Jimmy Carter: Can't Stop the Typing (Hilarious Takedown)

Wall Street Journal ^ | 10/9/2010 | Joe Queenan

[mojito]

In November 1980, the American people made a disastrous decision whose reverberations are still being felt today. Rather than biting the bullet and re-electing the glum, uncharismatic, hopeless Jimmy Carter to the White House—thereby ensuring that he would return to Plains, Ga., at the conclusion of his second term and keep his blabberpuss shut—they turfed him out into the street.

That made him mad. Really mad. By giving one of America's dopiest presidents the bum's rush, the American people ensured that Mr. Carter would spend the rest of his life trying to even the score, trying to persuade them that they had made a huge mistake when they cast their lot with Ronald Reagan, trying to convince them that they were a bunch of jerks.

The particular form of retribution Carter chose was as sinister and cruel as any known to man. He took his pen in hand and began to write books. Long books. Boring books. Dour books. Yes, long, boring, dour, numerous books.

[mojito]

My sides hurt.

[Alex Murphy]

The particular form of retribution Carter chose was as sinister and cruel as any known to man. He took his pen in hand and began to write books. Long books. Boring books. Dour books. Yes, long, boring, dour, numerous books.

Sort of like his single term in office, in other words?

[bill1952]

Mr. Carter inhabits some weird parallel universe with people like George Foreman, who were despised when they were at their peak and then manufactured a touchy-feely post-career aura that made some people forget how much they disliked them when they were famous.

[BuckyKat]

Priceless!

[yldstrk]

hilarious

[Rockitz]

I couldn’t believe this hadn’t been posted yet so I did only to get beat by a couple minutes. Great LOL piece!

[sodpoodle]

During Carter’s giddy campaign, my mother-in-law (from Ga) did feel compelled to purchase one of those ubiquitous gold peanuts on a chain.

Oh the irony - it’s appreciated in value more than the Carter Presidency;)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

See the NY Review of Books, Oct 28, “The Strange Success of Jimmy Carter,” Garry Wills.
Wills, a liberal, chops the book and its author into little pieces.

[Timocrat]

The Oval Office equivalent of the Edsel...

Ouch !

[chickadee]

You are right and it deserves a a link

[Cicero]

Jimmy Carter has written 25 books? Good grief.

[chuckee]

Jimmuh’s books hit the remainder shelves as soon as they are released. He is king of the remainder shelves.He should have had more kids who could have created a market for the sanctimonious narcissistic trash he writes.

[Genoa]

But there are some people who take an interest in the Edsel.

[Peter from Rutland]

Amusing piece.

I don’t know about anyone else but I’ll gladly take the books over four more years of Carter. That would have been lethal.

I don’t have to buy the books. Four more years? No choice there.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

My sides hurt.

You and me both!! I've only read 5 paragraphs of this and had to stop for LMAO. Did Carter really write that much? Lord, talk about your encre-pisseurs. I'm headed for amazon because I just don't believe it.

[LomanBill]

>>And if Carter's gone back to the dismal years 1977-80 to exhume diary material, what comes next? "Tuesdays with Bert Lance"?

 

Well, Jimmuh could take reponsibility for that one time when....

In November 1978, President Carter appointed George Ball head of a special White House Iran task force under Brzezinski. Ball recommends the US should drop support for the Shah of Iran and support the radical Islamist opposition of Ayatollah Khomeini. This idea is based on ideas from British Islamic expert Dr. Bernard Lewis, who advocates the balkanization of the entire Muslim Near East along tribal and religious lines. The chaos would spread in what he also calls an “arc of crisis” and ultimately destabilize the Muslim regions of the Soviet Union.

 

...but he never will.

 

 

Oops.

[NewHampshireDuo]

There was a brandy-new bookstore up our way that always had highly visible displays for the Carter and similar lib books. Went out of business after a couple of years.

[Energizer45678]

I LIVED through Carter. At this point, i think I would take 4 more years of Jimmah over 4 more of Bammy. The
Peanut Man is smiling again, he’s not the worst anymore!

[HarleyD]

I suppose he needs something impressive for the Jimmy Carter Library that no one seems to care about. Perhaps “The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer” will do the trick.

[reagan_fanatic]