The World According to Jimmy Carter
A review of: Jimmy Carter, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid (Simon & Schuster, November 2006)
It is not difficult to understand why Democrats wanted the publication of Jimmy Carter’s slim new book (216 pages of text, large print and no footnotes), with its tendentious title and its superficial analysis, delayed until today, a week after the election. The anti-Israel bias is so clear, the credulous description of Arab positions so cringe-producing, the key “facts” on which Carter relies so easily refuted by public documents, that the book is an embarrassment to Carter, the Democrats, the presidency and Americans.
It is hard to decide which is more discomforting”what Carter put in or what he left out. Let’s start with his own words, and let him speak for himself, and then note what no knowledgeable observer of the Middle East could have ingenuously omitted.
Carter says he paid his first visit to Israel in June 1973 (when he was privately “planning a future role as president”), and he devotes an entire chapter to it. The trip “formed most of my lasting impressions of Israel”"and they do not seem to have been good ones.
On his trip, he traveled “along the paths of Jesus” around the Sea of Galilee and found that:
“It was especially interesting to visit with some of the few surviving Samaritans, who complained to us that their holy sites and culture were not being respected by Israeli authorities – the same complaint heard by Jesus and his disciples almost two thousand years earlier.”
He describes his visit to several kibbutzim and finds that Israel fails his religious test again (at least on one kibbutz)
(Excerpt) Read more at American Thinker
November 14, 2006 - 09:26 AM on November 14th, 2006
And JIMMY CARTER wonders why he lasted only one term he was a complete baffoon and incompetent fool:razz:
November 14, 2006 - 12:42 PM on November 14th, 2006
Ronald Reagan, when he realized that senility was setting in, had the sense to withdraw from the public.
November 14, 2006 - 12:46 PM on November 14th, 2006
Good point ROTM, but then again, it isn’t fair to compare his greatness to Jimmy!:wink:
November 14, 2006 - 03:02 PM on November 14th, 2006
The ONLY reason Peanut Brain got elected was because he was NOT Gerald Ford, who was punished for pardoning Nixon. Pure and Simple, END of story.
Really reminds me of the current situation. Voters voted to punish the incumbents. But it was a deal with the devil; what they got was FAR worse.
Peanut Brain was very arguably the worst President in U.S. history. The lasting damage he did to America continues to haunt us today.
November 14, 2006 - 03:04 PM on November 14th, 2006
Peejz
The only thing I would compare Jimmy the peanut pusher to is a pile of what my daughters horse leaves on the floor of his stall.
November 14, 2006 - 04:38 PM on November 14th, 2006
5- ROTM- you are kinder that I:wink: