And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
– Matthew 6:5
When word came that Jimmy Carter, age 98, was entering hospice care, the predictable plaudits began to pour in. Calling Carter “an inspiration,” Maria Shriver gushed that he “moves humanity forward every single day.” Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) described Carter as having always “walked with God.” Rocker Nils Lofgren called him “[a]s fine a man and soul as I’ve ever seen.” And Steve Martin tweeted: “We’ve seen few humans this devoted and humble….Quietly continuing his mission,which was to do good. If you must leave us go gently . Leave your heart and bravery so we might learn.”
All of which is testimony to the power of hype.
I was nineteen years old during most of Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign. You might have expected me to support him. Three years earlier, after all, I’d been every bit as addicted to the Watergate hearings on afternoon TV as my mother was to As the World Turns. I was besotted by the movie All the President’s Men, released a few months before the 1976 election. At the time of the election, I was a student on a college campus dominated by lefties who, purportedly jaded and alienated by politics in those post-Watergate days, embraced Carter as a breath of fresh air, a magnanimous soul uniquely equipped to make America, once again, a City on a Hill, noble in its character and great in its deeds. As Carter put it himself, “I can give you a government that’s honest and that’s filled with love, competence, and compassion.”
I didn’t trust the son of a bitch as far as I could throw him.
Yes, Nixon, aside from being a brilliant statesman, had been a wily character. The Watergate tapes had revealed his salty side. He was no saint, but then again he didn’t sell himself as a saint. What politician is a saint? What mattered was that Nixon was brilliant. He was a terrific president. He knew his stuff cold. He loved America. He hated Communism. Yes, he was often characterized as being awkward in his own body and very uncomfortable about interacting with voters on the campaign trail – which to me meant that, well, at least he wasn’t slick.
Carter was slick. Boy, was he slick. His big, toothy smile was the phoniest thing I’d ever seen. He insisted that his name appear on the ballot as “Jimmy,” not “James.” And he talked a lot more about his religion than any other presidential candidate in my lifetime had ever done. I’d never heard such sanctimony from a politician. It was while listening to him that I heard the term “born again” for the first time. Although plainly trolling for evangelical votes, he acted as if he was far too virtuous to think of doing such a thing.
I voted for Ford, but Carter won anyway. He was an absolutely horrible Commander in Chief. At home, he gave us high inflation, high unemployment, and an energy crisis that led to long lines at gas stations. And abroad? He treated allies shabbily. His posture toward adversaries was one of reflexive appeasement. He seemed to equate passivity in the face of provocation with Christian virtue.
Oh, and he banned liquor from the White House. Though Trump has never taken a drop –because he fears becoming an alcoholic like his late brother – he wouldn’t dream of denying a guest a drink. But when you’re morally opposed to evil rum, as Carter was, the real fun is denying it to others.
After Carter left office, Daniel Patrick Moynihan summed up his presidency. For Carter, wrote Moynihan, the sole impediment to world peace was – incredibly fatuous though it may seem – American aggression. Presumably thinking he was serving the cause of peace, Carter halted aid to anti-Communists in El Salvador while funding the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; to the same apparent end, he cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan and began official relations with Red China.
And just as Biden’s weakness on the world stage would encourage Putin, decades later, to invade Ukraine, Carter’s weakness led to the Iranian hostage crisis.
“I will never lie to you,” Carter promised. But he didn’t just lie, as all politicians lie – he proved to be one of the most duplicitous men ever to sit in the Oval Office. And one of the most opportunistic, too, with precious few core convictions. Long a hard-core segregationist, he’d turned on a dime to become the face of the liberal “New South”; running for president as an anti-Communist who promised to invite Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to the White House, he congratulated his fellow Americans, after he took office, for overcoming their “inordinate fear of Communism”; until 1976 he showed little interest in “human rights,” but when he decided it would be a winning platform, he made it the core of his campaign, and indeed of his personal identity.
His utter incompetence in the White House handed Reagan a spectacular landslide victory.
Leaving office at the age of 66, he spent 32 years as an ex-president. Yes, he picked up hammers and nails and built houses for poor people. He also taught Sunday school. He should have stuck to that. Unfortunately, he also involved himself in international affairs – often through the Carter Center, which over the years received millions of dollars in support from Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. They got their money’s worth. For decades, as the disaster of his presidency faded into history and a compliant worldwide media helped burnish his image as a good and simple carpenter – like Jesus! – those countries’ corrupt leaders benefited immensely from their coziness with him.
Sometimes, to be sure, those relations were too cozy. Indeed, more than a few of his post-presidential dealings with foreign governments amounted to outright treason. If he’d been a Republican, he’d – well, but he wasn’t a Republican, was he?
