White House Calls Carter "Irrelevant"

After Former President Bashes Bush, White House Dismisses "Sad" Comments

(AP)  The White House on Sunday dismissed former President Jimmy Carter as "increasingly irrelevant" after his harsh criticism of President George W. Bush.

Carter was quoted Saturday as saying "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history."

The Democrat said Bush had overseen an "overt reversal of America's basic values" as expressed by previous administrations, including that of his own farther, former President George H.W. Bush.

"I think it's sad that President Carter's reckless personal criticism is out there," White House spokesman Tony Fratto said Sunday from Texas, where Bush spent the weekend.

"I think it's unfortunate," Fratto said. "And I think he is proving to be increasingly irrelevant with these kinds of comments."

Carter made the comments to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a story that appeared in the newspaper's Saturday editions.

Carter spokeswoman Deanna Congileo confirmed his comments to The Associated Press on Saturday and declined to elaborate.

[fake-id-2009]

lars is irrelevant...

[aaabee-2009]

at least the Bushes have the class to NOT comment on current and past presidents."
Posted by hellenist at 01:08 PM : May 21, 2007

Is that the criterion for sainthood?

[lars008-2009]

demonic-rats fold like a cheap suit... or dimmy carter... hahahaha

Dems Set War Bill Without Iraq Timeline
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8P908UG0&show_article=1

[jerelp]

I am totally amazed by the comments on this story.Honestly, Carter and his entire family were constantly critized...It seems as though if any one speaks ill of the Bush Admin. it is headline news and every one goes nuts...It is insane...Before 911, we seemed to be able to complain, but since, we are anti american, crazy huh?

[aaabee-2009]

Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. Posted by lars008 at 02:15 PM : May 21, 2007

I agree! Good men have done nothing for the past 7 years.

[polaral]

What really bothers me about all this is that Carter bowed to pressure and didn't stick to his guns. Anyone with more than a double digit IQ can see that Bush II is a stain on the the oval office and the worst president we've EVER had. More high officials should speak up and tell the emperor he has no clothes.

[aaabee-2009]

Wow, marfells.

Guess your boy can do anything wrong he wants. You have a fine list of "Look What Others Have Done" to cover for him. Soooooo

Next time a bloody minded criminal breaks into your house, paws over your valuables, takes your kids, and shoots a hole through your woman's eyeball, remember! other criminals have done this before so he shouldn't be held accountable for his own actions. Just like your boy.

Given that your kind would never apply double standards, your list gives all criminals a free pass. Hope nothing happens to you personally, hate to see what a hypocrite you'd become.

[lars008-2009]

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?

well you demonic-rats is it???

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry

USA's PLEDGE 2 THE WORLD GIVEN BY JFK!!

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
--John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." --John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Winston Churchill

Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

[lars008-2009]

dimmy carter leads The Chorus of Useful Idiots...

Leftist Support of Islamist Terror

Most shocking is the outright sympathy of many leftist-liberals for Islamic fascism. They said little about the murder of 500 Russian civilians, many of them children, but screamed week after week because some Arab savage at Abu Ghraib prison wore a bag on his head. They cared nothing about the beheadings committed by the Islamo-savages or the execution of 12 Nepalese. David Horowitz gives an excellent discussion of who this "Left" really is. He calls them neo-communist, I call them Leftist-Liberals. I'm a classical Liberal myself and I feel it's time to remove this irrational element that has been allowed to poison our good name.
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/list.htm
The Chorus of Useful Idiots
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/thornton.htm
Supporters of Muslim Terrorism on the un-Religious Left
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id2/index1.htm
Exposing Leftists' Radical Islam Connection
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/left_islam.htm
Definitions, Lies, and Losing Your Head
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/def_lies.htm
Shocking (Liberal) Silence
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/leftist_silence.htm
See no evil: Why the Left is blind to suffering
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/no_evil.htm
When is violent speech still free speech?
http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/speech.htm

[moiself-2009]

Interesting that this administration should consider any past president of this country irrelevant, particularly one who has been awarded a Nobel prize for peace and is a role model for citizenship and humanitarianism. Furthermore, the opinions of every citizen in this country should be relevant to our "leaders". Perhaps, to this White House, only those who agree and approve are relevant. How sad for the Bush administration and for us that they can't listen and learn.

[lars008-2009]

hahahahahaha hey dimmy, where's the canal???
i wish dimmy was president... so we could impeach his dumb arse... hahaha

that means a lot coming from the chief loser of the lousiest predency ever...
i sure do miss those double digit interests rates, inflation and unemployment... NOT!!!

hahahahahaha

Carter came down hard on the Iraq war.
"We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened, if we want to change the regime there or if we fear that some time in the future our security might be endangered," he said. "But that's been a radical departure from all previous administration policies."

hahahahaha

you mean like your beotch boy clintoon did bosnia, sudan, iraq and afghanistan...

you mean like you did when you attacked iran...

go change your depends loser dimmy cart-er

you have already shown your preference for communist leaders and fascist nazi islam leaders over america...

you have the dubious distinction of being the first traitorous prsedent of the USA...

what a walking pathetic blathering bitter old embarrassing mistake you are...

[hellenist-2009]

Now what was inflation under Carter? Where was unemployment? What happened in Iran? How many new jobs were created? What were taxes like?....

