Jimmy Carter on Bigots: Takes One to Know One
The worst president in modern American history (although he may not be holding that tarnished crown for long) has deigned to weigh in on the growing number of Americans disaffected by the current administration. Jimmy Carter told NBC’s Brian Williams, “I think an overwhelming portion of the intentionally demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.” He went on to cite his experience as a southerner to give him credibility in diagnosing a large portion of the American people as racist. Kind of like Kathleen Parker did when she said that southerners, er, preferred Sarah Palin over Barack Obama because “southerners weaned on Harper Lee heard the dog whistle.” But just so you know, she lives in the south, so she’s not bashing southerners. She told Chris Matthews that on television, so it must be true.
Carter, you may remember, was scathingly critical of George W. Bush, going so far as to say that the Bush administration was the “worst in history.” Ahem. But as Bush was white (and a Republican), Carter was in the clear.
Funny, isn’t it? Those who see the world through a distorted lens of hate automatically assume that others see the world in a similar fashion. The same folks who brought you Chimpy McBushHitler are now worried about decorum in politics. The same folks who booed the president during his 2005 State of the Union address and whose leader called Bush a loser and a liar and refused to apologize about the liar part have formally rebuked Rep. Joe Wilson for calling Obama a liar during a joint session of Congress (even though Wilson apologized to The One™ for his outburst).
Dr. King must be spinning in his grave. So much for judging one on the content of his character.
Rush Limbaugh got it spot on when he predicted long BEFORE the USA in a bout of collective national insanity and hysteria voted in the usurper Mohammedan BOGUS POTUS LIAR Messiah. He said “As soon as things start going against the USURPER the vermin that are the left wing libtard moonbat Dems and their willing tools the oh so irrelevant MSM with play the race card” OK he did not call them libtards and vermin and moonbats but he did call them Dems and the Drive By media and his prediction was absolutely correct as we can see.
I am not against the Obamanation because he is Black I am against him because he is a LYING RED USURPER.
Its not his PIGMENTATION I hate its his POLICIES and his Czars and his Communist and Terrorist Buddies and his HIDING of documents and his BLATANT BARE FACED CONTINUOUS LIES
That is not the worst. The man is a terror-as-a-mean supporter.
“It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the Roadmap for Peace are accepted by Israel.”
[Read The Volokh Conspiracy's take]
I served in the Army during the early ’70s, and was stationed for roughly two years at Ft. McPherson — in Atlanta, Georgia. Back then, Carter was Governor of the state.
While Carter did not seem to be, himself, bigoted toward blacks, he DID allow himself to be regarded as one by white voters in order to get himself elected. He campaigned, if I recall correctly, alongside outgoing Governor Lester Maddox — himself no lover of African Americans.
I accepted at the time Carter’s twisted logic for misrepresenting himself: that doing so enabled him to gain office, and afforded him the opportunity to make positive changes in race relations. (I was young, and somewhat naive.)
I even voted, I’m ashamed to say now, for the deeply flawed Carter for President. In the White House, Carter revealed himself to be a man of enormous ego, unwilling to accept as valid any points of view but his own.
He also refused to work constructively with Congress (or with anyone else in D.C., for that matter), and managed to foul up virtually everything he touched. He was, in short, inept.
Add to that his late-in-life revelation that he harbors an enormous amount of ill will for Israel, and the picture is complete. I am not a good enough student of history to assert that Carter is the worst president ever, but I CAN say that he’s the worst in the nearly 50 years that I’ve been observing them closely.
Although, I have to also say that I agree with Pam Meister: Given Obama’s abysmal start, he may soon overtake Carter for that dubious distinction.
Anyone who knows something about the life and work of King, knows that he’d be spinning in his grave because of all you stupid hypocrites using his name to hide your racism.
PICTURE: meet 1,000 WORDS…
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=6549
I’m not against Obama’s policies because he’s 50% black, but because he’s 100% liberal!
Toss that down your memory hole, Carter!
regards
Carter is a symptom of the disease of anti-semitism that has infected the hard left since the ’67 war compounded by all the Saudi money he has received over the years. He and all the rest of the Jew haters need to read and understand the 31st chapter of the prophet Jeremiah.
Jimmeh is a devoted Christian. So much for the Jews. His sense of personal goodness and moral superiority is unmeasurable, and has been stoked by his admirers at home and abroad among the far left. As monumental as his ego is, it pales compared to his absolute lack of decorum, dignity or tact. He believes that whatever he utters is the received truth, facts be damned, and that he must share his profound wisdom with the world.
To really understand Jimmeh, one must examine his failures. A failed peanut farmer who solicited Arab money to keep this enterprise going. A failed parent. A failed president, who diminished the United States, and nearly destroyed the Democrat Party. A failed ex-president who desparately inserts himself into the spotlight in his new role as the custodian of morality and righteousness, uttering platitudes, homilies, and scripture hither and yon.
Jimmeh is from a small town in rural Georgia, and he has never been able to escape from that. He still is that little, self-righteous, bible spouting peanut farmer he was born to be. What little racism resides in the South, it finds its home in the world of Jimmy Carter. Jimmy never outgrew it. Beyond the drivel he feels obligted to spout, underneath the veneer of Mr. Nearer to God, you will still find a vile, racist, Jew-hating rural cracker.
To truly understand Jimmy Carter, you must remember his history. And one more thing, Follow the money.
This opinion piece properly condemns a real bigot, Jimmy Carter. It is undeniable that this man has it in for Israeli Jews. His writings repeatedly demonstrate his bias, as the article explains.
The liberal/marxist types are playing with fire when they explain away criticism of the Presidents policies by dismissing it as racist. There are many independents who voted for Obama and put him in office who will resent being called racist because they disagree with the President’s lefty politics. Remember, even though people like me well knew that candidate Obama was a socialist, many of his votes came from people who thought he was centrist. Those people are going to be turned off by being accused of racism just because they now disagree with the President’s policies.
The racist accusation card that is being played as the Democrat nuclear option is an ad hominem attack and is bound to be treated as such. People are turned off by actual racism, and likewise, others attempts to blanket brand those who disagree with the President as racists.
Go to HotAir for the poll that shows how dangerous these accusations are for the Democrats. 48% of Democrats think that criticism of the POTUS is based on policy disagreement, not racism.
White America is prejudicial in its racism as perceived by JC Peanuts, yet his bigotry against the Jew is based on solid and concise hatred. How can you argue those facts.
Carter, members of the Congressional Black Caucus (is there a congressional white caucus) are playing a dangerous game by labeling any criticism of Obama as evidence of racism. Pelosi is correct in sensing the growing frustration and anger brewing in many by this false accusation. Having the race schtick repeatedly shoved in our face is beginning to grate on us. Obama was supposed to get us beyond the race baiting strategy frequently employed by some Democrats for political gain, and by some professional hustlers (Jackson, Sharpton) for pecuniary gain. It is apparent that Obama’s election has had the opposite effect. We, as a country, have made great strides in race relations. Most Americans have moved well beyond the racism of the past. By ignoring that indisputable progress that has been made, Carter, Pelosi, et al risk undoing it and setting race relations back fifty years.
These liberal folks have been trying to start a race riot or two ever since Barry Hussein Zero announced. Failing to get one started has been their biggest disappointment to date, much worse in their eyes than any problems they’re having selling Obamacare. Hardcore racists like Carter who believe that you can’t treat ‘them’ the same as whites because ‘they’ aren’t as developed only get unleashed when it serves the democrat cause. For all the talk about Carter being loose cannon, he is in fact just another form of plausible deniability for the leftist democrat party.
Burning the Reichstag, they figure, is nothing compared to burning half of DC, LA, or whichever city they can churn up hatred in first. They’re desperate for an excuse to declare martial law. Look at how clever Barry thinks he’s being about his health care takeover. How do you keep your word to not give health care to illegals? Easy, make all the illegals legal overnight. By the same line of reasoning, Barry can keep his promise of being a ‘post-racial’ president the same sort of convoluted way. He can cause the worst race conflict in our history and then preside over the great liberal, ‘national healing’ after he gets the unlimited power he thinks he deserves.
