Jimmy Carter...this man has been an annoyance to me since the 70's. I recall when he first came on the national scene while seeking the Democrat Party nomination. My mother had asked me if I was going to vote for him. I responded: no. Upon her inquiry as to why not, I queried why I should. Well he's a born-again Christian. while this is a great thing, I still inquired as to why I should vote for him, especially considering the fact that I was a registered Republican with very conservative bent. Again, he's a born-again Christian and we need godly people in government. While this is also true, I inquired whether God had instructed Carter to run for President. A rather adamant no ensued. Conclusion for the day: I saw no reason that I should vote for him.
After this conversation, I did pursue information in order to discover exactly whom Jimmy Carter was. Having done so, I definitely decided to vote not only for someone else, but against Carter. It seems that history has supported the wisdom in that decision. Too bad for America that not enough people reached the same conclusion and allowed Jimmy Carter to effect his damage on this country by his naivete, tunnel vision, and at times blatant idiocy.
Carter performed many acts that injured this country during his 4 years in office and posed as a weak leader of a great nation. It was not mere coincidence that the Americans held hostage by Iran were finally released on the day that Ronald Reagan was sworn in, replacing Jimmy Carter. Now, in the years since his presidency, Carter has effected more damage on the national and international scene. Not only is he an embarassment to a thinking person, he is a blight on the conscience and psyche of America.
Now that I have that off my chest, here's a few things for you to review for your own edification on the matter.
Jimmy Carter: American Revolution Was 'Unnecessary'
The moral bankruptcy of Jimmy Carter
Look in the mirror, Jimmy Carter
Iranian Voice article: Carter Sold Out Iran 1977-1978
Jimmy Carter: A Weak, Ineffectual President And An Embarrassing And Dishonest Ex-President
The Worst President in U.S. History is Also a Traitor
Get Carter: We take another look at the worst Democratic President of the 20th Century
Jimmy Carter: The Worst Ex-President in History
Jimmy Carter -- Governor, President . . . Traitor?
Jimmy Carter Under Fire for Recruiting Soviets Against Reagan
Jimmy Carter's Legacy of Failure
Jimmy Carter on marijuan legalization
1979 : Jimmy Carter speaks about a national “crisis in confidence”
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And last but not least....Jimmy Carter and the Killer Rabbit
Jimmy Carter's Personal State Department
By Doug Patton
April 14, 2008
As I have written in the past, it is testimony to the mettle of the American Republic that it can, from time to time, suffer fools at its helm. It has endured the drunkenness of Ulysses S. Grant, the socialism of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the constitutional violations of Richard M. Nixon and the alley-cat morality of Warren G. Harding, John F. Kennedy and William J. Clinton.
We have managed to survive even the naivete of James E. Carter, the peanut farmer turned politician who proved "The Peter Principle" by rising to his own special level of ineptitude and remaining there from 1977 to 1981.
Jimmy Carter's White House tenure was disastrous enough, but his increasingly radical actions over the last quarter century have gone far beyond incompetence. Some believe they border on sedition. How else to describe a failed and rejected former president who can't stop criticizing his own country and her allies while defending and promoting the jihadist scum of the earth.
Carter's post-White House years began well. Some of his activities were even inspiring. Seeing him build Habitat for Humanity homes was certainly preferable to watching him embarrass himself repeatedly as president ("I asked my daughter Amy what she thought our biggest problem was, and she said, 'Daddy, I think it is nuclear proliferation...'").
But then, like Jesse Jackson before him, Carter decided to create his own little personal State Department, jetting off on private foreign policy missions, meeting with foreign ministers, dictators and potentates. He cares not that his actions are at best unappreciated by today's leaders, or that his efforts have never accomplished anything of value for his country. In fact, more often than not, the former president's embarrassing antics have created barriers to the delicate diplomacy of our currently elected authorities, while simultaneously emboldening America's enemies.
Jimmy Carter is starting to look like Neville Chamberlain with a toothy grin. He trusted Saddam Hussein in 2002, the very year the Nobel Committee decided he was their man of peace. He attacked the Israelis in his discredited recent book, calling their treatment of the Palestinians "apartheid." Now he plans to travel to Syria to meet with the leaders of Hamas.
Like so many naive appeasers before him, Carter seems to believe that if he is nice to our enemies, they will be nice in return and everything will be just fine. It's nice to be nice to the nice, and if they're murderous thugs, well, we'll just ignore that pesky little detail and be nice anyway. Set a good example for them. You know, walk softly and carry nothing but a smile. That's Jimmy's philosophy. His credo seems to be "hug a terrorist for peace." It's all so reminiscent of those nuclear freeze dupes who thought we could get the whole world to disarm simply by being nice and leading the way.
Carter's globetrotting on behalf of feel-good diplomacy may have endeared him to the Nobel committee - which presented him with a check for a cool million dollars and declared him one of the wisest diplomats of our time - and to the media. But the media and the Nobel Committee are always quick to applaud anything that smacks of America bashing.
Jimmy Carter should go back to Georgia and do something constructive for the country. Build some more houses. Grow some more peanuts. Produce something we could actually use. Instead, he continues to bask in his worldly accolades as he flies off to other troubled parts of the world to meet with the sworn enemies of America.
Meanwhile, our real president (you remember him...the one we elected to do these things) tries to deal with real problems in ways that are in the best interest of the United States of America.
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Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and public policy advisor. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including Human Events Online, TheConservativeVoice.com and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor.