Principles? Leftists Don’t Need No Stinking Principles
by Burt PrelutskyI often find myself thinking that if liberals didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.
For instance, consider the uproar from the left when Don Imus opened his silly yap about the black women on the Rutgers basketball team. Now compare that to their response when David Letterman made his smarmy cracks about Sarah Palin and the governor’s 14-year-old daughter. The liberals immediately sprang to his defense, pointing out that Letterman is nothing more than a TV personality and is therefore free to make offensive jokes without fear of censure. So what do they think Don Imus is? The secretary of state?
Or consider how choleric those on the left become any time that Dick Cheney defends the former administration. Well, if Obama and his cronies didn’t constantly attack Bush and Cheney and their policies, the chances are the ex-vice president wouldn’t feel compelled to set the record straight. Furthermore, Jimmy Carter never stopped bashing George Bush during the eight years he was the president, and yet nobody on the left ever suggested he shut up. On the contrary, he was hailed at the 2004 Democratic convention, and even had the honor of being seated next to the patron saint of left-wingers, Michael Moore. Speaking of Carter, how is it that he, who is always volunteering to monitor elections anywhere on earth, including the Westminster Dog Show, wasn’t in Iran, making sure that Ahmadinejad got 110% of the vote?
Liberals never got tired of telling us how much George Bush was despised by those in other countries, although, for the record, I kept asking the loons to name those countries, but could never prompt a response. I assume even they were too embarrassed to mention Iran, North Korea, China, Yemen and Russia. Instead, they kept insisting that America should be more like Europe. Inasmuch as conservative politicians are winning elections in England and all over the continent these days, the people finally waking up to the unmitigated disaster socialism is, I could now join in the chorus. But, of course, so far as leftists are concerned, I’d now be singing a solo.
I have to wonder, though, how much non-Muslim nations trust our current president. It’s one thing, after all, to travel to other countries and talk a lot of diplomatic flapdoodle, but when Barack Obama takes every opportunity to tell the world how awful we are — or at least how awful we were until he got elected — it has to make people wonder if, like his missus, he had never been proud of America prior to his canonization by the media.
It doesn’t make things a lot better when he makes obviously foolish remarks, such as insisting that the U.S. is one of the largest Muslim nations, and that Muslims played a major role in the creation of our republic.
That one really had me reeling, so I went back to my trusty old history book and looked it up and, sure enough, he was correct. Right there in black and white, I discovered that among the most influential of the Founding Fathers were Abdullah Washington, Mahmoud Adams and Osama bin Jefferson.
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Leftist Principals = oxymoron
I have to give the left credit, they do things that are seemingly impossible. For example, they closely mimic a limbo dance….no matter how low you set the bar on stupidity, they find a way under it.
Very similar to: Leftist = Moron
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And they bend over backwards to do so.
I am just as fascinated that they can be for something one day and against it the next and honestly believe that they were never for it before they were against it and expect me to believe that too…
Burt, I know Carter is very old, but his whole political schtick has been about free and open elections. Why has he chosen this moment to be silent?
To do so would be seen as criticism of the the "The Ones" response, or, lack of a response…………….
The Ministry of Truth …
Great read Burt, but you must understand the brilliance of our Messiah he’s the one we have been waiting for, Jimmy Carter was just a warm up, we have been delivered to the promised land of the 1960’s, and the egalitarian Utopia is at hand, hallelujah! Our Barry knows what’s best for us, so close your businesses down, quit your jobs get your Birkenstocks on and become a willing ward of the state, blessed be the Barry.
Anyone else feel that we are seeing the sequel to "The Candidate" play out in real time? Remember the last line: "What do I do now?"
Plus +1 to both of you!
Carter is probably too embarrassed period.
Ask people to save energy, yes. Mandate punitive taxes and regulations to force it, no.
Organize the community to provide affordable housing with no-interest loans to qualified people, yes. Force taxpayers at large to pay towards the mortgages of those who could not pay for them, no.
Encourage peace in the Middle East even when that means slighting Israel, yes. Go around telling Muslim nations how great they are and how sorry the US is for not being nicer to them under the last guy, no.
Carter is watching everything he believed in as a soft-spoken liberal appealing to the better nature of the citizens of America, get replaced with forced-through power grabs highlighted with snappy salutes and the synchronized goose-stepping of the "honest and independent" media. Maybe he is afraid if he started complaining about the elections and the Administration response, he will not be able to stop complaining.
