The Democrats’ Jimmy Dhimmi Carter problem
My column this week looks at the Dems’ Dhimmi Carter problem. Even the left-wing SF Chronicle is advising him to stay home. The Palestinians deride the Postman. Samuel Segev fills in the blanks of what Carter left out of his progress report. Jay Ambrose jibes: “Carter has demonstrated that one determined individual can do harm aplenty on his own.”
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The Democrats’ Jimmy Carter problem
Michelle Malkin
4/23/08
Copyright Creators Syndicate 2008
So much for Jimmy Carter’s triumphal peace mission in the Middle East. Like everything else he has done on foreign policy, the world’s biggest tool for jihad propaganda created yet another bloody mess. Quick review:
After proclaiming that Hamas terrorists were willing to accept Israel as a “neighbor next door,” Carter’s Hamas hug buddies flipped him the bird. They gladly accepted the diplomatic legitimacy Carter’s visit conferred upon them, while clinging bitterly to their insistence on the destruction of the Jewish state.
After laying a wreath in honor of the murderous Yasser Arafat, Carter dutifully agreed to deliver a letter from kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit to his parents on behalf of the terrorists who are holding him hostage. Shalit’s father rightly jeered Carter as nothing more than a postman for Hamas.
After Carter asserted that the State Department never clearly opposed his trip, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pointed out that she had explicitly warned him against meeting with Hamas. Not to mention all those bold-faced, unequivocal headlines before the trip announcing that “State Department opposes Carter meeting with Hamas chief” (USA Today) and “Rice Criticizes Carter for Reported Meeting Planned With Hamas” (Fox News).
What part of “Don’t meet with the Jew-hating killers, you idiot!” didn’t Carter understand?
Article 13 of the Hamas charter is also as clear as day: “There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.”
Jimmy Carter’s thick skull and moral myopia are an American embarrassment and an American problem. But more precisely: Jimmy Carter is a Democratic problem. He casts a long, feckless shadow over the party — and it will haunt the party through the Democratic National Convention in August and beyond.
Carter is a Democratic Party superdelegate who will undoubtedly seek a prominent role at the convention this August. But the party can ill afford a diarrhea-of-the-mouth moment from their elder terror apologist. The world is watching and listening.
Though he has not formally endorsed Barack Obama, Carter has made enough positive noise about the campaign to send Iranian TV into euphoria. The regime’s media arm led with an item earlier this week headlined, “Carter: Obama favorite worldwide.” The news item quoted Carter as saying that Obama is supported by “many people in Ghana, Nigeria and Nepal. … World opinion is strongly supportive of Obama, that’s all we hear.”
(Left off the list of legitimate world opinion, of course: Israel.)
Despite Obama’s milquetoast protestations of Carter’s visit and his technocratic disavowal of Hamas, Carter and Hamas are giving Obama two thumbs up. (Obama’s associations with anti-Semites like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the Louis Farrakhan-cheerleading Rev. Michael Pfleger give him all the cred he needs.)
Conservatives have mobilized to protest Carter’s terrorist shilling. GOP Rep. Sue Myrick called for his passport to be revoked; Rep. Joe Knollenberg wants $19 million in taxpayer funding to be withdrawn from his Georgia-based scholarly institution. But the Sick-Of-Jimmy-Carter Coalition isn’t just a Republican club. The Jewish Daily Forward reports that “some liberal observers…worry that the elder statesman may create headaches for the party at its nominating convention in Denver.”
Their angst is well placed. The question is: Will exiling America’s top Hamas apologist from the convention podium be enough to dispel the shadow of surrender? Or, to paraphrase Obama, can the Democrats no more disown Carter than they can disown the softheaded liberalism at the party’s ideological core?
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Outstanding column, Michelle!
Right on Michelle!
This is exactly why he will be heaped with praise, instead of the well earned scorn fit for his stupidity.
Carter kissing up to radical Islamic goons? Imagine that. Hoodathunkit?
/sarcasm off
Not in my estimation. The convention is the only reason why the Democrats are speaking out against the meeting with Hamas and that to me is the crux of the matter. Nancy Pelosi’s trip to the Middle East wasn’t supported by the Bush Administration and Jimmy’s trip is getting the same “don’t you do it or I’ll…”. Or the State Dept., will do what, exactly?
Dems are infamous for their rebellious, traitorous, obnoxious behavior. And this trip is no different. The Dems are quick to extol that we should care what our image looks like to ROW. Yet, they go about pulling stunts like meeting with terrorists and that is somehow, some way, acceptable.
My head is spinning.
When I went to the commissioning of the USS Carter - submarine, all that went through my head the entire ceremony was the following:
Since we know Carter would never actually use any other tactic against an enemy than talking, did they replace the missile tubes on that vessel with loud speakers?
Since he is blind to enemies, did they remove the periscope?
