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Carter's mea culpa: Regrets and carelessness
By Stone Martindale May 21, 2007, 15:29 GMT
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No, no, Mr. Carter! Please don't apologize, you're absolutely right. In fact, he's the WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY!!
Do apologize Mr. Carter...
from boortz:
While 21 might be a good number for winning streaks, it's a prime interest rate, to say nothing of 14 percent mortgage rates. Wow! This man really has room to talk, doesn't he.
Foreign relations? How about Carters freelance trip to North Korea early in Clinton's presidency? We're paying for all those kisses Carter planted firmly on Kim Jong Ill's backside today. Add to that his little adventure in Haiti.
Wait! There's more! Jimmy Carter rushes down to Venezuela to 'confirm' that the recall election went Hugo's way, even though every knowledgeable observer in the free world free world knew that voter intimidation and corruption was rampant. So, Hugo Chaves had his corrupt election blessed by Jimmy Carter .. and you know the rest of the story. And just why did Carter validate a clearly corrupt election? The word is that he was afraid there would be violence if Chavez wasn't declared the winner. For 444 days Islamic radicals held 63 U.S. Citizens hostage inside the American diplomatic mission in Iran. Could it be said that this was America's first great show of weakness to the Muslim world?
Now we have this complete and utter presidential failure telling us that George Bush was the worse.
Just one question: Would you have traded George Bush for Jimmy Carter on 9/11?
I completely agree with President Carter. He has nothing to apologize about! He was right in 2003 before the war and he is right now. Thank you Mr. Carter for speaking the truth.
Exactly, the only sad thing is he is being made to go back on his words, when he was absolutely correct. He should have went further and said Bush should be impeached for his blatant disregard for the laws governing this country.
President Carter has no need to apologize to anyone. Not only were his remarks dead on accurate, but no one can deny that his level of public service since his presidency, far exceeds the entire Bush family's accomplishments!
Yes, it is very reckless for even former politicians to go around telling the truth!!!
LOL.
1976-1980, now THERE was a Presidency for 'ya!
Absolute WORST of all time, bar none. Wiki it.
Comments like this coming for this old feeble minded southern racist, KKK supporter and anti-Semite are news worthy?
GW Bush is absoultely the worst president in American history, and there have been many bad ones. No president has brought the world as close to World War III as Bush has.
Mr Carter out to continue doing the good work he does with Habitat and -- KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT! - and stop being critical about our government - His administration was nothing to write home about and he has not been blasted by other Presidents!
BUSH HAS BEEN A MISTAKE FROM THE FIRST WITH INFLAMMATORY REMARKS: AXIS OF EVIL, ETC. CHENEY IS WORSE AS ARE HIS NEOCONS. CARTER IS RIGHT AND I SUPPORT HIS SPEAKING OUT.
In fact, it would be a good thing if we could get more of these miserable presidents along the lines of Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln. You know you've got a great president when the citizens they lead think that they're the worst the country has ever seen.
Heh. I dont have to worry about being diplomatic here. Bush administration IS the worst in the USA history. President Bush is reckless, stubborn and has a short coming in intelligence over all. You dont have to be a rocket scientist to figure it out. And I am basing all these not because he failed us as a nation in iraq. I am basing these on the fact that he was dumb enough to let this country be attacked in the first place. Now thats called a Lousy president.
Hey Jimmy, they make medicine for those type of brainless vocalizations. It might do you good to have some Billy beer and some peanuts sit on the porch and enjoy what is left of your life. Jim you lead the highest inflation rate, and did nothing for kidnapped americans in harms way for 444 days. They have a thing in all bathrooms, it is called a mirror. Each morning when you get up and decide if you are going spew venom, look in that reflection and ask yourself if you did everything correct in your administration. Simple answer NO.
Mr Carter you are right, this administration has brought fear, sadness and danger to this country and a sad downward sliding of world opinion. We must not apologize for saying the right thing, many, many, many people are in agreement with what you said. You are extremely relevant. Thank you.
If anyone is irrevelant at this point in history, it is George W. Bush. I noted in this morning's Arizona Republic that both Bush's had extremely low ratings at this point in their Presidencies...God help us if another one decides to run. I also saw a comment requesting information on how to form a representative government...that comment may have revelence.
Jimmy Carter was without a doubt the worst president this country has ever been saddled with. He pulled the rug out from under the Shah of Iran resulting in him being toppled by Islamic extremists, resulting in the 'Iran Hostage Crisis' that he mishandled terribly. That in turn has led to the Islamic Terrorist threat that we are now facing. In effect, the attack on 9/11 can be laid at the feet of James Earl Carter. Add to that the fact that under his presidency we had the highest inflation rates in history, the highest interest rates in history, the hostage crisis as well as many other problems that he (Carter) directly caused. He would do well to shut-up and grow his peanuts.