Slime can ooze under just about anything.
A small disagreement kadaka, if Cater was embarassed, that would imply he felt some level of shame. And Carter only feels shame when it comes to his country.
Expect CAIR to take umbrage at all this muslim talk. One point for everyone!
problem is, most lefties have to look UP to see the limbo bar.
We took the liberty to make some inquiries concerning the Grounds of their pretentions to make war upon Nations who had done them no Injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation.
The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.
– Thomas Jefferson et al. to John Jay, 28 March 1786
Well 2 couuntries that have been bitten by BO – Britain and Israel.
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You lost me there Dom. Carter can indeed feel shame when he sees what "his party" has done with the twisting of the ideals he championed. And as opposed to the current Occupant in Chief, there is no doubt as to "his country," like him or not he is undeniably an American.
And Germany bit first. Massive stimulus for Europe? Help out the German-based chunks of the bailed-out automakers? Nein!
While the Dems were ramming through the "Climate Change" bill, I read they wanted him to be in the position of leader in the fight before some big conference in Copenhagen in October. Well, the Czechs, Poles, Japanese and Australians have re-opened the "settled science," and New Zealand got a new government that threw out a cap-and-trade plan only weeks old. With all these industrialized countries lining up to refute the nonsense, and more on the way, the President will indeed look like a leader, of fools.
carter+obama=chavez pelosi + reid = azzholes
That pix says it all. Liberal Democrats (oxymorons?) side with dictators and America haters worldwide.
I do not share your view of Carter at all. He famously claimed during his administrationthat Americans has an "inordinate fear of Communism",
He has been not only the worst American president of all time, but also the worst ex-president. He has done a lot more than just "slight" Israel.
And he has tried to undermine the foreign policy of every American president since he left office.He is shameless. A man desperate to paint himself as anything other than the complete failure he has been.
You will have to give me some more background concerning Carter and Israel since the last thing I remember hearing about was the peace treaty with Egypt, which has so far worked in the favor of Israel. I do not understand where this hostility is coming from. Sure he was a lousy President, but he is a decent Christian fellow who has stuck by his beliefs, which by itself shows he is not really a politician. While not perfectly certain, I believe he is the only Democrat I can say I respect, if far more for what he has done after office than during.
To hearken back to the article, what makes Carter different is he has principles, it really does look like he believes what he says and does. We may not like his principles, but he sure does not flip them around based on the latest polls like lots of the lefties. He builds houses in a way where there is no interest charged (no usury per the Bible) , he will do the election monitoring to support democracy. And he does his version of informal diplomacy, with which he has had some amount of success. For which, as you have noted, he has been an equal-opportunity offender, he does not care who from what party is in his old chair.
Now, I am open to persuasion on the point if you will provide examples of where he has egregiously violated his professed principles, he is so far off my radar I barely notice when he is in the news. Until then as far as I can tell, he talked the talk and walked the walk, which puts him far above the vast majority of liberal politicians I have even known of or ever expect to know of. I can respect that.
You display a naivete about Carter that makes me think you work for his foundation. First the Camp David agreement. Read a good history of the agreement and you will learn that Begin and Sadat basically had the agreement worked out between themselves BEFORE carter insinuated himself into the process.
Read a good history of the agreement and you will learn that Begin and Sadat basically had the agreement worked out between themselves BEFORE carter insinuated himself into the process.
BH really needs to get this comment situation fixed. This really blows.
Read a good history of the Camp David agreement.
Carter likened the Israeli treatment of Arab-Israelis to apartheid, in his last book.
Carter always called Yasser Arafat his "good friend"
Carter sanctioned the elections of Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez as fair.
Cater condemned the election of violetta Chammoro as tainted. Chamorro was a democrat in nicaragua.
The only priciple that guides Catrer is the one to erase his failures as president by interferring with his sucessors.
Carter is a small, venal egotistical slug. well deserving of all the oprobium history can heap upon him.
Brilliant! 8 points to Dom Colangelo…………
lets not forget Kerry's recent comments that Sarah Palin should have been the one that went missing, not Sanford. Liberals are dirty diseased people. …..I'm being nice here..
Some good that did. They re-elected that prick Ortega later.
The Leftists in the H. of R. are making Michael Jackson look like an amateur. In the past two days, they somehow managed to screw every kid in America.
The Left think Bush was stupid! They elected a man that has no clue of our history or the history of the world. No economic sense and a true Marxist Muslim that hates what this country stands for. Where is the outrage that he said we are one of the largest Muslim nations in the world. The Left keep making up history as they go along. We are in a deep s–t of trouble with this president. I'm afraid that it will take an outside force to wake the country up. North Korea and Iran leaders know what a weak person he is and they are going to prove it to the world when he does nothing to stop them. Oh ya, he's going to sit down and charm them into liking us.
Please read "Obama, the African Colonial" in the American Thinker 6/25/09.
Our President is too much the lawyer and the professor, able to parse the fine points of a legal argument or deliver a lecture at every opportunity. But despite his ready smile he seems to lack the honest, heartfelt responses of President Reagan. When Reagan spoke, you knew exactly where he stood and what he believed. And when he spoke from his gut, he was at his best: authentic—and he made us proud. I suspect President Obama is less than authentic for a reason: His feelings about America are more complicated, less readily apparent. You can discern that in his reserve. And in his many speeches spent apologizing. I suspect he, like his wife, is not as proud of our country as most Americans are and as all prior American Presidents have been. Which is probably why he wants to remake this nation to fit his own idea of what America should be. The President has said much over the past months, but has revealed very little of himself—with good reason. If the media had done their job and helped to vet Candidate Obama, we probably wouldn't be calling him President today. When he finally spoke out against the Iranian government's harsh crackdown on protestors, he read the statement like an automaton. Entirely without feeling. Without a degree of passion. It was not the honest, heartfelt, criticism Americans had been waiting for. I wondered, what would Reagan have said?
"The neutrality of this article is disputed."
I can technically see the point, but as Israel is in a perpetual state of war with the Arabs such things are to be expected. I have not read the book so I do not know how far he went with the comparison, but offhand calling it "apartheid" is in the same vein as talking about Climate Change "deniers," picking out a charged word for PR purposes which is common. Without further knowledge of what he actually wrote, pass.
Politics 101, smile and say it. And unfortunately, it looks like historically Arafat may be regarded as a moderate. It is tough finding anyone over there who is willing to talk at all, let alone in something resembling good faith.
Too many people are too quick to credit Obama as a law professor. He may have been an instructor, but that is not the same thing. Has he written anything on the subject? Aside from his work with ACORN I've neither seen or heard anything regarding where he may have practiced. He still has yet to disclose his college transcripts (among everything else about his life) for crying out loud. How can we be sure he even has a degree?
We mustn’t question our Barry, his biracial metrosexual community organizing creed make him immanently qualified to be our President. We conservatives get bogged down on silly things like American Exceptionalism, love of country, upholding the ideals of our founding as guaranteed by our Constitution. Embrace the lunacy!
History will have to do a lot of catching up to get to that point, as so far the overwhelming consensus says he is a decent guy who tries.
Make up for the screw-ups of his Presidency, maybe, by doing what he sees as good works. He sure seems pretty honest in his attempts. As opposed to that guy before the second Bush, for example.
Currently it keeps giving me a "missing attribute" message. I found out that apparently it thinks a single quote mark means something, so if you use one it demands there is another. However as it is standard practice to use that symbol as the apostrophe, if between contractions, possessives, and plurals you end up with an odd number, "Error! Error!"
How is it screwing up for you?
"apartheid" is in the Tiltle of the book. Not an offhand remark
Arafat a moderate? Sorry kadaka but this discussion is over.
go to National Review Online, select Blog Row > Corner > search, then put in "Carter" in search terms, and Jay Nordlinger for "author"
Who needs principles when you can have mindless knee-jerk reactions?
Our President is too much the lawyer and the professor, able to parse the fine points of a legal argument or deliver a lecture at every opportunity.
Since when? I doubt he reads the bills he is signing and relies on his staff for, well, everything. While he might be able to recite impromptu the same canned lines we heard throughout the campaign and apparently every speech since, unless everything is well set up with the TelePrompter loaded he can hardly deliver an opinion on the weather let alone a lecture.
