Former President Jimmy Carter lauded his successor’s speech today as “very progressive” and confidence-inspiring.
“I don’t have any doubt that now he’ll be much more attentive to those things than he could be during the first four years,” Carter said on MSNBC.
He acknowledged that there wasn’t the excitement of President Obama’s inauguration four years ago, “but I think an element of anticipation of a more stable and progressive and I think more productive administration during these next four years.”
“And I believe there is going to be some immediate movement, for instance on a long-overdue bill to deal with immigration, and maybe also some elements of gun control, not very much,” Carter added.
The former president admitted he didn’t talk to Obama much during his first term, but did communicate a lot with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“When I left the White House, there was peace between Israel and Egypt. There was a pledge of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and that issue has not gone into the back drawer. And my hope is it will be resurrected and we can move and have peace for Israel, which has been one of my prayers for more than 30 years, and peace for their neighbors as well,” Carter said of his second-term hopes for Obama.
“I just got back from China, and my concern is there’s an element of antagonism that is building between the United States and China, which could degenerate into a very serious confrontation. I hope that will change, because when I left office, we had just normalized diplomatic relations with China. That’s another concern.”
He was also heartened by Obama’s mention of climate change.
“I think there is going to be now a movement on immigration, which I just pointed out. I noticed he mentioned global warming and environment,” Carter said. “That’s another thing we need to move forward to attend to. So he has a big agenda ahead of him.”
“very progressive” and confidence-inspiring.
Well which is it Jimmy? Can’t be both progressive and confidence inspiring since anything the “progressives” do just makes things worse.
Now we know what Jimmy Crater (not mispelled) really wanted to do when he was president.
The big problems I have with progressives are:
What are you progressing toward?
How much “progress” is enough, when do you reach a point you can stop?
What makes you think you are so wise your ideas can replace systems created over thousands of years from countless interactions between billions of people?
Why, given your wisdom, has no system based on your ideas ever worked?
When you realize your system is failing, will you admit your error or find scapegoats to blame and, if history holds, beginning destroying them?
The answer is that they find scapegoats to blame and they will begin destroying them. Admitting error takes character. Character is unthinkable for those who insist that right is wrong and that wrong is right.
I don’t think even they know what sort of “utopia” they’re progressing towards. Maybe the venal rats at the top do, but the idealistic young brainwashed following masses haven’t a clue. When I was going to college in 2008 at the University of Washington in Seattle, the moment the news anchor called the race for Obama a massive cheer could audibly be heard coming up from the entire campus. A few minutes later people started pouring out of the dorms and marching in a zombie horde down the street chanting Obama slogans like “yes we can” and “hope and change”. Hundreds of them. I watched them go from my balcony as a police helicopter followed overhead to make sure it didn’t turn into a full blown riot. According to reports I read later the crowd I saw met up with another even larger crowd in the middle of campus and they all just marched off southward. Good faithful soldiers of the left going….nowhere. It was apparently sometime around midnight when the hopium wore off and they realized they were several miles from campus with no way to get back. They’d ridden the tidal wave of their enthusiasm all the way out to a stranding in the middle of a warehouse district. They slowly dispersed as each solitary fool tried to find their own way back.
This story captures in one elegant moment the motives and foresight of the average lefty. These are the people who elected the dunces now running our government. Many of our founders were deeply uneasy of democracy for a reason.
That’s the thing: they THINK they know what Utopia they are headed for, one with unlimited free stuff and the “right” to party, do drugs, have unrestricted sex, and all this provided by a system that has zero impact on the Earth. The reality is that that will never happen.
The elite like Obama and even the leaders of the green movement know this. They can still sell the fairy tale expertly though and they can do it long enough to trick the suckers into giving them unlimited power, which is what they really want.
The next phase has already begun. Obama and his press minions have been casting the Republicans as the enemy. Understandable since in a way they are. However, since the election, the call is coming not to oppose them but destroy them. Notice how the tone is shifting. The left has always been mental, but now they are baring their claws. If history repeats, we’ll start seeing violence against anyone not a true believer, probably starting in the streets but given the gun laws some states are passing, I won’t put it past government to kick it off with SWAT style assaults on innocent citizens. That would happen anyway, just usually later in the process.
Simply put, the more Obama’s path to Utopia falters, the more they will begin looking to scapegoats. The further along this goes, the more violence will be delivered against them. Obamabots will love this because they will see it as the means of reaching their Utopia. That Utopia will never come, of course, but will only result in collapse and a lot of blood.
If it is something that he can pursue only without the threat of having to face an election / the voters again, then maybe it’s not something that the voters re-elected him to do. You know what I mean??? And that’s the crux of it isn’t it??? If he had run on his record or as openly as a progressive he might never have been elected in the first place…
there you go.
Who is more reliable than Jimmy Carter? Only Al Gore’s enthusiastic endorsement could top it.
Well, of course, there is also Marion Berry, and Barney Frank, and Maxine Waters, and Touree, and Sean Penn, and Fidel Castro and
never mind.
Jimmah Cahtah isn’t dead yet?
He just goes to prove a theory I have that the most annoying a$$holes seem to live forever….
Still, at least he’s irrelevant.
Regarding his focus on Arab/Israeli relations and US/China relations – his tone seems to be that the US has somehow messed things up.
Guess he didn’t pick up on the fact that Sadat was assassinated by moslem fanatics, and China has gotten so belligerent that practically all of the Asian nations – even Vietnam(!) – are starting to form alliances in opposition to Chinese expansionism.
So sad, decades after he left office in disgrace he still doesn’t get that appeasing bullies is a bad idea….clear proof that liberals will never learn.