All the while he postured as an uncompromising hero of human rights – and as a plain-spoken man driven by a deep Christian belief. (Two of his many books are entitled Living Faith and Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith.) But while he loved to hold forth piously about the oppression of people living in right-wing dictatorships, he repeatedly acted as an apologist for the Chinese Communist Party. Decades later, Trump might boast about getting along famously with Xi and Kim, but Carter went far beyond that, extolling any number of left-wing tyrants in terms that sounded thoroughly sincere.
He heaped praise, for example, on Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad. Shortly before the ayatollah’s revolution, he said that Iran was an “island of stability” because of its people’s “love” for the shah. He parroted Castro’s ludicrous claim that Cuba’s education and health services were superior to America’s, and in 2011 referred to the dictator as an “old friend.”
He apologized to the Haitian dictator Raoul Cédras for America’s treatment of his country; he celebrated Tito and Ceausescu as heroes of human rights; he commended the Saudi royals for preserving their people’s “religious commitment.” Lauding Kim Il Sung as “vigorous” and “intelligent,” he rejected the proposition that North Korea was “an outlaw nation” and denied that its people were starving. When Hugo Chávez died in 2013, Carter spoke warmly of the caudillo’s “commitment” to his people’s welfare.
Perhaps most appalling of all, Carter didn’t just applaud the bloodthirsty hate-filled embezzler Yasir Arafat; they became close chums. Carter actually saw this war-crazy monster as a peace-lover. When they first met in 1990, Jimmy and Rosalynn laughed it up with Yasir, bonding obscenely over their contempt for Ronald Reagan. Carter even sat down at his computer afterwards and wrote up some helpful pointers for a speech in which Arafat would bash the Israelis as child-killers and present himself as a protector of children.
Indeed, it wasn’t until his post-presidency that it became entirely clear just how much Carter hated Jews and was prepared to act as an apologist for Islam – even Islam at its very worst. He vilified Israel as an apartheid state – even worse than South Africa, mind you – and blamed it entirely for the continued lack of peace in the Mideast. Meanwhile he cozied up to – and repeatedly whitewashed – Hamas, despite its charter’s call for Jewish genocide.
In 2006-7, Ken Stein, the first director of the Carter Center, and fourteen members of its board, resigned in response to Carter’s vicious and mendacious stance on Israel, as spelled out in his reprehensible book Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid. In it, he presented Arafat as having disavowed terrorism and claimed that the purpose of Israel’s separation barrier wasn’t to protect its people from suicide bombers but to grab territory. The book, charged Stein, “is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments.”
Over the years, if anything, Carter just got worse. In 2014, Alan Dershowitz called him “an all-out cheerleader for Hamas.” In 2016, he wrote a supremely dishonest New York Times op-ed calling for the U.S. to recognize Palestine. In 2018, the Carter Center was accused of funneling taxpayer money to Hamas and other terrorist groups.
Yes, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. As with Obama seven years later, the GOP-hating Norwegian elites gave it to him for one reason and one reason alone: he wasn’t George W. Bush.
For the reasons Bruce Bower accurately states in his article, Jimmy Carter was the greatest Jew hater to ever occupy the White House with the possible exception of Barack Hussein Obama. Israel is home to arguably the most diverse population on the planet, most certainly in the Mideast. Jews, Christians and Muslims all enjoy equally the freedoms of religion, the press and to vote. Arab citizens of Israel are represented in the Knesset, an Arab is head of Israel’s largest bank and another serves on Israel’s Supreme Court, Israeli Arabs and Jews attend the same universities and practice medicine side-by-side in the same hospitals. To brand this marvelous society as apartheid when Carter knew that exactly the opposite was true, betrays a malice hidden behind a toothy grin and a presidential record of almost impossible incompetence.
I have come to be very suspicious of the word “diverse.”
The fact that the Jews welcome people from other nations / ethnos is not necessarily a good thing. Immigration from nations and their people should be limited to those who want to live among the Jews because they love them and their nation. The Jews should decide whether admitting these people would be good for Israel (and not simply good for economic migrants).
Ethnic diversity naturally creates tension. It is NOT a good thing in and of itself, especially with the sons of Ishmael (Genesis 16:12) and the Sanballats and Tobiahs (Nehemiah 2:10) living in Israel .
Israel has always accepted people from every nation into its culture. Israel has dispersed all over the globe and has assimilated the nations into its own culture, but Israel has remained distinctly Jewish. It has the right to remain Jewish.
I do not think Israel should be encouraged or required to accept as citizens anyone who wants to live there, especially considering the historic enmity of Jew-hating Arabs. Diversity of ethnos is not a healthy national goal unless strictly controlled to accommodate the national interest of Israel.
