Posted on 08/26/2008 3:26:08 AM PDT by rellimpank
DENVER -- Poof. Just like that, he was gone.
With all the focus on Ted Kennedy and Michelle Obama's speeches before a roused audience last night, little attention was given to Jimmy Carter, who also appeared on the stage at the Pepsi Center on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention. This was by design.
In the four years since the former Democratic president took the stage in Boston in 2004, 14 members of his Carter Center resigned in protest after he published a book comparing Israel's treatment of the Palestinians to the treatment of blacks in South Africa under apartheid, and he's met with top leaders of the terrorist group Hamas.
With Barack Obama already under scrutiny for his limited foreign policy experience, his willingness to engage with the leaders of hostile regimes, and his associations with leading critics of Israel (including former Carter National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski), Obama could ill afford to give Carter free reign to express his controversial views.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
They may try to hide the act, but the unlit torch of failure has been passed...
Carter shouldn’t be lionized, he should be in jail.
—somehow, I suspect George McGovern and Gary Hart(pence) won’t get center stage, either-—
In many respects, b. Hussein Obama is the second Jimmy Carter. If elected we’ll experience the horrors of Jimmy Carter’s second term (a tragedy we dodged with the election of Ronald Reagan).
In many respects, b. Hussein Obama is the second Jimmy Carter. If elected we’ll experience the horrors of Jimmy Carter’s second term (a tragedy we dodged with the election of Ronald Reagan).
Geeeeez!
The headline had me smiling thinking that @sshat had finally assumed room temperature...
He's building a Carterville for disenfranchised Americans. It is filled with tarpaper shacks and he is the chief nail pounder.
Its never the man, but the people around him, so they claim....
The entire democratic party is made up of delusional losers. Sadly, some of their losers win.
(My latest creation...:)
Who is Jimmy Carter?
Ooooh. Spooky.
Obama: The dark side of the Farce.
FTA: Whiteville, Tennessee delegate Randall Rice argued that Carter assumed office under a difficult set of circumstances.
“In my view, when Carter was elected in ‘76, he inherited a very bad situation that had been brewing for quite some time under the previous administration,” Rice said. “He had a lot of high interest rates. If you examine what was going on, it was already in the works before he took over. He happened to be there when it occurred, so I don’t blame him for that.”
My re-structure:
In my view, when Bush was elected in 2000, he inherited a very bad situation that had been brewing for quite some time under the previous administration. There was a wall created between intelligence and justice. If you examine what was going on, it was already in the works before he took over. He happened to be there when the 9/11 attacked were carried out, so I don’t blame him for that.
You can’t blame the Democrats for wanting to sweep Carter under the rug. If they had any sense of shame, they’d sweep the entire Party under the rug—but if they had any sense of shame they wouldn’t be Democrats in the first place.
Yes, but Mr. Carter was a democrat president. The other two simply ran for the office. Lots of has beens and never were have run for president.
Hell even the swimmer ran for president.
I think the Dems are ashamed of the Carter years of president. I know I nearly bought a home then with a mortgage of 17 3/4 percent. Thanks Mr Carter no just go away.
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