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I'm so glad that Jeffrey Goldberg, one of the NEW YORKER's best writers and the author of a moving book on Arabs and Israelis living together in peace, unmasks this petty little fraud again pretending to be a foreign policy guru. The serial eff-up peanut-farmer who managed to deny the Shah rubber bullets, so that his police slaughtered hundreds of students and ignited the return of the Ayatollah, is again plying his foreign policy nostrums for the ultra-left Jew-bashing [including many self-bashing Jews] Israel-hating, America-loathing haters. [Oh yeah, I forgot that Carter's perceived lack of testoserone induced Brezhnev and his buddies to invade Afghanistan, correctly divining that Carter would respond symbolically and shambolically.] Then there were the double-digit interest rates and inflation rates.
Carter hates Israel and intensely dislikes American Jews who support Israel. He is a whinging egomaniac who is an asteroid pretending to be a planet.
Thank God the American people correctly jettisoned this impostor and elected a real leader, Ronald Reagan, who along with Maggie Thatcher and the Pope greased the skids for the USSR.
Think lil Gee-Mah could have managed that? He was too busy micro-managing the White House tennis courts.
Carter is worse that GWB or Clinton or any US president since LBJ.
A couple of comments on Jimmy are rich and on-the-mark:
The review offers an excellent insight. Carter`s insufferable sanctimony and megalomaniacal messiah complex are always annoying, but in this case are downright dangerous. He is in point of fact a dolt and a boob and should please just shut up. [P.S. Apparently Rev. Jimmy considers himself exempt from the commandment against stealing, at least when it comes to others` intellectual property.] zjr98xva
Another blogger notes this little hypocrite's two-faced nature:
it nails the reason for Carter to write this book: the attempt to make a Christian case for throwing Israel to the dogs. It also highlights the central problem with Carter from day one: He basically ran as an evangelical Christian, while rejecting most of what evangelical Christians believe to be true, at least politically. Evangelical Christians overwhelmingly are patriotic, anti-abortion, conservative, free-market oriented, favorably disposed to Israel, in favor of a strong defense, and always saw Communism as a totalitarian and inhumane system. Carter, on the other hand, never met a dictator he didnt worship, cared nothing for defending American interests, didnt even attempt to discourage abortion, had no use for welfare reform, was always hostile to Israel, and spent the four years of his administration trying to appease the Palestinians, the Communists, the radical Shiites, and basically every two-bit dictator that came along. He tried to cast himself as the Human Rights president, but cozied up to the worst human rights offenders. Though talking like an evangelical, he in every way aligned himself against them. And as an ex-president, he's worse.
Another reader comments on the swarm of ultra-left Arab-loving, terrorist-supporters who have bashed Goldberg, one of America's best writers, and spewed their hatred of Israel, the only effectively-functioning democracy in the region [Lebanon is hanging on by its fingernails]:
I cannot even begin to comprehend the continued unwavering criticism of Israel by the posters here. An overwhelming majority of Leadership and populace in the Arab world openly states to the entire world that it seeks only the complete destruction of Israel. No negotiations for peace, no demands that Israel treat the Palestenians fairly and equally. Just complete and total destruction. Is Israel perfect? No. But they attempt to live peacefully and isolated on land provided by world authority. They do not boast of only a world with complete and total Arab and Palestenian destruction. They are trying to live safely on land given to them and taken in defense during an overwhelming agression by its neighbors. Israels use of force and militarization is a result of defense of itself, not a landgrab. Have your local neighborhoods seek your neighborhoods complete and total destruction while sending suicide bombers and missles into your front lawn. You might tighten up security too.
A final salvo:
I agree that Jimmy Carter is senile and, for whatever reason, an embittered anti semite. But I disagree that Bill Clinton or Carter or Bush or Reagan or any American politician have made any significant difference in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Things there seem to be basically unchanged after 40 years.
Carter is convinced that the Israelis and their American friends collaborated in getting Teddy Kennedy, John Anderson, and Ronald Reagan together in a cabal to disallow a second term for him, and he has been prancing about for decades trying to get back into the limelight.
His hilarious election-monitoring mishaps anger NGO professionals, who watched him prance into Ethiopia last year, declare an election hunky-dory, and leave while the post-election disputes turned bloody---because of widespread election fraud.
His Iranian hostage gene is still operating on overdrive, and his wrong-headed take on the world makes him appear ridiculous and self-referential.
This is an untalented, meddlesome, intrusive second-rater who somehow fluked into become a one-term wonder. That will be history's epitaph, and all his poseur and hypocritical "Christian" twaddle simply makes evangelical Christians despise him as much as Catholics and thoughtful Protestant High Church types do.
1 comment :
great, sir
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