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Carter says Obama doesn't call him for advice
The Hill ^

Posted on 03/22/2014 9:25:09 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

March 22, 2014, 12:16 pm Carter says Obama doesn't call him for advice

By Rebecca Shabad

Former President Jimmy Carter says President Obama doesn’t call him for advice.

He made the comment in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” which released a preview before it airs on Sunday.

NBC’s Andrea Mitchell asked the 39th president if Obama ever calls him for advice.

“Unfortunately, the answer is no,” Carter said. “President Obama doesn’t, but previous presidents have called on me and the Carter Center to take action,” including former Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Mitchell asked Carter, 89, why he thinks he doesn’t have that type of relationship with Obama.

“That’s a hard question for me to answer with complete candor,” said Carter, who then explained it may be the result of a difference in policies between the administration and his center.

In dealing with peace between Israel and Egypt, Carter said his center publicly stated that Israelis and Palestinians should be treated equally.

“I think this was a sensitive area in which the president didn’t want to be involved,” Carter said in the interview.

He said he understands, however, the sensitivity of the situation.

Carter is set to release a new book soon on the treatment of women around the world.


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Wonder why?
1 posted on 03/22/2014 9:25:09 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Well he should. 0bama would be a better president if he did.


2 posted on 03/22/2014 9:25:48 AM PDT by henkster (I don't like bossy women telling me what words I can't use.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yay! Finally, an Obama policy I can agree with.


3 posted on 03/22/2014 9:27:19 AM PDT by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with violence, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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To: Sub-Driver

> Carter is set to release a new book soon on the treatment
> of women around the world.

I wonder if the islamophile anti-semite will mention the treatment of women in islamic cultures.


4 posted on 03/22/2014 9:28:01 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Sub-Driver

All the advice Obama needs is from Saul Alinsky.


5 posted on 03/22/2014 9:28:06 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Sub-Driver

The media told Obama that he’s “the smartest guy in the room” and he agrees. Why would he need to call the other guys in the room?


6 posted on 03/22/2014 9:29:24 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Sub-Driver

Why call him?

0bummer seems to be channeling him just fine.


7 posted on 03/22/2014 9:29:50 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Jimmy says, unfortunately the answer is no.

Unfortunately? Jimmy thinks that presidents should ask him for advice??? Really???

Jimmy is widely considered to be a failure as president. So why would anyone ask his advice? Just asking that question. I realize the club of ex-presidents is a very exclusive club. But, it strikes me that Jimmy has a big ego, if he just expects and assumes that Obama should be asking his advice about anything.


8 posted on 03/22/2014 9:30:55 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (as)
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To: Sub-Driver

He works on advice? I thought he was ad libbing the whole thing.


9 posted on 03/22/2014 9:32:13 AM PDT by rey
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To: Westbrook
> Carter is set to release a new book soon on the treatment
> of women around the world.

"Better put some ice on that..."

10 posted on 03/22/2014 9:37:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Carter says Obama doesn't call him for advice

Obama is screwing up pretty well on his own.

11 posted on 03/22/2014 9:40:57 AM PDT by dragonblustar ( Psalm 103, Psalm 37:7, Ephesians 6:12)
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To: Sub-Driver

For this blessing, O Lord, we are truly grateful.


12 posted on 03/22/2014 9:45:39 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: Sub-Driver
The hell you say!

That Obama. What a teethist.

13 posted on 03/22/2014 9:45:46 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Westbrook
Why call him [Carter]? 0bummer seems to be channeling him just fine

bttt

14 posted on 03/22/2014 9:46:31 AM PDT by Stepan12
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To: Bryanw92
The media told Obama that he’s “the smartest guy in the room” and he agrees.

Liberals always believe they are the best and brightest in the room, but what they didn't realize is that that room is in the Cellar..

Look on the brighter side my dear FRiends, we'll get through this.. What we have to suffer through because of OBlameothers, will set Liberals back another generation, just as Carter did after his attack on our country.

What we need to find NOW, is our next Reagan.. That appears to be our next crucial challenge..

15 posted on 03/22/2014 9:47:14 AM PDT by carlo3b (Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.. Henry Kissinger)
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama may be the only person low enough on the incompetence scale to need Carter’s advice.


16 posted on 03/22/2014 9:47:38 AM PDT by pallis
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To: Valpal1

Dodged a big one there.


17 posted on 03/22/2014 9:50:57 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: Sub-Driver
They could make a movie about it:

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18 posted on 03/22/2014 9:51:24 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: Sub-Driver

“And you don’t send me flowers, anymore ....” %%


19 posted on 03/22/2014 9:57:08 AM PDT by mikrofon (No Love Lost)
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To: Sub-Driver

The only piece of evidence I’ve seen thus far that suggests BO is not a total moron.


20 posted on 03/22/2014 9:57:53 AM PDT by Stosh
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