Jimmy Carter Has High Hopes for Hamas

Newsmax.com ^ | Jan 21, 2006

[FeeinTennessee]

Jimmy Carter Has High Hopes for Hamas

Former President Jimmy Carter expressed optimism Friday over Hamas's participation in next week's Palestinian parliamentary elections, saying that while the group may be terrorists, at least they're not corrupt.

Interviewed Friday, Carter said that although Hamas were "so-called terrorists," so far "there have been no complaints of corruption against [their] elected officials."

In quotes reported by the Jerusalem Post, Carter did concede that "there is an element within Hamas who deny Israel's right to exist."

Citing his own negotiations with Palestinian Liberation Organization chief Yassir Arafat, however, Carter said sometimes you have to learn to work with terrorists. At the time of Carter's Camp David Accords, the PLO was still outlawed as a terrorist organization.

The former president also invoked the example of former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin's membership in the Irgun, which Carter reminded "was also characterized as a terrorist organization."

[FeeinTennessee]

Sigh, he has really lost it.

[Gordongekko909]

Carter said that although Hamas were "so-called terrorists," so far "there have been no complaints of corruption against [their] elected officials."

Hmm. I wonder why there have been no complaints? Probably for the same reason that Saddam was re-elected by a statistically impossible landslide.

[frankjr]

Peanut Boy never had it to begin with.

[Stepan12]

I always despised the little creep. I didn't particularly like Gerald Ford, but I voted for him against Carter because I felt correctly that Carter was a weasel and a sleazy personality.

Events of his disastrous presidency proved my gut feeling correct.

[jazusamo]

Hey Jimmie, I'll rest a lot easier tonight knowing that Hamas are honest terrorists. Maybe the people they murder will feel better about it too, but I doubt it.

[Westlander]

Yet another past president suffering from Alzheimers. At least the first one admitted it and was a great Prez.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Citing his own negotiations with Palestinian Liberation Organization chief Yassir Arafat, however, Carter said sometimes you have to learn to work with terrorists

Yes, we have a lot to learn from Jimmy's negotiating skills. We are still paying for his past successes.

[stevem]

Former President Jimmy Carter expressed optimism Friday over Hamas's participation in next week's Palestinian parliamentary elections, saying that while the group may be terrorists, at least they're not corrupt.

Huh?

[Spruce]

I swear the jackass is a communist plant. The amount of mishcief this dink is responsible for is mind-boggling.

[FeeinTennessee]

LOL, that's a trip.
I've seen the movie by the way...TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE

[Emmett McCarthy]

"Learn to work with terrorists", eh, Jimbo? Only as targets, bubba, only as targets.

[Euro-American Scum]

Jimmy Carter Has High Hopes for Hamas

Figures he would.

[FeeinTennessee]

I would at least think when he was President that he would have been interested in helping the country, would have remained a patriot.

But right now, he might as well go on over to Hamas and recruit for them.

[Siena Dreaming]

in the Irgun, which Carter reminded "was also characterized as a terrorist organization."

Ugh. Carter is slime.

[pipecorp]

I knew he had to be a stoner.






oops. thought the headline read "jimmy carter hopes to get high with hamas" my bad.

[gotribe]

With rose-colored glasses seated squarely on his nose, Jimmy sticks his head deep into the sand.

[Sabramerican]

If a Republican said the exact same thing, it would be political suicide for any other Republican to even be seen in public with the one who made such an outrageous disgusting statement.

Carter and Democrats get a pass.

[Nam Vet]

This idiot couldn't hurt America or freedom any more than he has and continues to if he was planning that at every turn. Hmmmm .... Come to think of it, it sure appears he has !

Nam Vet

[FeeinTennessee]

I SO hate that (democrats can do no wrong)