced he was certain Al Gore actually defeated George W. Bush.

"Well I would say that in the year 2000, the country failed abysmally in the presidential election process," Carter told a panel at American University in Washington, D.C. "There's no doubt in my mind that Al Gore was elected president."

"[Gore] received the most votes nationwide, and in my opinion, he also received the most votes in Florida," Carter continued. "And the decision was made as you know by a 5-4 vote on a highly partisan basis by the U.S. Supreme Court, so I would say in 2000, there was a failure."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; carter; georgebush; jimmycarter; worstpresidentever
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To: digger48

“I can’t wait to empty my bladder repeatedly on this asshats grave!”

I guess we should all expect a line.


41 posted on 05/20/2007 6:56:41 PM PDT by Bobibutu
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To: SJackson
White House fires back: Jimmy Carter 'irrelevant'

If only the White House could raise even this mild criticism when the Mexican government comes into America making demands that we take better care of the Mexican citizens that when in Mexico, they couldn't care less about.

42 posted on 05/20/2007 6:58:28 PM PDT by RJL
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To: SJackson
Carter should talk!. He was one of the worst Presidents this Country ever did have.
43 posted on 05/20/2007 7:29:08 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: SJackson
Jimmah...desperately seekin' relevancy.

44 posted on 05/20/2007 7:49:23 PM PDT by bannie
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To: doug from upland

I agree, better he had never walked the face of the earth. He’a not only an embarrassment he is dangerous.


45 posted on 05/20/2007 7:50:34 PM PDT by mimaw
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To: Roberts

Jimmah! Don’t sell yourself short. You’re still the worst. BJ is the second worst, and THEN its W.


46 posted on 05/20/2007 7:57:51 PM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: mimaw

Camp Grenada song mocking of him will be up in a few minutes. What a coincidence saying he should have never walked the face of the earth. Something like that is in the song. Stay tuned.


47 posted on 05/20/2007 7:59:52 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: SJackson
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48 posted on 05/20/2007 8:00:19 PM PDT by Ghengis (Of course freedom is free. If it wasn't, it would be called expensivedom. ~Cindy Sheehan 11/11/06)
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To: SJackson

Jimmy Carter is a coward, and a faux Christian.


49 posted on 05/20/2007 8:02:10 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
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To: SJackson

Mocking him in song — http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836959/posts


50 posted on 05/20/2007 8:05:45 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: SJackson

As Imus would say, “pin a note on his sweater and drop him off at senior day care.”


51 posted on 05/20/2007 8:07:41 PM PDT by vamoose
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Jimmy Carter is a coward, and a faux Christian.

Or would that be ..... anti -— Christian ?

the cater years were... are ... will be ... by any measurement ... the darkest days of our modern time.


52 posted on 05/20/2007 8:10:00 PM PDT by THEUPMAN (####### comment deleted by moderator)
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To: THEUPMAN
JImmy Carter made me a Republican. As a open minded college kid, I gained a strong dislike for his defeatist, sweater wearing persona.
His cowardice with Iran sealed it.
And then I moved to San Francisco and heard a young Barbara Boxer speak at a Dukakis rally that I happened to wander by.
Babs Boxer further enriched my opinion of Democrats.
I (and my wife’s) was probably the only Bush 1 vote cast in the Haight Asbury polling station that we voted at.
53 posted on 05/20/2007 8:23:02 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
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To: Kaslin
I do remember the News Media called Florida for Gore when only 1 percent of the votes had come in. I thought I didn't see right

And......Bush was leading Gore at the time too. No bias here...

54 posted on 05/20/2007 8:41:29 PM PDT by NYFreeper
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To: willk
Reuter’s had the nerve to report “Sunday’s sharp response marks a departure from the deference that sitting presidents traditionally have shown their predecessors.”. So what about Carter’s and Clinton’s constant criticism of a sitting president?

I read that and thought the same thing! How biased to report it that way! The "deference" is supposed to come from ex-Presidents towards sitting Presidents. In this case, Jimmuh threw the gauntlet down.

55 posted on 05/20/2007 8:43:02 PM PDT by NJRighty (Three things the left knows absolutely nothing about: The Constitution, nat'l defense and economics.)
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To: DogBarkTree

I swear when the old coot kicks the bucket and they have a ceremony in DC, I want to go and stand on Constitution Ave with a big sign that says ‘444.’ Even in death I will not be able to show any respect for that creep. And, God forgive me, I voted for him in ‘76. Last Dem I ever voted for, so some good came of it.


56 posted on 05/20/2007 8:43:16 PM PDT by EDINVA
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57 posted on 05/20/2007 9:08:40 PM PDT by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus)
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To: dinasour

Thanks for the ping!


58 posted on 05/20/2007 9:11:01 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: SJackson
Carter said Bush had taken a "radical departure from all previous administration policies" with the Iraq war.

'Radical departures' like FORMER Presidents who know to keep their mouths shut because they are now irrevelant.

59 posted on 05/20/2007 9:13:11 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Vigilanteman
Carter opened his mouth when Reagan was President uttering his stupidity and has gone down hill ever since!

He was wrong in his short (Thank God) term and never changed his mind. The man has a peanut brain.

(Thanks for the ping dinasour!)

60 posted on 05/21/2007 7:42:58 AM PDT by ConfidentConservative
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