Hold on there minute. Timeout. On the German stimulus deal, if you go back, and begin diagraming just who was issuing, and who was receiving monies in Germany, it does not translate to ending up only in the pockets of the German automakers. Those who really received the money are part of a cabal who support President Tricycle's views. AND might I add that ACORN is going global. I would be willing to bet some of the money that found its way to Germany is going to end up in the hands of ACORN International. Just like Goldman Sachs and AIG have managed to funnel money to Dems and ACORN. Not to mention Fannie and Freddie.
In other words, the automakers in Germany might be one of those famous straw men President Skateboard likes so much. I see shell games.
Plus, Merkel has made it to the hate list along with Sarkozy and Bibi. We know for a fact this Administration has openly stated they are working to get Livni in, and Bibi out. Merkel is walking a thin line with the German people, and money to grease the skids to take her out would make many in Washington very, very happy. Why else would ACORN go global?
Nothing regarding money with this cabal in Washington is ever as it appears. Nothing.
They managed with the help of 8 turncoat Republicans, for one thing. Rinos I'm sure, but with a vote as close as 219- 212, they made all the difference that was needed.
I couldn't post at all yesterday morning, the "Submit Comment" button would spin endlessly after clicking on it, and never finalize. Obviously it's working today…
Merkel just won relection in Germany – rather convincingly if I am not mistaken (forget actual percentage) Merkel said "No" to giving money to their own troubled automakers. If the Germans so love the Bamster and hate Merkel I'd like a trade!
Hey now, watch it with the Robert Reich jokes!
Terrific read, very spot on!
Dems do not need no stinkin' principles, or history books either!
Carter was a disaster in foreign policy, and domestic policies. As we are frying in this heat, wishing the East Coast would push some rain down in the general direction of Dixie, I recall sitting in the backseat of my parent's Pontiac without AC, sweat running down my spaghetti- stick skinny legs, and wondering why so many people wanted gasoline? What was the big deal about gas? Funny how history repeats itself when the historical illiterate are in charge. The oppressive heat has returned, and I am holding my breath as to when gas is going to get closer, and closer to $4.00 per gallon. I am having serious flashbacks!
Even as a kid I knew Carter was a nut, and responsible for my pain. No gum, no candy bars, no Barbie dolls, no store bought clothes unless it was one pair of jeans. Carter was far worse, and more damaging to my psyche than Nixon constantly interrupting "Gilligan's Island" every day for those insane Watergate hearings. As a kid you could feel the fear crackle in the air when Peter Jennings would come on every evening to update us as to the status of our hostages. My parents were stressed, and as a kid you were keenly aware America was in deep pooh.
Back then, we thought Carter was tripping, but this time we have a President who has really inhaled, really tripped on drugs. There is a similarity between Carter, and President Hate America/Israel. Cue how Carter views the Palestinians and Hamas, plus candidate Obama praising one Rashid Khalidi's views on Palestinians. Anyone notice how tight the Muslim Brotherhood is with both these men? How about the recent sending of diplomats to Syria with the request HAMAS come on down so they can participate with the "peace process". Face palming just seems so inadequate here.
To be fair, not all Democrats are what we see now running around having luaus while the world is on fire, Iranians are being murdered, and over 3 million Americans do not have jobs. Zell Miller and Joe Liberman are fine examples of many Democrats who love this country, and would never, never sell out their country, or her citizens. Not that I agree with all their takes on the economy, but even a fair number of Dems know cap and tax is death to America. Quite frankly, I believe some Dems are in a total state of shock right now. SNAP OUT IT! Get on the save America train with us!
I just wish more Americans would pause to review what America reaped after Carter because of Carter. Let's see we had the Beirut bombings, that scum Abu Nidal murdering all sorts of people, the emergence of UBL as a more powerful force, solidifying of the Taliban, Soviets in Afghanistan, Africa going butt wild with radical Islam, and in general we reaped the perception America was soft and weak. Some say 9/11 was birthed from the perception of American during the Carter years. Works for me.
God help us if President Ice Cream is a Carter repeat. Things look so bad now that I am beginning to wish he was Carter. We did recover from Carter, and thanks to Ronaldus Magnus, I eventually not only got a Barbie doll, but a Barbie airplane to boot!
However, I think we have officially jumped the Carter shark. As Obi wan Kenobi said, "you will never find a more retched hive of scum, and villiany." He was speaking of the Star Wars bar scene crowd, but do they really look any different than those in power right now? I could have sworn one of those alien things looked just like Rahm Emanuel!