Don’t think that concern for what harm such a scenario would do to the nation is of any concern to Barry or his democrat thugs. He is, after all, an illegal immigrant himself and has been told all his life that this isn’t his country anyway. Fear that things will get out of hand doesn’t cross the mind of a narcissist like Barry, nor do thoughts of right and wrong. Like all liberal and progressive true believers, Barry thinks that right and wrong are outdated concepts. For Barry and friends, there is only what helps Barry and what doesn’t.
Regards
With age, the ignorant old fool, Jimmy, only shows his true heart as he sinks in his own excrement. It must be hell on earth to know, in his heart, that he is historically (at least until now) America’s worst President.
And don’t forget, Carter was the President who put the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in power in Iran, mainly on the advice of his UN Ambassador, Andrew Young, who considered Khomeini (whom he had never bothered to actually meet) a “saintly man”.
In doing so, the two men were to a great extent responsible for the very situation in the MidEast that Mr. Carter finds so “unacceptable” today.
Let’s just say I strongly suspect that President Carter’s ability to correctly judge the character of others is less than reliable. Even when such “judgments” do not come into conflict with his personal worldview- which is, I conclude, fundamentally flawed.
I don’t believe President Carter is stupid. I simply hold that he never lets the facts get in the way of what he thinks is “the proper order of things”.
Any resemblance between Mr. Carter and the present occupant of the Oval Office is, I’m sure, just a coincidence.
clear ether
eon
I’m old enough to remember the 20 percent interest rates, gas lines, and Iranian hostage crisis of Carter’s presidency. This man’s picture is in the dictionary under miserable failure, Senator Reid’s assertions notwithstanding.
Whatever Carter’s selling, I’m not buying.
Bunny Rabbit, out.
Carter, of all people who excel at creating a hostile and chilly environment fraught with racist ideology, the former president is a master.
Excellent, I agree. I am not against black, I am against RED….
When you have nothing to fight with, you play the race card.
Wrong is wrong, no matter the color of your skin.
It will backfire on them.
Jimmy was and remains a pathetic old “white” guy. Grasping for straws to remain in the public eye.
I am not uneducated, uninformed, and I DO understand what is going on. I am not angry or confused…I do not like it and I will speak out about it. Too many people have died for this countries freedom to roll over and play dead for this WH
Pam Meister gets it wrong. Carter is not even the shade as worst president as GW Bush. Conservs just like to bark and make lots of noise. Carter is a very honest guy and says what he thinks, not like the hypocrites in this blog. But who cares what they say, barking, barking, barking.
Carter is not out to win popularity contests, so his honesty is very refreshing.
President Jimmy Carter–who had an incompetent 4 year term from 1976-1980–seems to trying to erase his travesty of presidency with his interjections into public life; he needs to fade away & go back into private life. Everytime Carter rears his head, I just think back to stagflation, high oil prices, the US hostages held by Iran’s thugs, high interest rates, etc al. Yet the man will not go away peacefully.
I believe President Obama is orchestrating this ad hominem attack from within the White House. Jimmy Carter is Obama’s stand-in race baiter. Yet the backlash President Obama is fomenting is simply growing in power & strength while Obama is oblvious to the tinderbox he is indirectly creating.
The DNC is following Obama’s lead as well. Is this a wise move? No, it’s a dumb move. There’s going to be a political bloodbath in 2010.
Carter made, what i believe to be, very homophobic comments at Emory Univ. this week. I have been scouring the web for video or transcript of his comments, but can’t find them.
A woman asked him about the photo of him in the White House with Bush, Obama, Clinton and Bush Sr. She said she noticed how far away he was from the others, and if he ever stopped feeling like a Washington outsider.
Carter responded, revealing his homophobia. Carter said where he is from men don’t stand next to each other, touching each other. He was the only one acting as men should, normal. If you look out on (Emory University) campus, you won’t see, you will see very few men standing so close they are touching each other.
The laughter, and his delivery revealed an homophobia. He said the majority of dissent against Obama was racist, offering no evidence (and when he tried, he was wrong – he misstated the Bury Obamacare with Kennedy signs as Bury Obama with Kennedy) but yet he believes it is not natural for men to stand near each other?
I am surprised I haven’t heard anything about this anywhere. I think this is the perfect opportunity to show him how giving people the benefit of the doubt is the right thing to do. He painted a massive amount of people as racist. Well, I am calling him a bigot!
(If anyone can find the video, please let me know!) Thanks!
Carter is doing nothing but further damaging the potential for debate.
This is just like PJM – a fluff piece attacking the most popular living former President of the USA, using mischaracterizations and biased opinion to deflect scrutiny from the current malefactors of the GOP.
In point of fact, the worst president in modern American history would be George W Bush. There is no contest. The cost to the USA in lost respect, blood and treasure under GWB dwarfs all previous Presidents combined.
Jimmy Carter is 100% correct to note that there are obvious, as well as not so obvious, racial motivations behind much of the resistance to Obama. Attempting to deny that there is a vocal racist element opposing Obama is just sticking one’s head in the sand.
Carter, you may remember, was scathingly critical of George W. Bush, going so far as to say that the Bush administration was the “worst in history.” Ahem. But as Bush was white (and a Republican), Carter was in the clear.
It wouldn’t matter if Bush & Co were flying purple people eaters – the administration would still qualify as the worst in history. It’s fair to say so because it is true, and the evidence is rather glaring.
Funny, isn’t it? Those who see the world through a distorted lens of hate automatically assume that others see the world in a similar fashion.
Indeed, you have described exactly what you are doing to Carter – because you see the world through a distorted lens of hate, you immediately assume that Carter is a racist, rather than a person aware of and consciously opposing racism by calling out its practitioners.
The same folks who brought you Chimpy McBushHitler are now worried about decorum in politics.
You might want to note that Wilson’s outburst was a blatant violation of the rules of the Congress. No Joint Session has ever before been interrupted by such a breach of decorum. Let us hope none ever is again.
The same folks who booed the president during his 2005 State of the Union address and whose leader called Bush a loser and a liar and refused to apologize about the liar part have formally rebuked Rep. Joe Wilson for calling Obama a liar during a joint session of Congress (even though Wilson apologized to The One™ for his outburst).
Booing and hissing are acceptable responses within the rules of decorum – and booing the President has never been considered a breach of decorum. Denigrating the character of the President to his face is an entirely different matter. Quite frankly, it is disgusting, and Wilson deserves whatever censure he is subject to.
Your attempt to move the discussion to Carter’s pursuit of peace in the middle east only points up the contrast between his diplomatic success, and the abject failure of diplomacy represented by the Bush administration.
The rush to denounce any criticism of Barack Obama as racist is not only disingenuous but continues to do damage to this nation.
Hardly. Much of the criticism of Obama is overtly racist on the face. The damage being done to the nation is by folks like Rep. Wilson, who rather than pursue their policy aims through legislation, would prefer to shout down the opposition, and refuse to honor the civility that should be a hallmark of our Republic.
Disagreeing with the man’s policies is not the same as calling for a return to the days of the KKK.
Granted. But that does not change the fact that many are for both. Denying that racism fuels much of the rage against Obama is politically expedient, but historically inaccurate. I welcome honest, civil discourse on Obama’s policy choices – but when the opposition refuses to engage in rational discourse, and instead devolves into racist hate speech, there is little room left for discussion.
Peace.
DS
Hey have you heard? The president’s black!
Jimmy Carter has set the US record for incompetence and venality. Not only is he the worst president in modern American history, he is also the worst ex-president, an honor uniquely owned by him. Unfortunately- at least on the worst president title he has some serious up and coming competition.
For those with short memories remember that Carter’s presidency was marked by high inflation and a serious reduction in America’s capacity to stem the tide of Islamic militancy. By allowing the hostage crisis to linger for more than a year without aggressive action, he showed the world that the US was a paper tiger that could be stopped by a third rate theocracy. Ultimately, this failure encourage the Islamic fascists at a time when they were weak and disorganized.
Since leaving office he has allied himself with the worstanti democratic elements on the planet and accepted substantial funding from Middle Eastern plutocrats who are overjoyed by his apologetics.
“Takes one to know one.”
The sum of conservative dialectic (and guilt).
As I recall, when George Bush as president, the liberals, especially Alan “No Clue” Combs endlessly reminded us that “Dissent is the ultimate form of patriotism”. Now that Obama is president, “Dissent is the utlimate manifestation of racism. Who would have thought such a thing!
3. Mike Murray:
…sounds like you could be describing the ass-cent of obama in your comment ..very much a narcissist …like two peanuts in a shell.
they are competing for worst president ever …the best we can hope for is a tie.
@23. Speedybullet:
Jimmy Carter has set the US record for incompetence and venality.
That may be one of the funniest statements on PJM today. Carter has some pretty serious competition – he doesn’t stand a chance of setting any records.
Not only is he the worst president in modern American history, he is also the worst ex-president, an honor uniquely owned by him. Unfortunately- at least on the worst president title he has some serious up and coming competition.
I’ll say. Most observers have already concluded that GWB is now the worst President in modern American history – and Carter is already the most respected living ex-president, which apparently is the same as the worst ex-president in your eyes.
For those with short memories remember that Carter’s presidency was marked by high inflation and a serious reduction in America’s capacity to stem the tide of Islamic militancy.
Yes, Carter had to cope with the fallout of the Nixon/Ford years, much as Obama is now coping with the fallout of the Reagan/Bush years. Moreover, Carter made great strides against Islamic militancy until the Neocons started secret negotiations with Iran, and sold out their fellow Americans for their own political gain.
By allowing the hostage crisis to linger for more than a year without aggressive action, he showed the world that the US was a paper tiger that could be stopped by a third rate theocracy. Ultimately, this failure encourage the Islamic fascists at a time when they were weak and disorganized.
Yes, I agree – Reagan’s Neocon team, and their back door negotiations, are ultimately part of the reason for the rise of Islamic militants. GOP support for Afghan warlords and Saddam Hussein are just footnotes now – a small part of the massive pile of evidence that indicts the Neocon project.
Peace.
DS
#21 davis s. says:
“This is just like PJM – a fluff piece attacking the most popular living former President of the USA,…”
david s. just keeps proving how out of touch with reality he is.
JIMMY CARTER: THE MOST POPULAR LIVING FORMER PRESIDENT??!!?? When did Bill Clinton die?
Tell ya what peace boy, why don’t you leave and don’t come back. Stop wasting your time and ours.
MOHO/VIVO
A pair of pimples on the rump of the far left Democrat jackass. Go away. You offer nothing. Neither insight nor humor. Two angry little blemishes crying ‘look at me, look at me’. Your intellectual gifts just don’t measure up. Please exit, and flitter back to the Huff Post with the other angry failures. Or get a job and try to contribute whatever your feeble minds can manage.
David S “…the most popular living former President of the USA”
Take your meds, David. Really. Christ, are you old enough to remeber the Carter years? The gas lines, the 20% interest rates, the double-digit inflation and unemployment, the Soviets and assorted thugs running wild across the world, the “malaise” speech? It was a chamber of horrors. Lost ‘respect’ around the world? Under Carter the US was regarded with dismissive contempt.
Jimmeh the Useless is the hemhorroid of American politics.
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In addition to Carter’s personal role in returning Khomeini to Iran, let’s not forget that Carter *refused* to recognize the election of Abel Muzorewa in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia- insisting that he would not accept *any* president wexcept for…. Robert Mugabe.
@28. Right as well as Correct:
david s. just keeps proving how out of touch with reality he is.
JIMMY CARTER: THE MOST POPULAR LIVING FORMER PRESIDENT??!!?? When did Bill Clinton die?
Maybe you missed the latest survey results?
Carter came in at 32%, just edging out Clinton at 29%. I suppose that statistically that would be a dead heat – but technically, Carter appears to have the edge for now. I guess it’s no surprise that neither Bush gets much support.
Tell ya what peace boy, why don’t you leave and don’t come back. Stop wasting your time and ours.
It’s actually quite entertaining to watch the attempts to defend the indefensible that occur every day at PJM. If you consider PJM a waste of your time, that’s your call. I’m still having fun watching the liars at work.
Peace.
DS
To David S
Could you let me know what medications you are on. I’d really like to try some.
While that refrain: “it takes one to know one” is common, it’s not quite accurate.
A biggot, racist, hedonist, etc. ONLY see other’s as possessing their own worst attributes. e.g. A liar lies because “everyone does it”. An employee their steals from their employeer because “everyboddy does it”.
does Carter think *anyone* who isn’t a member of a protected class or who holds liberal positions, isn’t a racist? No, because that’s part of his world view – anyone who doesn’t “hold his world view is a racist”. I assure you, every member of a protected class that does not hold his world view is a racist (or worse) in his eyes. He is incapable of recognizing *real* altruism, or true kindness. He is INCAPABLE of recognizing fair treatment in real life circumstances.
He’s always looking for what’s in it for him. (and his cries of racism are again: trying to make himself seem relevant – when most adults would have been happy to have never heard his name again after January 1981.)
By endorsing Jimmy Carters “honesty” and complementing him for “saying what he thinks” Vivo at 18 shows himself to be as much of a bigot and antisemite as Carter who reveals his own antisemitism in his book Palestine: Peace not Aparthied.
How come I’m not surprised?
It’s one thing to accuse Carter of being racist, who has referred to Obama as a “black boy”, stated that he is “unqualified for the presidency”, and now looks hypocrisy right in the eye and makes sweeping accusations of racism. Projection much? It’s an entirely different thing to accuse an entire group, conservatives, of being racist based upon nothing more than uninformed generalizations and presumption. I think the former claim is on pretty solid ground, while the latter, well…
Carter and his ilk are the worst kind of racist. Benevolent racists. Look at how they talk about Obama or other blacks. It is not with respect, it is with condescension, with need to shield them. In their eyes, Obama or minorities in general, can’t compete on a level playing field with whites. It is only with their support and protection that a minority can “be equal.” And they make this judgement solely on the color of the skin. That is why they hate Colin Powell, Condelezza Rice, etc. Those individuals excelled on the content of their character and needed no one else to protect them from being judged as an equal. If a man hates you, then he considers you a threat and threats can only come from equals or better. If a man feels you need his protection, you are not considered equal.
They treat Obama as a child and not as a man who must bear up under the stresses just as all those who came before him did.
Vivo,
The only thing Carter is out to do is win popularity contests. He has spent 30 years trying to rehabilitate his reputation. It has just been getting worse and worse in the last few years.
And don’t forget his responsibilty for Mugabe being in power.
Vivo on Carter sounds a lot like Carter on the notorious segregationist Lester Maddox:
“He has brought a standard of forthright expression and personal honesty to the governor’s office, and I hope to live up to his standard.”
(for more, read Freddoso’s column
Carter was known back in the 70′s as the do-anything-say-anything-to-get-elected president, once he got to that position, since he had no principles to guide his policies in tough times, he spent the rest of his term apologizing and cowering. It’s no wonder he’s so fond of Barack.
And Jimmy Carter point of passing judgement on thousands of people, without any kind of sufficient proof, was to what gain? What kind of outcome did he think to have other than blatantly showcase a “Jimmy swaggert preaching to the masses about SIN while he himself is the biggest liar of them all.”
There is a saying, based on psychological evidence that when one points out a flaw in others on a consistant basis it is due to the harboring of that flaw in himself.
Poor Jimmy must have some nasty skeletons in his closet to go along with the Lust in his Heart.
I think Mike Murray’s comment gives a good account of the early Carter.
I was briefly acquainted with Jimmy Carter when he ran for governor of Georgia. I supported his campaign, and I don’t regret it (save only the fact that the office gave him fides for a national campaign). On balance he was not a bad governor. Having already set his sights on the White House, he didn’t do much to rock the boat of state. As was said of Charles II, he never said a foolish thing nor ever did a wise one.
When he disclosed his presidential platform I quickly joined the opposition, and I certainly don’t regret that.
Today I see Jimmy Carter as a preachy Puritan, on the one hand, and a full-blown narcissist on the other. Like Obama, he is pure persona — a soulless artificial construction anchored only by the insubstantial image that forms his core. He has the admirable virtues of a well-maintained guillotine.
Worst president? Never happen. Mediocrity denies superlatives.
I love the trolls that are stumping for Jimmeh. If you didn’t live through the nightmare of ’76-’80 guys, try checking out the election results of 1980 on Wiki – the original ‘poll’. This from a Prez that had inherited his parties massive house and senate takeover following Nixions resignation.
He came into office with the widest majorities for his party ever. The American voters sent him off to Emory U four years later with the biggest NO Vote for a sitting prez in the history of the republic.
But PJ Media is delutional for not rubber stamping two trolls assertions that a ‘recent poll’ as established George W Bush’s eight years as the worst ever.
Anytime Jimmeh is back for another 10 minutes of shame in the public spotlight its a good day for America. Just the kind of reality check needed to wake it up.
The Jimmeh was the definative presidential failure because of what he did, regardless of his expressed religious faith. Outside of his good work with Habitat – his only success either for profit or not for profit – whether he writes a book or opt-ed, or gives an interview, you get what get from Carter.
A walking talking train wreck. Which is why Clinton wanted nothing to do with him and now Obama wants nothing to do with him. But David & Vivo think he’s a rock star?
Common guys. Is Huffpo & crew really paying you enough to put your mothers through this kind of dispay?
In my opinion, we are fighting wars today because Jimmy Carter chose not to. The “Iranian hostage crisis” was, in fact, an invasion of U.S. sovereign territory and a declaration of war. We should have sent several divisions, not one Delta Force team. When Carter chose to let the Iranians keep our citizens after one failed rescue attempt, Muslim fanatics everywhere got the message: attacking the US is a low-risk, high-reward activity.
Carter is an idiot and the best thing he can do for both his reputation and America is to shuffle off this mortal coil. Then the Lefties can tell lies about “what a great person” he was like they did Ted Kennedy.
You know I find “Christian” logic and thinking when it comes to both Jews and Judas to be quite flawed. They mention obedience to God’s will, God’s Plan, etc. yet revile Judas & the Jews for the subsequent betrayal and crucifixion of Jesus.
Both God and Jesus knew before hand that his lot was to die as a sacrificial “lamb”, this was God’s plan for the redemption of mankind. Jesus had to be without sin, therefore he could not kill himself as suicide is a sin, so someone had to kill him so that he could die and be resurrected. So Christians should not hate Jews or revile Judas because:
1) Jesus was a Jew. You can’t love Jesus and hate Jews, also racism is just plain unchristian.
2) Both the Jews and Judas were chosen by God to be instruments of His will, whether it was through their own weakness or character flaws that served God’s will or the result of God’s direct influence upon them to achieve His plan.
3) Without Judas, the Jews, or the Romans humanity would not have received the offer of salvation or at the very least God would have had to choose different instruments to achieve His plan. So if Judas had not betrayed Jesus then it might have been Peter. If the Jews had chosen Jesus rather than Barbabas to go free then he might have had to journey to another land, like Carthage perhaps, to accomplish God’s plan.
4) While we shouldn’t celebrate the character flaws or actions of Judas and the Jews, one should follow what Jesus taught; forgive them, then be thankful that they played their part in the salvation of your soul. How can one hate or revile those that did their part so that they might receive salvation?
So how I wonder can Jimmy Carter call himself a Christian and hate Jews?
David S wrote:
Yes, Carter had to cope with the fallout of the Nixon/Ford years, much as Obama is now coping with the fallout of the Reagan/Bush years. Moreover, Carter made great strides against Islamic militancy until the Neocons started secret negotiations with Iran, and sold out their fellow Americans for their own political gain.
Hmmm you seem to omit 8 years of Clinton between Reagan, Bush 1, and W. You sir are also a purveyor of untruths and a hypocrite.
So I’m sitting here trying to make a living and it occurs to me that all of this racist talk and the ACORN videos, doesn’t do Obama much good on hitting the airwaves this Sunday pushing his Obamacare. Gotta think that the slugs asking the questions, will get more bang for their buck talking about anything but healthcare.
Also what’s ironic is that the Lefties claim that Carter is the “most popular living ex-President”.
That’s not saying much really since that club is rather small.
1) Carter – Most people who are younger than 40 don’t know/remember much about him. Still the worst President of the last 50 years.
2) G.H.W. Bush – Lacks personality and aside from Desert Storm didn’t do much remarkable.
3) Clinton – would have probably taken that title until America’s first “black president” got the racism card played on him by Obama’s hit squad.
4) G.W. Bush – With the MSM smears destroying him on the Dem/Leftists side and the TARP tarnishing him on the Conservative side he’s not going to win too many contests right now. I think history will be kinder to him, especially after 4 years of Obama.
Vivo & others: JImmy Carter was persona non-grata in the Democratic Party for 20 years because his administration was a disaster ! The DNC ignored Carter & all other Democrat candidates ignored Carter given he was radioactive; The Democrats disavowed Carter for that period of time, but 20 years on wish to rewrite history & make his administration seems not as bad as it was. Well, the Carter years was beyond bad. He made bad situations WORSE! He did not lead. Sound familiar? President Obama is unwittingly following the footsteps of Jimmy Carter with his own bad decisions making things worse.
Jimmy Carter is no hero. He is a coward. You need to find the footage where he claimed he was attacked by a rabbit. This is a good metaphor for Jimmy Carter’s 4 year term.
President Jimmy Carter is indeed the worst POTUS in modern history. President Obama will make Carter not be so lonely with the title after his 4 year term.
I am aghast at the disrespect shown here. Comparing Carter to a hemhorroid is an insult to hemhorroids. He’s more like Herpes, won’t go away, and when he comes back, it’s never pleasant.
Sorry, but your first sentence is wrong. George Bush was technically the worst president statistically (23% disapproval) just after the economic crash of 07 and meltdown of 08. Though Carter/s popularity only rose after he left office.
The worst part is that many of you have such a problem with being labled racist. If some on the right have been mis interrpreted by their actions/comments there is no sense in being so defensive. Calm down….if your innocent there is no sense in continuing to over react.
Carter had an openness in his administration that no president in recent memory has been able to match. Born again and transparent, honest and ineffective; that was good ol’ Jimmy. I admired him for trying to rise above it all and for his attempt at morality in politics. I disliked him for his pompous bearing and wrong-headedness.
It’s the policy that Obama presents to the public (forged in large measure by white liberals) that is so distasteful to many on the right, not his race. Most of my liberal friends acknowledge this; those who do not are recognized by their zealot nature, and their ignorance or disdain for conservative principals. They are the hardcore and have this know-it-all, moral certitude about them, just like Jimmy.
Here’s the rub. They will not call me racist; in fact, they assure me that I am not. It’s the “others” who are. The “others” with whom they don’t care to speak. The “others” they have objectified or who have been objectified for them. The “others” who’s purpose is to serve as their foil, as an outlet for their projections. They do not know these people! This objectifying strips away their political opponent’s humanity, their individuality. When unknown “others” are no longer individuals, all sorts of evil intent can be attributed to them. Go to the history books.
State propaganda works ok but the self-inflicted variety works best. So when Carter says he thinks the animosity towards Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, I believe he believes that what he is saying is true. Years of projecting, pontificating, pandering and posturing have set a schemata in this man’s head that cannot be dismantled.
Be Advised- be advised.
We recently notified you that Jimmy Carter escaped from the Health Care activity room here at
White Pines Nursing Care,
P.O. Box 1227
White Pines,
Georgia. Phone 917-842-2147
It has come to our attention that Jimmy could be masquerading as a stock broker.
In the past he has masqueraded as an x-president, Rear Admiral in charge of all JAG lawyers for the 5th fleet,
and now we have had communication that he has sold millions of shares of Circus Peanuts of America stock.