Sure Jim, I'll take your comments as Gospel.

For whatever their flaws (and there are many) at least the Bushes have the class to NOT comment on current and past presidents.

[cmp271]

Carter is the one who is irrelevent.

Bush may be stupid at times but at least he is not involved in a scandal that was swept under the rug. The BCCI I believe it was that came out Carter was involved in and never was prosecuted.

His administration was a joke for four years. He tried to buy off the military by giving us a good raise, we still didn't vote for him.

The only credit I will ever give Carter is for keeping his mouth shut over the Iranian rescue attempt. Everything else he let slip out, national security was not important to him, as it was not to our previous s-e-x maniac.

[marfells]

WOWIE-WOW-WOW!!!...it's great fun to see what the loony left thinks, but worrisome to the degree that it dilutes the actual debate. Next, we'll hear the baby-killing charges (whoops, THAT was Janet Reno. Who was her boss again?) or the heavy-handed removals of U.S. Attorneys (again whoops, THAT was Bill Clinton!) or in this latest case, that Bush has the worst foreign policy in 30 years (now who was president 30 years ago?? Any guesses?) Remember when our embassy employees were held captive for 444 days, all during Jimma Cahta's reign of ineptitude? I do. They were released just prior to Reagan's inauguration, when the Iranians knew their jig was up. Notice how at least Mumar Khaddafi recognized the Reagan-esque qualities in Bush? He wasted no time divesting himself of any and all nuclear weapons or the means to procure them.
I'm off to other sources of humor, namely the New York Times' take on the stories du jour. After that, I'll probably look up "wacko left" on Google and see what blogs I find. Have a great day!

[ezillyamused]

I find it rather amusing that whenever someone speaks the absolute truth about Bush, they are immediately dismissed as "irrelevent", "irresponsible", or my personal favorite, "an enemy combatant". King George has tried everything he can to completely erase our Bill of Rights and Constitution as being just another old scrap of paper that really doesn't mean anything. If President Carter is "irrelevent", then Bush and Posse are nothing more than a boil on our butts that needs to be extracted immediately!

[aaabee-2009]

Carter speaks the truth, it doesn't matter how bad you assasinate his character. Carter speaks the truth, and it is wreaking havoc with Bush's little dream world.

Bush wants to play dress up and have the band play his march when he enters the room. He wants to fly nice and clean over disaster areas on Airforce One, he wants the crowd to clap and cheer when he arrives in his limo so he can wave, he wants to have that photo moment for his media, he wants to give state dinners for the queen, play conductor for the orchestra, and wear a unearned flight jacket on a US aircraft carrier.

Bush doesn't want to get his hands dirty, he doesn't want to be the decider on sticky domestic issues, he doesn't want to bring this country together when he needs to use half of it to demonize, he doesn't want to be contradicted, he doesn't want his reasoning countermanded with alternate views, he doesn't want anyone to say anything except "Yes, Mr. President."

This is what happens when privilaged little rich boys with silver spoons in their mouths who have never known responsiblity get to play in the White House. Our country is melting into anarchy and Bush says, "more tea, Madame Queen?"

[mitywhity]

Carter is indeed irrelevant...as well as irresponsible (Venezuela and Chavez' elections) irreplacable (The worst president, militrily spineless, economically incompetent) irrefutable (Just ask him) irregular (he is pretty old) irrational (Israel - one day he likes and the next day he...you know, senile) irritating (The leader of the malaise just doesn't know when to go back out into the peanut fields) To top it off he is irreverent (He can tell you what part of the Bible is true and what parts are not while he led a revolt in his denomination that split churches and communities like a iron wedge through a dry pine log) He has proven over time to be the most destructive and divisive, under-achieving mouthpiece of liberalism in recorded history. That makes him irrelevant. Bush? Well, he does have a lot on his plate that he hasn't figured out what to eat with which fork and his immigration stance looks like more like a Wal-Mart greeter than a Commander-In-Chief. Yes, Bush is a cluster-duck himself. But Carter is the pot calling the kettle black.

[barbaraf4]

"There's over 58,000 names on that wall. Your political heroes have designated Viet Nam as a trading partner now. How does that settle in your craw?"
Posted by bm6005 at 10:27 AM : May 21, 2007

Well said. This proves that in the scheme of things, it doesn't matter who won at what price in human death and misery. What matters is your value to the almighty dollar.

[pepperp1]

President Bush and his Bush Doctrine to transplant democracy to the Muslim world can not be viewed as irrelevant but quite the opposite, he is and will be seen as the President who individually, arrogantly, incompetently, irresponsibly and without mandate began the waning of America power in the world and gave the 911 terrorist the victory they wanted all along, to minimize our countries influence on the middle east and the oil within their countries. If he had any honor he should hope to be as irrelevant as his attack dogs claim President Carter is, then more Americans would be alive, our country richer, our debt lower, our country safer, our and our world influence intact. He should resign for the good of this country.

[bm6005]

There are fifty-five thousand names on a Wall in Washington. Those folks will never receive their amnesty, will they?
Posted by JEGibbons

There's over 58,000 names on that wall. Your political heroes have designated Viet Nam as a trading partner now. How does that settle in your craw?