Had to toss that one out there, too. =P

Jimmy Carter is hardly a “weaker kid”.

Entelechy on May 22, 2007 at 3:15 PM

I was thinking more of mother teresa.

My collie says:

Pit bulls are dangerous. No one should own one. The breed should be “phased out.”

Easy for HIM to say. Hitchens would seem to represent something more of a moral dilemma — assuming that we already eliminated euthanasia as a proper and viable course of action for dealing with the poor fellow. It’s a pity that we have to let him suffer like that — if only there was some way to put him out of his misery. **sigh**

As for Jimmuh, the Bush administration said it best: Carter is now relevent? to what? and how?

I’d almost think that he’d savor it, if he could write a scathing obit of himself.

Kai on May 22, 2007 at 11:28 AM

I don’t think so. It seems to me that his smug attitude comes from how much better he thinks he is than the people he excoriates. Because of that, I think he would get indignant if someone did it to him, as a ‘what gives you the right?’ sort of thing.

Anyway, the biggest insult in the quote is when he implies that Jimmuh Cartah is a Christian. If he was a Christian, then the Rotund Oracle (not to be confused with the Goracle, of course) might have a point when she says that Christians are just as dangerous as Muslims.

I remember my father saying he’ll run the country like a business cause he’s a businessman. And he ran the country right into the ground…, with the rest of the peanuts.

I still run into people here that think he was the greatest president. Ever!

In the Carter years, the United States was an international laughingstock.

What is it with the left and their fixation on whether or not other people are laughing at the US?

Didn’t their parents ever teach them that sometimes they’ll be laughed at even when they’re doing the right thing?

Osama could have saved himself some suicide bombers. You don’t have to just kill a few people to make America look like a paper tiger, all you have to do is let the Democrats hear you laughing at us.

Jimmy Carter is hardly a “weaker kid”.

That was a clever statement! I’m with Kai – if Mr. Hitchens reads this he might savor writing one, to be delivered at the very curmugeony remembrance of his life (he would not call it a celebration). I believe he’d be very honest and self-deprecating. And witty to boot.

It’s no secret – I love Mr. Hitchens’ talent to write/gab and am happy we have him here, and on our side on many important issues.

Mr. Carter has stooped so low that he doesn’t deserve too much commentary, except that I liked his brother Billy better, and still wonder how on Earth this silly man ended up the president of this nation? Doesn’t that speak more for us than for him?

Can’t wait for Nonfactor to weigh in.

Hitchens is lucky that Hitchens won’t be around to write the obit when Hitchens dies. That said, it’s good to see him aim at a target that deserves the full Hitchens treatment, and few deserve it more than Carter.

Bryan on May 22, 2007 at 11:12 AM

I don’t know if anybody deserves the full Hitchens’ treatment. Let’s fact it, Hitchens is a rageoholic. When he writes, he writes to hurt, to wound the subject of his ire. I think it would be a good idea to rethink the conservative love given this man for his hachet job on left when we know he is full well capable of swinging away at conservatives especially when they are in anyway religious. All I am saying is that Hitchens is a bully and we don’t prove ourselves to be very brave when we cheer his verbal beating of the weaker kid just as long as we are spared.

P.S. Ann Coulter is wondering when she gets her bona fides back.

Shortly after becoming President in 1977, Jimmy Carter launched a deliberate campaign to undermine the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlevi, a good friend and ally of the United States. The Shah of Iran fell from power as a result of Jimmy Carter’s withdrawal of support and Iran fell into the hands of the tyrannical and anti-American Ayatollah Khomeini. This was the key historical event which led to the terrorist supporting state of Iran as we know it today and that now threatens to develop nuclear weapons to destroy both America and Israel.

This was debatably the second worst U.S foreign policy “mistake” ever made by a United States President. The first, of course being Franklin Deleno Roosevelt’s give-away of all Eastern Europe to the fascist Joseph Stalin in the agreement at Yalta. This at the end of WWII after all the blood spilled by the Western Allies which successfully fought and won its freedom. While Jimmy Carter may have wanted to secure the top spot for worst betrayal of America, he failed at that too, because Roosevelt a fellow democrat, took actions at Yalta that are hard to beat.

But getting back to Jimmy, no one has mention the double digit inflation rate suffered by the American economy under his administration. Nor has anyone mentioned his manufactured “oil crisis of the seventies” that had people in long lines to put gasoline in their tanks. That was a total fraud foisted on the American people via Carter’s own executive order which prevented oil tankers from making deliveries to American ports. But of course the “oil crisis of the seventies” was immediately ended by President Ronald Reagan on the same day as his inauguration, by the stroke of a pen.

The more Carter talks, the more people remember the disaster that was Jimmy Carter, for his own benefit, he really needs to shut up.

Im lucky I turned 18 in 1980. My very first vote was FOR a fellow named Ronald Reagan

William Amos on May 22, 2007 at 1:11 PM

William

Born in 1962?

Same year as my wife.

You are young, young, young!

William

You only have to look at the events of 1979 to see what a disaster the Carter Doctine was.

In Iraq in 1979 Saddam comes to power in a coup.

In Iran 1979 the US abandons the Shah and the Ayatollahs come to power

In 1979 Zia al Haq overthrows the Pakistani Government and establishes a pro Islamic government

in 1979 the Soviets back the Sandinistas in their conquest of Nicaragua

in 1979 The Marxist rebels take over Angola.

In 1979 the Soviets invade Afganistan.

In 1979 we give back the Panama Canal.

In 1979 the San Salvador civil war erupts.

In 1979 The Soviets crack down on Solidarity in Poland.

William Amos on May 22, 2007 at 11:11 AM

So, William,

What’s your point (grin)

William

Bush has turned out to be a disappointment, but we’re still feeling the repercussions of Carter’s ineptitude 30 years after he got the boot.

Carter insisted on doing something so that he wouldn’t look impotent, so he ordered a plan that would result in zero hostage deaths, but relatively few military deaths. But he insisted that there must be military deaths, as sacrifice was called for.

So the plan was to send in a small contingency in poorly-maintained (i.e., vulnerable) helicopters, but to wait until there was a sandstorm in the area, then to vector those choppers directly into the sandstorm, with predictable results. I don’t know if this was true, but it sounded plausible.

I hope I never piss off Hitchens. I’d hate to have that vulture pick apart my bones. Agree with him or not, he has a way with words.

windbag on May 22, 2007 at 11:10 AM

He only has a way with words after the 3rd drink….

Embarasement and shame at the results and dead special service members in ’79 aside, at the time we could anchor off the coast and go into Mombasa Kenya for liberty and feel safe enough to do it no problem. No way I would want to be a tourist anywhere in Kenya now, or for that matter Africa as a whole.