Posted on 01/21/2006 1:52:46 PM PST by 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."
They murder innocent people but they don't take money from Abramoff.
Believe or not, back then I nearly voted for Roger McBride; however, I felt that Carter was an extremely bad personality and had to be defeated. I wasn't to realize the hope of defeating Carter until Ronald Reagan came along 4 years later.
Hahaha, 'at least they are not corrupt' ???? hahaha. Jimmy Carter is a peanut-brain.
Interviewed Friday, Carter said that although Hamas were "so-called terrorists," so far "there have been no complaints of corruption against [their] elected officials."
Yes, and Mussolini made the trains run on time. What a total fool
Hahaha, 'at least they are not corrupt' ???? hahaha. Jimmy Carter is a peanut-brain.
When I read the headline on this article, it was so ridiculous I burst out laughing. Jimmy Carter did us one service; his incompetence enabled the election of Ronald Reagan, surely the greatest president of the second half of the twentieth century and one of the Top Five overall(Washington, Lincoln, FDR, Reagan, T. Roosevelt).
No fool like an old fool.
if you throw out FDR you have a winner of a group.
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While I didn't like a lot of what FDR did, he did accomplish a lot, both domestically and in the Pacific and European theaters. The problem I have with much of his doemstic program is not just the expansion of government intrusion but some ideas that could be justified as a minimum safety floor (e.g., Social Security) that have been turned into vast social payment systems that were never envisioned when initially passed.
It's a great movie, especially if you're feeling ronery!
Jimmy Carter should save his moralistic tripe for the Third Reich. He's sick in the head.
Just in case everyone is not yet sufficiently PO'd about
Mr Carter, I read earlier today that his 58 year old son, who lives in Nevada, announced on Friday that he is going to run for the U.S. Senate.
He will be attempting to unseat a 1st term Republican so that Harry Reid and Carter Junior can well represent Nevada.
(hey, I'm only the messenger)
that was all I meant....
I know FDR was a socialist...
He may have even been communist, but couldn't come out of the woodwork, because of the civilian military.
LBJ copied his great society plan direct from FDR, and wanted to be know as the next "New Deal" president .....
copied BTW from FDR.....
anyhow....
JMO
"so-called terrorists," so far "there have been no complaints of corruption against [their] elected officials."
This is insane!
So to put it simply, corruption is worse than terrorism.
There's a mountain of anti-American, defeatist quotes from the dem leaders to remind of us the dangers of dems in power.
Yep, Slick definitely has that title!
I'm supposed to be there as a volunteer. I hope we keep bringing the Dem's crazy rantings up over and over. From Hillary Clinton's "plantation" rant to this one coming from Carter.
Hope to see some of you there!
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