> Just one question: Would you have traded George Bush for Jimmy Carter on 9/11?
Yes, I would.
Would you have traded George Bush for Jimmy Carter on 9/11?
You bet. It probably wouldn't have happened at all. Watching 'the loser' sittting there reading a book up side down, thinking to himself, 'Gee, I wonder why he stabbed us in the back?' A complete nitwit, period!!!
I appears that Shawn is of the opinion that FDR was a stupid man.
In response to boort's question. YES The world would not be in the state it is in in Jimmy Carter were president. We would be embarked on a road to world peace, at least with the US's support. And I agree with Mr. Carter and the Donald that this is the worst president in US history. I knew from the moment he stole the election , and subsequently has ruled with impunity for almost all of his term (til now).
The truth is painful.
Mr. Carter has increasingly become MORE relevant with his recent comments about the roots of the conflict in the Middle East and now his dead-on criticism of the thuggish, corrupt and hopelessly incompetent Bush-Cheney takeover of a formerly democratic country. Two stolen general elections later and this nation is weaker and more pitied than feared around the world. Clearly, only mental defects and Limbaugh dittoheads support Bush-Cheney any longer. Interesting how those who claim to be patriots continue to defend these idiots.
dont apologize keep it real carter
Please, don't apologise. He is the ABSOLUTE worst president in the history of time! It's like areally bad reality she, exept we can't vote the (the administration) off the island!!
Has President Carter forgotten about his failure of a presidency. The hostages in Iran, Gas shortages, all time high for interest rates, the Panama Canal farce. It is just a case of the pot calling the kettle black. These guys are all the same it does not matter which party they affiliate with.
Please, don't apologise. He is the ABSOLUTE worst president in the history of time! It's like a really bad reality show, except we can't vote the (the administration) off the island!!
It's universally understood that Carter's administration was the worst, especially for the American people. Remember the Panama Canal zone giveaway? How about the 18% interest rates? Remember when he and Andy Young insisted that the democratically elected leader of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) wouldn't quite do so they insisted that the brutal Marxist and terrorist Robert Mugabe enter the elections? Mugabe is responsible for the complete destruction of the former breadbasket of southern Africa, the murder of tens of thousands, and the forcible displacement of millions. Funny that Carter should be silent about that, heh? Remember the death knell for Social Security Carter initiated by allowing millions of new immigrants hand outs from the fund Americans had contributed to their whole lives?
It's a hoot that Carter should criticize anyone! Dose this Marxist do gooder thinks the American people have amnesia?
Decades from now, George Bush will be recognized as one of the greatest American Presidents, and Jimmy Carter as one of the worst (however well intentioned).
I guess nobody remembers what Mr. Carter's administration was like. What babout that whole hostage crisis he handled, how well did he handle that? 21% mortgage rates, an economy in shambles, those were the defining characteristics of his administration. He is a great man and has done some very good things since he was president, but while he was president our nation was a mess!
It is sad that Jimmy Carter has to spoil the good things he doees with his mouth in times like these. If he insists on criticising foreign or domestic policy, perhaps he should reflect back on his own administration. He would be qualified and free to critize there.
What about the question above:
Just one question: Would you have traded George Bush for Jimmy Carter on 9/11?
Would any of you swap Carter for Bush in these days. Or better yet. What former president would YOU replace Bush with. You talk about Bush being the worst, but who could do better? Do you think Carter would do better? I don't think so, and I think Carter knows he could't do better in these times. That alone should have been reason enough for Carter to have picked his words a bit better, no matter what he thought.
Who do you think would have done better as President on 9/11?
From Johnny Depp to the Dixie Chicks to Jimmy Carter, what has motivated all these people to aplogize after having criticized this disaster of an administation - even now as it is falling all around us?
Apparently some of the people agreeing with Jimmy do not remember his term in office.
God Bless Jimmy Carter. He speaks the truth when others turn their heads. Go Jimmy!
I am sure that Carter feels some relief. It only took 27 years for him to lose the title.
I think Jimmy Carter should not appoligize! Diplomacy will change the world, fighting will only end it. For those of you who still hold on to 9/11 need to explore the teachings of Leo Strauss who made the neocons what they are and then look at the actions of this administratiuon as well as Reagans.
