Dear Gay Patriot readers:
As you may recall, just about one year ago, we awarded Dan Rather the first James Earl Carter Bitter Old Man Award, an honor bestowed on those “men over 70 who, in their dotage, by the very bitterness of their manner, follow in the footsteps of the nation’s worst president.”
In several statements in the past few days, Carter has demonstrated the very bitterness which defines the award. Having long since forgotten the tradition of U.S. presidents never criticizing their successors while abroad, this unhappy octogenarian faulted the incumbent administration for drafting a Middle East policy which has become “one of the greatest human rights crimes on Earth” as he suggests the current president is a “war criminal.” And even after being rejected overwhelmingly by the American people, he has tried to engage in diplomacy on behalf of the United States.
And we haven’t even gotten to his criticism of the Administration’s Iraq policy, offering such criticisms Memorial Day weekend.
Just moments ago, I received an e-mail from a reader, alerting me to a post highlighting the former president’s follies. But, he wasn’t referencing the comments I made above. This time, Carter was musing about Iran acquiring a nuclear bomb:
I’m not sure that is going to happen, but if it does, what do we do? They are rational people like all of us in this room. Do they want to commit suicide? I would guess not. So what we have to do is talk with them now and say to them we want to be their friends . . .
Um, Jimmy, do you recall what happened in those dark days when you were president and the Iranian mullahs violated international law and took our allowed our diplomats to be taken hostage? Do you want to be friends with those people?
Calling them rational!?!?!? Guessing that they don’t want to commit suicide!?!?!? Have you been paying any attention to Islamofascism over the past quarter-century or so? These are not rational people. They believe in committing suicide to advance their goals. Not just believe in it, practice and promote it — and train for it.
So, the question is, is this an example of Jimmy’s bitterness? Or just his stupidity or his support of anything which opposes the interests of the country he once led?
If stupidity, then we probably can’t offer him his own award. If bitterness, then the question is, should he be awarded an eponymous honor?
Please use the comments section to share your thoughts.
Sincerely,
B. Daniel Blatt
(AKA GayPatriotWest)
Bill Moyers and Noam Chomsky would also be fine candidates for the Carter BOM Award, but I think you gotta give it to Jimmy. In terms of sheer chaos on the world stage, he takes the cake.
I move to close nominations and call for acclamation of Jimmy Carter’s selection for the Jimmy Carter Bitter Old Man Lifetime Un-Achievement Award!
I don’t know about this. Jimmy Carter craves attention and even an award that ridicules him for the national disgrace he’s become is more attention than he deserves.
I’d like to see Bill Moyers get the award. Maybe we could have a tie and give it to both Carter and Moyers.
Jimmah was the genius behind boycotting the Olympics and the Rose Garden Strategy. He seems quite consistent in believing that Iran’s mullahs are rational folk who will be open to dialog.
I do not see his theatrics so much the result of being a bitter old man as it is an example of someone who keeps hitting his head with a hammer as a way to persuade the hammer to soften up. I do not pretend to understand Carter’s mind; I just know that Carter truly believes he can swallow himself without choking.
He should have stuck to building houses. Ever since his appearance with Michael Moore at the 2004 convention I’ve had a great, personal, dislike for the man. Put me down as voting for the “stupidity” category for Jimmah.
While I agree with not giving him the award because it would give him more recognition, please can someone just stifle him. How dare he tell Hamas/Iran how many nuclear weapons we all have. No more information should be given to this EX (thank God) President.
Because they were SO OPEN-MINDED on his watch, right?
Hmm… maybe they were? I.e., maybe he had some horrible surrender deal with them in the works, that Reagan’s election interrupted?
“I’m not sure that is going to happen, but if it does, what do we do?…Do they want to commit suicide? I would guess not…”
In case there is even a scintilla of lingering doubt anywhere in the universe that Jimmy Carter was the WORST President of the 20th Century (and the WORST Ex-President of all time), just read the phrases above one more time and remember…
HE’S TALKING ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY!
I don’t know what is going on in that old, worthless codger’s head these days, but what I hope is going on is that somewhere in that bonehead he KNOWS that the Islamist savages got in because they were emboldened by his weakness, and he has been living with that terrifying reality for 30 years. And as each year goes by, Iran becomes more and more dangerous. I think he is desperate to believe that they are rational people just like us, because if they aren’t, and Iran gets the bomb, well…Iran is going to do exactly what they’ve been telling us they are going to do. Israel. Right off the map. Even if it meant their own mutually assured destruction. Either Carter would be unable to deny his own complicity and it would tear him inside-out, hastening his trip to the grave, OR like every other Democrat he would make excuses for pure, unmasked evil right in front of him and blame Bush, conservatives or Rush Limbaugh. They would find a way. Who could have imagined that within 4+ years of 9/11 they would find a way to blame Bush/Cheney for that and have it adopted right into the mainstream?
Obama cannot be our President. Period.
P.S. With all the obscure stuff that is out there on YouTube etc., you would think I could find a video clip of Carter’s pathetic, shameful “malaise” speech, but I haven’t been able to find it. Does anyone know where it is? Or where there’s a copy of the text online? Or have the Dems re-written that part of history too and “edited it out”? As much as I despise Carter, I’ve still never actually seen it. One more thing…did anyone have the stomach to watch that “Man From Plains” documentary about Carter Jonathan Demme made (and I think Clooney produced)? Do we need a new word for “whitewash”?
#6: “How dare he tell Hamas/Iran how many nuclear weapons we all have.”
As if Carter would have the courtesy to inform the U.S. if he knew Iran had nukes and how many. Of course not. It might threaten the “peace” process.
Jimmah was also the genius who thought the Soviets would never invade afghanistan, because, after all, they had given him their word.
He certainly keeps hitting his head against something. But I think its his prostate.
Carter was the worst president ever? Even Carter’s approval ratings never sunk as los as Bush’s is now.
Which just goes to show, Houndentenor, that Democrat Party members don’t care if the economy is clearly in recession with high unemployment rates and hundreds of thousands of people losing jobs, credit is virtually paralyzed by double-digit interest rates, gas prices are skyrocketing, the President’s advice is to “wear a sweater”, and Americans are being held hostage in plain view by fanatical Islamic terrorists because our own government is too weak to act and has no support from other countries.
As long as the person in charge is a Democrat.
#11 – Huckleberry Hound, when will you Dhimmicrats ever learn that you can never govern by polls?
Also, it’s not so much how well you did in office, but how people think of you when you left. Why do you think Carter worked on it so much after his disastrous presidency? Why is Slick Willie still obsessing over his legacy?
Roll over. Sit. Go to bed.
Good dog.
Regards,
Peter H.
Why is he so sure the Iranians don’t want to commit suicide? They were happy for 8 years seeing their best and brightest young men and even children being slaughtered in a war with Iraq. One million dead.
These people don’t share our quaint western notion of the dignity of every life. If a couple of Iranian cities get wiped off the map, that is a small price to pay for destroying Israel.
Personally I wish the guy would shut up and go back to growing peanuts! All I can hope that is nuclear information is about 25 years old, either way, he has no right divulging such information.
True. His approval ratings never sunk as low as Harry Truman’s either, who was almost exactly as unpopular as Bush and is now considered one of our greatest presidents. And Bush is undoubtedly has not achieved the levels of disapproval that Abraham Lincoln did, yet I seem to recall seeing his mug on Mt Rushmore.