I would like to add something else to this spot-on article about the
evil machinations of the colossal phony Jimmy Carter.
He is one of the original Globalists – the people presently trying to
destroy America and establish a worldwide digital tyranny. Carter –
along with his National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and
David Rockefeller – set up the Trilateral Commission, an organization
of global economic, corporate and political leaders dedicated to
the establishment of one-world government.
The twin evils of Transhumanism and Technocracy are what they
are striving to embed into human life. One only has to listen to
Klaus Schwab and the powerful movers and shakers who follow
him to realize this is true. Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote a book on
Technocracy long before anyone really knew what it was.
It’s astounding how power seems to corrupt and segue into
domineering over others. The belief of our Founding Fathers
that as human beings our rights come from God is consistently
thrown out the window – by the likes of such Bible-thumping,
Sunday school teachers as Jimmy Carter and the endless legions
of other American and global leaders.
Can we leave God out of it for even a moment, can we leave religion out of it, can we leave the Bible, Koran, and Bhagavad Gita out of it, and just agree that life on earth is a value, flourishing on earth is what we really want, and figure out what are the requirements for living and flourishing on earth?
That’s all Objectivism really is; a philosophy for living and flourishing on earth.
Isn’t it obvious that Judaism and Christianity can be and have been interpreted in contradictory ways by believers? Isn’t it obvious by now that freedom, liberty, individualism, and capitalism can only survive with an irrefutable, demonstrable, fact-based, reality-based, rational, logical, THIS-WORLD, defense?
Thx, still praying for you brother.
How is worshipping at the Altar of Man working out for you so far.
We are corrupt, evil and wicked in our ways.
Y’all need Jesus.
You ah ha moment is yet to come and it most assuredly will.
I love you brother and pray you’ll leave the “can’t we all just get along” blather behind.
In a word No, hell no we will never all just get along.
We can hope to. We can aspire to but our human natures will not allow it.
That detestable human nature is what screams to us we cannot be good without a Redeemer in our lives.
“Some students of Objectivism find it difficult to grasp the Objectivist principle that “there are no conflicts of interests among rational men.” – Ayn Rand
Consistent, non-contradictory, rationality can be difficult for men to practice but it is not impossible.
“The Conflicts Of Men’s Interests” is a chapter in Ayn Rand’s book “The Virtue of Selfishness”. You can google it.
thx1138: Ayn changed my life ! The ability to find my shortages and attempt
to correct myself will be a lifetime work in progress !
Eddie
“Can we leave God out of it for even a moment” So you and fellow Rand/Objectivists would prefer that our individual rights come from man. That is why you would believe that abortion is a human right.
“That’s all Objectivism really is; a philosophy for living and flourishing on earth.” How many utopian schemes have this objective. How many political systems have tried to implement a utopia of peace and prosperity.
The founding fathers, having respect for the bible, knew that political power had to be controlled by checks and balances to ambition and concentrated power. Objectivists, who have no respect for the bible, believe that man is not corrupted by original sin and human nature is malleable toward sustained goodness. In the Objectivist scheme man is supposedly unfettered by sin. Anything altruistic in nature is rejected for “rational self interest” It would be great if reason alone could produce a utopian society, But the history of the world proves this idea to be morally and spiritually ignorant. One man’s reasonings are another man’s folly. Nations behave in the same way. Objectivists, wake up and learn from the bible.
No, we can’t leave God out of it. Leaving God out of it is the problem.
Who’s God are you talking about? What does YOUR God stand for? How can you prove it?
Again….not about you or your religion of Objectivism. In fact very little is about you or your religion and Ayn Rand.
Humankind is completely incapable of governing ourselves in peace and harmony. It
is something to strive for, but will be impossible to attain in our humanity. We are put here on earth to Love Our God in Truth and Spirit and Love One Another as Ourselves. Our sinful fleshly nature pushes us in the opposite direction. There will be no peace until God is governing all of mankind. That day is coming and we all individually need to prepare by accepting Jesus as our Savior or be lost for eternity when that glorious time comes.
You really nailed it, Annie45.
Carter is an example of skill in disguising wickedness, but Jew hatred is a kind of litmus test. Destruction of the Jews (and their Messiah) has been a core Satanic agenda from the beginning (Genesis 3:15). Jew hatred is never alone. It is always accompanied by other hatreds and evils, and the people who hate Jews comfort one another in their mutual hate. They unite around Jew hatred. It is desperately wicked.
Israel receives this awful hatred because she is uniquely God’s people and His inheritance (Deuteronomy 32:9). All the earth will rejoice to see the end of it!
