Posted on 04/14/2008 10:23:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
As I have written in the past, it is testimony to the mettle of the American Republic that it can, from time to time, suffer fools at its helm. It has endured the drunkenness of Ulysses S. Grant, the socialism of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the constitutional violations of Richard M. Nixon and the alley-cat morality of Warren G. Harding, John F. Kennedy and William J. Clinton.
We have managed to survive even the naivete of James E. Carter, the peanut farmer turned politician who proved "The Peter Principle" by rising to his own special level of ineptitude and remaining there from 1977 to 1981.
Jimmy Carter's White House tenure was disastrous enough, but his increasingly radical actions over the last quarter century have gone far beyond incompetence. Some believe they border on sedition. How else to describe a failed and rejected former president who can't stop criticizing his own country and her allies while defending and promoting the jihadist scum of the earth.
Carter's post-White House years began well. Some of his activities were even inspiring. Seeing him build Habitat for Humanity homes was certainly preferable to watching him embarrass himself repeatedly as president ("I asked my daughter Amy what she thought our biggest problem was, and she said, 'Daddy, I think it is nuclear proliferation...'").
But then, like Jesse Jackson before him, Carter decided to create his own little personal State Department, jetting off on private foreign policy missions, meeting with foreign ministers, dictators and potentates. He cares not that his actions are at best unappreciated by today's leaders, or that his efforts have never accomplished anything of value for his country. In fact, more often than not, the former president's embarrassing antics have created barriers to the delicate diplomacy of our currently elected authorities, while simultaneously emboldening America's enemies.
Jimmy Carter is starting to look like Neville Chamberlain with a toothy grin. He trusted Saddam Hussein in 2002, the very year the Nobel Committee decided he was their man of peace. He attacked the Israelis in his discredited recent book, calling their treatment of the Palestinians "apartheid." Now he plans to travel to Syria to meet with the leaders of Hamas.
Like so many naive appeasers before him, Carter seems to believe that if he is nice to our enemies, they will be nice in return and everything will be just fine. It's nice to be nice to the nice, and if they're murderous thugs, well, we'll just ignore that pesky little detail and be nice anyway. Set a good example for them. You know, walk softly and carry nothing but a smile. That's Jimmy's philosophy. His credo seems to be "hug a terrorist for peace." It's all so reminiscent of those nuclear freeze dupes who thought we could get the whole world to disarm simply by being nice and leading the way.
Carter's globetrotting on behalf of feel-good diplomacy may have endeared him to the Nobel committee - which presented him with a check for a cool million dollars and declared him one of the wisest diplomats of our time - and to the media. But the media and the Nobel Committee are always quick to applaud anything that smacks of America bashing.
Jimmy Carter should go back to Georgia and do something constructive for the country. Build some more houses. Grow some more peanuts. Produce something we could actually use. Instead, he continues to bask in his worldly accolades as he flies off to other troubled parts of the world to meet with the sworn enemies of America.
Meanwhile, our real president (you remember him...the one we elected to do these things) tries to deal with real problems in ways that are in the best interest of the United States of America.
When Jimmy Carter dies, I will happily buy a plane ticket to Georgia and dance on his grave. Maybe do something else on his grave too.
He is not the only one, right now, with his own personal state department.
Look at the trips by Pelosi, et al, on the demons side....
Carter should just be content to live out his retirement days and forget about state matters.
You’ll have to take care of business in Georgia after the whopper state funeral that’s going to occur upon Mr. Peanut’s demise ........ Roslyn has insisted on all the bells and whistles.
I look forward to the stock market holiday!! Hopefully, the funeral will happen during the summer so everyone can enjoy the day off and not have to watch TV that day!! I know that whenever it happens, I won’t watch.
I’m sure he won’t be buried in GA. You gotta know he’s scored himself a spot in Arlington.
I am going to celebrate when he dies.
Excacly
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“The women of my country learned long ago that even those without swords can still die upon them.”
— Eowyn.
Imagine the mess if those murderous thugs take him hostage.
Oh please oh please oh please let it happen.
It sounds like fun, like maybe we could just let them keep him... until you realize that the U.S. simply must react if any former President is attacked. It would be a big mess.
Though I have to admit to the amusing thought of Hamas holding him hostage, threatening that unless we sent them some millions of dollars they’d send him back.
“We have managed to survive even the naivete of James E. Carter”
I beg to differ. Jimmy Carter was not and is not naive. I is an outright socialist, and he has always believed in cutting America down to size.
He along with Sharpton and Jessie Jerkson and oh don’t forget OJ.....I’ll take the day off for the festivaties...
Well, we could send in a single top-down, poorly planned, disastrously executed, rescue mission and abort it before it gets anywhere near him.
Then we could spend the next couple of years doing nothing.
I'm sure Jimmuh would understand.
No. It would be like the old O. Henry story, “The Ransom of Red Chief.” We would make Hamas pay us to take him back.
According to Wikipedia, he plans to be buried in front of his home in Plains, Georgia.
Well, I don’t know whether to believe Wiki, but I hope that’s true. He’s cost too many American lives, too much treasure, to be buried in Arlington.
We don’t negotiate with hostage-takers. I would hope we would not make an exception in Carter’s case.
Jimmy Carter just endorsed Barack Obama while he’s visiting Hamas. Put a fork in it?
Perhaps the former embassy hostages could negotiate for his release....or not. If it was me I wouldn’t make contact for at least 300 days.
I'd give them a list of our demands before we take him back.
And we residents of Georgia redeemed ourselves in ‘84 (thank heavens! It’s so embarassing to have to admit to having voted for the guy in ‘80.)
That article makes Carter’s tenure seem like a mafia operation.
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