First, watch a clip of the immediate past President of the United States. Note how that good man praises two men his successor will be tapping for key national security positions, including Leon Panetta, who was a leading member of the Democratic congressional caucus when serving in the legislature and a top official in the Clinton and Obama administrations when serving in the executive branch:
(Via Breitbart.tv via a newly trentagenarian reader.) Note further this Republican former president refrains from criticizing the policies of the Democratic incumbent.
Now watch this clip of another former U.S. president. And read this report:
Wrapping up his visit this week to Pyongyang, former President Jimmy Carter says relations between North Korea and South Korea are “currently at rock bottom.” Nonetheless, he said he believes the North is committed to getting talks underway. . . .
Carter said Thursday at a press conference in Seoul that North Korean officials had “expressed deep regret … for the loss of life” from two military attacks against South Korean targets in late 2010. But they did not apologize and suggested that they wouldn’t, the former president said.
Why does this man always take the enemies of the United States at their word? Has any other former U.S. President so criticized his country on foreign soil? Why hasn’t Mr. Carter focused on the real source of the starvation in North Korea, the economic system its Communist leaders have forced into place through their ideological zeal and kept in place with military might and barbaric means, including forced labor, imprisonment and torture?
One wonders at the hubris of Jimmy Carter. He had one of the worst foreign policy records of any president in the twentieth century and now tries to distinguish himself by tramping across the world, paying homage to the enemies of the United States and acting as if American attitudes and policies are to blame for much of what is wrong in the world. Perhaps, like George W. Bush, he should find a hobby and focus on charities (as he once did with Habitat for Humanity) that allow him to truly help those in need and those who have served rather than give tyrants another chance to make their case while solidifying their holds on power.
No, but he has an understudy who should, hopefully, be available in 2012.
It’s funny. The useful idiots on the left not only take America’s enemies at their word, they accuse the GOP at home of wanting to kill old people and starve children and of being liars. You know who actually kills old people and starves children: America’s enemies.
I love seeing GW being a sincerely good person and refraining from sticking his finger in people’s eyes.
Carter wanders around kicking puppies and drinking vinegar. Bush the elder just stays out of the limelight. Clinton is still looking for constant approval and then there is GW who throws no mud, but is always available to support people of good will.
Obama is going to be such an albatross hanging around our necks when he sets forth to correct the paths of the stars in the universe.
Could BDS simply be a psychological reaction to the fact that Bush is a genuine, caring human being – and that Progressives find him personally likeable?
Regardless, Bush-43 has class, a very rare attribute in any human being.
I really don’t think Jimmy Carter is over the 1980 repudiation presidential campaign; he’s become a bitter old man. He needs to go away. He causes more harm than good with these kind of visits. He’s a fool.
Nice to see W.’s refreshing jab at Stephanopoulos….”Just because you’re reporting it doesn’t make it true…” AMEN!!!!
Sargeant Major Self: I only have one comment … woof!!!