Like some horror movie that just won’t end, Jimmy Carter’s love affair with North Korea keeps rolling along. Now on his third pilgrimage to the Kim dynasty’s totalitarian state, Carter arrived Tuesday in Pyongyang, with a trio of fellow ex-leaders in tow, from Finland, Ireland and Norway. From Pyongyang, he’s now blogging away, under the down-home caption, “Jimmy Carter’s blog from North Korea.”
At least, I assume it’s really Jimmy Carter writing this cant, though it reads like copy fresh out of Pyongyang’s own propaganda mill. There’s an attempt at cracker-barrel diplomacy, in which Carter enthuses about the “warm and friendly” reception that he and Rosalynn received in 1994 from North Korea’s late Stalin-installed tyrant Kim Il Sung, and calls it “a privilege” to visit again today. North Korea, he says, is “a place that is quite mysterious to most people.”
Apparently North Korea is especially mysterious to Carter, who seems not to have acquainted himself with the North Korean regime’s long record of running a racketeering, nuclear-extortionist slave state. Among the mind-bending prattle in his blog piece is this statement: “My country, the United States, is South Korea’s guarantor, which creates enormous anxiety among the North Korean people and drains their political energy and resources.” In other words, the problem here is not the tyranny in North Korea, but the good ol’ United States. For Carter to be writing this might be defensible if Kim Jong Il were threatening to keep him in in North Korea for the rest of his days, and maybe pack him to the North Korean gulag. But no such luck. This is Jimmy Carter as usual — taking careful notes on the propaganda presented to him by totalitarian butchers, packaging this toxic twaddle as his own insights, and purveying it as treasure picked up during his adventure-tours of faraway places.
He goes on to lament that “[n]either the US nor South Korea is at this time willing to assist with the desperate food shortage in North Korea.” One might suppose that the North Korean government itself could do plenty to ease this food shortage, were Kim to stop pouring resources into missiles and nuclear weapons development, and permit the North Koreans enough freedom to live normal lives. But that’s not where Carter’s going with his message.
Doesn’t North Korea have enough problems without Jimmy Carter visiting? Maybe Kim Jong Il will do us all a favor and keep him. After all, Carter has so much more in common with communists than with Americans.
Carter is like a pesky fly. He just keeps buzzing around and annoying the heck out of people. I wish he would stay at home with his dimentia and get on his wifes nerves and quit trying to be a President. He couldn’t do it the first time so I don’t know why he thinks he can do it this time. I guess that’s what Alzheimer’s does to you. Carter just go and pick your peanuts instead of driving people nuts.
Until the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave arrived, his ineptitude, Jimma’ Carter was without a doubt the worst president in US history. Since then he has worked to overcome that opinion and during the Reagan years was barely seen or heard. Now of course he is able to resurface thanks to the overwhelming inability of the current administration to produce any progress on any issue of any substance at any time.
We have seen in the last several years the main reasons Carter was an awful president. He is erstwhile traitor. He champions every cause but that of the country of his birth. On any and and all issues he takes the part of those who are against the US and tirelessly works to give aid and comfort to the enemies of this country.
In the past people like him would have been hung. Today they receive Congressional Medals of Honor and Nobel prizes. As a Russian comedian (I forget his name) used to say, Amerika, what a country?
Carter is afraid Obama will surpass him as America’s worst president.
As they say, there is no fool like an old fool. And this fits Jimmuh perfectly. Naturally, he is one of Lenin’s “useful idiots.”
Did losing the ’80 election really drive Carter insane? Or was he already two fries short of a happy meal? His comments from NK are mindboggling.
Probably the best way to improve our foreign policy is never again elect incompetents like Carter and Obama. These two, and people like them, do not and probably cannot understand that force and deterrent power works wonders in keeping the human animals of this planet in their cages.
Carter is such a disgraceful ex-president he is good only for laughs.
Four fries, Dave, and he’s been that way for a looong, long time. Way before losing to Reagan.
If Carter is funny, I have never been able to get the joke, and I ain’t laughing.
The Roosian comic’s name is/was Yakov Smirnov. Now that guy was funny.
I was in the Navy during Cater’s single term. He and Zbignew Briznsi (sic) spent their 4 long years together trying to figure out how to surrender to the Soviets.
Jimmy Carter was far outshone by his neer do well brother, Billy. Jimmy should reconcile himself to that fact and just go home to Plains and stay there.
He was the first POTUS double agent. Obama is merely the latest.
Jimmy Carter’s fifteen minutes of fame have stretched into decades. I would like to be spared of anything pertaining to Carter. Jimmy wants USA to be friends with North Korea. People are starving and he wants USA help them. Russia and China have closed the doors on grain exports. Bad harvest years. In the past China and Russia have provided aid to Good Buddy North Korea. No more. Keeping exports at home. North Korea has been rattling it’s sabers for the last few years to everyone surrounding them. Now whining
for more supplies that never reach the people. Let the UN take care of them
just like they have done in the middle east and Africa. Go home Jimmy, let Bill Clinton and Al help them out with their monetary humanitarian slush funds. They can afford it. Send in Hillary.
Jimmy Carter the Elder is not senile. Jimmy Carter the Elder is not sick. Jimmy Carter the Clown is not being funny. Jimmy Carter the Great Humanitarian is not crazy. However, Jimmy Carter the Elder is not a human being, but AN EVIL EQUAL TO THAT EVIL IN NORTH KOREA, KIM JONG-IL! He should go back and stay in North Korea. Too bad, even Kim Jong-il does not want him around.
Jimmy Carter is the Ex-President that was attacked by a rabbit. To make it sound more dangerous the press reported it as an attack from a Wild Hare. With the Democratic Party’s aid, he became known as the only Ex-President with a Wild Hare up his Donkey. Perhaps we expect too much from such a person and Party.
I have a theory. After his one and thankfully only term as POTUS Carter was kidnapped by Aliens who took him to their space saucer and, using a technologically advanced vacuum cleaner sucked out his brain and replaced it with “Silly Putty”. Then they sent Carter back to earth, sat back, turned on their HD monitors and watched the fun as Carter traipsed around the planet making a fool out of himself.
When Carter kicks, his Presidential funeral will be one I’ll diffently ignore.
This is in confidence! Carter’s ability to enter and leave NK frequently and without too much hassle, makes him the perfect conduit for the CIA. I believe Carter delivers CIA orders and resources to the CIA agents in North Korea and, more importantly, picks up reports and information from those same agents and delivers it back to the key desks at the CIA.