Unfortunately she didn’t nail it. The bottom line is altruism and self-sacrifice versus rational selfishness and self-preservation — the rational love of self and self-flourishing.
If Jew hatred means something in reality then it means hatred of individualism, hatred of self-preservation, hatred of rational SELFISHNESS, hatred of success against the odds, hatred of a people that in spite of a religion suffused with abject unreason, the rational THIS-LIFE, self-preserving, elements in their culture have surmounted and canceled out the abject unreason of their religion.
If Jew hatred means anything in reality it means the hatred of the successful for being successful, the hatred of the good for being the good.
“Rational selfishness” that rejects any altruism is a contradiction in terms. Man by nature has a love of his own life that leads him to self preservation. Biblical altruism is simply to love your neighbor as yourself. Ayn Rand, having a self exalted view of her own reasoning powers, thought she could improve on the morality that Christ taught and exemplified. Ayn Rand and her followers were actually following the broad road of selfishness and the rejection of Jesus Christ.
“Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
Matthew 7:12-14
I knew Carter was a complete phony the moment he said, “I’ll never lie to you.”
Bob Grant, talk radio pioneer, called him “Jimmie I’ll Never Lie to You Carter.” Of course, that was to mock him.
For anyone who has ever read the Bible, Carter was a false teacher and false prophet.
Satan is the father of lies. Carter’s lies and hatred of Israel prove he was a fraud.
One thing i have always thought about carter is that unlike obama or biden he did not actually hate America nor Americans.
With Carter, you’re half right.
With Jug-eared Barry, you’re completely right.
With Plugs Biden, he’s so exceptionally stupid and shallow that you’re completely right on one day, and half right the next.
Nah, he did. He helped enable the modern California Democrat machine.
You could almost find and replace Carter with Biden in this article and not much has changed, it’s just getting worse.
When I was a kid, a woman on my block said that, when Jimmy Carter was still governor of Georgia, she knew a lawyer who’d met Governor Carter who thought he was smart. Later, when Carter was now president, this same lawyer told her what a lousy president Carter was. She told him, “But when he was still a governor you told me you thought he was smart.” He said, “Not smart enough to be president of the United States!”
Absolutely true! I voted for him as governor, and he did yeoman work on the Georgia government that continues to today. Based on that good performance, I voted for him for his first term……boy, what a disappointment in national office!
The Peter Principle was in full view: a good governor and a president who had no idea how to do the job. What a disaster!
He will re rated as the third worst president, only because he cannot beat Obummer and Brandon as #1 and #2,
The World will be a better place without Carter In it.
In addition to everything else Carter also gave away the Panama Canal
Exactly! Though that bullshit give-away wasn’t on the scale of what Sleepy did in abandoning Afghanistan, the damage to our security of losing the canal cannot be overstated.
But I’m sure it made the fool feel warm and fuzzy inside.
He also enabled the Jonestown Massacre, John Wayne Gacy, and the entire modern California Democrat machine.
It is now run by China.
Thanks Bruce, covers the bases very well. I knew some Iranian girls (pro-Shah) who were students at my California college back then. Carter’s backstabbing of the Shah and giving Iran to the Mullocracy sticks in my mind.
I was 19 too back then. I voted for Gerald Ford over Jimmy Carter in part because Ayn Rand said he was infected with powerlust. When Ayn Rand came out against Reagan for President, I didn’t listen to her that time. I despised Carter. I won’t say what the nasty Debbie Schlussel said, but I feel I don’t have to as she said it already.
Ayn Rand was judging Reagan by what she knew of him at the time, right before the election, and by long-range and fundamental philosophical essentials.
Objectivism can not predict the future with 100% certainty because man, every man, has free will. Because men are not omniscient or omnipotent. I can not speak for her but I strongly suspect that she knew that Reagan was a religionist, that he was aligning himself with the Religionist Right, that he was against the right to abortion, and that all of that, in the long-range, was disastrous for the cause of freedom.
If you are against the right to abortion you are not a defender of individual rights, that, for her, I suspect, was the bottom line.
Google “Was Ayn Rand Wrong On Ronald Reagan”? by Edward Hudgins.
“Rand rightly argued that we must make judgments based on facts. She died before all the facts about Ronald Reagan were in.” – Edward Hudgins
Killing a foetus the day before it could be born is rational is it?
And forcing a young girl to carry the foetus of her rapist or incestuous father/brother/uncle for nine months and give birth to it is OK?
Now,there are practical,medical considerations that impact on the safety of an abortion,one being the duration of the pregnancy. Early access to the Abortion Pill, (ie morning after pill) would make abortions at a late,and unsafe stage,mostly moot,as far as safety goes.moot..
