Senator Obama has released his line-up of convention speakers. His choice of speakers is neither wise nor moral nor are there that many new faces among them. Yes, I know: Senator Obama has to invite the previous living Democratic Presidents, it would be a break with tradition for him not to do so. But isn’t “change” Senator Obama’s mantra? And if not now, when?
For example, Obama has invited Jimmy Carter, the former one-time President of the United States to speak on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention.
Jimmy Carter? Yes, the President who, in 1979-1980, did not find a way to rescue the 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days by Khomeini’s goons; the current President Amadinejad was probably one of the young goons.
Jimmy Carter? Yes, the President who, post 9/11, still continued to blame America for the Arab hatred of America and who viewed America’s call for democracy in the Middle East as a justifiably “discredited” one. In a 2006 interview in the German Spiegel, Carter justified the hatred of America as caused by America’s invasion of Iraq and support for Israel.
Spiegel: You also mentioned the hatred for the United States throughout the Arab world which has ensued as a result of the invasion of Iraq. Given this circumstance, does it come as any surprise that Washington’s call for democracy in the Middle East has been discredited?
Carter: No, as a matter of fact, the concerns I exposed have gotten even worse now with the United States supporting and encouraging Israel in its unjustified attack on Lebanon.
Spiegel: But wasn’t Israel the first to get attacked?
Carter: I don’t think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that’s justified, no.”
Oh, where do I begin?
From 1967 on, Palestinian terrorists hijacked planes, bombed synagogues, took hostages, and killed Jewish and Israeli civilians; they did so long before a so-called “settler” movement began living in disputed territories.
Long before America invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, and long before 9/11, the following Arab Muslim/Islamist/terrorist attacks against America (and against western civilians) took place:
On April 18, 1983, a suicide car bomber blew up the U.S. embassy in Beirut, killing sixty-three, including seventeen Americans.
On October 23, 1983, terrorist operatives blew up the U.S. Marine barracks and French military headquarters in Beirut, killing 241 marines and 58 French paratroopers. Jeffrey Goldberg, staff reporter for the New Yorker, attributes this attack to Hezbollah (a.k.a. the Islamic Jihad Organization, a.k.a. the Organization of the Oppressed on Earth). Prior to 9/11, it was the most deadly terrorist attack on Americans.
On June 14, 1985, Hezbollah seized a TWA jet and commandeered its flight to Beirut, demanding the release of seven hundred Arabs held in Israeli jails. One U.S. Navy diver was killed and thirty-nine Americans were held hostage until July 1. Goldberg reported that the United States held one of Arafat’s former bodyguards, Imad Mugniyah, responsible for most of Hezbollah’s anti-American attacks, including this one.
On April 5, 1986, a bomb, putatively Libyan, exploded in a Berlin nightclub killing 2 U.S. servicemen and wounding 230 other people. “Libya is blamed, “according to the Associated Press (AP).
On December 21, 1988, Libyan terrorists blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people, including some on the ground.
On February 26, 1993 a car bomb planted by radical Islamists exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center towers, killing six and wounding more than a thousand. The four convicted perpetrators were all linked to the blind Egyptian radical Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, himself indicted as the leader of a larger alleged conspiracy to destroy the United Nations headquarters and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels.
On June 25, 1996, a truck packed with explosives exploded outside the Khobar Towers in Dharam, Saudi Arabia, killing nineteen U.S. servicemen and wounding hundreds. According to Goldberg, the U.S. also suspects former Arafat bodyguard Mugniyah of involvement in this case. However, according to the Washington Post, American investigations in 1998 pointed exclusively to Iranian agents.
On November 17, 1997, Jemaah Islamiyah operatives shot and killed more than sixty tourists visiting the temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Luxor, Egypt. There were Japanese, Swiss, German, and British among the dead.
ON August 7, 1998, Al Qaeda detonated two car bombs and destroyed the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam simultaneously, killing 224 and wounding thousands. The AP reported that bin Laden was suspected.
On October 12, 2000, Al Qaeda attackers bombed the U.S.S. Cole as it refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden, killing seventeen sailors. Again “bin Laden [was] suspected.”
On September 11, 2001 Arab Muslims, mainly from Saudi Arabia, and acting for Al-Qaeda, flew two planes into the World Trade Center and a third plane into the Pentagon. Passengers forced a fourth plane to crash in a Pennsylvania field.
