The Carter Clan still doesn’t get it

Apparently, Jimmy Carter was busy elsewhere this weekend before he embarrassed himself at Brandeis. From an article by the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (by way of Little Green Footballs) we discover that Carter’s old crew had a big celebration in Athens, GA this last weekend trying to rewrite his legacy;

Tom Johnson, former president of CNN, said Carter should be judged by his body of work, not the disappointments of his final year in the White House.

“That obscured four years of achievement,” Johnson said.

So what did I miss in the previous three years? Was it the double-digit inflation? Surrendering the Panama Canal? Doubled fuel prices? Jimmy Carter’s “malaise speech” was given the summer before the election year (“his final year”) and by that time Americans were pretty dissappointed in their choice.

Jim Wooten, a New York Times reporter in the 1970s and later an ABC correspondent, said it would be interesting to play out 1980 without the hostages.

“I think Carter would probably have won,” Wooten said.

Sorry, Wooten, but the Iranian hostage crisis was a symptom, not the cause. By the time the Iranians had taken hostages, the Soviets had stationed a 9,000-man combat brigade in Cuba and had invaded Afghanistan because Carter had made it clear that there would be no tangible reaction from the US.

And of course, the man, Jimmy Carter, who lost control of our foreign policy, had advice for us for the future;

“We are developing an ingrained hatred for people who aren’t Christians,” said Carter, a Sunday School teacher since he was 18 years old.

Unwarranted fear of terrorism is behind these feelings, he said.

“The distortion that we are about to be destroyed makes us suspicious of those who don’t worship the way we do,” he said. “And our country has no reason to be afraid.”

Other than the fact that an entire religion wants to destroy our way of life. It’s not that they don’t worship the way we do, numbnuts, it’s WHAT they worship and WHAT they value that should give us reason to be afraid.

And need I remind you, Jimmy, you walked the entire distance from the Capitol to the White House on your Inauguration Day – just like every President before you for nearly two hundred years. You were the last. By the time you left office, it wasn’t safe for the new American President to walk the street among his fellow citizens to mark the celebration of a government by the People. Every President since Jimmy Carter has had to ride that magic mile in a bulletproof limosine. Let’s talk about fear being unwarranted, you snaggle-toothed bumpkin.

Unwarranted fear from stuff like this I suppose;

Israel and the United States will soon be destroyed, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday during a meeting with Syria’s foreign minister, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) website said in a report.

Sounds like someone we can reason with, doesn’t it? But he’s not worried because apparently he knows that Democrats won’t let happen an attack on his rogue state;

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday he did not expect a U.S. attack on Iran because there were plenty of “wise people” in the United States who would not let it happen.

“Wise people” can be roughly translated to “useful idiots”.

At least some people get it.

Category: Jimmy Carter, Politics