Nobody is suggesting that, and even if they do, how many does it really affect?
The pro life argument has gotten much better than when Ayn Rand was alive. Back then it was waving bloody abortion blankets and sichlike. With the emergence of ultrasound; etc., the pro life side has made a pretty impressive case.
Ayn Rand’s beautiful and glamorous mother (she was a French teacher, btw…) stated over and over that she did not want children to Alice and Nora’s face. I can’t help thinking that Ayn Rand was thinking of her mother in her strong support for abortion.
Again not about you or your fake religion and it’s faux Goddess.
Not everything requires a self-important classroom lecture from you.
Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and the severity of symptoms vary. People with the disorder can: Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance. Have a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration. Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it.
Are you doing a “nice” personal attack against me? “Ad hominem” stuff is a Communist/present day Leftist trick. I do not need lessons from smear artists as to how I post. You don’t like Ayn Rand? She did have some valuable things to offer despite your “ad hominem” attack on me.
Incidentally, where is the proof of your super ghost that so many people worship because of the fear of death?
Sorry UnderZog. It wasn’t aimed at you. It was aimed at THX.
Unfortunately no editing or deletions allowed here.
Super ghost….very clever. Don’t need proof of anything for you. I have my faith..which I am not pushing on you.
Personally, I don’t care what you believe as long as you don’t push your smug atheism on me.
Again not about you or your fake religion and it’s faux Goddess.
Not everything requires a self-important classroom lecture from you.
Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and the severity of symptoms vary. People with the disorder can: Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance. Have a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration. Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it.
“She died before all the facts about Ronald Reagan were in.”
Thank God.
Thank you for your remarks. I will say that Ayn Rand had important things to say — especially on concept formation and the psychology of the New Left. Of course, G K Chesterfield, Jordan Peterson and others said important life lessons.
Yeah, Habitat for Humanity was just more Carter bs. In our area they worked with the municipalities to steal land from
owners that were too poor to keep up (to their standards) the house and yard. The municipality would place repeated fines upon the property, at the point the owner could no longer afford to pay, the municipality would forgive the fines if the owner gave the property to Habitat for Hum.
Many of these Habitat homes became drug dens, it was great. Anyhow, after about 25 years Jimmy came back saying that now we needed to re-roof the free homes. (Now what type of person can receive a free home, live in it for 25 years, and not be able to save the money for some darn shingles?) If there is not a serious physical or mental illness on the owners part–then f them.
Carter did everything possible to bankrupt the farmers in our area in order to put their land into the hands of his banking buddies and industrial corporate farms.
Ive hated the bastard since I was a child, if Im ever near his grave, I will stop and take a crap upon it.
Thank you for the reality check! This is what ALTRUISM really means in reality!
There’s rational altruism and irrational altruism.
Soaring inflation, rising gas prices, appeasing dictators/authoritarians….. Seems to be a pattern among leftist presidents. When you get praise from a degenerate like Warnock you know how bad Carter was.
When I was in 6th grade we had to do a book report on who we liked for president. I picked Reagan. My mother helped me with the report. We went to the library and took several days to research and put it together. My friend, on the other hand, wrote his report on Carter and threw his report together in a few hours the night before.
When we got our grades back I received a “C.” My friend received a “B+.” I’ll never forget my friends laughter as he knew his report was inferior and just thrown together at the last minute.
Guess what party affiliation the public school dyke teacher belonged to?
When I was in my freshman year of high school, my history teacher asked us to do an assignment on which of the 2008 presidential candidates we would vote for and why. I didn’t necessarily support McCain but I did choose him over Obama. In the assignment, I voiced my concerns about Obama and whatnot, and despite that, I still got an A on the assignment. And my history teacher was a Democrat too! Albeit one of a dying breed, the Reagan Democrats/Blue Dogs. We may not have agreed on everything politics wise but she did support the 1st and 2nd amendments and actually did care about the future of this country. She unfortunately passed from breast cancer before I graduated high school, and I miss talking with her.
CARTER was an election observer in countries where Communists were running, and no matter how much evidence of their voter fraud, HE ALWAYS LEGITIMIZED THEIR BEING ELECTED! ALWAYS… and since he was JIMMY CARTER, “a religious Man with Honor and Integrity”, very few questioned that election. Once Communists gain power, it’s almost impossible to oust them because they put their people in power, take over all the government, then they make laws, that ANY OPPONENT to their Rule, “Is against our Democracy”, and they’ll go after them using those laws and ones they’ll make up on the spot. (SOUND LIKE OUR DEMOCRATS?)
