Carter - the opposite of ne plus ultra…

Entelechy on September 22, 2006 at 12:30 AM

Jimmy Carter has never met an enemy of the United States that he didn’t want to give a big, wet kiss.

I suppose I shouldn’t try to engage in amateur armchair psychological analysis from a distance since I have neither the training or apptitude for it…

Oh heck, why not.

Jimmy Carter seems to have cozied up with so many American hating foreign leaders that it leads me to wonder if he still holds some sort of resentment inside over his electoral defeat. Perhaps consciously or unconsciously this is how he feels like he is getting revenge on the people who snubbed him by voting him out of office.

“They betrayed me, so now I will get them… And my revenge is dish that will be served cold.”

Or maybe he is like the crotchety old man on Scooby-Doo, the one who keeps getting found out at the end, and grumbling “…and I would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t been for you darn meddling kids!”

EFG on September 22, 2006 at 12:54 AM

How can a President as inept as Carter be even worse 20 years after he is out of office?!?!

I am truly flabbergasted.

Theworldisnotenough on September 22, 2006 at 1:01 AM

It’s amazing how much lefties will make of that photo showing Don Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam, yet they`will completely ignore Jimmy Carter’s role in saving Hugo Chavez’s political career.

Or their hero Cindy Sheehan slipping Hugo the tongue, or mugging hugging for the camera. They couldn’t keep their hands off eachother whenever they were in the same room. But I digress…

Jimmy Carter, the former peanut farmer President with a fondness for despots. Whether it’s Kim Jong Il or Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez or the death-cult of Hamas, this ex-President keeps showing up like the proverbial turd in the punchbowl.

SilverStar830 on September 22, 2006 at 2:27 AM

Peggy Noonan has a good editorial on the subject of Hugo Chavez today (linked in the DrudgeReport) about how Chavez is influencial among the “unstable” (unfortunately a large portion of the population) and how the President should respond to his comments instead of being above them.

Everyone knew that Hugo Chavez stole the election and that Jimmy Carter was giving legitimacy to a communist government that was a huge threat to the U.S. Yet Rice and Bush accepted the result. They should have gotten on TV at the time and contested it. Chavez is an extreme threat to our security, and Rice especially should have realized it at the time.

januarius on September 22, 2006 at 9:34 AM

What’s Carter is saying when he’s in good graces with Chavez is that he agrees that Bush is the devil.

Kokonut on September 22, 2006 at 11:00 AM

Carter makes Neville Chamberlain look like Napoleon.

Rick on September 22, 2006 at 1:21 PM

Bryan, here are some more pictures of Carter colluding with our enemies. His offenses are many!

NTWR on September 22, 2006 at 2:14 PM

see that the 2004 Venezuelan election was probably rigged from the beginning

This is another example of American policy in trying to discredit the validity of a free election. Each time an elected official that does not necessarily reflect the interests of corporate America is chosen, the propaganda machine immediately begins to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the official.

While we champion democratic elections, our hypocrisy shines through time and again.

GregH on September 22, 2006 at 2:32 PM

The United States is not obliged to apply the same standard of judgment to a country whose government is avowedly hostile to the US as for a country like El Salvador, where it is not. These people could bring about a situation in Central America which could pose a threat to US secutiry. That allows us to change our yardstick.

In 1984 it was official policy, as reported by theLASA Report, November 1984.

GregH on September 22, 2006 at 3:00 PM

The absolute WORST PRESIDENT EVER. An unabashed ANTI-SEMITE and subtle RACIST. America’s enemies’ MOST USEFUL IDIOT. The self proclaimed spokesman for the majority of the democratic party. WORST COMMANDER IN CHIEF. Despite him continuing to try to earn the respect of our enemies by continuing to try to damage America, they never respected him. Although I am ashamed of him as an American, he is a great POSTER BOY for the REPUBLICANS.

Reality Check on September 22, 2006 at 4:30 PM

GregH, it seems you have a one-sided education on this subject. entagor did a great summary of the side you missed here.

Democracy under Chavez

1992 Chavez stages failed coup in 1992
1998, 2000 Chavez elected

the following is excerpted to save space, not direct quotes
2004 Frontpage Chavez wins recall
- Chavez) prevented the counting of four million recall petition signatures
- that’s more than a third of the electorate
- Chavez insisted only those who voted in the election that brought him to power be allowed to cast a ballot in the recall. But millions had protested what appeared to be a rigged election by boycotting the polls in 2000
- the Supreme Court had been “enlarged,” that is, stuffed with Chavez loyalists (increased from 20 to 32 judges)
- election day voting hours were moved at the whim of the authorities
- Harvard/MIT report calculates 99 percent likely fraud
- exit polls showed Chavez losing by 59 percent

Frontpage 2002 a march on April 11 to protest Chavez
as marchers approached his palace, thugs began firing guns into the throng… 60 - 70 died… Videotape by local tv showed at least some of the gunmen were Chavistas, Chavez supporters , members of his “Bolivarian Circles,” as he calls his own Marxist militia version of Hitler Youth and SS storm troopers … This private army of ideological thugs and bullies, according to Chavez critics in Venezuela’s National Assembly, has been illegally funded with government money $4 billion of which vanished from the nation’s macroeconomic stabilization fund

Chavez ignored demands to arrest the killers and to this day has stonewalled calls for a “truth commission” to objectively document what happened. As to the media and its videotapes, Chavez has threatened to take away the broadcasti license of any TV station that airs what he decides is anti-government “propaganda

2006 Frontpage Chavez supporters won all 167 seats
in the National Assembly on Dec. 4 after major opposition parties boycotted the election, saying they did not trust Venezuela’s electoral system or the country’s elections council. The opposition has raised doubts about the nation’s electoral registry, an electronic voting system and electoral audits conducted by the council

Some may call this democracy.

with this type of Democracy, Gore would have won in Florida

entagor on September 20, 2006 at 7:06 PM

NTWR on September 22, 2006 at 5:32 PM

sorry…. NTWR

robo on September 22, 2006 at 5:50 PM

Mr. Peanut meets Mr. Bananna Republic

Makes my colin hurt just to watch them shake hands.

Hening on September 22, 2006 at 9:42 PM

I swear, if Carter and his ilk had been around in December 1941 and there had been a republican president, he would have been sucking up to Hitler and Hirohito. Or maybe that “farmers deferment” from battle in WW2 had other connotations? Grad of Annapolis didnt seem to garner him a position on the front lines anyway.

gary on September 23, 2006 at 10:26 AM

Here in the South, the real men are a 8-10 on the scale of manliness, but the other extremes are a 1-3 on the Reichter Scale.

Maybe the disparity is because we/they lost the Civil War. And let’s face it, Sherman marched right through south Georgia, burning and pilaging everything in sight, perhaps right near Jimmy’s homeplace. Therefore, maybe it’s in his genes.

Note to country: among other things, don’t elect a president who hasn’t gotten over losing the Civil War or who invented the Internet. More caveats to follow….

Webutante on September 23, 2006 at 2:25 PM