Posted by
Thespis on Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:34:28 PM
There should be a sunset clause on the publication of comments by
former Presidents who embarrass the nation. Depending on the failure
rate of a presidency, or after a couple of dozen royal screw-ups, the
former President should have no forum from which to spout his folly.
When Ronald Reagan skunked Jimmy Carter in November, 1980, the nation
breathed collective sigh of relief as we believed we were finished
being lectured by the king of malaise. Jimmy Carter, the person whose
method of fighting the cold war was to tell the communists that we
would not attend the Olympics, the man who perfected the misery index,
and the real accident of the Watergate history should be exposed for
his sheer silliness.
The
public is weary of hearing from the mainstream elite press that Jimmy
Carter is the best former President in our nation’s history. Jimmy
Carter is more dangerous now than when he was in The White House. While
in the White House he had advisors who could partially protect him from
his own stupidity. Along with many other Americans, I am ashamed of
Jimmy Carter, and the efforts of a complicit liberal press to
rehabilitate Mr. Carter will not be successful.
Mr.
Carter has opened his mouth again, and while he is bashing President
Bush, Carter succeeds in embarrassing himself and has given aid and
comfort to the enemy once again. There has been a long standing policy
that Former Presidents provide their critiques of current policies in
private. Mr. Carter has never accommodated this unwritten rule. Jimmy
and Rosalyn Carter have always the lacked the class, wisdom, wisdom,
good judgment, and dignity to lead our nation in any meaningful manner.
The following are three of the ludicrous points made by Mr. Carter.
•
President Bush has pursued an "erroneous policy" that has fostered
violence in the Middle East, said former President Jimmy Carter, who
brokered the historic Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt. "In
my opinion, maybe the worst ally Israel has had in Washington has been
the George W. Bush administration, which hasn't worked to bring a
permanent peace to Israel," Carter said Friday during a stop in West
Michigan.
•
"It depends on whether world opinion is strong enough to get the
administration to change its erroneous policy, which has been to
encourage the continuation of attacks on both sides."
•
"In my opinion, we should make every effort now to withdraw American
troops from Iraq," he said. "I would say certainly begin a major
withdrawal no later than the end of this year."
The guys at Powerline have extensive research
on the disastrous former presidency of Jimmy Carter. They state the
ideas extremely well, and provide a compelling indictment of Mr.
Carter’s worth as a statesman in the post September 11 political
climate.
Jimmy
Carter is a disgrace. We've said so before, and we'll continue saying
so as long as he merits the criticism. If you want to learn more, read
Steven Hayward's book The Real Jimmy Carter.
Carter panted after the Nobe Peace Prize for years, seeing it as a
means of gaining official redemption for his humiliation at the hands
of the voters in 1980. He lobbied quietly behind the scenes for years
to get the prize, and finally met with success in 2002 when the
left-wing Nobel Prize committee saw an opportunity to use Carter as a
way of attacking President Bush and embarrassing the United States. The
head of the Nobel Prize committee openly admitted that this was their
motivation in selecting Carter. Any other ex-president would have
refused to be a part of such an obvious anti-American intrigue, but not
Jimmy. Here we should observe that Carter conceives himself much more
as a citizen of the world than as a citizen of the United States, and I
think it is highly revealing that Carter is most popular overseas in
those nations that hate America the most, such as Syria, where they
lined the streets cheering for Carter when he visited.