CARTER AIDED THE SANDINISTAS gain power and Ortega is still there and putting in his own family to head departments and he’s arresting all opponents!
CARTER allowed the Iranian Hostage takeover, AND FORTY YEARS LATER, the Democrats deal with the Mullahs!
THE SOVIETS INVADED AFGHANISTAN…. thank Jimmy!
CARTER allowed the Soviet KGB and our COMMUNIST PARTY USA to set up their front organizations in every state and every major university in order recruit radicals. ONE WAS BARACK OBAMA! (Google: “Obama Sundial 1983” which is proof Obama was a leading member of KGB ACTIVE MEASURES!) THOSE EIGHTIES RECRUITES are today’s teachers. professors, Hollywood, Media, city/state/national leaders, and FILLED CONGRESS and then the White House. THEIR JOB TODAY IS TO RECRUIT THE NEXT GENERATION OF COMMUNISTS WE SEE IN THE STREETS… ALL LED BY COMMUNIST GROUPS!
Excellent observations …. you and yours have a great week!
I share Mr. Bawer’s view of Jimmah. When defeated by Reagan after one term, Jimmah’s failure with the hostage situation in Iran loomed large.
Now, of course, we will be treated to days if not weeks of endless lionization and distortion of the man’s character, some by people who simply buy the hype, some by simple (minded) agendists.
I was young when Carter ran for Presidency and I voted for him. As an increasingly educated philosopher-semite, I have been appalled at Carter’s outright and unapologetic support for the worst of Palestine’s leaders. He seemed to embrace the willful blindness required to call white black and black white. He has never come to an understanding of his failing in this regard. Politicians are notable for their blindness and lack of ability to revise their record and views. Carter is the epitome.
How appropriate. Carter & his scumbag BFF Arafat, both got Nobel participation trophies.
Nobel Peace prizes are handed out only to corrupt low-lifes, so Gore, Gorbachev, Rigoburta Menchu, Jimmy, Obama, etc all received one.
Reagan who ended the cold war needed not apply.
Bruce,
I seem to be of the same age as you. I was deployed overseas from the end of the administration of Ford, through all of Carter’s, and the beginning of Reagan’s. It was Carter who made me mature early into conservatism.
I seem to recall also that Carter wanted the UN to monitor several American elections under some false premise of election fraud. (I’m sure Carter didn’t want to shine a light on any Democrat fraud.) Amazing how no smoking gun was ever found about fraud by the Right, since that would have been trumpeted around the world and given immortality?
Your final summary of Carter’s chosen confusion (my opinion) made me wonder if he was always surrounded by sychophants or myrmidons and never had any friend willing to express any intellectual opposition.
Thanks!
Excellent post, and never have I agreed more with Bruce. Usually I agree with Bruce and have a few quibbles – after all Bruce lives in a bubble than the one I live in –
But he skewered Carter and we all I know he could have gone on and on and on …
The fact that Jimmy F. Carter runs around claiming to be an ‘Evangelical Christian’ merely contributes to his crimes. Evangelicals can be wrong, and they don’t have to be heroes, and they can be cowards, just like everyone else – without losing their salvation or their humanity …
… but an Evangelical Christian cannot take up the mantle of a ‘world leader’ and proceed to promote evil and attack the good enough.
Jimmy F. Carter literally flipped the whole meaning of being Christian on its head. As if Christ blessed those who stole the widows homes and sold the orphans to the “Assyrians” … rather than the other way around.
God bless everyone here – and our troll. 😉
Kevin from Canada here, with a little anecdote: way back in September of 2000, when former Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau passed away (yes, Justin’s communist daddy!), the only two world “leaders” who showed up for the funeral were Fidel Castro and Jimmy Carter … That spoke volumes to me …
Recall that PET called out the Army during the FLQ crisis,and fingered his opponents when they criticized him for doing so. And his son,,Justin,invoked the Emergency Act to bring Canada back to it’s collective senses. And you were saying……
Just sayin’.
I agree with you about Pompeo, as well. It’s great that he has lost weight, but he will need to be far more transparent about his past, and adopt much more of an America first approach before he has a serious chance of snagging the nomination. He still makes me uneasy.
Nice round up of Carter’s misdeeds and insufferablity. One that I had forgotten about until reminded by another writer, was nuclear engineer Carter’s decommisioning of nuclear fuel reprocessing facilities, thus setting the U.S. on a course away from developing nuclear energy technology and energy production. Sorely missed today, and still decades away.
I started into this article thinking the author was going to try burnish something from Carter’s existence. What a pleasant surprise to get a quick summary of his dumbassery.
I too was 19 when he ran and I also voted for Ford. Y’all remember ‘even-odd’?
