April 25, 2011

Mr. Carter Goes to North Korea
— Genghis

I'm near a boiling point this morning over this AP story concerning President Carter's trip to North Korea this week. From the AP story:

"BEIJING (AP) - Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday that he hoped to meet with North Korea's reclusive leaderduring a visit to the country this week aimed at assessing severe food shortages and discussing the possible revival of nuclear disarmament talks."

First of all, shame on AP for including such a mind-numbingly stupid phrase as "reclusive leader" with regards to Kim Jong Il. Reclusive? With he and Papa Kim's likenesses plastered all over the nation in the form of statues, murals and mandatory portraits in every hovel? Reclusive? As in attempting to develop and export nuclear weapons to every rogue regime around the world? Yep, very reclusive...like Hobbits. Nuclear-armed Hobbits.

"Carter is making the three-day visit accompanied by former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Brundtland and former Irish President Mary Robinson. The four are members of a group of retired world leaders called the Elders founded by former South African President Nelson Mandela."

"Carter said the group "would like very much" to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, as well as his son and heir-apparent Kim Jong Un, but was unsure whether that would happen. "We have no indication that we will do so, but it would be a pleasure if we could do so," he said at a news conference in Beijing prior to his departure for Pyongyang on Tuesday."

AP Photo

But we're just getting warmed up here...

"In almost any case when there are sanctions against an entire people, the people suffer the most and the leaders suffer least," he said. "And we believe that the last 50 years of deprivation of the North Korean people to adequate access to trade and commerce has been very damaging to their economy, as well as some problems they may have brought on by themselves."

Gotta' love that last sentence: “…as well as some problems they may have brought on by themselves." Well, isn’t that a nice concession.

The problem with the way we've always dealt with Carter is that we treat him like some well-meaning but doddering and naive fool. Crazy ex-prez in the attic and so forth. Builds nice homes with Habitat for Humanity. Had an amusing brother. Bravely fought off an amphibious rabbit assault. Had lust in his heart, which he kept hidden beneath the cardigan sweaters.

I've come to a different conclusion over time, which is that he knows exactly what he's doing and is in fact a malevolent force in this world. On every single issue where America finds itself at odds with dictators and authoritarian regimes, you'll find Carter there, standing in support of them. Wherever political corruption and abuse of power exists, there is Carter. Wherever unelected, belligerent despots who starve their own people and deny them the most basic of human rights can be foundÂ…there is Carter.

The common denominator and prime qualifying factor for him it seems when choosing his allies: “Must hate America.” No others need apply.

Just because he's old doesn't mean he's senile, and he's not a dumb man. You don't become a nuclear engineer, governor of Georgia and eventually the President without having a fairly formidable collection of brain cells. How you use, or misuse, those gifts is another matter entirely.

I'm not a psychologist, nor do I play one on the HQ, but I think the root of his problem lies in how he was so utterly rejected after one term in office and how so many citizens did and still do view his term as such an utter failure. Every administration inherits problems from the previous one and his was no different. Every administration also has new ones pop up while in office. It's upon how each president responds to these issues that they're ultimately judged. Carter was ineffectual because in the face of great challenges to the nation he chose to do...nothing.

But now he's going to do large things. He'll show us for rejecting his wise and benevolent rule. Why, if we'd just re-elected him we would've eventually seen the greatness in this man. But we didn't, and now it's payback time. Except that he really canÂ’t exact too much revenge against us, at least directly. However, this bitter, broken shell of a former human being can try and do so by proxy. To seek audience with and stand in solidarity with the likes of Kim Jong Il and dare to point the finger at us for the suffering of the North Korean people, I have only one response:

Mr. Carter, you disgust me.

Posted by: Genghis at 07:56 AM | Comments (143)
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1
Jimmy Carter is still alive?

Posted by: microsoothsayer at April 25, 2011 07:59 AM (uFokq)

2 I think they just trot him out in an attempt to make Obama look smart.

Posted by: Beckster at April 25, 2011 08:00 AM (VjJAc)

3 He's eligible for another 4 years, now would be a good time for him to run again.

Posted by: Bob Saget with a can of cheezwiz at April 25, 2011 08:01 AM (F/4zf)

4 Mary Robinson is even worse then former President Numbnuts.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at April 25, 2011 08:01 AM (oDMwn)

5

Worst president . . . ever!  (Obama is a close second.)

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 25, 2011 08:01 AM (zgZzy)

6 If you think Carter pisses you off, just wait till I'm an ex-President.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at April 25, 2011 08:02 AM (qzoN5)

7 Thank god!  I was so ronery here that I was about to nuke South Korea.

Posted by: Kim Jong-Dill at April 25, 2011 08:02 AM (zgZzy)

8 But... but... Peanut Farmer!

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at April 25, 2011 08:03 AM (8y9MW)

9 Carter is still a pathetic little wussietard he is too darn stupid to tell his presidency was one of the worst until OBAM and yesterday he stayed indoors becuase he was afraid of the easter bunny

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at April 25, 2011 08:03 AM (vA9ld)

10

 Am I wrong to think that I'd rather have Carter in office now, rather than Obama?

