http://www.frontpagemag.com/Ar...Article.asp?ID=21393 <br /><br /><br />"In Hamas, former president Jimmy Carter has found yet another murderous Islamist regime in need of his services. In a Washington Post op-ed yesterday entitled �Don�t Punish the Palestinians,� America�s Worst Ex-President declared it was morally and strategically wrong to withhold funds from the Palestinian Authority�s new government, led by Hamas. <br /><br />In his perpetually feckless style, Carter suggests, �top Hamas leaders may choose to concentrate their influence in the parliament and propose moderates or technocrats for prime minister and cabinet posts.� But peace-loving Hamas moderates might be provoked by American �collusion� with Israel, especially if Israel chooses to �withhold funds�Palestinians earn from customs and tax revenue.� (Greedy Jews.) <br /><br /> <br /><br />He griped, �This will present significant obstacles to a government's functioning effectively.� <br /><br /> <br /><br />Exactly. This government is led by a terrorist organization seeking to push Jews into the Mediterranean and extend a fundamentalist Islamic Palestine �from the river to the sea,� before exporting its jihad. Pardon Israel if it doesn�t want to contribute to the cause; it gave at the bus stop. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Worse, Israelis won�t let �elected Hamas Palestinian Legislative Council members through any of more than a hundred Israeli checkpoints.� This despite the fact that he acknowledges in his article nine Hamas members elected to parliament are currently in prison. These would-be martyrs won�t be allowed to meet with fellow PA legislator Mariam Farahat, a.k.a. Um Nidal (�The Mother of the Struggle�), the monster who sent three of her six sons to do their �holy duty� as suicide bombers, killing Jews for �the pride of jihad.�<br /><br /> <br /><br />Not that Carter is troubled by this. Shortly after their election � which he joyfully certified � Carter referred to Hamas murderers as �so-called terrorists.� When pressed, he acknowledged, �there is an element within Hamas who deny Israel's right to exist.� An �element�? The Hamas Charter demands the annihilation of the Jewish state, announcing, �Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.� Hamas has killed more than 500 Israelis and 27 Americans in furtherance of this goal. Its members lobbed 20 rockets and 39 mortar shells at a Jewish settlement less than two weeks ago, on February 9th (during an official ceasefire, no less) in a vicious round of �so-called terrorism."

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Why does an image of Michael Moore sitting with the Carters at the 2004 Democratic National Convention come to mind about now?

I've seen a few interviews with Carter, and I believe that his actions spring from his commitment to Christ, which runs very deep.

He is still, like Moore working at tearing down this structure and these tooth fairy, Easter bunny, Santa Claus myths which most of us still believe:

http://www.seek2know.net/money.html

Ken Wilber envisions a World Federation a hundred years from now, with corporations and green meme thought police to make sure that they behave.

I see Jimmy Carter and Michael Moore as the prototype of these corporate watchdogs.

GM is about to go under, and this group

http://www.seek2know.net/money.html

will convice the people that bailing them out like Chrysler is the way to go. This is how it works.
If Carter and Moore are helping to expose them, then I feel that they are helping.

I finally watched Fahrenhiet 911, and it's about as accurate as anything on Fox News.

caritas, mm <*))))><

Ugh . . . Spoonboy!

So, back to Carter . . .
- http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,348413,00.html

Visiting with a Hamas leader now . . . in Syria . . . How marvelous!

quote:

�It�s about par for the course from President Carter, demonstrating a lack of judgment typical of what he does," said John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. "To go to Syria to visit Hamas at this point is just an ill-timed, ill-advised decision on his part."

�I�m not surprised that Carter would do this, as he has been supporting Palestinian extremism for many years,� said Steve Emerson, director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, a watchdog group.

Carter would be the first Western leader of his stature to meet with the Hamas chief. Though Meshal met with Clinton officials in the 1990s, the Bush administration has sought to isolate Hamas, enforcing rigid sanctions on its government in Gaza and refusing to meet with its leaders unless it recognizes Israel and abandons terror.

