[Reaganesque]

Worst...book...EVER!!

[Cicero]

Emmett Tyrell has named this prize after the southern poet J. Gordon Coogler (1865-1901).

I just googled Coogler, and came up with three of his poems:

Title: ‘You Critics’

Oh you critics! - if an author errs in a single line
That line you’ll surely quote,
And will give it as a sample fair
Of all he ever wrote.

by J. Gordon Coogler

Title: ‘A Pretty Girl’

On her beautiful face there are smiles of grace
That linger in beauty serene
And there are no pimples, encircling her dimples,
As ever, as yet, I have seen.

by J. Gordon Coogler

Title: ‘How Strange Are Dreams!’

How strange are dreams! I dreamed the other night.
A dream that made me tremble,
Not with fear, but with a kind of strange reality;
My supper, though late, consisted of no cheese.

by J. Gordon Coogler

[robertpaulsen]

"The other day, when he esteemed the presidency of George W. Bush "the worst in history," he was naturally intent on bold-faced headlines."

What does that have to do with a book Carter released a year ago? I can just imagine R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. giving Carter's eulogy:

Here lies Jimmy Carter. Speaking of lies, did I mention that back in 2006 he wrote the worst book ever..."

Give it a rest, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Former President Jimmy Carter is a clever rascal. The other day, when he esteemed the presidency of George W. Bush "the worst in history," he was naturally intent on bold-faced headlines. He is always covetous of attention.

[fortunecookie]

Of course he’s anxious to get Bush into his own well earned spot as worst president, at least of our century. How can he escape his past of sitting by, wallowing in indecision and sympathy for our enemy, while 66 Americans (52 for the full time) were held hostage in Iran for 444 days? Especially with the Iraq war and tensions with Iran again surfacing and reminding him - and us - of those events. It’s become his life mission to try to erase that - his efforts at ‘diplomacy’, his criticism of Bush, his Nobel Prize (gag). After the Clinton presidency, he must have been anxious for a Republican in office so he could transfer his guilt to that president, and now with Hillary running (and Jimmah hoping she’s elected) and his advancing age, he’s got to be getting more desperate to secure his place in history as NOT the worst president. Continued potshots at Bush are his best current effort to try to get this done.

[JennysCool]

Fourteen members of the Carter Center's advisory board have resigned over the book. In March Jimmy explained these resignations to an audience at George Washington University by saying, "They all happen to be Jewish Americans."

Yow! I missed that quote at the time.

[elhombrelibre]

Ping; it looks like my old pal finally got around to awarding Jimmy his thrid Coogler. I’d been urging this third award since Carter published latest unctuous diatribe: Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.

[SJackson]

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