At least Jimmy Carter has the courage to tell it like it really is. GW has the brains of a chimp and about as much leadership ability! He even has the nerve to make fun of the Queen of England when she was here at Jamestown! He knows nothing about the outside world and could care less as long as his oil baron buddies are making piles of money on the backs of Americans who have to work for a living. GW has caused us to be hated the world over and, when traveling in foreign countries, people offer sympathies to us for having such a dolt as president. President Carter, keep saying what is the truth and maybe someone will get it finally!
It's a shame that one of the few major politicians of either party with high moral standing has basically withdrawn his statement. The loss of our moral standing throughout the world is more of a tragedy than the Iraq war, and will haunt us for decades.
personal view, not expressed as a representative of the town
Perhaps the worst President was ... Franklin Roosevelt, in his last term, ceding half of Europe to communist domination and hardship for four decades. The Franklin Roosevelt of 1934-5 would have had the energy to resist Stalin in the negotiations of 1944-5. Instead, untold suffering and oppression. Roosevelt was both one of the greatest and one of the worst presidents. That's just how it happened.
Jimmy Carter, someone I once admired at least for his work after the presidency, has become an apologist for oppression (Venezuala, North Korea), and has become a bitter anti-semite. We are in Iraq because of his failures in Iran. To be fair to Carter, our troubles with Iran began decades earlier, but the Carter approach of deferential weakness except for one pathetic and half-hearted show of force told the militant Islamists that they had nothing to fear from the US leadership. Jimmy Carter was a worse president in every major respect than the incumbent.
As a non yank this grinning idiot peanut vendor seems to have a lot of supporters. Another reason why the US will never or as ever ruled the world.
Mr. Carter is by far a worse president and has been ranked at or near the bottom for years, he is an angry old man! He needs to stay out of the headlines and go back to Peanuts and the farm.
The truth is often reckless. Carter's administration faced an array of negative external forces. The programs he put in place to deal with them, including the US military buildup the he began before Reagan got credit for it, were quite sound. In a Golden Age in America, Bush's problems are of his own making.
If you think with a level head, internal economics are mostly dictated by markets, not presidents or their policies. Would you blame Bush for the high gas prices, or would you blame his gas/oil buddies who are burning us for cash. Anyway, war is the worst answer for any cause. Bush as a Shepherd of our country has been a total failure. Leading us to a war of nonsense. I think he has truly treated us as dumb sheep, and we have acted like sheep too. He has caused killing our youth and had ridiculed our elderly citizens. Shame on this party of the poor performance.
Carters's record has nothing to do with the fact that he's absolutely right about Bush and co. being the worst in history.
Why aren't the democratic leadership & candidates saying this? Does no one in power feel a sense of outrage?
One thing that I can't beleive the Republicans are remaining silent about is the fact that George W. Bush stood before all of America after 911 and said that we were waging war against terrorism, and those who support terrorism are as guilty as the perpetrators of terrorist acts. All of America cheered and applauded, including democrats in congress! Now the Democrats are saying we shouldn't have gone after anyone except those responsible for 911. Well why didn't they say that back then? Sadaam was openly supporting Palestinian terrorism and Abu Abbas , the mastermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking and the accompanying murders, was caught in Baghdad after we invaded. Isn't that providing support and shelter to a terrorsist? Isn't that part of what Bush said we would do and Democrats applauded?
Help me out here Democrats, why did you support it then, but not now? Is this just another John Kerry 'I voted for it before I voted against it'?
With all due respect, someone should muzzle this man. Sadly, because of his business card listing 'Ex Pres', some might give him some credibility sorely not merited.
Although the content of President Carter's remarks were based on the result of the actions of President Bush, and his administration, those remarks were unnecssary truth telling.
President Carter has become known as a human rights, human dignity, champion. To crawl down in the verbal swamp over a President that, through his continued defense of the indefensible, has proven to 75% of the US and perhaps world population he is incapable of real compassion, reflection, or rational though. There is nothing President Carter or any of the other former Presidents that still live can say that will cause President Bush to change. He is incapable of anything that does not create more for him and less for the rest of us. The only recourse we have is for him and Cheney to resign or be run out of town on a rail.
Go Jimmy go! Stick to your guns. There's no need to back off the administration. They are the worst cast of characters (whether it be incompetence, cronies, corruption, rabid ideology, etc.) I've ever seen AND they are a reflection of the president who picked them. While it's true that Carter's presidency will not go down as the most successful in history (he was more interested in doing the right thing than being effective), he at least had character, conviction and respect for the Constitution.
So, does this mean he DOESNT think this is the worst white house in US history? Maybe his statement was careless but at least it was clear, now we have no idea what this man thinks. He seems to crave the taste of his own feet in a way I thought was reserved for 6 month olds. Does he want to be irrlelvant?