I keep my ID page on a separate tab, if the Submit button does that sometimes refreshing the ID page will kick the system and then it will go through. Sometimes the comment will even show up on the page while the Submit thing is still stuck.
While it is stuck, with the cursor in the message box, Control-A (mark all), Control-C (copy), then refresh the page. Go right back to where you were, if the message box is not still there then Reply, Control-V (paste) in the box and try again.
I have gotten used to copying the message before trying to submit, because if the moderation beast strikes then the message gets lost when I hit the Delete. Otherwise it can be a lot of retyping until I find the one thing it was complaining about.
Liberals think they own the high ground on everything. But the truth is they are COWARDS. They never have to make the hard choice between right and wrong. Thus NO PRINCIPLES.
COWARD COWARDS COWARDS COWARDS COWARDS.
But unfortunately for Carter, much of his good works end up under the umbrella of the "law of unintended consequences". His diplomacy during his term as President resulted in at least one assassination, the installation of a dictator, the loss of control of a major waterway that we built and paid for, and Energy policy that set us back years, and ,because of his indecisive diplomacy, 50 American citizens were held hostages by a person that is actually President of Iran right now. Do not be fooled by his Nobel Peace Prize. Remember, they also gave one to Yasser Arafat, the uber-terrorist. Though you may not remember, Carter was a pariah to the Democrats for years after he lost to Reagan. He was not even invited to Clinton's first Inauguration. In the last few years he has insinuated himself in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace negotiations "as a private citizen" and not at the behest of anyone in our government. The unintended consequence of that is that he has now given Hamas and Hezbollah legitimacy. Even the UN accepts that these two bodies as terrorist organizations.
They do not have standards at all.
I'll try that next time- thanks!
I'll try that next time- thanks!
That Obi wan quote is hilarious! You are so right. With Obama the Hutt in charge right now, we're definitley in serious trouble. I'd agree that it's going to get much worse than the Carter years before it's over. Never thought I'd live to see a POTUS do more harm than the peanut farmer did in my lifetime, but there it is.
They gave AlGore a Nobel Peace Prize as well, it is a popularity contest that does not mean anything. It seems a safe bet there are people on those committees who wish they could take their votes back.
Sadat likely knew what was coming, death threats were guaranteed. He ticked off a lot of people by making peace. That Carter convinced him anyway says something. Begin likewise is related to that.
Otherwise, as a President, yeah he screwed up. I am not defending what was done. Actually we seem in agreement he tries to do good deeds, perhaps in a slightly misguided way but at least he is honest.
As to Hamas, pick your blame, the Palestinians period or Arafat and his PLO. The PLO toned it down, tried to get respectable, could not keep the loudmouths under control, and from there things went. If you want to talk to the extremists, who are very popular, Hamas is the new PLO, you go to them.
Hezbollah is more complicated. They are a terrorist organization becoming the "alternate government" of Lebanon, more of a political force that helps the Shiites. Believe it or not, they are doing some good albeit with a distasteful Islamic slant. They are creating a "legitimacy" we will be forced to recognize, like it or not.
who is robert reich? I really dont know…time for google
Yeah! He was scary enough during the election as another Carter, but we have now gone way past the Peanut.
The fact that Sadat did it anyway says more about Sadat than about Carter. Look, I have no doubt that Carter is as honest as any politician can be, but his silence on Iran is deafening. As much as his diplomacy option did not work in the 70's, you would think he would have a lot to say.
Merkel certainly is more of a man than "Metrosexual Barry"
Okay, does this one count? It mentions the groundwork before Camp David in 1978, but also:
By all accounts, Carter's relentless drive to achieve peace and his reluctance to allow the two men to leave without reaching an agreement are what played the decisive role in the success of the talks. Numerous times both the Egyptian and Israeli leaders wanted to scrap negotiations, only to be lured back into the process by personal appeals from Carter.
And then comes what became his trademark:
Begin and Sadat had such mutual antipathy toward one another that they only seldom had direct contact; thus Carter had to conduct his own microcosmic form of shuttle diplomacy by holding one-on-one meetings with either Sadat or Begin in one cabin, then returning to the cabin of the third party to relay the substance of his discussions.
That is basically what he still does, when two sides will not talk to each other he goes to one, asks what is bugging them, then goes to the other guy and says what is bugging the first one, etc. There are a bunch of situations like that in the world, too much pride and too many words for both sides to talk direct, however if a (disinterested neutral) third party is available then the sides are open to having at least some communication.