Carter seemed like less of an ideologue when he was president than Obama. I would venture to say Carter was a bad president because he simply wasn't a good executive. Whereas Obama is a bad president because he has so many bad ideas.

Let's be fair, Obama and the democrats have been fairly effective. They've accomplished many of their goals, unfortunately for us, we are now living in an America that has to deal with the results ofthose "accomplishments"

Posted by: Ben at April 25, 2011 08:04 AM (wuv1c)

11 Jimmy Carter is the poster boy for what leftwing "evangelicals" do when they get any power.  They bend over and offer the other cheek more often than a rent boy at a Barney Frank fundraising dinner.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at April 25, 2011 08:04 AM (oDMwn)

12 The North Korean people are starving because North Korean agriculture is primitive at best and because the army and the party get everything first. The fact that they seem to have massive floods every 5 years doesn't help either. (Although I think "floods" is a cover for "corruption and rank incompetence.")

Posted by: joncelli at April 25, 2011 08:04 AM (RD7QR)

13 #10 You forget that Jimmy Carter had plenty of regrettable "accomplishments" when he was in office.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at April 25, 2011 08:05 AM (oDMwn)

14

The idea that former Presidents should stay somewhat on the sidelines until they're asked for assistance, or can be part of a solution as opposed to being part of a problem in a non-political manner, only applies to former Republican Presidents.

Democrats, however, including Jimmy Crack Corn, are free as the wind to demagogue, Monday morning quarterback, undercut, disregard the theory of politics ending at the water's edge, and more. The world is their stage and they are its players.

Posted by: RM at April 25, 2011 08:05 AM (TRsME)

15 Scared of a rabbit.  Pfft!  I'm just scared of Michelle - although she is furrier than the average bunny.

Posted by: Barry Obunny at April 25, 2011 08:05 AM (zgZzy)

16
They call themselves...

T H E
E L D E R S

In a world with unrelenting stupidity and anti-Americanism, Jimmy Carter leads a small noble band of retired statesmen and stateswomen, traveling to far off places, meddling in affairs, and leaving a trail of discord and acrimony.


Posted by: microsoothsayer at April 25, 2011 08:05 AM (uFokq)

17 Mr. Carter, you disgust me.

If Ace ever wants to replace that H.L. Mencken quote in the masthead, this would be a pretty strong contender.

Posted by: Andy at April 25, 2011 08:05 AM (5Rurq)

18

If you think Carter pisses you off, just wait till I'm an ex-President.

It's going to be bad. Obama is going ot be like Obi Won Kenobi, he will only grow stronger if he is struck down in the 2012 elections.

He's guaranteed tens of millions of dollars in speaking fees, and god knows he won't shut up like W did after he's not longer president.

He will probably be 1st in line to be SecGen of the UN and every other global organization.

Actually, Obama's life will probably be easier and more prosperious after he's no longer president.

Posted by: Ben at April 25, 2011 08:05 AM (wuv1c)

19 SHHHH! We're hunting Wabbits!

Posted by: Jimmeh at April 25, 2011 08:06 AM (h0T3E)

20 Can we send him to meet with Gaddafi next? Even though some of the infrastructure is inexplicably crumbling I hear the weather is nice in Tripoli this time of year.

Posted by: Marcus at April 25, 2011 08:06 AM (+YR/n)

21 May Jimmah die of ass cancer, and that right soon.

Posted by: toby928™ at April 25, 2011 08:06 AM (GTbGH)

22 Note to the distinguished Mr. Carter: You still have another term left in you.  We anxiously await your candidacy!

Posted by: The AP at April 25, 2011 08:07 AM (zgZzy)

23 #12 No, "floods" are the payoff for incompetent civil engineering.  North Korea probably is not a paragon of erosion prevention measures either.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at April 25, 2011 08:07 AM (oDMwn)

24
T H E
E L D E R S

They smell like moth balls but they say the darndest things!

If you don't like The Eleders, you're a racist.

Posted by: microsoothsayer at April 25, 2011 08:07 AM (uFokq)

25 Seriously, this Mary Robinson witch makes Carter look like a Good Samaritan. 

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at April 25, 2011 08:08 AM (oDMwn)

26

Jimmy Carter in . . .

LICENSE TO IL

Posted by: Hollywood Casting Agency at April 25, 2011 08:08 AM (zgZzy)

27 The four are members of a group of retired world leaders called the Elders founded by former South African President Nelson Mandela. They have capes and boots and utility belts and everything. The super-weapon of choice is a flaming tire thrown around the enemy's neck.

Posted by: George Orwell at April 25, 2011 08:08 AM (AZGON)

28 No, seriously Genghis, tell me what you really think of that worthless, treasonous assclown...

Posted by: AoSHQ's worst commenter, DarkLord© at April 25, 2011 08:08 AM (GBXon)

29 The only thing we need now is for Jimmy to bring Helen Thomas along for the ride.  They can hop from North Korea to Israel!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 25, 2011 08:09 AM (zgZzy)

30 I agree with your assessment that his motivation lies not with misguided but well-meaning mistakes, but with his bruised ego.  The man really did see himself as some sort of cardigan-wearing Messiah, and he can't stand the notion that he is just an object of contempt now, even by members of his own party. 

