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Jimmy Carter Is Being An A*shole — Again
It seems Jimmy Carter just can’t help himself anymore. Whether the former President is denouncing the sitting President, condemning Israel, yukking it up with brutal dictators, or offering unsolicited advice on any number of topics, you can always count on Jimmy for a good sound bite.
Such was the case at the DNC. Carter was originally scheduled to give a speech, but to their credit the Obama camp realized that now is not the time to start Jew bashing. So the former Peacenik-in-Chief only got to wave to the crowd this year.
Since he couldn’t speak to a huge crowd of liberals in person, he did the next best thing and spoke to MSNBC. Not surprisingly, Keith Olbermann was delighted to have the former President. Sensing a sympathetic ear, Carter spoke in glowing terms about Barack Obama, admitting that he ‘wept’ when Obama gave his famous speech about race some months back.
He also took shots at Republicans, lamenting the “subtle and sometimes overt racism” the GOP uses to gain power. He went on to insinuate that Ronald Reagan ran a racist campaign in 1980.
One could simply say that Jimmy Carter puts the ‘ass’ in classy.
But that’s not all, he also gave an interview to USA Today just before Obama’s acceptance speech and dropped a few more stink bombs:
Former president Jimmy Carter called Republican presidential candidate John McCain a “distinguished naval officer,” but he said the Arizona senator has been “milking every possible drop of advantage” from his time served as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
…he said he was bewildered by McCain’s performance at the Saddleback Presidential Forum hosted by pastor and author Rick Warren in Lake Forest, Calif., earlier this month.
Carter said that whether he was asked about religion, domestic or foreign affairs, every answer came back to McCain’s 5½ years as a POW.
“John McCain was able to weave in his experience in a Vietnam prison camp, no matter what the question was,” Carter said. “It’s much better than talking about how he’s changed his total character between being a senator, a kind of a maverick … and his acquiescence in the last few months with every kind of lobbyist pressure that the right-wing Republicans have presented.”
He also went after Joe Lieberman:
He decried Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman’s decision to “abandon” the Democrats by speaking at the Republican convention next week.
“I would hope that the Democrats could have enough senators elected in November so that we would not any longer need to include Joe Lieberman among the senators,” Carter said.
Putting aside all the ‘worst President’ labels the left throws at President Bush, the history books accurately reflect the fact that Jimmy Carter was in fact the worst President. His foreign policy and his domestic policy was an absolute disaster that Ronald Reagan spent eight years trying to clean up.
Here’s where things stood in 1980, Carter’s last year in office, and in subsequent periods:
Carter: Interest rate, 21%. Inflation, 13.5%. Unemployment, 7%. Misery Index, 20.5%. Let’s also not forget the hostage crisis in Iran along with the horribly botched rescue mission that crashed in the desert.
Reagan’s last year: Interest rate, 9%. Inflation, 4.1%. Unemployment, 5.5%. Misery Index, 9.6%.
Bush (2007): Interest rate, 8%. Inflation, 2.6%. Unemployment, 4.5%. Misery Index, 7.1%.
Jimmy Carter should stick to giving advice about peanut farming and building houses for the homeless, because he lacks any credibility in politics — unless he’s on MSNBC of course.
Hubris Alert: Obama’s Greek Temple Stage
It looks likes Barack Obama’s incredible hubris is once again front and center in this campaign. This time in the form of a Greek temple type structure that he will give his speech on at Invesco Field.
Blogger “See Swann” calls it ‘regal’ and I think I’d have to agree with that. See the stage for yourself at the 4:05 mark on the following clip…
UPDATE:
The McCain campaign is wasting no time in giving their opinion on the ‘Temple of Obama.’
