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Category: Jimmy Carter

  • Worst president: worse president will get “better”

    On Friday, January 21, 1977, his first full day in office, Jimmy Carter gave blanket amnesty to the draft dodgers of the recently ended Vietnam War. The following week, I changed my voter registration from Democrat to the Conservative Party of New York State. Carter’s one term presidency only got worse from there and over the next four years millions more Democrats became conservatives.

    Now Jimmy Carter assures us that the potentially worse president than Carter will be “better” in the second half of this term (from CBS News);

    “In the next two years President Obama will be much more independent in fighting hard to prevail and not trying to reach out, which turned out to be fruitlessly, to get two or three Republican votes for this and that,” Mr. Carter said in an interview for CBSNews.com’s “Washington Unplugged.” “I think he’ll be a much more tough proponent of what he stands for in the future, giving up on Republicans support and taking his case to the American public.”

    “Republicans so far have been totally irresponsible,” Mr. Carter went on. “Now that they’ve taken control of the House of Representatives, they’ll be responsible for a major element of the U.S. government.”

    In other words, among all of the other things he’s failed at, Carter can’t do math, either. Obama couldn’t hold his own party together when they were in the majority, but somehow he’ll tame the Republicans. We can only hope that Obama is listening. Maybe Obama can send Carter to solve the North Korea problem again.

    Thanks to Jerry920 for the link.

  • Time to lock the old coot up in a padded cell

    Since he couldn’t find any sane person who could say it with a straight face, Jimmy Carter said it himself;

    Yup, two words I never expected to see in the same sentence; “Jimmy Carter” and “Success”. I guess he thought that someone ought to say it while President Obama is in office because, comparatively, Carter looks more like “success” than Obama.

    The first thing Carter did in office was grant amnesty to draft dodgers – creating a class of morons who think they can do anything they want and get away with it.

    Now, if you equate success with forming the Energy Department, you might be right. But if you consider that Carter established the DOE with the intent to wean us off of foreign energy, it looks nothing like success. He also intended that the DOE would streamline the process for building refineries and pipelines as we need them. Not one refinery has been completed in the thirty years since the establishment of the DOE.

    If you equate success with Mideast peace, you haven’t read any reports from the Mideast lately. Carter tried to shore up the shah in Iran…how’d that work out for you denizens of the Great Satan. It made the world so unstable that Carter was able to walk down through the cheering throngs on Pennsylvania Avenue at his Inuaguration as all of his predecessors had done, but four years later, President Reagan had to ride in a bulletproof limousine.

    He tried to rescue Somoza in Nigaragua leading to the wars in Central America for nearly a decade – and the worst poverty in America in Nicaragua…still.

    Yeah, so this is in preparation for his new book transcribed by his voice-recorded notes while in office. Let me tell you; I wrote a paper in college about the Carter-Torrijos (when he gave away the Panama Canal – another of his “successes”) and i had to read Carter’s memoir “Keeping Faith”. It was the most arrogant piece of shit ever written. In the book, he admitted that 75% of Americans opposed giving away the Panama Canal, but he wrote that 75% of the people who “understood” the issue favored giving the Canal back to Panama. Remind of any other arrogant people who’ve been in the White House the last year or so? By the way, Carter ran for office in 1976 promising that he’d never give away the Canal.

    Yeah, I can’t think of anyone outside of Carter’s cabinet that would attribute “success” to even one day of the carter Administration.

    By the way, I voted for him in 1976. By 1980, I was a Republican.

    Thanks to jerry920 for the link.

  • That speech last night

    No, I didn’t watch the president’s address last night. I saw enough of Jimmy Carter’s speeches to know what he’s going to say. You can read the whole text at the Wall Street Journal like I did this morning…I saw Jimmy Carter’s furrowed brow through the whole thing. Don’t believe me? Read through the “Malaise Speech” and tell me it doesn’t sound like Obama last night.

    But actually I wish everyone would stop criticizing his speeches – every time he gives a goofed up speech it only encourages him to give another and even though Chris Matthews and the gang didn’t like his speech last night, I’m sure the next will bring the tingles back with a vengeance.

    Below the jump is Obama making comments after the meeting with BP execs – it’s a live feed so you may just get a bunch of reporters standing around for a while;
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  • Palin frightens Left

    This morning, the Washington Post provides two opposing opinions of Sarah Palin. The first is a news story about a poll, a Washington Post/ABC poll in regards to support for Palin among Americans;

    Although Palin is a tea party favorite, her potential as a presidential hopeful takes a severe hit in the survey. Fifty-five percent of Americans have unfavorable views of her, while the percentage holding favorable views has dipped to 37, a new low in Post-ABC polling.

    There is a growing sense that the former Alaska governor is not qualified to serve as president, with more than seven in 10 Americans now saying she is unqualified, up from 60 percent in a November survey. Even among Republicans, a majority now say Palin lacks the qualifications necessary for the White House.

    Palin has lost ground among conservative Republicans, who would be crucial to her hopes if she seeks the party’s presidential nomination in 2012. Forty-five percent of conservatives now consider her as qualified for the presidency, down sharply from 66 percent who said so last fall.

