http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/jimmycarter/ en-us Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:34:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284190/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers cut far more jobs than expected last month and the unemployment rate hit a nearly 26-year high of 9.5 percent, underscoring the likelihood of a long and slow recovery from recession. The loss of 467,000 jobs reported by the Labor Department on Thursday was 100,000 more than Wall Street economists had expected and was spread widely across economic sectors. The economy has lost 6.5 million nonfarm jobs since the recession began in December 2007 and the unemployment rate has nearly doubled in that time. "It looks like the economy was still losing substantial momentum as... Yahoo/Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284190/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:34:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278980/posts The anti-government protests in Iran following the government's rigged elections are doubtless a little more than the "robust debate" among Iranians that President Barack Obama welcomed during the election. Some of the debaters have been shot dead. Others have been hustled off to jail. I wonder whether this is an eye-opener for our novice president. Conservatives have objected to his Laodicean calm in the first days of the bloodshed. He fastidiously refused to take sides. Only by the weekend did he come to his wits and call "on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278980/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:55:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276158/posts Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner and I will join 34 others taking medical, school, and building supplies to Gaza. I'd like to thank Nadira Kaili and Erin Connors of Atlantic Television News for donating dollars to help in my purchase of school supplies for Gaza's children. And I want to thank Jay Winter Nightwolf for the turquoise good luck ring that he gave me for this journey. On Tuesday, June 16, President Carter visited Gaza and said that he was almost brought to tears by what he saw. He said that he felt partly responsible because the... Pan-African News Wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276158/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:45:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275572/posts thelastcrusade.org A man can have sex with animals such as sheep, cows, camels, and so on. However, he should kill the animal after orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in the village; however, the selling of meat to people in a neighboring village is permissible. --Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Jimmy Carter has devolved from being America’s worst president to being America’s worst ex-president. The Ayatollah - - Carter’s misunderstood saint - - came to power and launched a bloodbath that resulted in the deaths of twenty-thousand pro-Western Iranians. Churches and synagogues were razed, cemeteries desecrated, and shrines... Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275572/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:08:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275638/posts From Worst President to Worst Ex-President MEET THE TRUE FATHER OF THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION:JIMMY CARTERbyPaul L. Williams, Ph.D.thelastcrusade.org A man can have sex with animals such as sheep, cows, camels, and so on. However, he should kill the animal after orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in the village; however, the selling of meat to people in a neighboring village is permissible. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Jimmy Carter has devolved from being America’s worst president to being America’s worst ex-president. Earlier this week, Carter met with the Hamas government that gained control of Gaza two years ago,... The Last Crusade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275638/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:36:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2275415/posts Jimmeh Carter is the most unsuccessful president in the history of the United States of America. If it wasn't for Jimmy-boy malaise would not be a regular part of the political vernacular. If it wasn't for the peanut President the American culture would never heard of Billy Beer. But Carter's biggest contribution to the world is taking the west's best friend in the Muslim World and turning it into the fascist Islamic, soon to be nuclear Iran. And that is Jimmy Carter's legacy Not the books, or the anti-semetic diatribes, or even the Habitat for Humanity Houses in Florida that... Front Page Mag/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2275415/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:29:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275359/posts It is one of the oddities of the global war on terrorism that while al-Qaeda is almost universally condemned, its Sunni terrorist counterparts in Hamas continue to attract a devoted following. Former president Jimmy Carter annually sings Hamas’s praises, insisting to all who will listen that Western governments must reach out to Gaza’s jihadist rulers. At “peace” demonstrations and on college campuses, banners are waved in honor of the group openly sworn to the destruction of Israel and the extermination of Jews worldwide. All this and more is the subject of Steven Plaut’s devastating new pamphlet, “Hamas: The Terror Elite.”... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275359/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:28:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274310/posts Former US president said he believed the Gush Etzion bloc would "be here forever." Just three weeks before the reading of the Torah portion about Balak, the king of Moab (Numbers 22-24), former US president Jimmy Carter visited Gush Etzion. In that Torah portion we read about the non-Jewish prophet Bilaam, who was asked by King Balak to curse the nation of Israel, as he feared "this people [who have] come out of Egypt... cover the face of the earth, and they dwell across from me..." Refusing Balak's offers of honor, Bilaam, who wished not to bless Israel but to... Jerusalem Ppost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274310/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:56:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2274861/posts Surely the Mullahs acknowledge, are fully aware who the true architect of their illegitimate revolution really is, to who they owe tribute to as the father of their criminal rule. It is the egregiously narcissistic presidential failure, Jimmy Carter they desperately want returned as their prodigal son. What better way to pay homage to whom they owe so much, by requesting his involvement as mediator, visionary, man of peace, meddler,interloper, America-Hater, vainglorious, ignominious impersonator of a man. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2274861/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:10:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274039/posts When Fox News reported today from Gaza that former President Jimmy Carter plans to urge President Barack Obama to take the Palestinian militant group Hamas off the U.S. terrorist list in meetings later this week, Washington Democrats and the Obama administration collectively cringed. "The president has addressed Hamas questions, including in the Egypt speech," an administraton official said. "[We] won't have more to say about this." "Just like with President Clinton, Carter is becoming a huge problem and a growing concern for Obama," a Washington Middle East hand said. "They are very pissed with him." After observing Lebanon's elections,... Foregin Policy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274039/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:46:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2274017/posts Poor Jimmy Carter, he is like the Charlie Brown of ex-Presidents. Once a year he goes to meet with the terrorists of Hamas and just when he thinks he is going to be able to Kick That Football of Peace, they pull it away. Last April he met the terrorists in Syria and upon his return he made a statement that Hamas might be willing to accept the right of Israel to "live as a neighbor next door in peace." No sooner did he make that statement Khaled Mashaal the Hamas leader announced that Carter made it all up. So... Magic Valley News/the Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2274017/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:05:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273813/posts ATLANTA (ABP) -- Former President Jimmy Carter is calling Israel's 2-year-old blockade of Gaza an "atrocity" and saying people there are being treated like animals. "Tragically, the international community largely ignores the cries for help, while the citizens of Gaza are being treated more like animals than human beings," Carter said in a June 16 speech in Gaza. Carter's remarks came during visits to Syria, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza following the Carter Center's observation of Lebanese elections June 7. Speaking earlier at Cairo University, Carter said Palestinians in Gaza are being "starved to death" and are receiving fewer... ABP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273813/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:09:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2273111/posts Former US President Jimmy Carter, center, gestures as he speaks to the media at the ruins of the American International School, which was destroyed during Israel's offensive in Gaza earlier this year, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Carter says he's trying to persuade Hamas leaders to accept the international community's conditions for ending its boycott of the Islamic militant group. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (R) is escorted by a bodyguard after crossing into Israel from Gaza at the Erez crossing June 16, 2009. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are being "treated more like animals... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2273111/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:18:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273341/posts JERUSALEM – Former President Jimmy Carter passed a message to Hamas from the Obama administration, according to senior sources in the Islamist group. The sources did not disclose the content of the purported message or whether the communication was written or oral. They spoke on condition of anonymity, because they said Hamas had not yet reached a decision on officially releasing the information they were divulging. Separately, in an interview with WND today, Ahmed Yousef, Hamas' chief political adviser in Gaza, refused to confirm or deny that any message was passed to his group from the White House. Youssef said,... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273341/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:21:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273198/posts CNN: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on a visit to Gaza that he had to "hold back tears" when he saw the destruction caused by the deadly campaign Israel waged against Gaza militants in January. Carter was wrapping up a visit to the region during which he met representatives of all sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273198/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:14:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273052/posts Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told former US President Jimmy Carter Tuesday that his government supported any plan that aims to fulfill the aspirations of the Palestinians, preserves their rights and leads to the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state in all the territories that were occupied by Israel in 1967. Haniyeh, according to his aides, also expressed Hamas's desire to end the case of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, welcoming Carter's mediation efforts in this regard. Haniyeh was quoted as saying that Hamas supported achieving a dignified solution to the Schalit case on a "human and political basis." Haniyeh... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273052/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:00:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272894/posts President Jimmy Carter says he will ask the Obama administration to remove the militant Palestinian group from the U.S.-designated terror list, just as Hamas says it foiled a bomb plot against Carter.. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272894/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:01:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272770/posts Palestinian sources reported Tuesday that former US president Jimmy Carter was the target of a thwarted assassination attempt, according to Israel Radio. Reportedly, there was a cluster of explosive devices stashed near a road he was scheduled to travel during a visit to the Gaza Strip. Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272770/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:21:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2272276/posts Carter on Settlements: Gush Etzion Will Remain Israeli “Forever” Posted by Chana on Mon 15 Jun 2009 Yesterday former U.S. President Jimmy Carter visited Neveh Daniel and met with Shaul Goldstien, who leads the Gush Etzion Regional Council, in Goldstien’s home. Here are some of President Carter’s comments as reported by The Jerusalem Post:"This particular settlement area is not one I ever envision being abandoned or changed over into Palestinian territory.” He added that the Jewish communities in Gush Etzion are among a number of West Bank settlements “…that I think will be here forever.” The former President also thanked... Blogs of Zion http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2272276/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:35:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271509/posts Asked by the liberal Haaretz newspaper whether the Jewish state was looking at a "head-on collision" with the United States if it doesn't comply with Washington's demands, Carter said "Yes." The former president said Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank were the biggest hurdle in the hobbled Middle East peace process, saying they were "illegal and (an) obstacle to peace." The administration of US President Barack Obama has repeatedly called on Israel to halt all settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, which is viewed as one of the key obstacles in the stalled Middle East peace process. AFP via Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271509/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:49:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271168/posts RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was honored by the Palestinian government Saturday and pledged to support the Palestinians' campaign for independence to the end of his days. In his acceptance speech, Carter urged the Palestinians to end their internal divisions and stop persecuting their rivals. Seattle PI/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271168/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:41:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270230/posts DAMASCUS, SYRIA – Former President Jimmy Carter Thursday reiterated that there can be no peace between Israel and the Palestinians without involving the militant group Hamas. His comments came shortly before he met with the militant group's Syrian-based leader, Khaled Mashaal. Carter met with Mashaal twice under the Bush administration, angering some in the U.S. government who said he was legitimizing a group the U.S. considers a terrorist organization. But this was his first meeting under the Obama administration, which has launched a fresh quest for peace in the Middle East, and came as Obama's Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, was... Toronto Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270230/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:12:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2268713/posts You got to give Jimmy Carter some credit, he may have been the worst president in American History but almost 30 years after since he left the Presidency but he is still hard at work, diligently trying to screw up the world. He can no longer screw-up Zimbabwe or Iran, those deeds have been done. So the Village Idiot of ex-Presidents has been doing his best to go after Israel by helping the Islamo-fascists. In his warped mind it is the American Jewish Community in combination with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin that is responsible for losing his bid for... WND/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2268713/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:50:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267675/posts National Security: Amid all the neighborly talk about new U.S. efforts to engage Cuba, the arrest of a State Department official as a Cuban spy ought to be a wake-up call about the intentions of the Castro dictatorship.Last Friday, federal agents arrested Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and his wife Gwendolyn, 71, as unregistered Cuban agents. The Feds said the pair had been spying for Cuba since 1979 and, like other agents in service to the Castro regime, didn't do it for money, but out of sympathy for communism and a loathing of the United States. For that, they stole not... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267675/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jun 2009 01:49:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266007/posts Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich compares President Obama to Jimmy Carter because of his "sense of confusion" of who our enemies are. Gingrich also criticizes Obama for his "unwillingness" to be "bold and positive about America when overseas." Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266007/posts#comment Sat, 6 Jun 2009 04:19:08 GMT