California Conservative

I haven’t been bashful in letting people know that I think of Jimmy Carter as the worst president in American history. I’ve also been vocal in telling people that I think he’s been a disaster in his post-presidency, from gladhanding thugs and tyrants the world over to Bush-hating to thinking that he was a great president. Now comes this incendiary quote about the warrantless wiretap program that’s protected us from another attack:

“Under the Bush administration, there’s been a disgraceful and illegal decision, we’re not going to the let the judges or the Congress or anyone else know that we’re spying on the American people,” Carter told reporters. “And no one knows how many innocent Americans have had their privacy violated under this secret act.”

It’s interesting that President Carter would intentionally get the facts wrong solely for political gain. Saying that President Bush isn’t going to “let…the Congress or anyone else know that we’re spying on the American people” is ignoring the fact that Lt. Gen. Hayden briefed the ‘Big 8′, as they’re being called, on the terrorist intercept program approximately once every 45 days. (The Big 8 consists of the House Speaker and Minority Leader, the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders and the Chair and co-chair of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.)

This isn’t a little mistake, either. President Bush has said on at least 2 occasions “If I intended to keep this secret, why would I brief Congress about it?” This was a semi-punchline in his presentations. In fact, if memory serves, I think that Jimmy Carter commented on one of those speeches. He can’t now say that the President tried keeping this program from Congress.

“It’s a ridiculous argument, not only bad, it’s ridiculous. Obviously, the attorney general who said it’s all right to torture prisoners and so forth is going to support the person who put him in office. But he’s a very partisan attorney general and there’s no doubt that he would say that,” Carter said. “I hope that eventually the case will go to the Supreme Court. I have no doubt that when it’s over, the Supreme Court will rule that Bush has violated the law.”

That’s what’s happened to this bitter old man. He praises thugs like Chavez, Kim Jung Il and Castro and even says that we should treat Hamas with dignity and respect, yet he’s quick to call OUR PRESIDENT A LIAR AND A CRIMINAL. You tell me what’s wrong with THAT picture.

It’s time for Carter to stop traipsing around the world sucking up to thugs and to go back to building homes for Habitat for Humanity. And for him to never been seen or heard from again. He’s that big of a disgrace.

Cross-post at LetFreedomRing

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 7th, 2006 at 8:17 am and is filed under Author: Gary Gross, DNC, Elections, Homeland Security, Terrorism, W. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.