Nice to see someone agree with my take that as bad as Carter was he didn’t hate America the way Obama does. I wonder if he’s aware he has become only the third worst president in my life.
I hear his remains will lie in state for a week in Teheran before doing the same in Panama City. Then he will be buried at sea in the Marianas Trench.
The best article i have ever read about Carter. If Carter would have been around at the first advent he would have been a Pharisee and helped put Jesus Christ on the cross. The greatest thing Ronald Reagan ever did was crush Jimmy Carter ‘s Presidency. Now if Bruce can write the same scathing truth about Abraham Lincoln he will be in the hall of fame for truth tellers.
Ask secret service about lugging the weight while the Carters carried empty suitcases for show..
Jimmy Carter was a disastrous president and a total moral vacuum.
Nobody who enables Jim Jones, John Wayne Gacy, and the entire modern California Democrat machine gets to be called “moral” in rational company.
I believe it was Rosalyn Carter who was enamoured with Jim Jones. I always wondered how such ‘evangelicals’ did not have the discernment to recognise a fraud, and a deadly one at that.
Carter was massively involved in propping up and legitimizing the California Democratic establishment that made Jim Jones Housing Commissioner.
A position he then abused to evade prosecution. Leading directly to the flight to Jonestown.
My man Bruce is as usual spot on but you forgot this lie, “I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times” cause I’m convinced Carter doesn’t have a heart.
He will ho down in History as one of the worst, most hypocritical of all US,Presidents
I agree that Carter was a despicable S.O.B! Only one statement I disagree with; calling Islam, thar hate filled ideology a religion, an ideology which claims the Temple Mount as their property, is an obscenity.
Thank you for detailing just how insidiously bad this man was, and what a betrayer of everything he pretended to believe in. What a shame, Mr. Bawer, that your first encounter with the term “born again” should have been in connection with someone who truly was a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
“bloodthirsty hate-filled embezzler Yasir Arafat; they became close chums. Carter actually saw this war-crazy monster as a peace-lover. ”
Forgive me if I thought you a rabid Zionist Jew,Evangelist,or Christian Zionist.Instead, to my surprise,you are a Gay White Christian.
Now,I assume you are knowledgeable,more knowledgeable than me, on Carter and Arafat.I do .have an interest in the Zionist Apartheid Israel/Palestinian conflict,and come by it honestly,my Grandfather. being a Christian Palestinian born in Jerusalem,Palestine,during Ottoman Empire rule.
My intent here is not to debate the conflict,rather to observe that your description of Arafat as “bloodthirsty,hate-filled” does little to persuade an unbiased reader to take seriously what should be an otherwise serious attempt at a truthful,and useful account of this important historical figure. W might come to the same conclusion about President Carter.
It speaks volumes to the strength of American core values,and less so of Foreign and Domestic Policies, that among her Presidents there should be an attempt,albeit weak and unfulfilled,at giving some needed recognition and acknowledgment to the more vulnerable,and perhaps victimized,eg Palestinian, side in any conflict.
Overall,I would give your article a failing grade in terms of usefulness. Just sayin’.
See? Lefties abhor gays.
“See? Lefties abhor gays.”
I stated a biographical fact, not a judgement, Michlin. Whether so-called “Lefties” or any other group abhor Gays is a topic for another day. Next time, engage your critical thinking skills before activating your mouth or typing fingers. Just sayin’
You still earned YAOOYFM
Arafat was a filthy murdering terrorist, a fraud and an embezzler.
And, btw, there IS no ‘palestine’ and there never has been. So therefore it is impossible for your grandfather to have been one.
And as for the arabs who call themselves ’palestinians’, to call them ‘victimised’ in the context you’re using, is a joke.
Eva,you engage in the narrative of Denial and victim-blaming to forward your unconscionable Apartheid pro- Zionist agenda against the Palestinian People,which includes Palestinian Catholics,other Palestinian Christians,and Palestinian non-Jews..
The narrative of Denial is common to many historical acts of genocide,ethnic cleansing,and Crimes and Sins Against Humanity. The Turks engage in Denial,ie the Genocide of the Christian Armenian community,.as do the Neo-Nazi Right,who engage in holocaust Denial. So,you are in “good” company,eh? Keep up the good work! You just don’t know any better. Just sayin’.