Please be advised that there is no such company as (CPA) Circus Peanuts of America,
it is not listed in fortune 500 and to our knowledge has never existed.
(CPA) is Copa Holdings, S.A. (NYSE: CPA), and its Copa Airlines and Aero Republica operating subsidiaries.
(CPA) also refers to a certified public accountant. (Jim could probably use one)
anyway…
Jimmy-
if you read this,
Please call or come back in time for your
Oct 1st 2009
85th birthday party.
Nurse Helen always makes you the peach shaped chocolate birthday cake,
and aunt Connie’s peanut butter cookies are home renown..
I know that Jimmy the failed President teaches Sunday School. He must read the Bible. So, I wonder what he thinks when he reads what God says about those who are against His people.
Does Carter think God would punish everyone else, but not him? I think he may get to Heaven by the skin of his teeth. And maybe his punishment for the lack of love for God’s people has been Amy.
I will make a further point as discussion has turned to who was the worst President in recent times. That’s easy.
Lyndon Johnson wins in a landslide. Here’s why:
1. Moved 500k soldiers to Viet Nam and established rules of engagement that made it impossible to win, thus killing these people for nothing.
2. Established most of the “Great Society” programs that are bankrupting the nation today and have condemned two generations to permanent poverty.
The wrongheadedness of this man is difficult to comprehend. He was a disaster that makes the fecklessness of Carter and the womanizing of Clinton look tame by comparison. Although Carter destroyed our economy and commited foriegn policy disasters, he didn’t kill anywhere near as many people as Johnson and his liberalism
didn’t create any where near as many government programs that are complete failures as Johnson was able to create after Kennedy’s assasination.
It’s Johnson by 15 lengths.
@44. Scott:
Hmmm you seem to omit 8 years of Clinton between Reagan, Bush 1, and W. You sir are also a purveyor of untruths and a hypocrite.
8 years of Clinton was not enough to undo the damage, although he made great efforts. Unfortunately most of his good work has been rent asunder by his successor.
The Reagan/Bush legacy I refer to is our massive federal debt, and the related and unprecedented accumulation of private wealth, which will now take at least a generation to undo. The tax and fiscal policies of the GOP have been an unmitigated disaster.
Peace.
DS
POOR CITIZEN:
So I guess you wnn’t mind if we label you a closet child abuser? I mean, deep in your heart you know it is not true, and you can deal with it.
“President Jimmy Carter is indeed the worst POTUS in modern history.”
No way. Carter was (and is) a clown, but he was nowhere near as bad as FDR, the worst president in United States’ history.
Also worse than Carter: Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, Jack Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson.
Carter bears the distinction of being the first Democrat president of the 20th century who DIDN’T get the United States into some senseless war in Europe or Asia, and DIDN’T get tens of thousands of American kids killed fighting said senseless wars (giving serial morons JFK/LBJ equal credit for the Vietnam debacle).
For these reasons, and others, Carter stacks up pretty well against other Democrat presidents.
Of course, compared to ANY Republican president of the last 100 years Carter was a total disaster, but he doesn’t look too bad compared to the other Democrat clowns.
Bush II was a good president foreign policywise, but not very good domestically (way too liberal), but since the alternative was Gore or Kerry…there was no alternative.
Same old crap article about Carter being a recalcitrant anti semite. BS !
Jimmy. Please go away. quietly. Go fishing, or something.
Jimmy, Nancy Pelosi, Acorn, Kanye West… This country is going down for the count. 3 more years.
I really think that by making those comments, Carter is perpetuating the racial bias instead. I mean seriously, what was he trying to achieve by making those comments. http://www.newsy.com/videos/jimmy_carter_makes_his_voice_heard. I still wonder why people are giving so much weight to his comments.
Whoops, I meant 23% approval in my last post.
And no.55 Ghenghis,
Who is we?..you a tribe? (whoops sorry), thats a minority term…ha ha..
Calm down son, you and the fringe right have not been intentionally racist against America then you have nothing to worry about. After all, they could be wrong eh?
Another indication of President Peanut’s judgement: During the 2004 Democratic National Convention (IIRC), it was Carter who invited Michael Moore to sit in his private box, as his guest. So in addition to being an anti-semite, a condescending racist, and in terror of bunnies, he also evidently hates America.
POOR CITIZEN
We, are those who are automatically smeared as racist because we have the temirity of doubting your saviour, The One. By the way, have you registered as an known child molester? It’s the law, you know, not just a lifestyle choice.
Calm down son? Are you also a sexist age discriminator? The fringe right? You mean, as of the latest count re Obama and healthcare overhall, @ 56% of the adult population? Is that so, daddy/mommy? Tell you what, grandpa/grandma, I undertand tht you cannot control your unnatural urges, but you still have to obey the law. No closer than one mile from any park or school. You’re really not a child molesting pervert? Well, then you should just relax and take it with a grain of salt. Eh?
Wwhere does Jimmy get off claming Obama is a black. He is half white Liberal
three eighths Arab and
only one eighth black African
How little do you have to get before you can no longer claim black status?
Of course if he wants to claim Moonbat Nutjob both he and Jimmy Carter can claim that 100%.
The usual suspects have flocked to this article in such numbers that it proves they’re well aware of how similar Carter and Obama are. I know they enjoy tossing their favorite charge around, but it doesn’t change the fact that the democrat party is the party of secession, the KKK, raced based eugenics, FDR, LBJ, and our dear racist friend Jimmy. The National American Socialist Democrat Party is now and always has been a racist party filled with racist elitists who deny the existence of right and wrong.
Regards
We’re still waiting for the full expose of Jimmah, Bert Lance, Hasan Abedi and the BCCI (Bank of Crooks and Commerce). I suspect it’s all about the money and the wayback machine.
I am disgusted with Carter and what he did to my life back when he was President and he keep keeps showing off his ignorance. Paying a 12% mortgage and a 16% interest car loan was a thrill a minute when he was El Presidente. More fun was when I thought I would be laid off because he almost collapse the economy. It is about bad legislation that hasn’t stimulated the private sector and the health care “reform” that reads like “TAKEOVER”. Do the people that support this ever stop and really read the legislation. This is the first time for me and we need to start the process over and quit this feeding frenzy.
I am ashamed and embarrassed for Jimmy Carter. The man is obviously suffering from dementia.
I do find it amusing though that Moho is still beating his racism drum. Give it up Moho and quit using African Americans as your personal shield. King would be ashamed of you. He wanted us to be judged on our actions NOT skin color remember? Currently, Obama’s actions are atrocious. When will you look beyond Obama’s skin color Moho? Ever?
BTW…There ought to be a way to reclaim the title of President from Carter since he has proven himself to be unworthy of EVER having that title. Someone have him committed before he harms America further.
#66 speedypete..You must have been on a VIP list. My first mortgage was in 1979, and the fixed rate was 13.5%. That same year I bought a new chevy, and it was financed through GMAC at 21.0 %.
I voted for Jimmy mainly because I was young, and allowed the SNL skits effect my opinion of Gerald Ford.
It’s going to be interesting to see how the left-wing historians sugar coat the Carter years.
NEW THIRD PARTY FORMING! Has anyone seen this? Saw this at the March in DC.
got to birthofaparty.com to see. Called THE UNITED PATRIOTS PARTY.
Looks pretty fantastic!
Just what I thought:
barking, barking, barking.
VIVO
You are a proctologists dream. Can I refer you to a friend?
I have to go with Woodrow Wilson as the worst president ever. He had people jailed for explaining why they didn’t want to buy war bonds. But FDR did give Wilson a real run for the money, having jailed store owners for having a sale with lower prices. Imagine! A store with a sale.
I could be convinced that FDR was worse than Wilson, but at least FDR won WWII. Wilson made WWI worse, and as bad as FDR, Churchill and Truman were at making peace after WWII, Wilson was orders of magnitude worse. After all, Wilson’s peace gave us … the Soviet Union … WWII … the Holocaust … and then FDR’s peace, which gave us … the Cold War … Korea … Vietnam … Mao in charge … and the killing fields. If Wilson had been the great diplomat he was reputed to be we could have had a brokered peace deal in 1916 which didn’t make Germany and Russia insane.
