[AmericanInTokyo]

This by the Director of the The Carter Center (Georgia) LINK which has a specific mission of watching and guaranteeing free elections around the globe. The Carter Center website praises how they have been instrumental worldwide in fomenting representative democracy through popular, open, free and verifiable elections and plebiscites giving the people direct, unfettered say in the affairs of their lands.

And yet:

--THERE HAS BEEN NO FREE, OPEN POPULAR-BASED ELECTION OF KIM JONG UN TO LEAD NORTH KOREA

--THE 27-YEAR-OLD RECEIVES POWER COMPLETELY DEVOID OF OPEN AND FREE ELECTION BUT BY MERE DYNASTIC DESIGNATION BY A DYING DESPOT a few years ago, and rubber stamped by a illegitimate Korean Workers Party.

--This man Jimmy Carter has the NERVE to send such an ill-advised message which is now being used internally as propaganda by the North Korean authorities to solidify the internal dictatorial succession and oppress the people further. Further he expresses a desire to visit North Korea again.

The conclusion can only be this: Jimmy Carter has a direct hand in LEGITIMIZING D.P.R.K. GOVERNMENT BY TERROR AND ILLEGITIMATE, ARBITRARY COERCION, in complete contradiction to the stated Mission Statement and Goals of the "Carter Center" of which he founded and heads.

Somebody with a megaphone should bring this up and force Mr. Carter to make an explanatory statement about it, legitimizing his comments and communication to Pyongyang in light of a) the horrendous situation rampant in one of the worst violators of human rights on the planet where i) no free elections are allowed and never have occurred since first promised in 1945; ii) accordingly no election observers are allowed by the Carter Center or anyone else into the DPRK, and b) in direct contradiction with his own organization's objective.

Does this organization get any US NGO or 501 (c)(3) federal funding? The press is already on to this story, but the Center spokespeople have all apparantly fled and/or conveniently "gone on vacation."

[AmericanInTokyo]

Ping!

[Huntress]

Jimmy Carter is the prime example of why I would support a constitutional amendment to raise the minimum eligible age for president to sixty. Old presidents leave office and tend to retire into peaceful obscurity. Young ex-presidents still yearn for relevance and attention.

Carter became president at age 52, left office at age 56, and has been a public pain the a$$ for last thirty years. Clinton has the same problem, and I predict that Obama will be an even more annoying ex-president than Carter.

[tanuki]

The bottom of the self-loathing depths of American Progressivism has been reached. Its repudiation is the repudiation of utter moral surrender.

[CalvaryJohn]

Source, please, not just the home page of the Carter Center.

[JPG]

Maybe Carter can work his magic on the new regime and the young-un. You'll recall that when Jimmah went to NK and orchestrated his ad hoc meetings with Kim Il-Sung, the old commie clutched and dropped about three weeks later.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Thread bump again (a few months later), in light of new developments under Kim Jong Eun such as a) "death by mortar firing squad" internal North Korean leadership purges, and b) planned April ICBM launch by North Korea in violation of international agreements and slapping the Kenyan in the face over this. (Obama slated to visit the DMZ in a little while, I am sure they will be quaking in their Russian-made jackboots over there across the MDL at Panmunjom when they see our Dear Leader up there). / sarc

PS Jimmy Carter is an absolute disgrace!!