JP it is interesting that you think Carter had respect for the constitution, but the Democrats of today only care about the parts of it that protect their dope smoking pervert contingent!
RE: Do apologize Mr. Carter... from boortz:
Um, ms. boortz--and just as a conceptual aside because it's not really any more relevant than any of your comments--Carter's NSA wrote and implemented the 'Reagan Doctrine' that your ilk like to claim as their own, last nail in the soviet coffin. Anyway, the point is that most of you don't read much and lack curiosity, so you tend to be factually wrong.
Now, let's stipulate that everything you write about Carter is true. It remains *irrelevant*. As dangerous as Reagan's foreign policy was--and, remember, its underpinning was Brzezinski's handiwork--it had a real, measurable outcome by the time Bush Sr. blundered into it. Same for Nixon: he was a little tightly wrapped but his foreign policy showed some skill and panache. Carter's was iffy at best.
And so, what of it? This Bush's foreign policy is a failure that can be measured, and a disaster whose scope can't even be guessed yet. It should be spinning off more failures for years to come. Carter's only mistake here is to insist on being namby-pamby, which was always his greatest weakness: not only should he not retract or revise any part of his statement, he should have the balls to name Bush for what he is: personally, the most dangerously unqualified, monomaniacal, deluded person ever to hold the office.
Those unwilling to fight to defend freedom are doomed to lose it! Bush is willing to fight (even if it costs him his popularity) Carter was not (and it cost our country much).
In Iraq, we won the war and unfortunately Iraq is losing the peace. We have given the Iraqi people a great gift, the opportunity for equality and freedom, they are squandering it.
Maybe we should pull out, let the situation deteriorate to complete chaos and immense human suffering, until the internation community becomes outraged at the horrors, gets off its collective butt, goes in, and kicks the islamiscist's ass.
'Remember the Panama Canal zone giveaway?'
Yes, how stupid it was for him to 'give away' something that should belong to Panama in the first place. Do you know where the Panama Canal is located??
Keep on rockin' in the free world, Jimmy. Speak the truth for the millions that are silenced.
Everyone is pigeon-holing Bush's presidency into the war on Terror. It is far more than that. Our Economy is Booming! I know you hate to hear that, but more people own homes now, and the Stock Market is higher than ever, with more investors than ever!!
I am in no way an all out supporter of Bush. He has done some things that I support (Tax Breaks) and others which are ridiculous (ie spending way too much of my money, and all of this Illegal Alien amnesty nonsense). However, he has shown much more respect for the constitution than many other politicians over the years.
Former President Carter has done, and still does great Humanitarian work, but his time in politics has passed. He should build some more houses and stay quiet.
And to answer the question, I thank the Lord that Carter was not the President on 9/11.
Until recently, those few people who earned the title 'President of the United States' observed a distinct code of honor among themselves. One tenent of this code held that no former president would ever publically criticize a sitting president.
President Carter's remarks are a symptom- a telltale crack in the foundation of our society.
We're going to do ourselves in long before any terrorists get around to it.
Carter was an incompetent boob as president, that's his legacy. Now as an ex-president, he's an embarrassment. No discretion, no honor, no wisdom, no grace. God I wish he would shut up.
Jimmy Carter has a lot of gall to call anyone else's administration the worst in history. His economy was a disaster, with 14.5% prime rates sending the country into recession (which the Democrats have laughably called the Reagan recession for the last 27 years). He allowed our ally the Shah of Iran to be overthrown by a bunch of religeous fanatics, then allowed them to hold our embassy personnel hostage for over 400 days, meanwhile telling us we were in a mailaise and that the US didn't have the capability to do anything about these problems. He has also managed to become the worst ex-president in history by brokering a fool's agreements with the North Koreans, giving them $15 billion taxpayer dollars with no verification that North Korea would live up to its end of the bargain (thanks to Bill Clinton, also for that one). Any rational person would keep their mouth shut after compiling such a dismal record, but not our Jimmy. He is the first president in history to spend his dotage criticizing the administration we elected, in his arrogant, vain attempts to undermine US foreign policy. You had your chance, Jimmy, and you blew it big time. Get lost.
Not Long Now:
you hit the nail on the head. My Great uncle (An Italian Bill Buckley Conservative) told me that I need to get a Liberal Friend, A Jewish Friend, A Irish Friend, and an Asian Friend. Then we all need to go to lunch once a week to work with each other; Not insult each other.
While the Carter presidency was no 'ball of fire' . . . at least we did not have 'Hitler in a Cowboy Hat' at the helm of our ship!