I also read, which I do not recall noting before, that Egypt was Communist aligned before then switched to US (NATO) aligned, in the face of many threats of war, while royally ticking off many Arab and Muslim nations by destroying a united front against Israel which I had noted. Thus Carter may be credited with doing a part in winning the Cold War and in minimizing what has become the War on Terror. Not bad for a peanut farmer who would have made a better preacher than he did a politician.
I saw that later, read some excerpts. (BTW are you saying I said it was an offhand remark?)
I can in no way say I agree wholeheartedly with what I have read, there are some technically true points I will concede but not much else.
If anything, it certainly reinforced his position as an independent thinker. He sure ticked off enough "fellow liberals." Nancy Pelosi had a statement out distancing the Democratic Party before it was even published, that has to count for something.
Hey, I do not like it either, but all these way-out total loon terrorists are throwing off the curve. I rank AiryFat with Ka-Daffy, at least they were smart enough to realize toning it down was in their own best interests.
Don't go after the Ballerina! You'll get a dead fish in the mail.
From what I have been reading,
Ortega: He has won, he has lost. The elections may not have been to traditional US standards, but they seem rather fair by third-world standards.
Chavez: I can find nothing that would really stand out, again by those standards.
You support democracy, you support that the voting majority can do really stupid things. As in our last Presidential election.
You will have to supply a reference for that as so far I can only find that the assorted Nicaraguan elections were declared free and fair. I have found a mention that "The United States Embassy spent more than $1 million on her behalf." Perhaps it was a personal comment as that would technically be "outside interference."
Heh, now this took some time to find. Would you believe he might not even be in the US right now, and completely away from the MSM? See link below (ID will not take it for some reason), on June 7 he was monitoring an election in Lebanon, for which he arrived May 12. It takes awhile to set up the monitoring network, and to wind it down and finish the paperwork. The Iranian election was June 12, just five days later.
That may well be why there is silence. He is busy over in Lebanon, and might not want to comment on an election he did not monitor. Since that site I found is keeping tabs on the Middle East and Carter and still has not said anything about the Lebanese election, might be he still is not done certifying it, up to his neck in reports and paperwork, and just not paying attention to the news elsewhere.
Going by his history, he will comment sometime. Right now, especially since I do not recall seeing any mention anywhere that Lebanon was even having an election, it might just be that he is stuck in the boondocks, and the MSM does not think it is worth their time to ask his opinion. Especially if it might disagree with their beloved leader.
http://www.mideastmonitoring.com/search?q=jimmy+c...
Done. Read all 15.
I got that while Nordinger called Carter on a few things like his New Orleans statement, he actually has some affection for him. What glaringly scathing condemnation was I supposed to have noticed?
Carter was a nuclear engineer? I just had to look that up. He served honorably in the Navy, and gave a very good showing of himself. If I had ever known he was in at all, I certainly did not know all the facts. Given his impressive performance, my estimate of Jimmy Carter has risen.
My apologies if that was not your intention.
Done. Read all 15.
I got that while Nordinger called Carter on a few things like his New Orleans statement, he actually has some affection for him. What glaringly scathing condemnation was I supposed to have noticed?
Carter was a nuclear engineer? I just had to look that up. He served honorably in the Navy, and gave a very good showing of himself. If I had ever known he was in at all, I certainly did not know all the facts. Given his impressive performance, my estimate of Jimmy Carter has risen.
My apologies if that was not your intention.
Done. Read all 15.
I got that while Nordinger called Carter on a few things like his New Orleans statement, he actually has some affection for him. What glaringly scathing condemnation was I supposed to have noticed?
Carter was a nuclear engineer? I just had to look that up. He served honorably in the Navy, and gave a very good showing of himself. If I had ever known he was in at all, I certainly did not know all the facts. Given his impressive performance, my estimate of Jimmy Carter has risen.
My apologies if that was not your intention.
Do you have a link so I can get the context? Without it, I can see he was correct in two ways. One, communism is self-destroying, leave it alone and it dies. Reagan did a great job hastening the demise of the Soviets thus minimizing the damage. Two, the "better red than dead" crowd was a bunch of wussies. I just missed being able to vote for Reagan the second time, but I supported him all the way. When it came to the terror over nuclear war, I and many my age said "Push the damn button or get out of our way, we are tired of your crap!" Inordinate fear? We had none, and were wondering what those older than us were worrying about anyway.
