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Category: Jimmy Carter

  • Carter’s disappointment; Obama doesn’t call

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    Jimmy Carter, the last fellow for whom I cast a vote for Democrat for president, is a bit miffed because President Obama doesn’t call him for advice, the Washington Times reports;

    He was asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” if Mr. Obama ever reached out to him for advice on various policy matters. His response?

    “Unfortunately, the answer is no,” said Mr. Carter, 89, the New York Daily News reported. “President Obama doesn’t, but previous presidents have called on me and the Carter Center to take action.”

    Even President Ronald Reagan has reached out for his advice, Mr. Carter said. So have former White House Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, but not Mr. Obama.

    Well, I can clear that up for the one termer, a conversation between the two would only be an echo chamber. Obama is clearly a student of the failed Carter presidency, and talking to Carter would be like having a conversation with himself.

    Carter also claims that the man who doesn’t want to talk to him is spying on him;

    “I have felt that my own communications are probably monitored,” he said, The New York Daily News reported. “And when I want to communicate with a foreign leader privately, I type or write the letter myself, put it in the post office and mail it, because I believe if I send an email, it will be monitored.”

    Yeah, well, that’s brilliant, too. The government has never opened our mail, have they? He’s probably suspicious about those rabbits in his yard every morning, too. Little assassin rabbits everywhere.

  • Draft dodgers in South Korea

    For those of you out there who think that draft is the answer to the problems facing national security as service in our all-volunteer military becomes less attractive, this look at South Korea’s conscription woes in the Stars & Stripes might alter your perception;

    South Korea is better known for its catchy K-pop songs, tech-savviness and economic growth than it is for the more than 17,500 conscientious objectors who have been imprisoned since 1950. Most are Jehovah’s Witnesses, who number about 100,000 in this country of 50 million and often face stigma in its largely conformist society.

    More than 50 men have refused to serve in the past decade because of nonreligious personal beliefs or political reasons, including 25-year-old Kim Dong Hyun.

    “Right now, I only have two choices: military or prison. Of the two, I think prison is the more peaceful choice,” Kim said. “At least in prison I don’t have to train to kill.”

    Kim, like Jeon, was sentenced to 18 months, which today is a typical sentence for conscientious objectors in South Korea. Under South Korea’s military-backed dictatorship in the 1970s and 80s, imprisonment lasted up to seven years.

    The United Nations Human Rights Committee criticizes South Korea for not recognizing conscientious objectors and failing to give them alternatives to military service- a violation of freedom of thought, conscience and religion recognized in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

    This is in a country whose main threat is just across a thin strip of fenced and mine-laden earth and has a history of incursions into South Korea. Imagine trying to maintain a trained standing Army in the US among the lazy and irresponsible pool of draft-aged men and women. Our jails would be packed with draft dodgers, no room for the thugs.

    Our draft system has already been corrupted by the Jimmy Carter Administration when he gave blanket amnesty to all of the draft dodgers of the Vietnam Era, then a few years later, reinstated draft registration. Carter insured that a draft will never work again here.

  • Carter says he was targeted for assassination

    I saw the title of this article in the Washington Examiner and thought they were going to offer some kind of evidence that Jimmy Carter had been the target of assassination since he left the White House, but apparently the only source for the story is the peanut magnate himself;

    “I have had two or three threats to my life after I came home from the White House,” Carter said in the highly-anticipated book due out October 22. “When I go on an overseas trip almost invariably, I get a report from the Secret Service that where I’m going is very dangerous,” he added in the book provided in advance to Secrets.

    Carter also told Sabato: “Sometimes they [Secret Service] ask me not to go, and I go anyway. They and I both just laugh about it. So I have been more concerned about my safety in doing the Carter Center’s business overseas than I ever was in the White House.”

    So, was it two or was it three threats? Whenever I hear someone say “two or three” somethings happened, I know it’s a complete lie, because who can forget whether something happened two times or three times. No one wants to kill him, we learned he was a buffoon the day after he was inaugurated when he gave amnesty to the Vietnam draft dodgers. We knew we just had to be patient and he’d get replaced. The only people who hated him enough to kill him were the Iranians because he wouldn’t turn over the Shah to them.

    He tried to make the US weaker long before it was Obama’s plan, but after he left office he was no real threat, well, except to common sense. But at least, back then Americans were smart enough to only give him one term in office.

    I figure he’s making up these death threats…either that or the Secret Service just tells him that to make him feel like he’s still got some worth.

  • Lindsey Graham; the new Jimmy Carter

    I remember in 1980 that our grand strategy for defeating the Soviet Union after their invasion of Afghanistan the year before, was to boycott the Moscow Olympics. Remember how well that worked? Yep, it hit the Soviets so hard that they were forced to withdraw from Afghanistan eight years later. It was a close won thing, but our perseverance in the face of adversity triumphed.

    Well, of course, I’m kidding. The boycott hurt the Soviet Union not a whit, in fact, they took a lot more medals than they would have if we’d showed up, and some young athletes had wasted years of preparations for a weak political point.

    So, according to the Washington Times, Lindsey Graham is proposing that we boycott the upcoming Olympics again over the Eddie Snowden discussion;

    “I would [consider a boycott]. I would just send the Russians the most unequivocal signal I could send them,” the South Carolina Republican said in an interview with The Hill newspaper. “It might help, because what they’re doing is outrageous. We certainly haven’t reset our relationship with Russia in a positive way. At the end of the day, if they grant this guy asylum, it’s a breach of the rule of law as we know it and is a slap in the face to the United States.”