Our Constitutionally protected rights are being tampered with, and thousands of our youngest and finest are being brutally murdered for reasons that have absolutely nothing with the safety and well being of the United States.
President Carter, please speak up, before Mr. Bush removes our right to free speech in the name of 'Homeland Security.'
While the Carter presidency was no 'ball of fire' . . . at least we did not have 'Hitler in a Cowboy Hat' at the helm of our ship!
Our Constitutionally protected rights are being tampered with, and thousands of our youngest and finest are being brutally murdered for reasons that have absolutely nothing with the safety and well being of the United States.
President Carter, please speak up, before Mr. Bush removes our right to free speech in the name of 'Homeland Security.'
While it is true, Jimmy Carter did not have the best administration, He didn't have his hands in the oil (which is our source of our whole economy) and let it reach such a limit that people will struggle to have tranportation and the price of everything else goes up. Plus our guys in Iraq loosing their lives. Bush needs to take care of his people in America. People are tired of him!
Carter told just the truth
Hey P.J, yes i would rather have had Carter instead of Bush on 9/11 because at least Carter wouldn't have attacked the wrong counrty (Iraq). Bush is an ignorant asshole, Worst president ever! He lies and lies and never admits a mistake. What an asshole.
Jimmy Carter's presidency will rank so far below George W. Bush that he will be able to sit on the belly of a snake and swing his feet.
I'd have picked anyone over Bush for dealing with 9/11. The Bush's first 9 months were radio silence on foreign policy, his administration was warned. If 9/11 had happened on a Democrat's watch- we all know how the so-called neo-conned of this country would have responded.
I guess Carter may have been breaking tradition and maybe even some rules of decency by saying all of this - but let's consider a few things 1) the man won the Nobel Peace Prize - but I guess interest rates are more important to some of you. 2) The man helped negotiate a peace agreement in the single most volatile corner of the world - but I guess he has no cred when it comes to foreign policy. Worst or not the worst, Bush and his administration have made preemptive attack and fear central to our foreign policy - but I guess that's better than the open arms of 'Lady Liberty'.
Talk about incompetence. Let's list the accomplishments of Jimbo's administration, Americans held hostage in Iran, the U.S. meets Soviet bullets in Afghanistan with an Olypmic boycott, and the Soviet Union deploying medium range nukes in Eastern Europe.
Now for Bill, Americans slaughterd in Somalia, Embassies bombed in Africa, a refusal to eliminate Osama, and the Cole attacked in a neutral port.
No wonder Jimbo suffered the worst electoral defeat of a sitting President in the history of the United States, and Bill lost the Presidency for the democrats after two terms in office.
Thanks for keeping the economy booming and keeping us safe Dubya. I voted for you twice and have loved every minute of it.
Was carter the greatest president? Of course not. However, compare President Carter's successful Camp David negotiations establishing the peace between Egypt and Israel to Bush's bombastic bumblings in Iraq.
Would I want JC as president on 9/11? You bet I would. Any idiot could figure out what to do after 9/11 to al-quaeda - after all, we had an idiot as president and we still survived (thank you Rudi). Carter would not have confused Afghanistan with Iraq; he would have read his intelligence breifings - before and after the attack. Carter was and is clearly a man of peace. Bush is clearly a idiotic neocon that believes that might makes right. Bush's presidency will always be summed up in that 7 1/2 minutes of him looking like a deer in the headlights after being informed of the SECOND plane attack on the WTC.
Adjusted for inflation the price of oil today is lower than it was in 1980 when Carter left office. Educating the ignorant is an endless task.
Yes, because we all know that terrorists first use peace & negotiations with governments they disagree with.
It would be great if peace solved everything, but it doesn't. Sometimes it takes fighting to solve issues. Get out of your care-bear land.
Carter fan-boi's have rose colored glasses - and certainly don't see the world for what it is. A harsh place.
I for one am glad Bush has the stones to stand up and do what's right - even when it isn't popular.
President Carter, should not have to apologize for calling a spade a spade. G.W. Bush is a bungling inept waste of good carbon. Mr. Carter should have the ability to speak his opinion when asked without having to velvet glove it becasue poor georgie's feelings might get hurt. Carter is an honest, intelliegent and learned man. Bush is not the brightest one in the batch in his own mother's words. It is totally embrassing to see G.W. in front of a camera trying to speak. He can't utter an intelligble word with out on of his handler's speaking in to his ear. Undereducated people are dangerous and Bush is sorely undereducated. He may have attended some of the best schools in the country but he clearly spent little time pursuing his education. Mr. Carter is right Bush has damaged the country, hopefully he will not be the death of it.
