Moron of the Day: Jimmy Carter
If Jimmy Carter had an ounce of honesty and an ounce of intelligence, he’d be embarrassed by his CBS-like inability to detect an obvious electoral fraud in Venezuela last month. Instead, he’s bragging about it, maintaining that Venezuela has free elections but Florida doesn’t.
One side of me wants to tell Jiminy Carter to go back to building homes for the homeless. Another doesn’t even trust him to do that right anymore.
‘Hat tip: Megan McCardle.
September 28th, 2004 at 4:32 pm
Jimmy Carter has more integrity than does George Bush. Jimmy Carter has a Christian faith that has more depth than that claimed by Bush, in my opinion.
September 28th, 2004 at 5:31 pm
Joel Thomas said …
Pardon me while I retch.
Jimmah Carter is an embarrassment to both faith and politics. His latest ‘hit bottom … dig’ moment was saying that Casablanca and FraudNHate 9/11 were his favorite movies.
IMO Jeff is letting Jimmah off easy calling him a “moron.”
September 28th, 2004 at 6:18 pm
Jimmy Carter may go down as the single worst president and single worst ex-president. Here’s a guy with an ego so large he’d rather spit on the USA and the current President for the sole rationale of bolstering his own presumed place in history by going to the place where the Swedes give the Nobel prize for peace. One former recipient: Yasser Arafat, the grandfather of terrorism. The head of the peace prize committee announced that the committee chose Jimmy for the sole purpose of giving GWB a kick in the shins because of political disagreements with the european community. Carter shamelessly accepted the prize to camofluage his own inadequacies. His christian faith may be wonderful but his loyalty to country is deplorable. And he is also the guy that ran around the country announcing–Hi. I’m Jimmy Carter and I am a nuclular engineer and I’m running for President. He is also the guy that five years after he left office he was quoted that he was feeling a lot better because the general public with whom he came in contact stopped waving hello to him without raising their middle fingers. Joel, you’re all wet on this issue.
September 29th, 2004 at 1:52 pm
I am curious. You make an assertion about voter fraud in Venezuala. Like most Blogs of any political persuasion you make quite a few assertions and pronouncements. I am used to citation of facts and source material. Do you have any?
Or is it just taken for granted that “brown people” need our help to do it right? BTW, I think an historian might correct you with respect to the comment about Arafat being the grandfather of terrorism. Michael Collins comes to mind, you will have to google that, when in Rome…, and the French, I am sure you love to bash them, actually coined the term “terrorism” during the French Revolution. Any student of politics, history, and all things martial, knows that they only put a word to that which is as old as political strife and warfare, itself. Very clever, those French. And I’m sure Arafat knows who his grandfather is. Do you?
September 29th, 2004 at 2:05 pm
Why yes, LGM, as a matter of fact, I do have sources for Hugo Chavez’s fraud, and no, they have nothing to do with gratuitous racist bilge you threw in for good measure. In a fraction of the time it took you to compose that snarky, race-baiting and generally irrelevant comment, you could have searched my archives for … oh, I don’t know, how about “Hugo Chavez?!” That would have yielded two whole entries, the second of which would have given you all the sources you needed. :roll:
September 29th, 2004 at 2:28 pm
My main criticism of Jimmy Carter is that while he was president he was just a tad too friendly with right-wing military dictatorships and a bit indifferent to right-wing death squads. Reagan, however, became even friendlier to those folks.
September 29th, 2004 at 2:52 pm
Why would I search your archives for articles and sources that I wouldn’t accept as any more credible than you would accept those I would cite. I would suggest to you that democracy is not a tree with moss on only the north side. My greater understanding of these matters tells me that you are less inclined to see both sides of the issue than I am. And you still aren’t as smart as you think. I am older, wiser, smarter, and I got that way like a stone that keeps on rolling and gathers no moss. That’s just the facts. You still lack historical perspective and an incisive, unbiased mind.
September 29th, 2004 at 3:02 pm
Joel: I guess that’s the difference between you and me. I don’t like left or right wing dictators. Sometimes, geopolitical realities force us to make a deal with the devil, but even then, we damned well better remember that it is the devil we are dealing with.
LGM, I don’t know why you think you know my age, or why you think you are so much smarter than me, but if your last few comments are any indication, then frankly I’m not impressed. Had you bothered to follow the links rather than carp, you would have learned that that there is a 99% certainty that Hugo Chavez stole the vote. But I’m sure you are sooooo much smarter than the good folk at the Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune, let alone some non-name little professors at such obscure universities as Harvard or M.I.T.