At the risk of painting with too broad a brush, this is a recurring theme with liberals.  If you won't recognize my greatness, I'll just pull down the damn temple.  I'll show you. 

Barry's meltdown will be epic. 

Posted by: pep at April 25, 2011 08:09 AM (fe+Ez)

31
T H E
E L D E R S

Failed leaders combining their failure powers to combat good around the world.

If there's a wrong side of an issue anywhere, The Elders are on it!

Posted by: microsoothsayer at April 25, 2011 08:10 AM (uFokq)

32 I don't think JC is a nuclear engineer.

Posted by: toby928™ at April 25, 2011 08:10 AM (GTbGH)

33 Ew. The words "Helen Thomas" and "ride" should not appear in the same sentence.

Posted by: joncelli at April 25, 2011 08:10 AM (RD7QR)

34 What kinda crap do you bring back for the kids/grandkids from North Korea, besides skinny people?

Posted by: nevergiveup at April 25, 2011 08:10 AM (i6RpT)

35 T H E
E L D E R S

Huh?  Really?  I'd call that 'Two Scandis and a Ginger.'

Posted by: CUS at April 25, 2011 08:10 AM (wOGfT)

36 never been a better time to nuke that shithole.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2011 08:10 AM (spbRY)

37 33 Ew. The words "Helen Thomas" and "ride" should not appear in the same sentence.         Damn.  Sorry about that.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 25, 2011 08:11 AM (zgZzy)

38 34 What kinda crap do you bring back for the kids/grandkids from North Korea, besides skinny people? Posted by: nevergiveup at April 25, 2011 12:10 PM (i6RpT) Statues of the Dear Leader, you running dog imperialist oppressor nogoodnik!

Posted by: joncelli at April 25, 2011 08:11 AM (RD7QR)

39 I wonder if George H. W. Bush can adopt me?

Posted by: Amy Carter at April 25, 2011 08:12 AM (zgZzy)

40
They accomplish nothing.

They contribute nothing.

They are...

T H E
E L D E R S

Meddling in world affairs just became interesting!

Posted by: microsoothsayer at April 25, 2011 08:12 AM (uFokq)

41 The fact that they seem to have massive floods every 5 years doesn't help either. (Although I think "floods" is a cover for "corruption and rank incompetence.")

Remember when "bad weather" was always the excuse for why the Soviets, masters of the world's largest granary (Ukraine and the steppes) couldn't feed their own people.  Somehow, the US and Canada both managed that trick rather nicely.

Posted by: pep at April 25, 2011 08:13 AM (fe+Ez)

42 39 I wonder if George H. W. Bush can adopt me? Posted by: Amy Carter at April 25, 2011 12:12 PM (zgZzy) Nah. You look too much like Webb Hubbell.

Posted by: Poppy Bush at April 25, 2011 08:13 AM (RD7QR)

43

Actually, Obama's life will probably be easier and more prosperious after he's no longer president.

This is why we need to enforce the Trademark on the title 'President of the United States'.  These fuckers should be paying royalties.

 

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2011 08:13 AM (spbRY)

44 And if you are at the boiling point now, next read the story about Islamist turds desecrating the Roman altar on Good Friday.

BTW. I now support the Israelis retaking the Temple Mount and getting rid of the eyesore on top of it.

Posted by: Marcus at April 25, 2011 08:13 AM (+YR/n)

45 wonder if George H. W. Bush can adopt me? Posted by: Amy Carter at April 25, 2011 12:12 PM (zgZzy) You better hope his eyes are failing

Posted by: nevergiveup at April 25, 2011 08:14 AM (i6RpT)

46

BTW. I now support the Israelis retaking the Temple Mount and getting rid of the eyesore on top of it.

 

Wrap the Temple Mount in bacon.  Problem solved.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 25, 2011 08:15 AM (zgZzy)

47
Deer Kim Jong Il

These so called "Elders" are nothing but CIA and MI-6 spies. Feel free to arrest, detain, and interrogate them.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie © at April 25, 2011 08:15 AM (1hM1d)

48 What kinda crap do you bring back for the kids/grandkids from North Korea, besides skinny people?

Grass and bark carryout?

Posted by: pep at April 25, 2011 08:15 AM (fe+Ez)

Posted by: momma at April 25, 2011 08:15 AM (penCf)

50 BTW. I now support the Israelis retaking the Temple Mount and getting rid of the eyesore on top of it. Posted by: Marcus at April 25, 2011 12:13 PM (+YR/n) A sure recipe for weeks of wailing, gnashing of teeth, and flying body parts. The Israelis won't go there.