    Just think of the potential outcome – eight years from now, Russia might turn over Snowden. Yay! Another win in the “never learn from history” column. Of course, drawing on Jimmy Carter’s legacy is what this administration does best.

  • Norks are coming!

    According to the Associated Press, the North Korean leader, Needle Dick; the Bug F*cker, has given his military the equally impotent permission to attack US and South Korean militaries in South Korea;

    North Korea warned early Thursday that its military has been cleared to attack the U.S. using “smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear” weapons, while the U.S. said it was strengthening protection in the region and seeking to defuse the situation.

    Despite the intense rhetoric, analysts do not expect a nuclear attack by North Korea, which knows the move could trigger a destructive, suicidal war that no one in the region wants. It’s not believed to have the ability to launch nuclear-tipped missiles, but its other nuclear capabilities aren’t fully known.

    According to the Washington Beacon, China is gearing up for a possible reopening of hostilities in the war that has been fairly stagnant for 60 years;

    The Obama administration, meanwhile, sought to play down the Chinese military buildup along the border with Beijing’s fraternal communist ally despite the growing danger of conflict following unprecedented threats by Pyongyang to attack the United States and South Korea with nuclear weapons.

    […]

    The buildup appears linked to North Korea’s March 30 announcement that it is in a “state of war” with South Korea after the United Nations imposed a new round of sanctions following the North’s Feb. 12 nuclear test and because of ongoing large-scale joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises.

    I don’t know about the rest of you, but I can’t help but feel a little excited at the potential of millions of North Koreans presenting themselves as targets here. It’s the next best thing to the Zombie Epoch. I hope they wait until I can sight in my new Model 700. But I do have aiming stakes set up for the potential drop zone that my deck overlooks – it’s going to happen just like “Red Dawn”, right?

    I hate to bring you down, but it’s probably all bluster. I’m pretty sure that the Obama Administration is loading up a plane right now with bags of money that Jimmy Carter can deliver to ND;tBF.

  • Argo; Jimmy Carter ruined it for me

    So, yesterday I watched Argo on Amazon and I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised by the entire movie. It represented Americans, generally, and the CIA, in particular, very well. I’ll admit that I never knew much about that operation, but then I was in the 82d at the time and I was more focused on preparation for what we thought was inevitable at the time. But, Ben Affleck did do a very good job on the movie…until the end.

    While the end credits were running, Jimmy Carter chimed in, for some reason, and he said something to the effect of “in the end, our country maintained it’s dignity and without any violence”.

    Yeah, our dignity was shot in those days. We had a useless president who couldn’t make up his mind how to react and we sat like an impotent giant doing nothing. Until he finally decided to launch a military mission, after four years of starving the military of training time and resources. Equipment broke down, the lack of training took it’s toll and cost eight Americans their lives in that dusty landing zone in Iran.

    I had the misfortune of reading Carter’s memoir “Keeping Faith” for a paper I wrote in college on the Carter-Torrijos Treaty and it was nothing but a recitation of lies to rehabilitate Carter’s failed presidency. It seems he’s still engaged in that practice. His statement at the end of Argo sounds as if he feels triumphant about his role in the operation, but anyone who watches the movie can see for themselves that Carter called off the operation to help six Americans escape from Iran and the Affleck character (Tony Mendez) went ahead with his mission in spite of the Carter Administration’s doubts.

    Including the Carter quote in the movie was a slap in the face to anyone involved in the mission. To borrow from the best line in the movie; Jimmy Carter, Argo F*** Yourself.

  • Iran claims right to close the Persian Gulf

    Yes, the whacky nutjobs in Tehran are threatening to close the Straits of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf as retaliation for economic sanctosn which have taken Iran’s oil off of the global market says Associated Press;

    The remarks by Heshmatollah Falahapisheh came as EU nations on Monday agreed in Brussels on an oil embargo against Iran as part of sanctions over the country’s controversial nuclear program.

    I’d remind the crackpots in Tehran, as well as our own crackpots in Washington that Jimmy Carter threatened military force to keep the persian Gulf open in his State of the Union Address on January 23, 1980 in what is now referred to as the Carter Doctrine;

    Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.

    The original “war for oil” doctrine was aimed at the Soviet Union after their invasion of Afghanistan, but we’ve used as justification to station carrier groups in the Gulf as well, as the Persian Gulf War when Saddam Hussein threatened the Gulf States.

    And how much sense does it make to close the Gulf when Iran deends on the Gulf for it’s on oil shipments. What a bunch of babies. I guess they’re just spoiling for a fight with this weak Administration, like they did with Carter Administration.

  • Jimmy Carter sinks Romney campaign

    Former worst president in history, Jimmy Carter, decided to sink the Romney campaign by endorsing Romney’s candidacy (Politico link);

    “I’m not taking a position, but I would be very pleased to see him win the Republican nomination,” Carter told the MSNBC host, according to advance interview excerpts.
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    Carter also said he was grateful to another Republican candidate, Michele Bachmann, for her volunteer work on his own presidential campaign.

    He went on to say that he doesn’t think anyone will beat Obama however.

    The best way to guess what my vote will be is to consider what Jimmy Carter recommends…I’ll always do the opposite. Carter has been wrong on every policy issue in the last several decades and brought about the rise of radical Islam, so any endorsement by him can be considered to have been made on Opposite Day. Only Joe “Bite Me” Biden can compete with Carter on being consistently wrong.

    Bachmann’s work on Carter’s campaign gives me pause, too.