Comments on: Jimmy Carter Shouts Down Security In Sudan

Former U.S. President Angered After Being Blocked From Meeting With Ethnic African Refugees

[Krazcarl]

REAL PATRIOT-Thank you the conservative press makes a meal out of Jimmy Theres one word you can include in a sentace about Jimmy you can''t any other in my life born 57 is the word honesty and trust...

[Krazcarl]

J-witman we don''t always agree but here were in TOTAL agreement. He is agreat man and was a great leader.

[sharncedar]

The Soviets had as many bombs as us. The Soviets could match us in tanks, planes, threats, anger, violence. They had vicious secret police, they had a military country primed for war at all times.

But they didn''t have Jimmy Carter. One man, with his goofy smile, and his concerned, kind face. And he brought down the soviet Union.

When we built more nuclear bombs, the Soviets matched us bomb for bomb. When we issued dire threats, the Soviets matched us threat for threat. But when smiling, soft-spoken Jimmy Carter dismantled the FBI and CIA domestic spying programs, it shook the Soviet Union to its core. They could not match it. Their people demanded it. When smiling, soft-spoken Jimmy Carter gave more freedom of speech to unions, when he allowed opportunity to everyone regardless of race, the Soviet Union shook. it crushed them. they could not match these things. they could not compete. They fell, like Jericho, at the sound of a trumpet from that mighty, honest man''s lips.

Jimmy Carter - a great American, and a great President.

[sharncedar]

Jimmy Carter- the man who brought down the Soviet Union. He did it brilliantly, moving away from stupid confrontation that had failed for 20 years, he appealed directly to the soviet people by raising our rights and freedom of speech in america, showing our nation as a peaceful, thoughtful, happy, and fair country. Instead of confrontation, instead of war, instead of arms race, he showed the soviet people that life could be better under democracy.

And they brought down their own government. a brilliant man, a brilliant leader. The Soviets could compete with us when we built bombs for 20 years, but they could not compete when led by Carter we built universities, we built printing presses, we built libraries, we spoke freely and curtailed our government spying. Every liberal who criticized the American government without being punishement shot a dagger through the heart of the Soviet system. They could not compete with that. They fell.

Carter - truly great, a president for the ages. Won his wars without a body count.

[sharncedar]

Every one of those hostages from Iran came back alive. And we had peace in the region for a few years, low oil prices, and no terrorist attacks on American soil. The Middle East crisis was almost solved by him. Imagine that. If Carter had 4 more years, we would have worldwide peace and prosperity today. Carter was truly a great president.

Imagine a right wing loony had been president instead of Carter. He would have attacked Iran, leading to insane deficit spending, oil prices through the roof, every hostage dead, American soldiers dying in a quagmire. Instead, the brilliant, soft-spoken but wise Carter played it carefully, with energy and skill, and saved the oil industry, the people from war, and every hostage alive. Every one.

Carter - one of the greatest American presidents.

[sharncedar]

Well, I have read here that reagan somehow caused Bill Clinton''s economy, because Reagan set it in motion and Clinton reaped the benefits. then I''ve read here that Reagan not Carter was responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union. But by the same kind of reasoning, clearly the collapse of the Soviet Union is the kind of thing that would take a few years, then Carter is the one responsible for defeating the Soviet Union not Reagan.

It looks like we can argue either way, you can blame anything on any one of the presidents or give any one credit. Except for one thing. That is the war in Iraq. It was Bush/Cheney''s decision, Bush/Cheney''s execution, Bush/Cheney''s congress, Bush/Cheney''s strategy, from beginning to end. That war is the only thing we can say is clearly, without any wiggle room, the responsibility of the loony, violent right wing.

Fair enough, if you loony rightists are willing to stake your reputations on the quality of the war in Iraq, I''ll stake mine on Jimmy Carter who ended communism and got the hostages back from Iran without a single life lost (although the deal closed some 30 days after his presidency ended). His forbearance from rash action saved the lives of every one of those hostages, plus countless more Americans since the Moslems treated us well for several years after, until Reagan antagonized them.

Based on Carter''s accomplishments, and based on Bush''s, it appears I win.

[tcoleman12]

J-whit, the only reason Cahtah does all the "humanitarian" work that he does now is so hopefully people will look at that rather than his miserable presidency.
I am surprised that one of these guys didn''t just shoot him. Telling them they "don''t have the power to stop him." What a joke...

