Jimmy Carter’s Kennedy Problem

Townhall.com ^ | October 7, 2010 | Paul Kengor

[Huebolt]

perfidy with the Soviets when they invaded Afghanistan.

In light of today's situation, I often wonder if we should not have JOINED THE SOVIETS and bombed Afghanistan into one big, hard-surfaced parking lot.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You may be on to something.

[Agamemnon]

I don’t remember it either

There were some lesser known conservative sources (AAPS - American Association of Physicians and Surgeons most likely) that had an inside track on some of the goings on at the Carter WH at the time, and there was serious talk of developing a national health insurance plan.

I was in college at the time and my dad who was then and is now still a physician advised me against considering entering the formal practice of medicine for this reason, although I was well-into my pre-med studies.

It informed me enough back then to cause me to take my career in a different direction as a result. And for that I am thankful to this day.

FReegards!

[antiRepublicrat]

Carter engineered Afghanistan to be the Soviet’s Vietnam. It worked. It’s the one smart thing he did for the short term, but he did end up arming our current enemy.

[ohioWfan]

The only time I switched my registration to Dem was to vote against Ted Kennedy in the presidential primary.

The man was evil.

Carter is insane.

Both poster boys for the Dem party.

[Huebolt]

In light of today's situation, I often wonder if we should not have JOINED THE SOVIETS and bombed Afghanistan into one big, hard-surfaced parking lot.

If we knew muzlims like they knew muzlims, Oh, Oh, Oh what a show!

[Nonstatist]

Is Carter doing revisionist history to paint himself in the best possible light? Does Carter realize that he has gone down in history as an insignificant weak president, not unlike Franklin Pierce or Chester Arthur or Benjamin Harrison????

Yes to both. Thats why he has spent the last 30 years self agrandazing himself and writing 30 books nobody has read. His shame and humiliation is profound .

[tx_eggman]

A good reason for digging up Kennedy’s body and throwing it in the nearest river. That or opening the casket and driving a stake through the heart of the cadaver to make sure he doesn’t rise from the dead.

Hey, give Teddy a break, he's doing his best to change.

Good Lord, the man has been alcohol free for over a year now and you're still giving him crap.

[Cowman]

Hey, give Teddy a break, he's doing his best to change. Good Lord, the man has been alcohol free for over a year now and you're still giving him crap.

I'm just glad they didn't decide to cremate him

The fire would still be burning

[Buckeye McFrog]

just a little peek behind the curtain of the no-holds barred cage match that is the Democrat Party

[Kenny Bunk]

Somehow, Jimmy Carter has achieved a reputation for being some sort of mild-mannered, well meaning, Christian-spirited, bumbling, "nice-guy," when the truth of the matter seems to be that he was a petty, vindictive, and mean-spirited super-partisan Son-of-a-Beach who would leave no stone unturned to settle a score with a political opponent or any one else whom he thought had "crossed" him in any way.

His record as the incompetent (and BTW, very corrupt)machine-politician Governor of Georgia shows this quite clearly. He is far from forgotten in that state! As someone who has worked along side him on a Habitat Project, I can also affirm he sure ain't no kind a carpenter, neither!

[Kenny Bunk]

he did end up arming our current enemy.

And the silly SOB also made sure that the Ayatollah Homeini took over Iran from our staunch ally, the Shah. This in turn, kicked off the wave of terror we are now experiencing. Jimmy considered the Ayatollah a "great and holy man," sort of a John Wesley in funny clothes!

[Agamemnon]

Carter engineered Afghanistan to be the Soviet’s Vietnam. It worked. It’s the one smart thing he did for the short term, but he did end up arming our current enemy.

Carter "engineered" no such thing. Soviets invaded Afghanistan using roads which had been constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. In truth all it was was another US foreign aid boondoggle allowed to be co-opted by aggressive Soviet hegemony.

Carter didn't plan a Soviet-style Vietnam, at all. The Mujaheddin were armed by Reagan, and it was Reagan's foreign policy that caused the Soviets to get bogged down in a Vietnam style body bag count.

You give Carter foreign policy credit he does not deserve. Whether in Afghanistan or in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas, Carter's foreign policy per Bob Beckel and Zbigniew Brzezinski was crafted only to advance the Soviet sphere of influence

And now we get to see Brzezinski's stupid history challenged "Lincoln is my favorite Founding father" daughter on Morning Jackass -- uh -- Morning Joe, and watch Beckel get his head handed to him all the time on Hannity.

FReegards!

[RobbyS]

As I am currently reading the books of Kings in the Old Testament, Teddy is looking better every day. Man, there were some bad dudes among these guys. And women who make Nancy —or even Lady McBeth—seem benign.

[Agamemnon]

As I am currently reading the books of Kings in the Old Testament, Teddy is looking better every day.

David hath slain his tens of thousands, and Kennedy his millions.

FReegards!

[RobbyS]

Teddy comes NOWHERE near David. Judah had good kings and bad. and Teddy is more like the bad ones.

[Agamemnon]

Teddy comes NOWHERE near David. Judah had good kings and bad. and Teddy is more like the bad ones.

If all you are possibly looking at is Kennedy vis a vis Kopchne and David vis a vis Uriah and David vis a vis Goliath, you could by that flimsy comparison say that David was twice as deadly as Kennedy.

Now Goliath was a direct kill by David and Kopechne was a direct kill by Kennedy. Uriah was an indirect kill by David as were others whose deaths David's soldiers felled in battle.

I believe if you counted up the number of aborted children in the US since 1973 (~50MM) whose killing was politically and legislatively promoted by Kennedy (partial birth-D&X, and D&C) the man is indirectly responsible for the deaths of 50 MM children.

By that measure Kennedy clearly outpaces David.

Of course, so is every other politician indirectly responsible who promotes and facilitates abortion.

Did you ever stop to think about the fact that we have been governed by so many murderers for almost 40 years?

In worldly wise America the Holocaust of the Unborn makes Mao and Hitler look like pikers by comparison.

FReegards!