Since he seems to lack a coherent worldview and any real guidance, did they remove all the nautical charts and compass and replace them with nothing?
I’ve actually met the man - he’s a nice enough person, but he just doesn’t believe there is evil in the world.
Oh and superb column, Michelle!
10-year-old pun time: Why isn’t what the Democratics do to undermine national security treason? Because treason has a reason in it. This is just old-fashioned twretchery.
What amuses me most about current Democrat posturing is their quandary between playing to their insane base and thinking about the general election. Hillary clearly knows that time is running out to run to the center, but many of the other party luminaries don’t seem to have figured it out.
Or, tinfoil-hat/ They know that Juan McCain will reach out to them by implementing the policies of his defeated rival, should he be elected POTUS. /tinfoil-hat
Hmm, that’s scary enough to make me want to put the hat back on…
Excellent column Michelle, as usual!
LOL! Classic!
I am sorry but, we need to put away the treason card. If the NYT can divulge secrets and get away with it, there will never be a thing a liberal can do to be charged. We have small towns who want to arrest the POTUS and his VP for goodness sake. Jimmah will always get a pass for one reason:
Jimmy Carter (D)
If McCain would be 4 more years of Bush, Obama would be 4 more years of Carter.
We’re doomed.
Excellent column, Michelle. Spot on!
My questions are: where is the public outcry from all political sectors of our country regarding Carter’s treasonous activities? Is meeting with Hamas the kind of activity that former presidents should pursue? How did this guy obtain the presidency in the first place?
I do disagree with one of your passages, Michelle:
There, fixed it for you.
Why can’t this man just retire and grow peanuts in Georgia like he used to?
Assuming that Obama gets the nomination … if the Republicans are smart, they will highlight Carter’s Mideast trip — and his statements that align with the positions of Obama’s advisors — in campaign ads this fall
He must have missed the memo….
“it’s futile to negotiate with murderous ignorant thugs”
I shudder to think of what the consequences might have been if Carter was president during WWII.
We would all be speaking German or Japanese right now.
It is also so sad to watch the lefties try to make Bush out to be the “worst president in history” and hope that this will eclipse the real recipient of that honor Dhimmi Carter.
I think his brother was the smart one…
Maybe if the Democrats provided him with a project he could direct his energies in a more productive manner. Perhaps Howard Dean should consider putting Carter in charge of getting out the Jewish vote…
Nicely put Michelle! As much as I would like Jimmah to go gently into that good night the more he opens his yap the bigger a problem he becomes for his party. He keeps this up maybe the liberal Jews in this country will finally buy a clue and quit voting for the party that plays patty cake with the very people that want to wipe Israel off the face of the planet. If we could only get the DOJ to enforce the Logan Act it would be a pretty could day.
Don’t hold your breath. The democrats have reaped what they’ve sown.
What’s really ironic is that Carter’s bungling of Afghanistan was what made Condi switch parties . (She was a Dem for a while in college. College tends to affect some folks that way.)
It’s also funny that she helped clean up the mess he started way back then. She helped plan the rebuilding and redevelopment of Afghanistan.
Jimmy seems to have missed the memo that he was never wanted in the middle of the mess. I mean this is the same idiot who left 52 Americans in Iran for 444 days. What makes him think he can solve a long standing issue with terrorists?
Jimmy, just please go home and make peanuts, okay?
I’m sure this will derail Obama’s candidacy - just like BitterGate and WrightGate, did ..
And yet, Obummer, just lost PA by 10 points. Golly Gee, none of those two “issues” tanked his campaign there, huh?
Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy…
Just when I was beginning to have a crumb of respect for the guy (Habitat for Humanity) he goes and reminds us why Reagan wiped him out in the first place!
Hmmm, I suppose every cloud does have a silver lining!
#5 My brother was a member of the Barbel crew (WWII submarine) that was MIA until Japanese war records showed a direct hit the day radio communication was lost. I loved your post!
The difference between then and now is our family buys Japanese cars. After the enemy is defeated, you get on with your lives.
Great article, MM. Will they disown Jimmah? Can’t wait to see how this plays out….
Hillary’s win in PA will help expose BHO as to how much like Jimmah he is over the next few months.
emjem24 @ #22:
Pennsylvania was never going to choose Obama because this is a political-machine state. The bigshots like Gov Rendell lined up behind Clinton, so the Demosheep dutifully voted for her. Baaaaa!
There is that, too. I have wonderful military friends who live in that state, own guns, regularly hunt, and are deeply religious. I wouldn’t be surprised if they registered as Dems (they’re not) just to keep her in a little bit longer.
