Posted on 09/16/2010 11:04:50 AM PDT by Nachum
Former President Jimmy Carter lashed out at the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), who he blamed for lack of comprehensive healthcare in the U.S. Carter lashed out at Kennedy, who passed away in August of 2009, for the 1979 clash between the two over the national healthcare plan Carter had proposed. "The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed,” Carter said in an interview to air Sunday on "60 Minutes" on CBS. “It was his fault. Ted Kennedy killed the bill."
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The gift that keeps on giving.
Wow, 1979. We’d have a $100 trillion debt now and intense rationing. Oh well, that was postponed 30 years I guess.
It’s going to be fun as Carter won’t shut up as he grows more senile!
Heh, heh, heh, Carter has to have a hudge grudge against Ted Kennedy.
“Ted Kennedy killed the bill (and Mary Jo).”
What an idiot. Can’t blame Bush so pick on dead people. They can’t defend themselves, it’s easy!
Another reason not to watch 60 Minutes this Sunday.
Wow. Mary Jo... this bill. Just one more and he could be classified as a mass murderer...
“They can’t defend themselves, it’s easy!”
This is a typical Dem half-truth. Did Kennedy oppose Carter’s bill? Absolutely. Could Carter’s bill ever have passed even if Ted Kennedy drowned at Chappaquiddick? Absolutely not. Jimmy seems to be taking a page from Obama’s book: blaming everyone else but the guy in the mirror for his own failures.
That show is still on? Really?
Last time I saw it on TV was circa 1970's.
(I was in high school then.)
Come back out in the breezeway; you can sit in your favorite porch rocker....
Time for your meds, now...
While I don’t mind seeing Carter stir the pot a bit, I can’t imagine that health care legislation that couldn’t get past Ted Kennedy would have a chance of passing the full Senate. Not in 1979, anyway.
Jimmah can sure hold a grudge.
Hahahahaha!!! Jimmy Carter, the nail pounder, is now shoveling shit onto the grave of Teddy Kennedy!!! Hahaha! Too funny!!!
One dead democrat blames another.....
rats eating rats
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