[endofempire]

Jimmy Carter= Fall of Afghanistan to Soviet forces, Fall of Nicaragua to Cuban-supplied Sandinistas, fall of Iran to fundamentalist muslims, imprisonment of Iranian Embassy personnel (with subsequent torture for all taken) and of course, at home, double digit inflation and near double-digit unemployment. No Carter=no Afghanistan, no Afghanistan=no Bin Laden, no Bin Laden, no 911, no 911, no Aghanistan attack and no excuse to attack Irak. Again, no Carter, no Iran, no Iran, no arming of Irak, no arming of Irak, no Gulf War, no Gulf War, no attempt on Bush Sr.''s life, no attempt on Bush Sr.''s life, no Bush Jr. revenge... Got the picture? We are still living with Carter''s legacy...

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[agnim]

"Agnim I live in Ga. the black folks here don''''t hate Jimmy
Posted by crzmeat at 02:51 PM : Oct 03, 2007"

Good for those Black people to not waste time investing any emotion in that senile old devil, craker Carter, who walks around the world with the Iranian crisis hanging like a millstone around his long neck. LOL

If you think that Carter does ''good'', then you have little notion what ''good'' really is.
Carter is the devils angel. Anyone who claims that he ''sins/commit adultery in his mind'' is a loony. LOL

[lars008-2009]

Posted by jn4ggs at 02:55 PM : Oct 03, 2007

Who Balanced the Budget?
Stephen Moore is director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute.

The second effect of the Reagan years was to launch America into what is now widely regarded as a remarkable 15-year low-inflation, high-employment bull market (the Dow was at 800 in 1982, 8,000 today)--interrupted only mildly in the middle Bush years. These 15 years of prosperity were propelled by Reaganomics: lower tax rates, a long-run decline in inflation and interest rates (which also lowers tax rates), freer international trade and a strong dollar. Even with the anti-supply-side Bush and Clinton tax hikes, the top tax rate today of 40% is far below the towering 70% tax rate that disabled the economy in the 1970s. The end of the Cold War has created an international environment of peace and stability, nudging the economy into still higher gear in recent years.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6107

[lars008-2009]

Posted by jn4ggs at 02:55 PM : Oct 03, 2007

Who Balanced the Budget?
Stephen Moore is director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute.
The historical irony is that the person most responsible for deficit reduction gets very little attention in the national media. The president who deserves the most credit for the fast-approaching balanced budget we are now witnessing is not Bill Clinton. And the Republican who deserves the most credit is not Newt Gingrich. Rather, the politician whose long-run policies are most responsible for leading us to a potential balanced budget next year is Ronald Reagan. Yes, Reagan, the man vilified by Clinton for "tripling the national debt in the 1980s."

Reagan''s legacy affects us dramatically today in two ways. First, Reagan''s anti-Communist foreign policy and his military buildup hastened the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In the past eight years, America''s victory in the Cold War generated a half-trillion-dollar peace dividend. That peace dividend grows every year, and it fell like manna from heaven into President Clinton''s lap. The budget deficit is falling, not primarily because Clinton raised taxes and not primarily because the congressional Republicans committed themselves to a balanced budget, but because the defense budget is nearly $100 billion lower today than when the Berlin Wall came down.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6107

[azmka]

scottyusa:

Well said. I agree with that assesment.

[realpatriot1]

mbcsmith,

There''s nothing revisionist about j-whitman''s comments about Carter, they were all fully documented at the time they happened.

[hungry1968]

Where was Bush during any national or world catastrope or even serving his country ????

Posted by j-whitman at 02:59 PM : Oct 03, 2007



I still remember the morning that Katrina hit, the picture of Bush, on vacation as usual, laughing and smiling with a guitar in his hand, somewhere in Texas.

[hungry1968]

anyone with half a brain knows that regan was the worst president since hoover
Posted by jn4ggs at 02:55 PM : Oct 03, 2007


EVERYONE knows that Bush Jr. is the WORST PRESIDENT EVER, and he''s in the top 5 of the "All-time Worst, World''s Leader".

[mbcsmith]

anyone with half a brain knows that regan was the worst president since hoover


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Posted by jn4ggs at 02:55 PM : Oct 03, 2007


Fortunately, most of Americans have a whole brain and know you are full of shiit

[mbcsmith]

Agnim,,,, Jimmy Carter was on the scene & in the Control Room at 3 Mile Island trying to stop the melt-down,,, Jimmy Carter was on the scene in Palestine trying to achieve peace in a very violent time,,, Jimmy Carter risked his life on Submarine Duty -
--- Where was Bush during any national or world catastrope or even serving his country ????


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Posted by j-whitman at 02:59 PM : Oct 03, 2007


Your revisionist history is simply amazing!

[mbcsmith]

Jimmah Cahtah, the originator of the word "nucular"

[tato4x4]

Dang librul media.