Carter has a peanut sized brain, what do you expect? The ayatollah walked all over him during his Presidency so all the terrorist organizations know he is a sniveling coward, he continues his legacy to undermine and embarrass the U.S. around the world, the related stories on the right of this page proves that. Lets not forget that Arab’s give large amounts of money to the Carter Center or that he and Arafat the terrorist were buddies, Carter advising Arafat on sympathy talking points of a speech Arafat was to give to the U.N. or that he wrote a letter to the heads of the U.N. Security Council such as Russia, China and France to thwart President Bushs push toward compliance of U.N. sanctions or removal of Saddam. Carter is definatley the worst President of our time, he is nothing more than a political terrorist himself maybe more like an Anti-President and for these reasons he will be made a key note speaker at the convention.
Good gawd! I wish Habitat For Humanity would build him a padded house to live in,so he wouldn’t hurt himself. He has LOST it !!!
Won’t derail jack squat with all the sycophants in the dim party.
“See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil”
Unless of course if its their talking points against Rove, or Darth Cheney
A road trip this past weekend carried me through Plains, Ga. (Not that I really wanted to be there). I was thinking to myself at the time that we would have been better off with Billy Carter as president.
I think Carter needs to be put in his place by Rev. Wright. Maybe he has figured out that he is white.
From the Forward.com:
One can only hope!
Also, excellent article MM; it’s refreshing to see someone in print media who does NOT defer to Jimmy Carter as a man misunderstood, a “great” president before his time.
Most critiques of Carter, from both left and right outlets, are usually so littered with platitudes and compliments for the former President/present day albatross, that it’s hard to decide if they’re criticizing or promoting him.
Thus my great appreciation for your insightful article on the failure that is Jimmy Carter.
Perhaps Howie Dean could in his off time stop by and kindly mention to Jimmie that driving nails and visiting poor countries doesn’t qualify as a treatment for dementia.
The veil of infirmity being elusive. He could also remind the former worst Pres. ever, that the world stage isn’t Shakespeare theater, just because he thinks doesn’t mean is…lucid.
Besides, when all else fails (apparently so) Carter could concede, that he was wrong to begin with.
I bet the Dems are trying to find a ninja killer swamp rabbit right now….
Please, please, please let him speak at the convention. The more this imbecile talks the better our chances in November.
Congratulations on a great column!
Carter is still trying to make us ashamed of being Americans. Any enmity or ridicule heaped on him is well deserved. I only hope it sparks a national anti-Carter movement!
dejack you are so on the mark. This scion of higher intellect needs as much time as we can get him. We need more interviews like the one he did for Fox after returning. Truly enlightening.
I brought this up in another St. Jimmy post but do you remember his hateful speech at the Coretta Scott King funeral?
Michelle, you have expressed my thoughts on Carter that I have had since his last book came out. In 1948, President Truman told his party’s loony left, led by former vice president Henry Wallace, to get lost. He won the election anyway. If Howard Dean and company don’t follow Truman’s example, they will throw away an election they should have coasted to victory following Bush the Younger’s sorry second-term performance.
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Carter is more or less the logical conclusion of left/liberal thinking — most particularly about jihad.
That is to say, inverted, anti-American pro-jihad thinking.
It was after all, Dhimmi Khaadr that put Khomeini on the throne of Persia.
(Did you know that the word Iran is persian for Aryan, and that the word was adopted during WWII out of appreciation for nazi views on race?).
Ultimately the Democrats’ approach to international relations is implicitly pro-jihad. Either in the surrender-and-comply Pelosi sense or in the active participant Carter sense.
Democrats have to have their feet held to the fire on whether they will actively resist the jihad, miltarily, legally, financially and ideologically.
And BTW, they won’t.
Revoke his passport??? How about putting him on trial for treason?? He is intentionally undermining the foreign policy of his Country.
Jimmy Carter is one of the best weapons that those of us supporting Operation Chaos could ever dream of. He will go to the Democratic convention and seek out media attention. His antiAmerican, antiIsrael, proCastro , pro Hamas views will be on display. Sadly, nobody in the MSM will ask Obama and or Clinton the following question: “Jimmy Carter will be a superdeleage at your convention. Will you phone President Carter and ask him to support you?” Then here is the follow up question: “Would you welcome the public support of President Carter?”. Third question: “Do you think that Carter acted responsibly in attempting to negotiate with Hamas?”
Where’s The Killer Rabbit when we need him?
here
Michelle, even better than your usual great efforts!
jimmuh’s antics will be yet another arrow in our quiver for the general …
This just in: the Carter Center in Atlanta denied that the State Department had warned Jimmy “I will never lie to you” Carter in advance not to meet with Hamas.
You know, in my estimation, all of this trouble we are in w/ Islamic terrorists and the such, goes back to when Carter was in the White House. Remember his Iran debacle trying to rescue the hostages. He just seems like someone trying to get into heaven, and ignoring the realities of this world.
Doesn’t Obama plan to do exact same thing?
Sitting with Iranians, North Koreans and any other USA haters?
Who better than Obama to Carry Carter’s mantle?
Makes sense that Obama gets his diplomacy lessons from Carter!