Posted by: Poppy Bush at April 25, 2011 08:15 AM (RD7QR)

51 Carter's still looking for friends because he has none domestically. He was kicked out of office so hard and his legacy so poor that he must beg American enemies for support. It's amazing that the U.S. Navy ever produced such a specimen.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at April 25, 2011 08:16 AM (RUDDk)

52

If Ace ever wants to replace that H.L. Mencken quote in the masthead, this would be a pretty strong contender.

I had an Olbermanic moment. Seriously though, careful what you say here in the thread. Ace doesn't need the Secret Service showing up at his door. Or yours either. Anger fine. Threats not so much. Thanks.

Posted by: genghis at April 25, 2011 08:16 AM (4T2lB)

53 I can't believe how bad my neighborhood has gotten!

Posted by: Jesus Of Nazareth at April 25, 2011 08:16 AM (zgZzy)

54 Jimmah has a grandson in Georgia's state senate. Voted in by a largely Jewish constituency. Go figure.

Posted by: negentropy at April 25, 2011 08:16 AM (27KAF)

55 When an experimental public relations voyage goes wrong, four people are dramatically changed by cosmic rays to become the Fantastic Four Elders. Fun. Fantastic. Fucktards.

Posted by: George Orwell at April 25, 2011 08:16 AM (AZGON)

56

Wrap the Temple Mount in bacon.  Problem solved.

That wouldn't be kosher.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2011 08:16 AM (spbRY)

57 I am amazed that Carter is still using some of my oxygen.
Abe Vigoda look out.

Posted by: Barbarian at April 25, 2011 08:17 AM (EL+OC)

58 wonder if George H. W. Bush can adopt me?
Posted by: Amy Carter at April 25, 2011 12:12 PM (zgZzy)

You better hope his eyes are failing

I think you're kinda cute, Amy.  I'm single now (well, soon anyway).

Posted by: Chelsea Clinton at April 25, 2011 08:17 AM (wOGfT)

59

 Voted in by a largely Jewish constituency.

Georgia - Bastion of Jewish America!

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2011 08:17 AM (spbRY)

60 When are we ever going to enforce the law that prohibits assclowns from going overseas and talking to dictators?

Posted by: Vic at April 25, 2011 08:18 AM (M9Ie6)

61 They accomplish nothing. They contribute nothing. They are... T H E E L D E R S How come they don't return my caaa-aaaaalls?

Posted by: Grampa Simpson at April 25, 2011 08:18 AM (4Kl5M)

62 When are we ever going to enforce the law that prohibits assclowns from going overseas and talking to dictators? Posted by: Vic at April 25, 2011 12:18 PM (M9Ie6) Ya want another "Ron Brown" special?

Posted by: nevergiveup at April 25, 2011 08:19 AM (i6RpT)

63 Seriously, this Mary Robinson witch makes Carter look like a Good Samaritan. 
Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at April 25, 2011 12:08 PM

Well, she's Irish and probably drunk.  Jimmeh, however is a Baptist and teetotally sober.

Posted by: huerfano at April 25, 2011 08:19 AM (6zFxS)

64 It's amazing that the U.S. Navy ever produced such a specimen.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel.

Damned straight.


Posted by: John McCain at April 25, 2011 08:20 AM (oDMwn)

65 I wish he'd stick to banging on houses.

Posted by: Truman North at April 25, 2011 08:20 AM (G5JPI)

66

If Jimmah would use a secret poison handshake device from the CIA to end Kim Jong Mentally Ill's murderous lunatic regime, I'd almost forgive what he did to America in the late 1970s.  Almost.

 

Same offer goes out to our other shameless negotiator-hero wannabes, Jesse Jackson & Bill Richardson.

Posted by: Kortezzi at April 25, 2011 08:20 AM (piR98)

67 It's amazing that the U.S. Navy ever produced such a specimen. Posted by: AnonymousDrivel. Damned straight. Posted by: John McCain at April 25, 2011 12:20 PM (oDMwn) For the Record, neither one of them was in the Dental Corp

Posted by: nevergiveup at April 25, 2011 08:21 AM (i6RpT)

68 Carter's still looking for friends because he has none domestically. He was kicked out of office so hard and his legacy so poor that he must beg American enemies for support. It's amazing that the U.S. Navy ever produced such a specimen.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at April 25, 2011 12:16 PM

Tchah, tell me about it.

Posted by: General Weasley Clark at April 25, 2011 08:21 AM (6zFxS)

69
Wrap the Temple Mount in bacon.  Problem solved.

Who is gonna do that? the Hebrews?? I'm thinking Moron field trip.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie © at April 25, 2011 08:21 AM (1hM1d)

70
Remember the mid-90s Korean nuclear agreement with Big Kim? Where Clinton was actually playing a bit of hardball.....until Carter went to the Norks on his own, took dictation for Big Kim's preferred terms and then publicly handed it off to Bubba, implying that it was the official agreement between the US and N Korea. Bubba didn't have the balls to toss the agreement, because he thought it would make him look like the bad guy. Fucking disgraceful.