“Greater understanding,” my ass. You may or may not be older than me, but you’re certainly no wiser, and far less biased. You’re the one who plays the race card for no reason whatsoever, not me.
September 29th, 2004 at 3:28 pm
I’ll play any card in the deck, like anyone else. My deck holds more than 54 and a Joker. What I don’t understand is why you would think that any source, be it a news paper or a university is as monolithic as you seem to suggest. Chomsky is from M.I.T., and I can name a few from Harvard you would laugh at. From where I’m sitting at the table, you are the Joker. Go Fish, or are we playing Crazy 8’s? I like Spite and Malice. That game requires two decks, tough on the card counters.
September 29th, 2004 at 3:34 pm
Unlike you XRLQ, I don’t claim that only people who agree with my positions are intelligent.
September 29th, 2004 at 4:02 pm
LGM: You’re the one who originally complained about the supposed lack of sources, now you’re saying you don’t want to know what they say anyway. And playing a card that you have is fine. The race card was not yours to play. The main issue of this post was Jimmy Carter, the stupid/corrupt white guy with a soft spot in his heart for left-wing dictators. The secondary issue was Hugo Chavez, the left wing dicator who took advantage of that soft spot and played Carter like a fiddle. It was never about race.
Joel: I don’t claim that only people who agree with my positions are intelligent. Nor would I make any such claim. Throughout my life, especially in grad school and law school, I’ve been surrounded by intelligent people, most of whom do not agree with me on just about anything.
September 29th, 2004 at 4:19 pm
XRLQ,
Well, you claim that Jimmy Carter is totally dishonest. That means you believe that he cheats on his taxes and on his wife, that he lied to his kids when he told them that he loved them, for instance. Or, you wouldn’t possibly be engaging in some hyperbole, would you?
If I had a clue as to when you are being literal and when you are taking license, then I’d know more what to make of your positions.
Now, here’s my own hyperbole: you seem to have a higher opinion of Saddam Hussein than Jimmy Carter.
September 29th, 2004 at 5:01 pm
I think that reasonable, intelligent people can disagree on many things, but not on everything. In this case, I have a hard time seeing how anyone who is not a complete idiot, or at least horribly uninformed, can honestly believe that Venezuela has free and fair elections but Florida doesn’t. That leaves two options for Jimmy Carter. Either he believes his outlandish claims, in which case he’s an idiot, or he doesn’t, in which case he’s a liar. Either is possible, as is some combination of the two (maybe he’s a little bit stupid and a little bit dishonest).
If I had to guess, I’d say Carter is an idiotarian with a soft spot in his heart for leftist dictators, not a true idiot. IOW, I have little doubt that he would have caught the obvious frauds in last month’s election if the candidate had been someone like Augusto Pinochet, Anastasio Somoza or Fulgencio Batista. Like Dan Rather and his precious memos, Carter really wanted Chavez’s re-election to be legit, and also really wanted Al Gore to be President.
I don’t remember blogging anything remotely laudatory about Saddam Hussein. Even hyperbole has to be based on something.
September 29th, 2004 at 5:55 pm
“Throughout my life, especially in grad school and law school, I’ve been surrounded by intelligent people, most of whom do not agree with me on just about anything.”
This is the most frightening thing you have said. Business and law? No wonder you are so ignorant.
Listen, you little twit, election fraud is part of the new face of democracy, thanks to other little twits like you, whom I like to rip a new one on daily basis, as I have done with you, in under… one post. But I have bigger fish to fry, small fry. It’s been real…easy, and I’m a high school drop out. Those damn liburals and their damn big gubmint edumakashun system.
“I don’t remember blogging anything remotely laudatory about Saddam Hussein. Even hyperbole has to be based on something.”
LOL!
September 29th, 2004 at 5:59 pm
LGM,
It is doubtful anyone is overly concerned how many decks of cards you choose to play simultaneously. But if you claim expert historical perspective you might consider correcting your first comment since it was not Xrlq that made the reference to Yasser Arafat being the grandfather of terrorism but another commenter.
September 29th, 2004 at 6:07 pm
LGM: “It’s been real…easy, and I’m a high school drop out.”
Well, duh. Every single comment you’ve posted has underscored your status as a moron, even by trolling standards. Of course it was real easy! If you want a challenge, try saying something remotely intelligent for a change.
Joel: I hope you understand that when I call LGM a moron, it’s because he/she/it is a moron, not because he/she/it disagrees with me. Most of his/her/its ramblings are too incoherent to fully agree or disagree with, anyway.
September 29th, 2004 at 7:01 pm
I think Carter feels a little guilty because as president he tilted toward right-wing thugs. Maybe he has now overreacted the other way.