Besides the copious factual errors, falsifications, and inversions in your remark, there is also a basic asymmetry that appears not to enter your awareness. Absent the state of Israel, there would eventually be no Jewish people, and had there been such a state in the 1930s, there would in fact, very likely not have been a Holocaust. If the maximalist aims of the Palestinian Arabs would be achieved, the Jews will be pushed toward the sea, toward exile again, lose their reconstructed sovereignty, and eventually disappear as a culture, and as a people. If the maximalist aims of the most extreme, marginal, nationalist Jews were attained, the Palestinian Arabs would lose a territory that is a minority of the territory in which they live. There is another side of the river Jordan, where a super-majority Palestinian Arab population, lives in subjugation by a small Bedouin minority, and all this interestingly attracts scant global attention whatsoever, for a mixture of complicated reasons. But facts speak for themselves. The population of Arabs identifying as Palestinians has grown 800% since the establishment of the modern state of Israel. Strange to consider this a “genocide.” The issue of Christians is a whole subject in itself. They are a small minority of the population, and have bitterly suffered from Muslim rule particularly since the transfer of authority over places such as Bethlehem, to the PLO.
More of a rant than something more useful. Just sayin’.
Must be speaking of your comment. Thanks.
“. He was a terrific president. ”
Hmmm ….
1) Wage and Price controls
2) Took us off the gold standard
3) Environmental Protection Agency
He should have kept his job with Habitat for Humanity he was better at fixing up old homes for the Homeless
When Carter ran for governor of Georgia he had George Wallace campaign with him, Carter told white crowds “I’ll never be controlled by a block vote.” In his drawl, block was heard as black. He knowingly used hatred to win. Carter was always jealous of Sadat and Begin getting the Nobel Prize. Sadat trusted Begin because after Begin was elected to be Israel’s prime minister, but before taking office, Begin learned there was a plot in Egypt to kill Sadat. Israel in such cases would tell the US to tell Sadat. Begin decided it was better to tell Sadat directly. When Sadat and Begin negotiated, Carter wanted more for Sadat than even Sadat did. That was consistent with Carter’s anti-Semitism which he shared with his mother and brother. On a lighter note, when Carter made chairs for Habitat for Humanity, the chairs were stained by Bill Clinton.
When it comes to nuclear weapons, while I trust the Fundamentalists in Iran,(who don’t have a nuclear arsenal), about as far as I can throw them,their Apartheid Zionist neighbor cannot be trusted NOT to use the many Nukes they have in their considerable arsenal.The story goes that the Jews initiated the assembly of components for Nuclear weapon ready delivery to persuade America to deliver the much needed military supplies essential for turning the tide of early Arab successes during the Yom Kippur War.
Interesting that none of the stakeholders point to a Nuclear capable Zionist State while spending so much capital to prevent Iran from building a bomb they don’t have. Just sayin’.
Bruce:
Back in 2008, the old Investors Business Daily (now Issues & Insights) ran a fantastic series on the disaster of Jimmy Carter in the run up to the coming of Obama.
Maybe you have a contact there. Considering Carter’s imminent departure to the Infernal Reaches and the propaganda complex’s immediate whitewashing of his record, it would be well worth the dissemination and republication of that series
Jimmy Carter summed up:
Jew Hater
Iranian Hostage situation
Gas lines
Malaise speech and sweaters
Double digit inflation
Sanctimonius
Appeaser of Communists
Did I forget anything?
He was allowed to celebrate his 75 Wessing aniversity which is getting right up there
The man has indeed had a rather appalling legacy, of apologizing for some of the worst regimes on Earth, whilst simultaneously and perversely, peddling himself with success, as a man of virtue.
I will only add one brief remark and request. Since there is no recognized state by the name of “Palestine,” and since such a result has to date been conceived as a hypothetical resolution to the Arab conflict with Israel, premised on a “final status” recognition of the Jewish state, it would behoove this website to make some note of the fact. There seems to be a snowballing effort as of this year, to regard such a state as having been established, notwithstanding the absence of any of the aforementioned preconditions for such a declaration. Implicitly using the term without an attached proviso, lends more momentum to that effort, and would seem incompatible with this website’s longstanding aims. There is a Palestinian Authority. “Palestine,” there is not.
Very good point.
The “Palestinian Authority” does exist, but the name is unfortunate because it uses the name “Palestine” as though that word describes a nation in historic possession of Israel. As far as I can tell, it is simply an amalgamation of Jew haters united by nothing else.
When the Jews control the Temple and access is limited or denied to all others, when the land of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, is occupied by Jews, then that reality will reflect the true historic status of the land. But God promised Abraham a larger grant in Genesis 15: 18-21. Perhaps we will see that come to pass!
Voting for Carter was(and is)the Only real error in voting I have Ever made.I didn’t understand that when Ford pardoned Nixon,he was doing the country a Huge Favor so I rebelled and gave Carter my vote.However inept that he was(as POTUS),at least he wasn’t an Enemy of this country like OBONGO!!!