Looks to me like Jimmeh is setting up a repeat performance.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2011 08:22 AM (7YzRS)

71 ...word is Carter was thoroughly shaken by the warlike appearance of Kim's crack People's Rabbit Stormtroopers.

Posted by: George Orwell at April 25, 2011 08:22 AM (AZGON)

72 I never wish this upon anyone, but in this case and for the good of my beloved country, I hope Carter and Hussein don't have much longer to live in this world.  They (with all their henchmen) are the tweedle dee and tweedle dumb of the evil that's been set against freedom.

Posted by: Soona at April 25, 2011 08:24 AM (Gdorg)

73 65 I wish he'd stick to banging on houses.         Or banging me!

Posted by: Rosalynn Carter at April 25, 2011 08:24 AM (zgZzy)

74 If the current 'Carter' didn't enrage me on a daily basis, I'd have some rage left for the previous Carter.

Posted by: Tami at April 25, 2011 08:25 AM (VuLos)

75 He was always a disgusting toad. Look up his (long-buried) record on segregation.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at April 25, 2011 08:25 AM (IuKAf)

76

So my question is this:

If Teh Jimmah and his fellow travelers are going to North Korea with the apparent desire to do something (admittedly undefined)...wouldn't you have the meeting with the only person in the country who makes meaningful decisions ALREADY LINED UP?

Or am I just being too demanding?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 25, 2011 08:25 AM (B+qrE)

77 Did Jimmy ever pass up a Federal Farm peanut subsity?

Posted by: Buffalobob at April 25, 2011 08:27 AM (QPgXF)

78 OT Weasel Zippers reports from ABC News's "This Week" Cokie Roberts says “The bad part about this is that it’s acceptable to say that he’s a Muslim because the same people won’t say, ‘I don’t like him cause he’s black’” So it's good to know the RAAACIST epithet is still effective. Me, I wouldn't mind urinating in Cokie's mouth. After I slapped her with my German Shepherd's dick.

Posted by: George Orwell at April 25, 2011 08:27 AM (AZGON)

79

Cleanup on aisle 72.

 

Not cool, Soona.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 25, 2011 08:27 AM (B+qrE)

80

The Logan Act, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953, states:

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States,or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.

 

So when will Jimmy be prosecuted under the Logan Act?  I mean really, the guy is breaking the law, and it's not cute or funny anymore.  The only other conclusion is that he is doing this because Obama wants him to, yet be able to plausibly deny it if it all goes to shit, which it probably will.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at April 25, 2011 08:27 AM (sJTmU)

81 Carter has been building and training a secret army of peeps in the pines of Georgia for years.

Posted by: robtr at April 25, 2011 08:28 AM (MtwBb)

82 Jimmy Carter is like that dog that can't quite get rid of the messy turd lodged in his ass fur and he keeps returning to make dragging passes over our carpet.

Like we didn't get enough the first time.  

Posted by: ontherocks at April 25, 2011 08:28 AM (HBqDo)

83 Weasel Zippers reports from ABC News's "This Week"

Haven't watched that since Brinkley was alive.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 25, 2011 08:28 AM (B+qrE)

84 “The bad part about this is that it’s acceptable to say that he’s a Muslim because the same people won’t say, ‘I don’t like him cause he’s black’”

I don't care that he's black.  I don't like him cause he's fuckin' RED.

Posted by: Bomber at April 25, 2011 08:29 AM (qzoN5)

85 5

Worst president . . . ever!  (Obama is a close second.)

And he's the worst ex-President ever...until Obama claims that "coveted" title. 

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at April 25, 2011 08:29 AM (9hSKh)

86 Not long before Carter tries to rehabilitate Robert Mugabe.

Posted by: boniface ballers at April 25, 2011 08:30 AM (bPbwB)

87

Cleanup on aisle 72.

 

or not

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2011 08:30 AM (spbRY)

88 Obama makes Jimmy Carter look like George Washington. Id take Carter over this cocksucker we have now in a heartbeat.

Posted by: Mr Pink at April 25, 2011 08:31 AM (50AER)

89
Jimmy Carter has the mentality and worldview of a typical college sophomore.

Know-it-all, yet simplistic and naive in his views.


Posted by: microsoothsayer at April 25, 2011 08:32 AM (uFokq)

90 “The bad part about this is that it’s acceptable to say that he’s a Muslim because the same people won’t say, ‘I don’t like him cause he’s black" About Obastard, this illustrates the unreal grip upon reality in the Beltway. Since when has it become acceptable to call Barry a Muslim? Every time someone publicly visible has done so people like this scrunt Cokie have retaliated viciously. Acceptable to call him Muslim? On what planet, Kookie?

Posted by: George Orwell at April 25, 2011 08:32 AM (AZGON)

91 87 Not long before Carter tries to rehabilitate Robert Mugabe.         He was railroaded!

Posted by: Jimmah at April 25, 2011 08:32 AM (zgZzy)

92 I don't really care whether Carter is positively evil or just stupid. The fact that he will always do the wrong thing is sufficient reason for me to detest him.