    Qualified? I don’t even know what that means anymore after watching the amateur talent show that currently occupies the West Wing of the White House. That clown car skit that careens in one direction then comically switches direction 180 degrees, dumps off riders and skitters off into the stands.

    Of course, a similar poll in the late 70s might have discovered the same sentiment in regards to Ronald Reagan.

    But it’s difficult to overcome the media’s trumpeting of the two smartest guys to ever work in the White House – Obama and Biden. Obama has never made decision and Biden had never voiced a policy decision that was right. Poll the public on that, Washington Post.

    The other article is an opinion piece by David Broder in which he warns the Democrats that Palin can actually beat them in 2012 if they don’t take her seriously.

    Freed of the responsibilities she carried as governor of Alaska, devoid of any official title but armed with regular gigs on Fox News Channel and more speaking invitations than she can fulfill, Palin is perhaps the most visible Republican in the land.

    More important, she has locked herself firmly in the populist embrace that every skillful outsider candidate from George Wallace to Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton has utilized when running against “the political establishment.”

    George Wallace? Hardly. But the most instructive part of the article isn’t in Broder’s piece, it’s in the readers’ comments a sample of which I’ve captured for posterity;

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    I’ll grant that the Washington Post’s readers are hardly representative of mainstream American voters, but it does demonstrate the fear level in regards to Palin among Democrats. If you support Palin, you’re a clown, a pervert and a Nazi. Some of you who were here during the 2008 elections remember that the main reason the leftists didn’t support Palin was because she was “scary” – apparently more scary than Joe Biden who has been consistently wrong on every US policy for the last thirty years. Joe Biden who plagiarized his way through college and still only got mediocre grades…which he lies about these days.

    Yes, Republicans might be moving away from Palin – but they do that. They run away from viable candidates because they listen to Democrats and pick candidates the Democrats tell Republicans they like – which is how we got John McCain on the ticket.

  • Democrat “leadership”

    I was held hostage today at a Walter Reed waiting room for about an hour (I got the cast off, by the way, if anyone is interested) and was forced to listen to CNN while reading my Kindle. As much as I hate Fox, I hate CNN even more. I burst out laughing at one point when they were talking about the Iran protests and Obama’s interview on CBS this morning.

    The news reader at one point reported, deadpan serious, that some Republicans supported Obama’s wishy-washy speech last Saturday. i waited with bated breath to see which Republicans made such a thought public. Ready? OK:

    Henry Kissinger and Pat Buchanan.

    C’mon, admit it, you chuckled, too.

    Henry Kissinger is a Republican in the narrowest definition of the word. He’s famous for detente with the Soviet Union – and arming Jimmy Carter with that massive failure.

    Can anyone tell me the last time Pat Buchanan supported any Republican foreign policy? He’s a cro-magnon-conservative – his brand of Republicanism goes back to the isolationists of World War Two. He criticized both Presidents Bush, so of course he’s going to support a policy that keeps us from being engaged in events in Iran. Hell, Buchanan thinks we should withdraw from Europe and Japan, too.

    Then CNN backed up their new buddies Kissinger and Buchanan with Diane Feinstein making her typical intellectually vacant comments;

    “I think the president has it correct. … It is very crucial as I see it that we not have our fingerprints on this. That this really be truly inspired by the Iranian people. We don’t know where this goes. And I sure wouldn’t want to be responsible for thousands of people being killed, which is a distinct possibility.”

    Ya know what – that’s the same kind of shit that kept us racing troops back to Kuwait every time Hussein farted through the 90s. It’s the same kind of empty thought that allowed the Taliban to take over Afghanistan. It’s the same pretty words that Jimmy Carter thought during the first Iranian Revolution that lost democracy in Iran in 1979. It’s the same empty intellect that tried to force us out of Iraq in 2006-2008. It’s the same idiot ideology that has caused every problem we’ve had in the last fifty years. So let’s do it all again.

    “We don’t know where this goes”. Did George HW Bush know we’d cake walk through Kuwait to the gates of Baghdad? Did Ronald Reagan know for a fact that the Soviet Union would collapse in his lifetime? Did FDR know he’d defeat the both the Nazis and the Japanese in less than four years.

    Feinstein said she didn’t want to be responsible for thousands of deaths – um, she wouldn’t be responsible. It looks like thousands of Iranians are willing to die for their freedom. Don’t we owe it to them to help them try to cast off the chains of the mullahs? The same mullahs who financed the killing of US troops in Iraq and, lately, Afghanistan? Don’t we have a dog in this fight, too?

    It’s no wonder the world is falling down around our ears, if this is how the Democrats plan on “leading” this country for the next four years.

    And ya wanna know why? It’s so the Democrats can buy patronage with their domestic problems and not be distracted by the flames creeping closer to our shores.

    Do they think by keeping out of Iran, that’ll stop terrorism? The mullahs are already blaming us whether we’re involved or not – if we’re going to do the time, we might as well do the crime.

  • Carter: Those guys who tried to blow me up – take them off of the terrorist list.

    In Gaza, Jimmy Carter was doing what he does best the other day – hugging blood-soaked terrorists. According to Fox News, he plans on talking to the president about removing them from the terrorist list;

    Former President Jimmy Carter will urge the Obama administration to remove Hamas from the terrorist list, FOX News has learned.

    Carter, a chief defender of the U.S.-designated terror group, said Tuesday he will meet with officials in the Obama administration in two days to discuss his latest trip to the Middle East.

    Carter said he feels personally responsible that American weapons were used to fight in Gaza Strip last year, when Israeli Defense Forces entered the strip to stop the launch of rockets from there into Israel.

    Why does he feel personally responsible? Was he the one shooting rockets into israel? But the best part of Carter telling the president that Hamas shouldn’t be designated as terrorists? They tried to blow his stupid ass up as he left Gaza;

    According to two eyewitnesses, including a 15-year-old boy, the bombs were intended to hit Carter’s vehicle as he exited Gaza. There is some suspicion that Hamas extremists linked to Al Qaeda may be behind the attempt.

    The boy told FOX News he saw three Palestinian men planting bombs, four of which were later found near a mound less than a mile from the Israel-Gaza border.

    Now, I don’t think anyone deserves to die in a terrorist attack – but you have to admit that the irony of that event would not be lost on the rest of the world. Jimmy Carter was the last president to walk the one-mile stretch from the Capitol to the White House on his Inauguration Day. By the time he left office, the world was such a dangerous place, Ronald Reagan had to ride most of the distance in an armored limousine.

    The Russians seem upset that the palestinians didn’t succeed;
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    AFP reports that Carter’s inability to assign blame to victims showed through;

    “My primary feeling today is one of grief and despair and an element of anger when I see the destruction perpetrated against innocent people,” Carter said as he toured the impoverished territory.

    “Tragically, the international community too often ignores the cries for help and the citizens of Palestine are treated more like animals than like human beings,” he said.

    It must be a wonderful feeling to judge entire peoples based on their current condition while ignoring what got them to that point. I think it’s called naivete.

    UPDATED: Ace of Spades says that it was Israel that actually provided the intelligence which saved Carter from winning the Nobel Pieces Prize.

  • Obama’s Bill Clinton moment

    Can you imagine George W. Bush allowing a US Navy destroyer to be held at bay by a few scrawny Somalians stranded in an unfueled lifeboat hundreds of miles from shore? No, me either. Only a Democrat Administration would think that they can negotiate with a bunch of superstitious stone-age terrorists who think they’re going to die the minute their hostage is released. After all, they reneged on their deal with the crew of the Maersk Alabama in the prisoner exchange that was supposed to take place before the Navy arrived. Why should they expect different treatment from our side?

    I flashed on a similar situation over 15 years ago when in the Fall of 1994, the Haitian generals held an entire nation hostage. At one point, President Clinton dispatched warships to Port-au-Prince. Shirtless and shoeless Haitian supporters of the generals stood on the docks shouted and waved their machetes at the hulking gray ships. Eventually, the Navy didn’t dock and left the port. The Haitians immediately celebrated a great victory over the United States military.

    Clinton became so frustrated that he sent Jimmy Carter to straighten things out – and the 82d Airborne Division orbited Pope Air Force Base waiting for the word to go. Instead of using his military, Clinton paid US taxpayer dollars to the generals to leave Haiti – and Haiti is a tropical paradise and tourist destination today because of it. Huh? It’s not? Nothing has changed? How could I have missed that?

    Halfway around the world, with their compadres streaming towards the tiny lifeboat with it’s single hostage, shirtless and shoeless pirates are holding off the US Navy. For three days now, the US has been negotiating and time is running short before more ships with more hostages arrive to complicate the whole situation.

    Why doesn’t Obama just drop Jimmy Carter into the lifeboat and exchange him for Captain Phillips? That’d solve two problems at once.

  • Jimmy Carter; still clueless after all these years

    Curt at Flopping Aces has a video of perennial dipshit Jimmy Carter on the Today Show this morning. Just when you think the branch this fruit is hanging from can’t droop any lower, down he goes;

    I draw your attention to this exchange;

    VIEIRA: Do you believe that Hamas can be trusted?

    CARTER: Yes, I do. I think they can, because of their own self- interest, not because they’re benevolent, or kind, or that sort of thing. But yes, I do. I think they can. And they’ve never betrayed any commitment that they’ve made to me, or publicly, as a matter of fact. …

    VIEIRA: But Hamas has said its goal is to destroy Israel. How can you involve them in a peace process when they said their goal is to destroy Israel? They don’t recognize Israel.

    CARTER: I’m not here to defend Hamas….

    Then what the hell is he doing? He claims there was “no serious rocket fire” during the 2008 cease fire – well, unless you count those three thousand rockets they fired into Irsael. Just because Hamas haven’t fired any rockets at Jimmy Carter personally, I guess he feels that makes them trustworthy.

    I’m glad to see that Carter is willing to goof up any Presidential administration, that he’s a nonpartisan fly in everyone’s ointment. I wonder how he explains away his one term presidency to himself.