Well, Wilson and FDR **did** have some big challenges….
Yours,
Tom
Ah, Jimmie… dumb then, dumber now, and the rate he’s going, dumbest ever!
THIS is who Jimmah Carteh is….along with being the weakest foreign policy president EVER who exacerbated the hostage crisis with his wishy-washy whining…
Thanks to Steven Hayward for his honest look at Carter
PRI’s Steven Hayward has provided a look at the Carter behind the glowing profiles on CNN. The Real Jimmy Carter (Regnery, 2004) bills the Georgian as “our worst ex-president,” and makes a strong case. A good read for the election season, the account shows that from 1976-80, Carter was no great shakes on the job, which practically came by default.
As one observer put it, Carter was as close as we have come to picking a president from the phone book. The “Jimmy Who?” chapter shows how it happened, a precautionary tale. Carter emerges as an adept opportunist despite shaky records on race, segregation, and as governor of Georgia. Few realized that they should beware a southern liberal with peanut shells in his pants cuffs.
The Real Jimmy Carter provides a guided tour of Carter’s domestic and foreign policy, a disaster on both fronts. Runaway inflation was more than a statistic, and the endless gas lines were a direct result of Carter ineptitude. This was followed by scoldings from the White House, which made daily life a misery. That was particularly true in California, where the Carter malaise was such that sensible people were planning to become survivalists.
The escapades of Jimmy Carter were not played out in movies but in office. Hayward canvasses opinion on Carter’s weirdness, including the president’s claim to have been attacked by a “killer rabbit” while fishing in a pond. Readers will renew acquaintance with redneck brother Billy and White House staff such as Bert Lance and Hamilton Jordan, a man who mispronounced his own last name. The author has found some rare gems, such as Carter’s staff passing over California congressman Norman Mineta for an event honoring the Japanese prime minister because they believed Mineta was of Italian extraction.
The account should have included Midge Costanza, the verbose feminist Carter inflicted on the nation as the “presidential assistant for public liaison.” The only northerner Carter appointed to the White House staff, Costanza once quipped that she didn’t mind working for a president who thought he was reborn but she wondered why he wanted to come back as himself. Hayward’s book answers that question.
Jimmy Carter is a practitioner of auto-hagiography who sees himself as a kind of president for life. That explains the groveling before totalitarians, the same trend that recently prompted Carter to certify a vote in favor of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s anti-American buffoon, while many Venezuelans were crying fraud. But then, the meddlesome Carter always blames America.
Readers of The Real Jimmy Carter will likely consider his 70s show quite enough. It will now be harder for the media to portray Carter as a saintly statesman. Californians will want to keep the record in mind when lamenting their own bad government. Compared to what indeed.
“55. genghis:
POOR CITIZEN:
So I guess you wnn’t mind if we label you a closet child abuser? I mean, deep in your heart you know it is not true, and you can deal with it.”
Except it is true. The is what makes up a Poor Citizen. They are racist too.
Dear genghis, do i have this wrong, or was the ‘tea party’ ORGANIZER the one that called obama a
“Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug”
some bad apples ruin the bunch man, and those bad apples are on your side. If you hate being called a racist, you better talk to your comrades.
No one else finds it peculiar that rather than addressing what Carter says, the ‘article’ merely attacks his character?
isn’t that the definition of weak? We get it, everyone hates carter, that can be summed up in the first sentence…fine paragraph.
then move on and address the issue.
for goodness sake.
also Pam Meister, you can’t even come up with your own ‘witty’ insults? You have to quote Limbaugh? Do you get paid to do this?
can we address the big O’s ineptitude? Jimmy Carter needs to pick an opportune moment to STFU, right now is good. Obama keeps getting on the television, he’s telling me a story with a moral that i have a need to get. the 9/12, and the tea party people are all the old protesters of the 60′s who are all turning 60, who thought the government was a bunch of liars. 40 years later we have a president who tells us that “i’m from the government and i’m here to help” and he can’t understand why that statement elicits a laugh. it ain’t because you’re black.
I saw Carter being interviewed by Bill Moyers once. He let the mask slip and let out some astonishingly vitriolic comments, sarcastically referring to Jews as the “Chosen People”, his voice dripping with venom and contempt. I couldn’t believe that a former POTUS was spouting off like David Duke. Rest assured that Carter is a fanatic antisemitic hatemonger as bad if not worse than Duke, Farrakhan and Buchanan. So I guess it’s not surprising that David S and vivo fawn all over him.
CMON GUYS
The bad apples are on our side? Really? Have you been off the planet for the lastg nine years? The hatred, vitriol, foul mouthed, disgusting and repulsive behaviour that characterized the Lefts modus operandi during the Bush administration were unparalleled in US politics. Have you ever bothered to read the pure bile that fills the Huffington Post and numerous other leftwing blogs? Well, space traveller, we may have a few bad apples, but your tree is rotten to the roots. Here’s a news flash; Saul Alinsky’s tactics are very effective. But we all play by the same rules. Not fair? Deal with it.
Jimmy Carter’s first instinct was also to blame we the people for the malaise when he was the source due to his inability to lead the nation; he lashed out at Americans saying stagflation is here to stay & we better get used to it. Sound familiar? The Obama Administration is almost saying the same thing Carter had already said 30 years ago! However, President Reagan turned the nation around by cutting taxes on all levels & getting rid of several bad laws. True leadership can get us out of our malaise, but Carter’s incompetence was not it. Jimmy Carter is a fool.
80. genghis:
“The hatred, vitriol, foul mouthed, disgusting and repulsive behaviour that characterized the Lefts modus operandi”
the man single handedly made america the laughing stock of the world. (the right denies this, obviously) I can understand why they were upset. are you really crying that they were “foul mouthed”?
I didn’t say it wasn’t fair, you said it isn’t fair. who cares about what’s fair
here’s the way i see it.
The right, with their skinheads and KKK are like nazi germany with their hate and love for all things christian. the left is like USA circa 1942.
Are you really mad that USA was mean to the nazis? really?
btw that was a sly topic change
I say ‘here is an example of why you’re being accused of racism’
and you say: ‘NO YOU ARE! you guys were jerks for 8 years!’
good one.
#83
Ok. We can all cherry pick examples to support our claims; that’s the most common style of rhetoric we see around here. You got a nut on your side, we have nuts on ours. So?
But really, one guy out of 300 million? That’s all you got? Got to dig deeper dude! Statistics and stuff. Trends, evaluations, compare and contrast. But all you’re into is this tit for tat stuff. Where have all the good trolls gone?
Bunk.
84. Ding
wow, i’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt here. you got me. racism is totally dead.
it no longer exists, and certainly nobody has EVER said anything racist in regards to the current administation.
right?
why don’t you give me your email address so i can forward you the racist sh!t i get on a daily basis.
both sides can cherry pick yes, of course. but you bury your head in the sand and play ignorant on every subject, and it sucks. it sucks for the country, because while we try to have discussion, your ears are plugged and you mouth is loud.
If republicans had just listened to democrats and not voted through the ’64 Civil Rights Act, there wouldn’t be a problem. Democrat Jim Crow laws would still be in place. Better still, had republicans allowed the democrats to leave the union we would have averted the Civil War, and democrats could have developed a welfare plantation system to keep their black folks on in their own Confederate States and left the rest of us alone.
The democrat crap about racism is just another example of their current desperation. They have no ideas, not reasonable solutions, and therefore the revert to telling others what they see in their own mirror. No matter what the current crop of blabbermouths have to say, the democrat party is now and always has been the party of racists.
have a nice day
CMON GUYS:
I understand well the pathology of Bush hatred. Since it is beyond rational analysis or discussion, I’ll simply let you molder in it.
As for all of the unwanted E Mails you get…my advise is to stop logging on to those porn sites. Once they have you address, you’re name is spread around.
Jimma Cahta – The dumbest cracker in the South.
86. Rashputin
you are hilarious. (especially about the civil war. I’ve never seen anyone try to pull off that argument with a straight face. (unless of course you were kidding, in which case I apologize.))
you love to forget how party lines change (I would too! My God I would too). I said it before and i’ll say it again, when you bury your head in the sand and play ignorant, it does our country, and our society no good.
I know I know, you don’t care.
It’s too bad. This could be a nice place.
87. genghis
it’s interesting you say the hatred of Bush is beyond rational. It has been analyzed and discussed to death, why most people feel this way (hello lowest ever popularity rating)
It’s the ones that defend him that are beyond stats and rationalyzing.
It this website’s MO projection and playing ignorant? How is that fun, helpful or entertaining in any way?
#85
Still with the generalities and emotion.
That’s all you got emo.
You do see that your emails represent a very, very, very small sample? They could be in the thousands and they would still be too few to pass judgment on a population that runs into the tens of millions (I’m guessing your problem is with the Republican Party). You see what you’re doing, right? You are passing judgment, in the harshest of terms, with insufficient data. It is all emotion with you, or at best, skewed data.
And I am ignorant on EVERY subject! WOW! Based on what? Two posts? Why would I give my email to someone as unfair and judgmental as you?
My advice to you? Read up on the history of the two party system in this country and work on your syntax. And maybe a class in statistics?
Why doesn’t this stupid old man just shut up? He diminishes and degrades the Office of President of the United States.
89 –
The democrat party is now and always has been the party of racists. I’m glad you admit that the democrat party is a racist party. It will help you recognize your own race baiting as the intensely racist focus you have from top to bottom in the democrat party to this day. Ignoring the way parties change?
No, I recognize that the democrat party has moved from random lynchings to industrial scale slaughter. I recognize the democrat change from forcing blacks to take the lowest paying jobs to forcing blacks to live on welfare. I recognize that the democrat party has gone from short changing black folks to actively working to destroy their opportunities by handing billions to their predominately white UAW donors while abandoning factories in the most poverty stricken predominately black cities. I recognize that the democrat faithful regularly excuse the behavior of those they think are incapable living in a civilized manner, and that those they excuse as being incapable of living in a civilized manner are always black. If you say the democrat party has changed, you must be referring to the means used to implement racist policies because that’s all they’ve changed.
have a nice day
First time poster here: hope I stay within the guidelines.
@18. vivo:
@21. David S:
@77. indy:
@85. cmon guys:
-84. Ding
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why don’t you give me your email address so i can forward you the racist sh!t i get on a daily basis.
both sides can cherry pick yes, of course. but you bury your head in the sand and play ignorant on every subject, and it sucks. it sucks for the country, because while we try to have discussion, your ears are plugged and you mouth is loud.—>
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Finally, somebody (vivo, David S.) has the courage to recognize and praise President Carter’s honesty, integrity, and his bold declaration of the truth. How can anyone of with any intellectual ability or honesty find fault with the former President’s logic? Moreover, indy does us all a service by calling us from our wanderings and back to the truth of the matter. Bravo all around! President Carter’s humility and objectivity must surely be taken as fact: who else could be should a potent, articulate, and respected source?
Of course, then, the light with which the esteemed President has illuminated the Truth must cast its glaring brightness upon both sides of the argument with equal brilliance and exposure.
To accept the assertion that ‘opposition must be based on race-preference’, one must also accept the corollary: that support must also be based on race-preference’. Put another way; since the one and only explanation of “…the intentionally demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man” the one and only explanation of ‘intentionally demonstrated support for President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man”. With one sweeping, inarguable statement, President Carter has exposed the overt, despicable, obscene, and morally corrupt foundation of the entire culture of racism that defines America.
He lays bare the hypocrisy that vivo decries – and does so with “refreshing” ‘honesty”. As David S. so rightfully pints out, attempting to deny that there is a vocal racist element supporting Obama is just sticking one’s head in the sand. As he further states, much of the substantiation of Obama’s positions is overtly racist on the face. I thank God (no offense intended to non-believers) we now have a truthful place from which we can openly debate the issues that indy calls us back to. Once we’ve acknowledged that every American is a racist (and that POOR CITIZEN is a child molester as well), we can have an honest dialog. Perhaps President Obama will be a post-racial uniter afterall!
Oh, BTW Ding, while I still have the liberties and privacy of the day, I would rather not post my e-dress on a public bulletin board. You never know what kind of trolls there are, or who might forward it to Mr. Flag@Whitehouse.gov (I guess that’s newspeak for the Agreement Czar). If you would really like to forward your American racists e-mails, kindly post your e-dress. I’ll send you a message from which you can add my e-dress to your contacts.
Hope this wasn’t too long!
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Sorry – quotes were cut out of initial posting. User error.
(second-time poster, now?)
@18. vivo:
”Pam Meister gets it wrong. Carter is not even the shade as worst president as GW Bush. Conservs just like to bark and make lots of noise. Carter is a very honest guy and says what he thinks, not like the hypocrites in this blog. But who cares what they say, barking, barking, barking.
Carter is not out to win popularity contests, so his honesty is very refreshing.”—>
@21. David S:
”Jimmy Carter is 100% correct to note that there are obvious, as well as not so obvious, racial motivations behind much of the resistance to Obama. Attempting to deny that there is a vocal racist element opposing Obama is just sticking one’s head in the sand.
///snip///
“Hardly. Much of the criticism of Obama is overtly racist on the face. “—>
@77. indy:
“No one else finds it peculiar that rather than addressing what Carter says, the ‘article’ merely attacks his character?
isn’t that the definition of weak?[...]move on and address the issue. For goodness sake.”—>
93
i am truly sorry that you truly believe these things.
I am sorry for you mother, and for your teachers.
have a nice day.
try to do some book learnin.
Found this story this morning. Had never read/heard this before!
Power Line Power Line Blog: John Hinderaker, Scott Johnson, Paul Mirengoff
http://www.powerlineblog.com
Why Does Jimmy Carter Think We’re All Racists?
September 19, 2009 Posted by John at 6:03 PM
At The Corner yesterday, Hans von Spakovsky offered a compelling explanation: Carter himself has a history of virulent racism. The facts, drawn from A Voting Rights Odyssey by Laughlin McDonald, director of the ACLU’s Voting Project, are astonishing:
When Carter returned to Plains, Georgia, to become a peanut farmer after serving in the Navy, he became a member of the Sumter County School Board, which did not implement the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision handed down by the Supreme Court. Instead, the board continued to segregate school children on the streets of Carter’s hometown. …
Carter’s board tried to stop the construction of a new “Elementary Negro School” in 1956. Local white citizens had complained that the school would be “too close” to a white school. As a result, “the children, both colored and white, would have to travel the same streets and roads in order to reach their respective schools.” The prospect of black and white children commingling on the streets on their way to school was apparently so horrible to Carter that he requested that the state school board stop construction of the black school until a new site could be found. The state board turned down Carter’s request because of “the staggering cost.” Carter and the rest of the Sumter County School Board then reassured parents at a meeting on October 5, 1956, that the board “would do everything in its power to minimize simultaneous traffic between white and colored students in route to and from school.”
You can see how such episodes could leave Carter with a guilty conscience.
What seems most extraordinary about that story, however, is that I don’t think I’ve ever heard it before. It seems impossible that a candidate with such a racist past could be elected President. It seems equally impossible that a history so repellent could be kept quiet in today’s media and political world. After all, we’re not talking about Carter’s personal life here, but rather about his service on the local school board.
1956 may seem like ancient history now, but it wasn’t in 1976. Reporters could have delved into Carter’s record if they had wanted to. Yet, to the best of my recollection, these facts never came out in either of Carter’s two presidential races. One wonders whether this is one of many sleeping dogs that, over the years, the liberal media have been happy to let lie.
#96
My mother taught me to look for the good in everyone, regardless of race, national origin or church affiliation.
But you wouldn’t know that based on the limited data you have here before you.
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Predictably, the Democrat New Man cannot argue the facts and so proceeds to the application of condescension. Why are you afraid to put in writing the “boy” that drips from your fist and second sentences? It’s obviously there, so why didn’t you say what you really mean by writing, “I’m sorry for your mother, boy”?
Anyone who disagrees with the racist democrat will be accused of lacking learning and not being well read. It is reading the blatant racism democrat authors promote in their writings and dealing with democrat racists that leads anyone with an open mind to the realization that the democrat party is now and always has been the party of racism. Anyone who reads democrat authors and applies the same rules for uncovering ‘code words’ to those authors that you apply to those you want to attack will clearly see the racism inherent in democrat philosophy.
I realize, though, that the odds of you actually spending any time learning are slim since you wallow in the slough of verbose ignorance and speech codes. I hope you continue to enjoy the comfortable and predictable world of your democrat racist herd and enjoy being as predictable as the rest of your racist crowd. Now, proceed to the next predictable step in your rote defense of the indefensible racism of the democrat party.
have a nice day
Last week, the most inept President in the history of any country called Joe Wilson a bigot. Just when I think Jimmy can’t say anything dumber, he totally redeems himself.
He’s a lying bigot on steroids.
Last week, Charles Gibson who will soon be “retiring” from ABC news, was asked why the main stream media hadn’t been covering the Acorn scandal. I’m not sure what Gibson is.
Now, for all you mouth breathers who keep on claiming Sarah Palin did poorly in interviews while running for President, especially the one with Charles Gibson when he asked her about the Bush Doctrine, I’d like you to give me your reaction to Gibson’s answer; the one he gave last week about the Acorn scandal.
Gibson answered. “What Acorn Scandal? I haven’t heard anything.”
You can chalk it up to a senior moment, I guess. Of course, no member of the press fraternity later asked Gibson why he answered in that way.
Granted, it’s not near as bad as Sherri Sheperd of the “View” seriously trying to decide if she believes the earth is round or flat, but Gibson’s answer left his friends with their mouths hanging open.
unfortunately for the Democrats, not just the hard left news media has trouble answering the questions of the day.
Take President Obama trying to respond to overriding concerns that ObamaCare will use tax dollars to provide health care for illegal aliens.
During the big speech last week, Joe Wilson caught Obama in a bald faced lie.
Wilson yelled out in senate chambers (bad form although the left booed and shouted out aspersions when Bush was giving a state of the union speech) “You lie.”
If you’re following my train of thought, perhaps you ask yourself where Obama’s lie was.
I’ll tell you. Here’s where Barack lies like, say a President Clinton who said,”I had no sexual relations with that woman.” Clinton’s lawyers said the phrase, “sexual relations” didn’t apply to the kind of sex Bill had with Monica.
Obama, with his lawyers within whispering distance, told Obama to say, “people are claiming that our reform efforts will insure illegal immigrants”.
Which isn’t true. Nobody’s claiming that.
Rather, here’s the concern.
People are concerned that illegal aliens (uninsured illegal aliens) will receive free care through ObamaCare.
See the difference?
The legal loophole involves the fact that illegal aliens don’t have to be insured or “covered” to receive ObamaCare.
President Double talk then makes another totally meaningless statement when he says,” “the reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally”.
“Apply”? What in the world does that mean?
It means nothing. To suggest that it’s further proof that illegal aliens won’t receive ObamaCare is a lie.
In truth, Rep, Keller introduced a provision in ObambCare that would have shut the door on illegal aliens receiving ObamaCare. Can you guess what the Democrats did? They voted it down. The vote: 28-16 on straight party lines.
The above is what provoked Joe Wilson to say, “You lie.”
Regardless of what Obama’s weasel words say, the question is whether, ObamaCare will dole out health care to illegal aliens.
I’m talking about what will actually happen. Obama is using words that sound like illegal aliens won’t receive free healthcare.
But the words are lawyer weasel words, filled with loopholes far as the eye can see.
Joe Wilson is no dummy. Obama lies with the rapidity of an assault rifle on automatic.
Even though I am a native Georgian – who never voted for James Earl Carter a/k/a “Jimmy” – the earlier comments appear to come from the heart of people who know Jimmy a heck of a lot better than I thought I did. He fits every adjective and invective thrown – and more. To me, he is living proof that “anyone can become President”. He pretty much did to Georgia, as Governor, what he did to America, as its President. He certainly is not stupid, but his ego far outweighs his basic, native intelligence; he is, above all, shrewd and cunning – - and hates the Jewish People. Lest we forget – his brother, Billy(remember “Billy Beer”?)was for awhile, a lobbyist for some Libyan interests.
To quote the Hartford Courant:
“Carter incensed (Jesse) Jackson during his 1976 presidential campaign when the former Georgia governor declared “there’s nothing wrong with ethnic purity being maintained” in a neighborhood. It was as jarring a phrase then as it is now, but Carter was in search of votes among the white ethnic urban Democratic primary voters hostile to government housing programs that brought racial integration.
Pressed to explain, Carter’s venomous piety nearly ended his campaign. According to Time magazine, “Carter’s face reddened with anger, and he began to sweat. Instead of softening his language, he spoke of housing policies in terms of ‘black intrusion,’ of ‘alien groups’ and of ‘a diametrically opposite kind of family.”" (see http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-rennie-carter-pelosi.artsep20,0,828197.column)
“Carter’s face reddened with anger, and he began to sweat. Instead of softening his language, he spoke of housing policies in terms of ‘black intrusion,’ of ‘alien groups’ and of ‘a diametrically opposite kind of family.”
His face reddened, I guess his neck didn’t have to LOL. Oops, now I’ll be accused of racism against white Southerners.
95. Simple Man trying to make his way in the Universe:
What a cluttered mind. Wake up before you write.
I’m quoting someone else, but I think it’s a great line – President Carter thinks anyone who criticizes the President is racist – so when Carter criticizes Israel, does that make him an anti-Semite?
@ 18/70/104 vivo:
Soooo, you deny that you are a racist? I couldn’t tell from your insightful response. Rather than show me what you believe to be a fallacy in my logic, it’s easier to think I’m asleep?
Lookit, dude: anybody can vote based upon whatever criteria they think best. There is no qualifying test, beyond citizenry and lack of felony conviction (something POOR CITIZEN should guard against, being a child abuser and all). It is certainly your prerogative to vote for a black man simply because he is black – and I have no right to stop you from it. I DO have the right to disagree with your choice, but at the end of the day the choice is just that: yours.
If you would rather attack the “barking, barking, barking” crowd of hypocrites (#70), that’s up to you. But before you throw around grown-up words like hypocrite, it would be wise to make sure A) you understand the word and B) it doesn’t apply to you as well. If you think voting for President Obama because of his African heritage was a good thing to do, how dare you label those that voted otherwise racist. Moreover, how dare you (and President Carter) assume that, because of you base your support for President Obama entirely on the color of his skin, I do likewise. While you certainly have the right to your opinion, you also have the right to be wrong – and it seems you are exercising that right to the fullest.
You can’t have it both ways and be intellectually honest. You can’t say people who voted against a candidate for being black were wrong, while at the same time having yourself voted for the same candidate for being black. So which is it? Instead of condemning MY actions, consider your own first. Either you voted for President Obama solely because of race, or you had some other criteria. If you choose the latter, why do you – and President Carter – insist that opponents MUST have chosen the former? Why must you refuse to allow that others may have legitimate objections to a candidate who happens to be black?
Again: which is it? Are you blind to your own hypocrisy? Are you intentionally calling others racist without cause; knowing that you are arguing from a losing position and thus have no other recourse?
Do you think race is the only criteria upon which an election should be decided? If so: why do you project your belief on others. If not: why do you think others are incapable of holding the same view, and will vote against a candidate irrespective of race?
Which is it, vivo?
BTW, if you’re not going to respond intelligently, please just let yourself out and go bark with the other trolls somewhere else , I’m trying to et some sleep around here
P.S. Still waiting on Ding’s e-dress.
wtf? was his plan?? he nor any other democrat had a plan..