Posted by: Iowa Jim at April 25, 2011 08:32 AM (K1u2J)

93

and he's not a dumb man.

This would be hard to prove.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2011 08:32 AM (spbRY)

94 >>Jimmy Carter is like that dog that can't quite get rid of the messy turd lodged in his ass fur and he keeps returning to make dragging passes over our carpet. That's disturbing.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2011 08:32 AM (TMB3S)

95 Trotting out Jimmeh Carter???

How much more forcefully could the Obama administration say "We have failed in foreign policy"????

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 25, 2011 08:33 AM (f9c2L)

96

Cleanup on aisle 72.

 

Not cool, Soona.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 25, 2011 12:27 PM (B+qrE)

 

Oh please.  I didn't say they should be killed.  I just hope that the ravages of cancer or flesh-eating bacteria cause them to have dibilitating, agonizing ends.  The sooner the better for this country.

Posted by: Soona at April 25, 2011 08:33 AM (Gdorg)

97

That's disturbing.

If that bothers you try:   "Boycott the Olympics.  That'll get the Russians out of Afghanistan."

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 25, 2011 08:34 AM (B+qrE)

98 He always hated our country but after the electorate regained its senses and he was overwhelmingly rejected for Reagan it went into overdrive.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 25, 2011 08:34 AM (vEVry)

99 86 Just because he's old doesn't mean he's senile, and he's not a dumb man.

He's a weak, damaged, evil personality.  Any intellect he might have is slave to his overpowering emotions, which are all directed at destroying that which he considers familiar.

And he has delusions of grandeur, too.
  I keep meaning to write a post along those lines. Maybe I'll get around to it one of these days.

Posted by: genghis at April 25, 2011 08:35 AM (4T2lB)

100
The Media is just compiling a list of things to demand all Republicans denounce.

We're gonna spend half the '12 campaign entertaining the silly faux outrage expressed by the media in regards to personally attacking the Obama's.




Posted by: microsoothsayer at April 25, 2011 08:35 AM (uFokq)

101 Let's hope he doesn't come back.

Posted by: Rich C at April 25, 2011 08:36 AM (s9KBB)

102 I wonder how carter will blame the Jooos for the problems in North Korea?

Posted by: nevergiveup at April 25, 2011 08:37 AM (i6RpT)

103

They accomplish nothing.

They contribute nothing.

They are...

T H E
E L D E R S

Meddling in world affairs just became interesting!

Posted by: microsoothsayer at April 25, 2011 12:12 PM (uFokq)

Is Barry too young to join after his one and only term? Sounds like he's qualified.

Posted by: long toss at April 25, 2011 08:37 AM (a/9+l)

104

Soona/Garrett:

The thing with posts like that is not the reaction from the usual suspects here--it's the possible play it gets from others.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 25, 2011 08:37 AM (B+qrE)

105 I'd also like to take this opportunity to point out that any red state could beat the crap out of Norway, Finalnd, and Ireland in a war.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 25, 2011 08:39 AM (B+qrE)

106 >>I keep meaning to write a post along those lines. Maybe I'll get around to it one of these days. When you do, mention how this is not just a Carter issue. All leftists, Obama included, share these characteristics. They fundamentally don't believe in America, her exceptionalism and hope to do everything they can to change America. See what I did there?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2011 08:40 AM (TMB3S)

107 any red state could beat the crap out of Norway, Finalnd, I challenge you to a spelling bee at twenty paces, sir!

Posted by: filthy Finn Scandis at April 25, 2011 08:40 AM (AZGON)

108

The thing with posts like that is not the reaction from the usual suspects here--it's the possible play it gets from others.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 25, 2011 12:37 PM (B+qrE)

 

Don't be such a moby.  I said nothing untoward.

Posted by: Soona at April 25, 2011 08:41 AM (Gdorg)

109

Jimmy Carter made me a conservative. When Reagan was running against him in the fall of 80', you just knew Ronnie was gonna clean his clock. Carter was on the tube, blaming the American people for everything, while Reagan was telling us how great we could be if the government would get out of the way.

Where is that candidate of American exceptionalism now?

Posted by: Log Cabin at April 25, 2011 08:41 AM (kl3xJ)

110

The thing with posts like that is not the reaction from the usual suspects here--it's the possible play it gets from others.

I appreciate your concern, but I don't share your opinion. 

Soona was well inside the charcoal grey with that one.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2011 08:43 AM (spbRY)

111

I challenge you to a spelling bee at twenty paces, sir!

Get a language that's related to something else on the planet and we'll talk, you bunch of reindeer lovers.  Literally.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 25, 2011 08:43 AM (B+qrE)

112 With Jimmah and The Won the motto seems to be "Support any Foe, oppose any Friend."

I wear my "Miss me yet?" t-shirt with Bush II's face on it and get lots of positive reaction.  My joke line is always, "just wait until they start printing these shirts with Carter's face, then things will be bad."  Everyone seems to believe that is a when not an if.  As bad as Carter was Obama seems a odds on favorite to seize the crown of "Worst President EVAR!" from Carter.

