Jimmy Carter: Hatemonger
It’s impossible not to say this. Jimmy Carter is a hatemonger. When Carter lashed out at British Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Bush was his real target. Now he’s lashed out at President Bush again. Why he’s turned into such a hate-spewing bitter old man is beyond me. But that’s what’s happened. What else can you conclude after reading this:
Former President Carter says President Bush’s administration is “the worst in history” in international relations, taking aim at the White House’s policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.
The criticism from Carter, which a biographer says is unprecedented for the 39th president, also took aim at Bush’s environmental policies and the administration’s “quite disturbing” faith-based initiative funding.
“I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history,” Carter told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a story that appeared in the newspaper’s Saturday editions. “The overt reversal of America’s basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.”
Those statements take chutzpah considering the fact that President Bush wouldn’t have had to deal with al-Qa’ida, Iran and other terrorists if President Carter hadn’t been the ultimate terrorist appeaser. If President Carter hadn’t been a total wimp who put a high priority on getting along with barbarians, President Bush wouldn’t have to clean up Carter’s mess.
When objective, clear-thinking history books are written, they’ll note that President Bush started cleaning up the mess that Jimmy Carter started. I suspect that Jimmy Carter knows this. That’s his motivation for lashing out. I’m betting that he’s trying to distract people from the ineptitude of his administration. He failed because most serious, thoughtful adults know that he’s a pathetic individual and the worst foreign policy president in U.S. history.
There’s a good reason for President Bush abandoning the past practices of “previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.” The world changed on Sept. 11, 2001. The reason why Nixon, Reagan and Bush 41 didn’t take pre-emptive action is because they didn’t have to deal with a terrorist attack within the continental United States. Had the 9/11 terrorists attacks happened during Reagan’s presidency, I’d bet that he wouldn’t have been as measured as President Bush has been.
Carter’s remarks didn’t go unchallenged:
“Apparently, Sunday mornings in Plains for former President Carter includes hurling reckless accusations at your fellow man,” said Amber Wilkerson, Republican National Committee spokeswoman. She said it was hard to take Carter seriously because he also “challenged Ronald Reagan’s strategy for the Cold War.”
Thinking people haven’t taken President Carter seriously because he’s a bitter, foolish man who never should’ve been elected president. His record speaks for itself. Let’s not forget that the term misery index was invented because of his inept bungling of the economy. The misery index is a combination of the inflation rate and the unemployment rate. Let’s look at this chart, showing the misery index of the various presidents. Here’s Carter’s index ratings:
1977 13.55
1978 13.69
1979 17.07
1980 20.76
To this day, nobody’s come close to the numbers Carter put up in 1979 & 1980. President Reagan was close but only because he had to right the economy of the Carter disaster:
1981 17.97
1982 15.87
1983 12.82
1984 11.81
1985 10.74
1986 8.91
1987 9.84
1988 9.57
1989 10.09
Now let’s look at President Bush’s numbers thus far:
2001 7.59
2002 7.37
2003 8.26
2004 8.21
2005 8.48
2006 7.87
What we see is that President Bush’s numbers are between half and a third of Carter’s. That’s on top of President Carter’s bungling of the Iranian hostage crisis and his policy of appeasement of the Soviet Union.
Simply speaking, it’s safe to say that President Carter’s administration is both a laughingstock and a disaster. Those monikers apply both to his foreign and military policies and his economic policies. You can’t get much worse than that.
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May 20th, 2007 at 7:32 am
If I were a lib and Christian-hater I’d want Carter around as long as possible, just to show how hypocritical “Christians” are.
I am not God and cannot judge Carter’s salvation (it could have happened when he was a child, for all I know), but the phrase that comes to mind first is “By their fruits ye shall know them”, and, at least to my way of thinking, Carter’s fruits are withered and dry, worthless for the work of a Biblical God, and promotional of the goal of world control by (apparently) Islamofascists and their caliphate.
However, in Christian tradition, I still pray for him, for Clinton, for GW, and for our nation.
May 20th, 2007 at 8:22 am
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May 20th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Yes! The evil evil-doers that Reagan referred to as “Freedom Fighters”! Yes its true that on July 3rd, 1979 Carter initiated the support program that would aid and finance the Mujahideen in their fight against the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan even though Reagan usually gets all the accolades. Ah yes….Reagan called these people “freedom fighters”. He called them “freedom fighters” despite is top advisors warning him that he was emboldening an enemy by far worse than the Communists, these so called “freedom fighters”. And lets not forget the Iran/Contra affair shall we.
Thanks for the distorted re-write of history but I’m gonna stick with the facts thank you very much.
May 20th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Oh yeah…Carter is right! G. W. Bush and whats the “W” stand for? Worst ever!
May 21st, 2007 at 5:02 am
You seem to forget that Jimmy Carter was president during the oil crisis in the 1970s. The problems they had then are much worse than they are now. I don’t think it’s fair to really blame him for the situation of the economy.
GWB’s presidency is pretty disastrous. The amount of hate and ill will that his presidency, his politics, and his policies have caused world wide is immeasurable. He started a war on another country for apparently no reason. (Saddaam Hussein was evil, yes, but George W Bush and his supporters invaded a country that did not attack us! They have torn apart the country of Iraq–it is a mess of sectarian conflicts and violence. In addition to the 3500 American soldiers who have been killed, tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed, and over 2 million people have fled the country.) Let’s not forget that Bush himself called the war in Iraq a “crusade.”
George W Bush weakened this country’s armed forces (the strongest in the world) by spreading them out too thin over two countries. He has had the National Guard shipped out. There aren’t even enough National Guardsmen in this country to respond to emergencies (this happened recently in Kansas). He has asked American men and women and their families to pay the ultimate price in a war that should never have been started in the first place.
George W Bush tore down our civil liberties and has cloaked his administration behind a veil of secrecy, using fear and the excuse of “national security” to hide whenever anybody tries to hold him or his appointees accountable for their actions. He picked loyalty over competence when making political appointments. The damage in the Justice Department, the EPA, the FDA, etc., the constant scandals in all these government organizations is disgraceful.
I mean, the list just goes on and on and on. I honestly don’t see how you can think that his presidency has been anything short of disgraceful.
May 21st, 2007 at 7:10 am
Actually, the “oil crisis” started long before the nation had ever heard of peanuthead, when Nixon’s secstate commiepawn helped the Middle East states create OPEC. Kissinger should be the most reviled person on the planet, not just for that but for nearly everything he did to our (not his) country.
‘Course, as devious as Nixon was he had to have an inkling of what K was doing, so was equally complicit…
Lord, I hate defending Carter on this one point, but get it right, s.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:05 am
If there is anyone who has fostered “hate” it is President Bush. He ignored the collective wisdom of the entire world, and at least half of the United States, so he could lie his way into a war that only he and his neocons wanted. If anything Carter’s comments were mild.
RG
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:02 pm
“…the collective wisdom of the entire world…”
You mean the ones whose citizens are dying (literally) trying to get into this abomination of a nation? The ones whose standards of living are so low we constantly see advertisements on TV begging us to release some of the personal largesse we enjoy as a matter of course in this country? The ones who are dumb enough to think socialism is a viable economic theory? The very same ones who kill their own citizens in order to intimidate the rest of them into submission to evil despotism?
“…at least half of the United States…” Man, I’d love to sell you some beachfront property in Vegas, ’cause you believe all the talking points of the MSM/moonbats. Sometimes it’s difficult not to associate people who believe in socialism with dingos.
Viper. And a blind one at that.
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:03 am
How can anyone defend President Bush???
He is currently trying his best to destroy the U.S. as we know with the horrible
COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM BILL that he is dying to get in his hands to sign!
I am a conservative but get real about President Bush!
Please read Dr. Daneen Peterson’s work!
The President is also behind this:
http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/TreasonAbounds.html
May 25th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Diane: If you are still reading this post, the only previous commenters that mentioned GWB were two posters who suffer from BDS. What the heck does GWB have to do with this, anyway?
Am I happy with about 80% of what W has done? Not at all, and some makes me crazy (like amnesty for criminal aliens).
But considering our only real alternative in ‘04 was Frenchy the white flag wuss, I’d rather fight W about policy than Islamofascists on the street where I live.
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