Warning, the ID system has been screwing up the links repeatedly, even after I have repeatedly edited them. I check back later and they are messed up.
Here is the correct (unless it gets screwed again) one for Hezbollah:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah
"Speaking of Carter, how is it that he, who is always volunteering to monitor elections anywhere on earth, including the Westminster Dog Show, wasnt in Iran, making sure that Ahmadinejad got 110% of the vote? "
Exactly what I was thinking, Burt. Carter always seems to be Jimmah on the Spot whenever some tinhorn dictator needs a little election cred. I guess that only applies when a Republican is in the White House. What a joke that guy is.
Texas is Galt's Gulch.
As bad as he is now I remember living under him as President
Spoiled kids don't need any principles, as long as their parents let them act so…
to quote Sylvestor Stallone's "Snaps Provalone" ~ You're an Ox, And a Moron!
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The President constantly apologies for America before it was under his steadied hand because he wants to come across as a neutral third party, an objective outside arbitrator. He wants to be the referee in chief, judiciously studying various complaints and charges.
The only problem is he is on our side no matter how hard he tries to make it seem otherwise.
It appears the point being made is if you aren’t a conservative then you are a hypocrite.
Imus v. Letterman. It was a shame Imus blurted something insensitive about civilians – spontaneous, not rehearsed. Anyone who was upset over it deserves the right to do so. This is America. Imus was fired by his employer. They had the right to do that. Letterman said a prepared joke about family of a politician who is either strongly liked or strongly disliked. That joke, and the stewardess joke, and all Letterman jokes over the last 30 years are just not funny, with very few exceptions. A lot of people were angry, good for them. Letterman did not get fired, but that is at the discretion of his employer. What is worse, hypocrisy or painting all non-conservatives with the same wide brush?
Dick Cheney. Hated by many. I am not very fond of him either. If you chose to distress yourself over the fact he is not well liked, good luck to you. You are free to dislike Carter. I want to mention that when you say Carter would prefer to see “that Ahmadinejad got 110% of the vote,” I think that is a silly thing to say. I suspect you don’t really believe that, but it sounds very derogative which was the intent. Please correct me if I am wrong.
President Bush Junior was not popular in many countries. He did his job his way. Obama didn’t need the Supreme Court to become our Chief Executive and I encourage people to oppose him with legitimacy instead of misquoting him, spreading obvious lies, and exaggerating his every gaffe. You could say Obama was heard saying he wants to kill our puppies and 40 people here will chime in with kudos. Satisfying but counter-productive.
I can’t help but feel some pity for the angry Obama-hater whose (sp. a+) only outlet is ranting with venom. It’s going to be a long 4 years, folks.
daicharo – oh look, another liberal – spinning to defend the obama kind of hatred toward Real Americans
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It's a free country, Mr. Real American.
What 'Obama kind of hatred' is being defended?
Sorry Kadaka, but you sound more like Michael Moore or a big time apologist for Jimmy Carter. You have lost all creditibilty with me on all things foreign policy, and perhaps anything else with your remarks on Carter.
I feel pity for all you Kool-aid drinkers. Obama is going to be the disappointment of your pathetic little lives. He's never met a promise or principle he wasn't willing to back out of. And the things he has mindlessly wrought in his first months of on-the-job training are going to come back to haunt him (and, unfortunately, us and future generations).
Keep sippin' that Kool-aid, dd. Then go stretch yourself out in the hot Guyana sun with your fellow 0-bots and wait for the Obamatopia. I wonder if Jim Jones had a teleprompter.
Texas is Galt's Gulch.
Saying I am in any way like Michael Moore, except for being a white male which I must allow, is an insult of the highest order which demands satisfaction on the field of honor.
I have stated that Carter is a man of principles. I certainly do not approve of all of them, however he does stick with them which I can respect. Yes I found some nice things to say about him, if I looked hard enough I could probably find some for Hitler, but that hardly makes me an apologist for either. That my defending of one man with principles who sticks with them despite popularity ratings and criticism should cause you to discount all my views on foreign policy, and perhaps anything else, says far more about your character than perhaps you wanted to say. I have long been a strong supporter of Israel, are you now so incensed you would join with the Muslims and demand Israel be destroyed?
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