It is amusing to me how some would reiterate Carter's RECKLESS claims that the Bush administration is the worst in history and hold these claims to be 'absolute truth' !??!! Carter's supports simply put forth the blatant statements without any evidence backing it up. Crisis was rampant during Carter's reign and Bush seems like Lincoln when compared with Carter. Clearly he's not the best president like Lincoln was, but the ABSOLUTE TRUTH is that Bush is definitely not the worst.
Just like Carter himself said, he was reckless and careless and going back and forth on your words prove a certain level of irrelevance, no matter who you are.
Hey 'justhtetruth',
I can only assume that either you were born after the Carter administation, or you are ignorant of the historical 'truths' you expound on, or both.
Re: 'He didn't have his hands in the oil (which is our source of our whole economy) and let it reach such a limit that people will struggle to have tranportation and the price of everything else goes up.'
We were in gas lines for months because of Carter's inability to handle the Middle East, and more specifically, the oil situation! He is to a great extent responsible for the situation the world is faced with re Islamic extremists. He was responsible for the administration that had the worst economy ever (gas shortages/lines,out-ofcontrol interest rates, etc.). His response to the oil shortage's affect on heating for the coming cold winter weather was for Americans to 'wear sweaters' - Google it!
Re: 'Plus our guys in Iraq loosing their lives.'
What about our hostages, held (and tortured) for over a year? What about the deaths of our soldiers during the ill-conceived, botched hostage rescue attempt?
You Libs are so frightened of the Patriot Act POSSIBLY impacting your Constitutional Rights (Speech, Privacy) but had no problem when Carter instituted gas rationing, based on Auto License Plate numbers. The Carter Admin, based on this gas rationing scheme, deprived me of my right to Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness 'every other day of the week (my license plate was an 'even' numbered plate).
And now, the Carter is denying that he ever said what was quoted - he says it was taken out of context. He's either a pathological liar, or is experiencing the onset of Alzheimer's. Either way, he is, and continues to be, inconsequential.
Mr. Carter is not owned by Coroporated America specifically Haliburton and the oil industry. He does not have to prove himself to America, he has served his country well. However, Mr. Bush can only say he has served his owners and handlers of Haliburton and oil well. While the standard citizen is spending more each hour for gas and skipping meals to hope end wave at each other, while the health care industry goes down the tubes with the President's blessing and while america's sons and daughters are being made to serve elongated tours in a war that has nothing to do with protecting America, there is no way anyone could say that G.W.Bush is nothing except a bungling idiot.
Carter should use his Habitat hammer to board up his own door, and never see the light of day.
When you embarass our country by being the world's pussy, you don't get the right to critique the current administration.
Carter's daughter is a lesbian, Bush's daughters are hot.
Nuff said.
The widespread appearance of this exchange confirms President Carter's relevance.
I agree. Carter need not apologize for speaking the truth.
I am amazed and outraged by Jimmy Carter's criticism of the Bush Administration. First off - please Mr. Carter - don't sell yourself short. You by far rank as the worst president in the history of the United States. I lived through the 70's paying unbelievable gas prices and waiting in lines sometimes 2 miles long just to get the high priced gas. I couldn't afford to buy a home at an 18% interest rate. I believe it was during your administration we were supposed to be going through global cooling and the national speed limit was set at 55 mph in preparation for that cooling – preserve energy right? There was going to be mass malnutrition because of crop damage or lack of…..I could go on and on…..
During the Bush administration, my husband and I have prospered. There are more people owning their own homes of all races and unemployment is practically non-existent. Those who aren't employed aren't looking.
I think it's unprecedented that a living president criticizes a sitting president. There were plenty of opportunities during your so-called presidency for former presidents to critic you but they didn't because they had respect for the office unlike you. You are a disgrace and emboldening the enemy - as far as I'm concerned - you are a traitor.
'Just one question: Would you have traded George Bush for Jimmy Carter on 9/11?'
DAMN STRAIGHT! In a NY second!
Forget that a person is a democrate or republican. They are only labels. There have been good and bad in both camps. We should be critical and assess performance based on objective markers not if our fathers and mothers were of a particular party so we blindly follow and defend without thinking. If Bush was a pro football coach he would be fired. If Bush built you a house you would sue him. If Bush ran microsoft they would be bankrupt. Bush and his group have not performed well period. Its not a repulblican vs democrate thing its the man and his crew have not performed. I'm for who ever can do it better...republican, democrate, or independant.
'Just one question: Would you have traded George Bush for Jimmy Carter on 9/11?'