These attacks all took place before America invaded A!fghanistan or Iraq.
The list of atrocities committed against peaceful Israeli civilians is a far longer list which I shall reserve for another article. Suffice to say, Carter has consistently glorified Palestinian terrorism and demonized Israel’s attempts to defend herself.
Let’s set all this aside. Let’s assume that none of the above ever happened. But Senator Obama, who attended Pastor Jeremiah Wright’s church for twenty years, the very church that Oprah attended but left after three years, has chosen a classical Jew-hater as an opening night speaker. (Will he throw him under the bus too? Or say that he did not know…?) Yes, I am still talking about Jimmy Carter.
Carter is not merely an anti-Zionist kind of anti-Semite. His is a good ol’ boy style of Jew-hatred. It is rooted in his version of Christianity. It is racism, raw and unadulterated.
In the late 1990s and into the twenty-first century, President Jimmy, the author of Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid taught a series of Bible classes titled Sunday Mornings in Plains. A tape of his classes was issued in CD form by Simon and Schuster. A student at Columbia, Michael Miller, listened to these CDs and partially transcribed them with commentary galore. I read some of the transcripts with my heart in my throat. I could not bear to read them all.
I have written about this Here. Trust me: Carter hates Jews big time and his Jew-hatred is based on a perverse reading of the Bible. This breaks my heart since I am a strong supporter of Jewish-Christian alliances. However, I doubt that Carter speaks for anyone else other than himself and the Saudi Lobby which has rewarded him so handsomely.
Carter repeatedly whips up hatred towards modern-day Israeli Jews by telling lies, half-truths, and ancient, out-of-context truths. For example, he insists that (all) Jews view (all) Christians as “dogs” and despise and persecute (all) Christians because they are “unclean, uncircumcised.”
Anyone familiar with Middle Eastern realities will understand that it is Muslims who view Christians as unclean infidels and it is Muslims who persecute, forcibly convert, exile, lynch, and be-head Christians. Palestinian Islamists have desecrated churches and murdered Christians. The very Israeli Jewish government whom Carter is railing against in his Bible classes has protected the holy sites of all religions. And, it is ethnic Arab Muslims who have been murdering black African Christians and Muslims in Darfur.
President Jimmy also presents the allegedly great power of Jews who lived under Roman occupation in Jesus’ time as the emblem for the contemporary cabal of power wielded by contemporary Jewish and Israeli Zionists. In his teachings, the stench of Messiah-murder clings to every possible Jewish deed.
And this man was once the President of the United States?
Maybe the crime of the Jew is that of having been there first, of being both the Mother and Father of religious monotheism. Maybe our descendants, whether they are rebellious followers or detractors, need to get out from under our looming parental shadow. But a true Christian is not supposed to hate. In fact, he is supposed to forgive even those who torment him. To demonize and scapegoat an essentially innocent people is so un-Christian that we might not only ask whether Jimmy Carter is a Jew-hater but whether he is really a good Christian.
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1. BBloom:I first worked registering voters with my Temple youth group when I was sixteen in 1972. I have worked actively in elections for Democrats ever since then. To my everlasting regret and horror I supported Carter with my Jewish heart and Jewish funds.
Aug 20, 2008 - 4:12 pm 2. Hugh:Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice…NO WAY!!! This shows Obama’s true leanings. It pains me to know that McCain will in all likely hood stack the Supreme Court, but when our country is crawling with terrorists, abortion rights won’t matter. Carter disgusts me. I was in a bomb shelter in Karmiel, Israel during the last (or should I say ongoing) war with Herzbollah.Over 500 Katushas in one day. The force was not disproportionate.Israel is being defended by everyone’s children.If you could see the exhausted 18 year olds struggling to protect their homes and families. I was heartbroken, as well as proud because when will it ever end? It is hard to comprehend the abject Jew-hatred .
The one thing that Americans must adopt from Jews is the adage to be for themselves, and do it now! It is already very late in the game.
My dear Ms.Chesler:I think you and I are close in age&hence, “we can talk”( as I learned living in NYC first10 yrs. of life in the US-I’m from England).I left the “left” during Carter’s presidency, voted for Reaganx2 but, never left my leftist desires ( fairplay,decency,enviro concerns,etc.)-quite simply, there are millions of “me” out here.I urge you to keep writing with abandon.AS for the Jews- yes! I think you may be on to the truth when you cite “being there first”…BUT! if one calls oneself educated and “liberal” how is it that these groupthinkers ( the “new” fascists)eschew the reality of the ancient ethics of the Greeks and the MORAL gift of the ancient Hebrews…damn I am upset about this rubbish.
Aug 20, 2008 - 4:55 pm 3. srlucado:Just where is the Enlightenment that I hear boorishly tossed about by these emoting cubscouts of our grand democracy? These people don’t know bubkas as my old friends from NYC might say…please do not put down your pen, not now , not yet. Our generation ain’t done yet, got lots to do.With thanks, and may I say , affection.
Carter is just Plains nuts (pun intended).
And the Democratic Party is even nuttier for giving him any prominence at their convention. If this is their idea of statesmanship, it doesn’t look good for Obama in November.
Aug 20, 2008 - 7:01 pm 4. Bill Bradley:Wow.
President Jimmy Carter.
Really.
On the same day that Vice President Dick Cheney, who is about half as popular as Carter in real world America, appears at the Republican convention.
That’s almost a blog item, for a regular blogger …
Aug 20, 2008 - 7:23 pm 5. Pam:Is Jimmy Carter a good Christian? Well, let’s see Jesus was a Jew. So were all twelve of the Apostles. All of the writers of both the Old and New Testaments, with the possible exception of St. Luke, were Jews, too. Seems to me one would have a whale of a hard time classifying himself as a good Christian and yet hating Jews.
I am wondering if Jimmy has even bothered to read the Southern Baptist Convention’s resolution on anti-Semitism. It’s posted for all to see on their website. Shame on Jimmy. What a despicable human being he is.
Aug 20, 2008 - 10:59 pm 6. Michael:Perhaps, those who speak don’t know, and those who know don’t speak! Those who speak think they know, trying to talk the world, into adopting their every minor thought and viewpoint.
Aug 21, 2008 - 1:57 am 7. A. Nonmymous:Wonder if he realizes that Muslims are circumcised too?
Aug 21, 2008 - 3:45 am 8. Marilyn Fitterman:Phyllis, don’t ever stop writing. I only wish we could get you a bigger audience. All of us who read your truths have a responsibility to pass them on. Again, as I have said many times before, keep on doing what you do, the world needs more Chesler’s.
Aug 21, 2008 - 5:09 am 9. Louis Santacroce:When, as an optimistic 22 year-old, I voted for Jimmy Carter in the 1976 elections, I felt that, for the first time in my life, there was a man in the White House who shared my ideals and concerns. How heartbreaking, 30 years on, to see the mask drop and the REAL Jimmy Carter revealed (I should have suspected as much during the aftermath of the Camp David talks, with Moslems so ecstatic over the results that prayers were being offered in mosques, asking Allah to cure Carter’s hemmoroids!). Not to mention the fact that he is now one more person that I, as a Christian, have to distance myself from — along with Jimmy Swaggert, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and the guy who goes to funerals of gay people waving a sign that says “Fags Burn In Hell” — when those of other faiths ask “Does he represent the beliefs of the typical Christian?” (NO! in case you were wondering)
Aug 21, 2008 - 7:00 am 10. Pajamas Media » Guess Who’s Opening the DNC?:It’s a travesty that Obama would invite him to address the convention but, here’s news, McCain isn’t going to do Jews — or Christians — any better if he’s elected. I haven’t decided who I will vote for as yet, but I DO no that I will not have breakfast on November 4th, as my stomach will be upset no matter who I pull the lever for. Doesn’t it turn your stomach to know that, with the most important election day in most of our lives less than three months away, there’s no one worth voting for?
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Aug 21, 2008 - 11:14 am 11. Paul M Hupf:The two commandments, enunciated by Christ, which sum up the ten commandments, are: 1)You shall love the Lord, your God, with your whole heart and soul; and 2)You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no room for hatred of any person in the teaching of Christ. Carter was a disaster as President. Whatever he is, he is not a Christian. For him to position himself as a teacher of Christianity is hypocrisy at its worst.