Posted by: John Morris at April 25, 2011 08:44 AM (sCRhB)

113 That's disturbing.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2011 12:32 PM (TMB3S)

I take it that you have expensive carpets or no dog, or both.

Posted by: ontherocks at April 25, 2011 08:44 AM (HBqDo)

114

76 "...wouldn't you have the meeting with the only person in the country who makes meaningful decisions ALREADY LINED UP?"

Silly rabbit ... appointments and such are for mere mortals.

This has NPD written all over it. The narcissism of Carter, suggesting he might have a meeting on the gravest of subjects without pre-arranging it. The narcissism of the media, passing along this non-news about one of their heroes, as if it were news. You know what? If this guy goes over there and gets NoKo to surrender their nukes, that'd be news. But this is happy fantasy talk, complete with unicorns and rainbows.

And evil "happy fanatasy talk", at that. It's communist propaganda, intended to drum up victimhood for the North Koreans, and to point the finger of blame at us. Which, I dare say, is what has gotten Ghengis so steamed. As he points out, Carter is not only a willing participant in this performance, but apparently has a long term contract with this company of players

Posted by: Optimizer at April 25, 2011 08:44 AM (2lTU+)

115 >>I take it that you have expensive carpets or no dog, or both. I have carpets. I have dog. I have lived the horror.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2011 08:45 AM (TMB3S)

116

The worst thing about Jimmy Carter?

He scared the shit out of me with his performance in Poltergeist 2!

"God is in ... his holy temple"

Posted by: Log Cabin at April 25, 2011 08:46 AM (kl3xJ)

117 Carter is not only a willing participant in this performance, but apparently has a long term contract with this company of players. If Carter reminds us to tip the waitress and try the lobster, the gig is up.

Posted by: George Orwell at April 25, 2011 08:47 AM (AZGON)

118 #68 An essay by Wesley Clark was part of the reading in a textbook on military leadership in a class I am just finishing up.

It's an online class, with weekly discussion boards ( along with papers and exams yada yada yada).  Last week's discussion was on the traits of great military leaders and did the various essays fail to mention any such traits.

I argued for "Ambition," but noted the editors may have covered it in a backhanded sort of way by including an essay written by Wesley Clark.

Posted by: John McCain at April 25, 2011 08:48 AM (oDMwn)

119 I usually don't say things like this so early in the day; but, fuck off, Circa.

Posted by: Soona at April 25, 2011 08:48 AM (Gdorg)

120

Don't be such a moby.  I said nothing untoward.

Saying "I kinda want an ex-President and the current one to die" is untoward in my book.

Six years here kind of demonstrates that I'm not a moby.

Proceed to the archives for proof, asshole.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 25, 2011 08:50 AM (B+qrE)

121 He's my top pick for the 2011 dead pool! C'mon Jimmah, if you win me $250, I'll be able to say you accomplished something.

Posted by: boned to the bone at April 25, 2011 08:52 AM (0ba8c)

122

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 25, 2011 12:50 PM (B+qrE)

 

I don't care what you were an hour ago.  I said nothing wrong.  Go ravish your goat. 

Posted by: Soona at April 25, 2011 08:54 AM (Gdorg)

123 I am a bad person for unashamedly wishing Ted Kennedy would just shuffle off to his eternal reward already and stop bending us over.

Nobody would be wishing these people would expire if that wasn't the only way to get their senile asses out of power.  Senility used to be a disqualifier.  

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at April 25, 2011 08:54 AM (oDMwn)

124

An essay by Wesley Clark was part of the reading in a textbook on military leadership in a class I am just finishing up.

I suppose it covered the "How to deal with lippy Brits who insist on keeping you from starting World War II over a meaningless airport in Kosovo" topic?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 25, 2011 08:55 AM (B+qrE)

125 World War III

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 25, 2011 08:55 AM (B+qrE)

126

You think Carter is bad? What do you think Chairman Maobama is going to do if he is put out of office after a single term?

You can't rid yourself of socialists at the ballot box.

Posted by: glowing blue meat at April 25, 2011 08:55 AM (K/USr)

127 Jimmy Carter is the Typhoid Mary of tyranny.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at April 25, 2011 08:56 AM (oDMwn)

128

Carter is the nerd in the classroom that even the teacher hates and won't call on when he raises his hand.

He needs to simply retire to his peanut farm and STFU.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky at April 25, 2011 08:59 AM (FnRYN)

129

Any talk of North Korea reminds me of a snippet of an Obama speech I happened to hear. It surprised me that he brought up the iconic nightime satellite photo of the Korean peninsula that makes the comparison between capitalism and communism so stark, with all those bugus excuses about the West stealing the wealth, or it being about natural resources (unless you believe natural resourses magically cease at the DMZ line), shown to be completely baseless lies.

So what did King Barry have to say about the photo? He blamed tha abject poverty that was evident in the North as being caused by North Korea not being "open". (Perhaps he hadn't heard that when such places "open up", that people leave in droves, and revolt.)