I shudder to think of Carter in command during 9/11. If he were - we would have had at least one other hit by now!!
Jimmy Carter is a creep...and old dried up demented creep who thinks Castro and Chavez are heros. What a loser.
'I shudder to think of Carter in command during 9/11. If he were - we would have had at least one other hit by now!!'
Lisa H,
We have had one hit since 9/11! by Mr. S**t-for-Brains, himself! It's called the iraq occupation, which is responsible for far more deaths than the 9/11 terrorist acts. what a waste!
Let us get some facts together .Carter was criticized by republicans mostly for his failure to liberate the american hostages during the Iran crisis .But he tried,didn(t he .Two of the planes involved in the attempt collided and that was the end of it .Further attempts to liberate the hostages were sabotaged by the republicans in a covert operation featuring Ollie North .The Reagan crew contacted the Iranis and asked them to stall negociations untill Reagan was elected offering them a better deal .And that is precisely what they got .Reagan TRADED the hostages for weapons .THe financial gain was used to finance the contras in Nicaragua ,learn tour history .Now it does not take much brain effort to understand why the USA was so impopular in Iran in the afteyea of the Shah's reign .It was the constant meddling of the US in Iran's interior's affairs,starting with the military coup against the democraticaly elected government of Mossadegh which started the animosity of Iranians against the USA .THe regime introduced by the americans could hardly have been called democratical.THe USA gave Iran to en emperor who used extreme repression,terror ant torture to destroy the last remnants of democracy in Iran ,of course with the open backing of the USA .Small wonder that after the elimination of all democratical forces in Iran ther field was widely open for the Islamists to enter the gap .So it appears even the rise of islamic forces are largely to blame on the utter ignorance of US policy to cope with the consequences of it's international policy .
To call Carter an antismeite is nothing shoty of an insult .The reason of the animosity towards Carter resides in the fact that he was the only american president to ever consider the Israeli and Palestinian conflict in it's complexity .Previous and following US presidents have only given unconditional support to Israel .Ac bitter pill for the palestinians that were expelled of their lands to accomodate for the creation of a jewish state in the wake of WW2.Do I have to remind some that the palestinians had nothing to do with the holocaust but were made to pay the price for it ?
tonny from belgium
No one stole anything from the 'poor, downtrodden Arabs'. Any land that Israel has was either purchased or negotiated, so any Arab who has had their land 'stolen' (even if the land is within Israel's borders) should look to their own governments, which negotiated the settlement and had been given compensation for the exchange.
Jimmys' got a lot of room to talk about bad administrations. I remember 21% interest rates. I also remember it took Reagans' threats after over a year of Jimmys' 'diplomatic negotiations' to get the Iranians to free some very haggard Americans.
Sure are a lot of pots calling kettles names these days.
* shakes head *
It seems like every time a politician says something worth lauding, something courageous and honest, s/he caves and recants as soon as the opposition so much as blinks.
Bush calling Carter 'irrelevant' is exactly the kind of arrogant, disrespectful sort of remark that has characterized this administration.
I was proud of Carter for standing up to them. I regret his reversal. We need elder statesmen like Carter to guide our nation.
Do not apologize Mr Carter You are absolutely right Bush has ruiend this Country. Mr Bush Administration will go down in History as the worst.
Mr Bush knows that his administration will go up in FLAMES.
Israel came into existence thanks to the simpathy of the world opinion in the wake of the Holocaust .Zionism;invented long before that by Herzel claimed jews had to move to palestina because life in Europe didn't seem to work out .After countless centuries of persecutions and pogroms they wanted a homeland .So even before WW2 quite a few settled in Palestine,purchased land from the arabs .One can compare it with the colonization of america .Remember how the Indians helped the first settlers survive ?They had no clue they were going to be colonized,evicted,burchered and betrayed in countless 'indian treaties '.Similar situation existed before WW2 in Palestine .After the holocaust the outcry for a safeheaven from persecution lead more ans more setllets to Palestine .Irgun,Stern and Hagannah used guerilla and terror against the british administration untill a massive wave of support lead to the creation of Israel .How could anybody refuse them anything after the barbarist holocaust .What one forgets in this whole story is the palestinian population of couese wich was asked to pay the bitter price for an event of which they had no guilt .Deir Yassim is only one example .Jewish colonists quickly attacked palestinians,destroyed entire villages and bulldozered orchards .A first wave of palestinian fufgitives fled their homeland.Villages lost their arab names and were rebaptized with hebrew names .That was the start of the state of Israel which has grown through numerous wars untill it's present size .Those willing to learn more of the history of the middle east would be well advised to read Robert Fisk on the subject .An excellent reporter which has put all the issues in their historical perpective .It is a wellcome change from the propaganda and unconditional support for Israel that has allways characterized the american policy .
