Carter to visit Cuba; he'll be 1st ex-president there since '59

Miami Herald ^ | March 23, 2002 | ALFONSO CHARDY achardy@herald.com

[RedWhiteBlue]

Oh, great. Hugo Chavez is going to have a field day playing this one up.

[scholar]

his intention was to improve relations between Cuba and the United States -- not to deliver an ultimatum to Castro.

I am sick to death of buttheads like Carter, Jesse Jackson, Farrakhan, et al sticking there noses into foreign policy. In my apparent naivete, I was under the impression that these activities were considered treasonous.

[AdvisorB]

Your post, and your band, was music to the ears.

[MistrX]

Maybe Jimmy can build a few nice three bedroom, two bath ranch-style houses in Gitmo for our Taliban friends.

[boris]

Carter is on a frantic, unseemly quest to get the Nobel Peace Prize before he departs for Hell.

Sometimes I wish they'd give it to him, on condition that he SHUT UP and GO AWAY.

--Boris

[chainsaw]

You will have to excuse Jimmy Carter, he has been senile sense he was elected.

[Cyber Liberty]

I'm wondering if he'll offer Castro some nuclear power plants in exchange for a photo session, like he did with the North Koreans?

[chainsaw]

first presidential vote for George Mcgovern when I was in Collge. Every one's allowed to make one mistake when they're young.

Don't feel bad, I voted for George Wallace.

[ServesURight]

A lot of FReepers feel in the Clinton vs Carter debates that Clinton easily was the worser president of the two. Not so.

In many ways Carter's inept administration set the precedents of the problems we have now: The never-ending war in the Middle East, 09/11, U.S. appeasement to foreign globalists, and a perceived weakness of the U.S. by our enemies. Not to mention the creation of unconstitutional, money-wasting domestic departments such as the Education, HUD, and NEA.

Clinton may have been immoral and evil, but he was so in a competent way. Carter, the man truly had peanuts for a brain, if it wasn't for him there probably would never had been a Clinton.

[Walkin Man]

I bet ole Jimmy will feel right at home in that communist hellhole.

[lavaroise]

What idiot ever coined "the naive but honest Carter".

[breakem]

Presidents go to China, we trade with everyone communists, dictators, and fanatics, but Ohmigawd!, Carter goes to Cuba and it's the end of western civilization as we know it.<p.Those of you who rant on about the evils of castro are correct, but you need to wake up and see that the boycott was stupid and unsuccessful. The guy has sustained his power. Had we maintained open relationships for the last 40 years, we may have had a positive impact. As has been our plan with other such countries.

[LaGrone]

These liberals never learn. First he sells out the Shah of Iran, our ally in the Mideast and lets the radical clerics take over the country, which the U.S. and the Iranians are still paying for.

Second he was spouting about majority rule in African countries. Last time I looked, the African countries such as South Africa and Rhodesia are now run by dictators who take land from the legal owners. The countries are now lawless lands with a destroyed social infrastructure, with no hope for investment capital. Nothing but poverty is in these folks future thanks in part to Peanut Head and his ROTTEN THEORIES!!

He should have always been a carpenter, but NEVER should have been President. May he go to Cuba, and be made to stay in the poverty his policies and suggestions produce; by the way he should definitely take that liberal wife of his with him. Amy too.

[Dqban22]

I fully agree. Carter is a disgrace for the U.S He should keep working in Habitat for Humanity where he has done a great humanitarian work and leave the Foreign Relations to President Bush and his most able advisers. Incompetence in foreign relations is out, get over it Mr. Carter, you already messed up American foreing policies during your presidency.

[MadelineZapeezda]

Jeemah heard that the banana leaves were leaking on Castro's hut. He has experience fixing them, dontcha know!

[dighton]

Every one's allowed to make one mistake when they're young.

Rats, I exceeded my quota.

[MadelineZapeezda]

[LantzALot]

I have to confess that in a strange way, I am thankful for Jimmuh. I was a Demo'Rat who had vowed never to vote for that "evil right-winger", Reagan -- dating back to when he first ran for Governor of California. Four years of JC opened my eyes, and I have not only been a conservative, but a Reagan fan ever since.