Since then, I've learned that this is standard fare from the boy king. Starts off a speech with something that brilliantly displays American exceptionalism, then (at the point where people are have their guard down, and not listening as carefully) throws up a smokescreen and launches into his marxist ideology as though the latter followed from the former. It's the most insidious form of marxist propaganda I think I've ever seen.

Posted by: Optimizer at April 25, 2011 09:00 AM (2lTU+)

130 @125 No, it was some bullshit about using the threat of air bombardment as a persuasion aid, which is all well and good, except that in his "supporting" example, the guy he was trying to persuade told him to fuck off.  Clark closes with the observation that is took an eighteen month air campaign to run the guy off and that could have been avoided if only the guy had listened better or something, so I'm still a little vague on what his effing point was, unless it was "everyone should just listen to Wesley Clark and do what he says."

In other words, a guy with access to the most potent military force in the history of the world could not manage to convince the fucking rump of a failed communist kleptocracy to hit the pause button on the ethnic cleansing until we got bored and wandered off to something else.


Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at April 25, 2011 09:05 AM (oDMwn)

131 A Red State did try to kick the crap out of Finland during the winter of 1939-40.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at April 25, 2011 09:06 AM (oDMwn)

132 I despise this man.  Utterly despise.  He doesn't care one whit for the starving, beaten people of North Korea.  All he cares about is his own "prestige" and keeping himself in the public eye.  He's a camwhore, no better than your typical drunk college co-ed who strips on YouTube to get people to pay attention to her.  Indeed he's worse, because his empty shows of solidarity with murderous regimes like Kim Jong Il's provide the patina of progress and action, when in fact all they do is hide the devastation behind the mask.

Posted by: MWR at April 25, 2011 09:11 AM (4df7R)

133

A Red State did try to kick the crap out of Finland during the winter of 1939-40.

My interpretation is that was the ultimate Blue state.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 25, 2011 09:14 AM (B+qrE)

134 Carter has never met an anti-U.S. thug dictator that he didn't like.



Come to think of it, neither has Obama..

Posted by: OregonMuse at April 25, 2011 09:22 AM (26snP)

135 Just like a besotted groupie who throws her panties onstage at the lead guitarist of her favorite band, so too does Jimmy Carter drool over anti-American dictators.

Posted by: OregonMuse at April 25, 2011 09:27 AM (26snP)

136 If you think Carter is bad, just WAIT until Obama is rejected hardcore in 2012. He will have that same hatred of America that he has now, only amplified an order of magnitude, when he is rejected by all us "racists." He will be just as much a Carter on crack after he is kicked out as he is now.

Posted by: DewyK at April 25, 2011 09:51 AM (p2Agh)

137 Carter is a nuclear engineer in the same sense that Homer Simpson is.  Carter graduated in 1946 from the Naval Academy.  We had just invented the bomb shortly before so there was no such thing as a nuclear engineering program at that time.  Later in his career he began, but did not finish, a program in the navy that would have allowed him to operate the reactor on a sub.  He left the program to take over the peanut farm business when his father died.  None of this matters to the main point but I get tired of hearing the guy's qualification being exaggerated.  We see where that has lead us with our current president Chauncey Gardner.

We were fortunate to have Reagan to clean up after Carter.  Palin is the only one of the current bunch to come close to having the balls to do the same in this situation but the left has preemptively defanged her with their constant libel and slander.  So what are we left with... Romney?  We are completely boned this time around.

Posted by: Stupid Prole Who Doesn't Know His Place at April 25, 2011 10:30 AM (JKX4x)

138 Carter isn't doing President Douchebag any good. 
I love the smell of self-destructing Democrats in the morning.

Posted by: mpfs at April 25, 2011 10:50 AM (iYbLN)

139 Mr. Carter, you disgust me.

OK, so why refer to him as President Carter?  He's not the President any more.

Protocol be damned - he doesn't deserve this courtesy.

Posted by: Lord of the Fleas at April 25, 2011 10:50 AM (mmxw7)

140 Carter (like Wesley Clark) is yet another talentless hack disgorged by one of the service academies and proof they don't wash out anywhere near enough aspirants before their four years is up.

Posted by: SGT Dan at April 25, 2011 12:05 PM (jCQ+I)

141  never been a better time to nuke that shithole.

Posted by: garrett

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Posted by: Jade Sea at April 25, 2011 12:15 PM (Ltm3F)

142 The problem with Jimmuh is that he has too many people kissing his ass.

Posted by: Billy Carter at April 25, 2011 02:47 PM (X1kjT)

143 actually, i don't think jimmy carter means well at all. i think he is an anti-social personality type, 100%. i use him as a barometer. if you ever want to know what position to hold on any and all issues. Just ask yourself, "what would Jimmah do?" then proceed to do the exact opposite. also, if you ever want to know where the next hot spot in the world is going to be - just ask yourself, "has jimmah been here recently?" if so, then you know that instability is  indeed at hand, and that jimmah just seems to bring out the worst in people. the man is a mean, cranky, smug, jerk. he's a bitter old man.

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