�I think this [visit] undermines the U.S. policy of isolating Hamas,� said Emerson. �I think this encourages Europeans to further dilute their sanctions against the Hamas government.�

"When you put the prestige of a former president of the United States in a meeting with one of its terrorist leaders, you�re giving it a legitimacy and currency it never had,� said Bolton.

Honestly, it's high time the Democrat leadership (especially Obama and Clinton) distance themselves from this man's frivolous endeavors in foreign policy. Obama has refused to do so, however.
- http://tinyurl.com/6hc2qy

Now Carter is playing the race card re. those who oppose Obama's policies.

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Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act "based on racism" and rooted in fears of a black president.

"I think it's based on racism," Carter said in response to an audience question at a town hall held at his presidential center in Atlanta. "There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president."

- http://apnews.myway.com/articl...90916/D9AO5MA00.html

This has been a most annoying dynamic all along. To disagree with Obama's statist leanings is "racist." More and more I wonder if the real racists aren't those playing the race card.

Amazingly, Carter has reaffirmed his contention that racism is a major factor in opposition to Obama's policies. As one might expect, National Review Online has a good rebuttal:

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The facile accusations of racism are both banal and cynical. And they are right on cue: Wolf-cries of “racism!” are a way to smother debate, which is something that Democrats, who are losing the health-care debate, must find appealing right about now.

But there is something more to this than the cold-eyed tactical deployment of the racial artillery. Mr. Carter, who has been known to wear his religion on his sleeve in a way that would embarrass George W. Bush or Rick Santorum, is well positioned to recognize the thing into which he has made himself: a Pharisee of the Left, enraptured by the spectacle of his own political piety. Not content with a contest between ideas and policies, Mr. Carter is attempting to use racial politics to convert the health-care debate into a contest between Righteousness and Unrighteousness, a Manichean meeting of good and evil. “Racist” is simply how one says “unclean” in Democrat. . .

“That racism inclination still exists,” Carter says, “And I think it’s bubbled up to the surface because of the belief among many white people, not just in the South but around the country, that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. It’s an abominable circumstance, and it grieves me and concerns me very deeply.” We suspect it would grieve him more if he had no such abominable tactics of which to avail himself. And Carter of all people knows that racism does not explain Americans’ distaste for overweening liberalism: He’s the white guy who lost 44 states to Reagan.

- http://article.nationalreview....MzRhYThkMjcxN2Q1Mzc=

Right! And for advocating similar policies as Obama's.

OK, just one more on Carter's recent outburst, then I'll let it be. This one's from Jonah Goldberg, who's always fun to read even if you don't agree with him.

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Left-wing writers spent the week droning on about how it’s now racist to say “I want my country back.” These amnesiacs are blissfully unaware that “taking back” America was the rallying cry of the Democratic party for eight years under George W. Bush. Anti-white racists all?

Jimmy Carter sighs, “It’s an abominable circumstance, and it grieves me and concerns me very deeply.”

Well, ditto. Except I think the abominable circumstance is the Vesuvian eruption of nonsense belched forth from distempered liberals frustrated by their inability to win a public-policy debate.

An “overwhelming proportion” of the vocal opposition to Obama stems from the “inherent feeling” that “an African-American should not be president,” testifies the de facto voice of Southern self-loathing and pharisaical pomposity.

Really, President Carter? Based on what? Polls you’ve studied? Which ones? Or did you descend from the temple of the Carter Center, flee your enabling entourage of sycophants, and canvass some neighborhoods yourself? How many people told you they don’t think a black man should be president? One? Two? Zero? Or are you simply reading minds again?

The good news is that the race peddlers have undermined themselves. The notion that opposing skyrocketing deficits and socialized medicine is racist is met with eye rolls by the vast majority of Americans, who do not need Sharpton and Carter to tell them what is — or is not — in their own hearts.

- http://article.nationalreview....ZDUzNzExMDFjNDJkMDU=