Aug 21, 2008 - 11:36 am 12. jvon:I think it is wonderful Obama has invited Carter to speak. I hope there are many photographs of the two of them on stage together, shaking hands and embracing. I also hope Carter tells everyone why he thinks Obama will be a great President.
This will all make our job so much easier.
Aug 21, 2008 - 11:48 am 13. Douglas Bogle:Chavez loves Jimmy. Venezuela, w/o Carters endorsement of the legality of the elections,(tongue and cheek) Chavez would not be where he is today.
Any country that will pay the price $$$, will also get a glowing ata boy from the wolf.
And politicians want us to treat them with respect and honor.
let me hear you say: ROME
Aug 21, 2008 - 11:55 am 14. Kevin:As a proud American of Jewish heritage, I say to my fellow Jews- WAKE UP!!! The “left” is not your father’s left. Jimmy Carter is typical of the modern day neo-Marxist, anti-semitic, anti-freedom, politically correct leftie. Just as Republican’s freed the slaves; pushed for civil rights in the 1960’s; they are the closest to Jewish values and the sanctity of freedom under God. Fight your bias and pull the lever rightward. you will never regret it.
Aug 21, 2008 - 11:59 am 15. RJ:Carter, a former Naval Officer, plays his part well. As a Christian, he does this part well too. As a man, Carter does not measure up; his naval suits and christian shirts (of hair) don’t really wear that well if one thinks of them as hiding who is really inside, the corpus.
Let me put it this way: I would not want to be on a boat that left a sinking ship with Carter in it. Soon he would try to take command and as we drifted about, running out of provisions, realizing we needed to “lighten our load” the game would soon begin where others had to go overboard, into the cold dark blue sea.
Guess who would be the last sailor left? Damn, you’re good, it would be Carter! Standing tall, mouthing Christian lines, praising the Navy’s skill in building life saving boats, all the while mumbling how sad he felt for those who volunteered to go overboard and give up their lives!
He is a humble…and oh so truthful man! But not in my boat, never…ever!
Aug 21, 2008 - 12:02 pm 16. J.J. Sefton:Forget for a moment, Jimmy Carter, Barry O and the leftists. We know where they stand and what they are about. But why, why for the love of G-D do the vast majority of Jews in this country reflexively vote “D” down the line????? It’s the Noam Chomsky syndrome – Jews have to feel accepted as equals not on their own terms, but by becoming the worst anti-semites to gain their bona fides with whatever group they want to assimilate into.
It’s absolutely insane.
Aug 21, 2008 - 12:03 pm 17. Brad:“On the same day that Vice President Dick Cheney, who is about half as popular as Carter in real world America, appears at the Republican convention”
**Uh, I don’t think it’s the same day.
Aug 21, 2008 - 12:06 pm 18. mojo:Can we deck him out in chains and money-boxes and label him the “Ghost of Failures Past”?
Aug 21, 2008 - 12:26 pm 19. Lilith:Is it possible that by inviting the Jew-hater Jimmy Carter to speak on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention, Obama will finally succeed in offending at least the Jewish Obama-maniacs of the United States?
I was a 25 year old Jewish Canadian when Jimmy Carter was elected and it turns my stomach to remember how much I admired him.
Do Americans think they are voting for class president?
Obama’s a pretty boy and his speech writers have a way with words but he is NOT the man to be given the helm of the world’s most powerful western nation.
Aug 21, 2008 - 12:27 pm 20. Lorne:J,J. For the love of God I can not for the life of me understand it either. Why a well informed Jew would use his or her vote to help Jimmy and the like, is Insidious!
Aug 21, 2008 - 1:05 pm 21. frosty7530:It is reassuring to find that some Jews, in this time of “J Street” and self-prosecution & guilt over the Zionist Issues; that there are others who feel as I do about Jimmy Carter. He is the most dangerous person, in terms of anti-Semitism, to come along in my lifetime. He has made anti-Semitism very respectable. And now Obama embraces him and the DNC give him not only respect but laurels.
All I can say is how comforted I was to read BBloom’s comments here. I thank that person for reminding me of who I am, and that I must always respect myself and my most basic beliefs before I run off to endorse others, perhaps others who seek to harm me. It takes lots of courage to be Jewish right now. This is the first time a serious case of antisemitism has hit the media, controlled by an ex-President who was once voted out of office for good reason! Now, Mr. Carter is made to look like a hero, well he sure is not my hero! When people start carping about Israel, all I need do is compare their society, socialist in many ways and imperfect, to their neighbors. On all sides. I dare any good liberal to go live in sharia territory!