There has always been a very powerfull pro israel lobby in the USA called AIPAC, whithout's it support nothing ever happens and not even a presidential candidate can be elected .THat says it all.
tonny from belgium,
your hatred of jews is apparent in your anti jewish edited history. Try a more balanced approach and people might consider your points, propogate lies and we ignore you.
Try checking your facts.
Amazing. To the anti-Bushie stating that W. has brought us closer to WW3 than any other president, how quickly you forget the Democrat God JFK. The 'Cuban Missile Crisis' was probably the most disgusting event in human history, and the media and cult of personality JFK revisionists have conspired to use it as an example of Kennedy's greatness. THAT was as close as we have come to World War III. Consider the U.S. had all nuke systems up and ready to go because of alleged missile sites being built in Cuba (not completed, but being built!). The way the liberals distort and lie and misrepresent never ceases to amaze me. I am not a Bush supporter and do not think we should be in Iraq, but the reasons given for going to war were the same statements repeated ad nauseam by the Clinton administration for 8 years as justification for sanctions, repeated bombing of Iraq while Monica was testifying in front of a grand jury, etc. Wake up and realize the system is consistent and stays the same. The only thing that changes when a different party takes over is the viewpoint pushing the same harsh policies of intervention in the domestic affairs of foreign nations. Who deployed the U.S. military more times than Clinton/Gore? No other administration in U.S. history!
Prove your comments about Iran being stalled until Carter was out of office--you can't because it is nothing but lies.
Iran contra banking etc. was not even started until 1983--3 years after Carter was OUT.
Ollie North had nothing to do with the Carter years---He shit that mess all by himself.
The bank involved was Palmer National Bank of Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1983 by Harvey McLean, Jr.
Really Tired of the bullshit lies posted by this socialist from belgium. He should have to quote sources from now on.
As I said the weapon deal with Iran was a covert operation .There is insufficient evidence,that is true ,but still all the facts are there and a few whitnesses even even admitted their parts .Of course a covert operation as always impossible to prove ,unless organised by Bush and the Neocons,they have no talent for that .AS for the insult calling me an antismite,it is just an insult.I am not ,but I refuse to be brainwashed by any lobby .Want the background o the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,read Robert Fisk .THat is one of my sources too ,a bit better than the usual AIPAC originated propaganda .
Mr. Carter has several BIG problems-- his mouth and his ghostwriters being foremost among them.
What is it with this guy? No one will ever vote for him again, so why lie about exactly he's saying?
He SAID Bush is the worst, that I don't disagree with, but its a huge breach of appropriate ex-presidential protocol. Even Daddy Bush doesn't critize W in public.
What is worse is his lying and refusal to correct *facts* in his *&^*& book. He won't debate it, won't take spontaneous questions about it, and will only talk in front of 'friendly' audiences-- a tactic beloved of W himself.
I've had it with both the left and the right. Good grief!
Tonny-- How about looking at some *actual* facts?
In 1948, TWO states were proclaimed in the former Palestinian Mandate. The Arabs refused theirs, and continue to refuse it to this day.
Thanks to the shoah, and because of continuing anti-Semitism (miso-Judaism, if you prefer), the survivors were no longer: 1) citizens of their former nations; and 2) open to murder and further persecution in their countries of origin. Why do you think there were so many people in DP camps following WWII? For camping? The US and Canada would not take but a tiny, tiny fraction of the survivors. Ditto Central and South America. Europe didn't want them either.
Despite your blind obediance to islamist/arab propaganda, there has been a continual Jewish presence in the Palestinian Mandate, from the time the Romans named is such until today.
And don't forget the 800,000+ Jews stripped of their homes, assets, and expelled from their Middle Eastern communities in 1948. Where did most of them go? Where COULD they go? That's right-- Israel. Where is THEIR right of return, or compensation?
When I hear the Left advocating equally for 1948 refugees-- ALL of them, maybe I'll be a bit more willing to talk. Israel is populated by its native people. Those *Arabs* are from ARABIA, and many were imported serfs during the Ottoman Empire, without rights and working for the rich families. Arafat's family is YEMENI, for chrissake!
Go learn something.
Mr Carter is right. I AM AN IDIOT!
PLEASE CHIMPEACH ME NOW!
Mr Carter is right. I AM AN IDIOT!
PLEASE CHIMPEACH ME NOW!
Mr Carter is right. I AM AN IDIOT!
PLEASE CHIMPEACH ME NOW!
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