Thank you BBloom! May your words ring forth!
Aug 21, 2008 - 1:08 pm 22. Emile:Carter….what a disappointment.
Aug 21, 2008 - 1:14 pm 23. tanstaafl:Oh, where do I begin?
When it comes to Jimmah Cartah, one hardly knows where to begin.
His extreme anti-Israel bias makes one want to believe those rumors of extensive Arab funding for his Atlanta Carter center.
And you know what his mommy, Lillian, had to say…
Sometimes I look at my two boys (Jimmy and Billy) and think…”Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.”
Aug 21, 2008 - 1:14 pm 24. Katie:I was in the US Air Force and worked the White House when Carter was President. I saw first hand the anti-Semitism of the man. And the lack of leadership, compassion and understanding too.
Carter claims to have an advance degree in Nuclear Physics. His truth is that he took a couple of classes in nuclear physics to work on a nuclear submarine. He wasn’t that good at it either.
Carter claims that he made Israel sign the Egypt/Israel Peace Treaty by his sheer force of will. What he actually did was bribe Begin with $3 Billion a year to sign it.
Carter dislikes the Israelis because they are not religious enough for him (I actually heard him say this on the way back from Israel). He praises PalArabs because they are very religious.
Carter was a bad president and Obama is just like him.
Aug 21, 2008 - 1:52 pm 25. Jay:I remember Carter there was so many jobs, I had two of them and I remember all the rest I got in those gas lines. Yea, that Carter was a pip.
Aug 21, 2008 - 2:09 pm 26. Kelly:Jimmy Carter gives me the creeps. There is no way a person can call themselves a Christian and hate Jewish people so much. He makes my skin crawl. One day he will have to give an account of himself to the Almighty God (who is Jewish) and I hope he realizes it won’t be a good outcome.
Aug 21, 2008 - 2:23 pm 27. spindok:Carter represents the exact split in post-modern christian thinking about the Jews. The pro vs anti semitic camps.
This is a conflict which has never been resolved and there is little neutral ground.
Christianity is born of a Jewish heritage as has been well pointed out by posts preceding. Yet it owes nothing to Judaisim and vice-versa. To do so, and try to bridge the divide is like casting for fish on a choppy sea in a small boat .
The divide is not as hard for Jews as it is for Christians. Jews do not require membership as a ticket to divine approval and forgiveness. Christians do, and that is a key difference.
In the USA such differences have played out very well in real life but the Dems have played it badly. Carter is the Buchanon of the left. He wants to split where the rest of us have already decided that we just dont care about that too much anymore. We live, work and eat without much concern about such matters.
We all know where Carter stands. To pin that totally against his religious beliefs is probably untrue. His interactions with the Israeli government were met with the same frustrations he encountered elsewhere.
He just didnt have the cahunas to play the game and failed on all fronts. He now has an “aggressor” to pin his failure on, a historic role for Jews (I am one).
This is a bad play by the Democrats. Carter plays like a terrible recording to most Americans. Most of us would like to forget that painful chapter in our history.
Spindok
Aug 21, 2008 - 2:34 pm 28. Believer:From what I know of the man, Obama will be no friend to Israel either. This has been one of my greatest concerns.
I only hope and pray this serves to edify – and alert – all who love Israel that Obama must be defeated.
Aug 21, 2008 - 2:57 pm 29. cedarford:It is very hard to see how any Party can block an embarassing, but living ex-President from having his moment at a Convention.
Failed Presidents like Carter, Bush II, Truman back in the days when he was still thought of as a skeleton in the closet? You have to extend them the courtesy. Then quietly hope that Dubya or Jimmah gets food poisoning the day of their invite and are “no-shows”.
Similar dilemmas affix to extremists that are seen as losing general election voters, but unbannable at Conventions because they control the votes of ideologues that always donote to or otherwise energize and get Base out and working. Folks like Jesse Jackson, James Dobson, the awful Grover Norquist of the cancerous “Club For Growth of Rich People’s Wallets Only”.
Only Nixon of ex-Presidents was outcast…And, in hindsight, it might have been wise to have that cathartic moment that Nixon delivered at his Oxford Union Speech at a Convention. Nixon was stunning in that 1978 speech in apologizing and detailing his flaws and mistakes, as well as what he (correctly) saw as the great accomplishments of his Administration done. He won an ovation from an audience of initially hostile Dons and students.
It should have been given to Republicans instead of British elite students.
I disagree with people that say that any President that criticizes another nation’s policies deserves banning. Even their “Special Friend”, Israel. If that living or former President is convinced it is in the best interests America – be that President right or wrong – seeks to criticize that foreign nations policies and seek changes to what they perceive as America’s or International benefit, that is just what the 1st Amendment intends to encourage. Then debate on if that leader is on mark or wrong.
To seek to suppress it as Americans, because you love that foreign nation so much – be it Israel, China, Mexico – that you find criticizing it “bigoted/racist/just unacceptable”, opens up questions of dual loyalty.
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Aug 21, 2008 - 4:17 pm 31. John Peter Maher:It was on Jimmy Carter’s watch that a nest of snakes hatched and grew:
Aug 21, 2008 - 5:45 pm 32. Arundel:Zbigniew Brzeinski: “Wage jihad!”, he cheered the mujahedin on in Afghanistan.
Richard Holbrooke: half a million Chinese Indonesians “communists” murdered, with weapons he arranged for Suharto; sat shoe-less with “the snake” Hasim Thaqi [who didn't remove HIS boots]; Thaqi is the liquidator of Serbs in Kosovo: over a thousand mosques built, 150 Orthodox churches burnt, kerosene supplied by German KFOR troops, who also have painted yellow crosses on Christian houses in Kosovo, marking the for endless Kristallnaechte…}
Jimmy Carter?
I want to go home, Get a sweater, And see how much misery I am feeling.
Jeez……….
Aug 21, 2008 - 5:51 pm 33. spindok:Aye Cedar but just another strawman.
“Banning” is not at issue.
Just another collective groan at having to listen to one more tiresome rendition of “Tie A Yellow Ribbon”.
Spindok
Aug 21, 2008 - 5:58 pm 34. Bob:I remember P.J. O’Rourke’s 100 Reasons Why Carter was a Better President than Clinton, including: • He only lusted in his heart, and • He prepared the country for 8 years of Ronald Reagan. The problem is, whatever one might say about his presidency, Carter has become the worst, anti-American, anti-Semitic former President anyone could even imagine. Inviting him to open their convention ought to give every American second thoughts about the wisdom of the Democrats or their nominee.
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Aug 21, 2008 - 7:52 pm 36. Saltherring:JJ Sefton:
Many Jewish Americans are “old money” and old money traditionally votes Democrat. Check some Long Island or Florida zip codes on opensecrets.org and see who the fat cats send their campaign dollars to. Old money is not subject to income or Social Security taxation, so limousine liberals are taxed little or nothing compared to hard-working, mid/high income, entrepreneurial (Republican) folks. Yet old money still wants its Social Security and Medicare benefits and all the other good stuff taxpayers. And Democrat politicians are more than happy deliver the bacon to their old money financiers.
Aug 21, 2008 - 8:30 pm 37. Michael T:One must remeber that Carter is in the pay of the Saudis, and in the past his personal business facing bankruptcy was rescused by the Arabic banking system. So, of course he is going to be sympathetic to the arab side.
Aug 21, 2008 - 8:50 pm 38. fred:The more I ponder the phenomenon of Jew hatred, which is very, very old and goes back centuries before there was a Christianity, the more I am convinced that the root of this hatred of God’s Chosen People is supernatural in nature. Islam is the most vehement hater of the Jews, but all the Leftist groups which derive from Marxism also wallow in this cesspool of evil hatred.
I am a former Leftist, but thirty years ago when I was first diving into Marxism I was a defender of Jews and never wavered from it. Let me tell you, I was really set upon by socialists, Communists, and Trotskyists of every sort because I defended Jews and Israel. My room mate during my last two years in college was a devout Iranian Shia and he was a Jew hater also. The only Iranians I knew who did not hate Jews were converts to Christianity.
Let me clear the deck on this before I launch further into the point I am trying to make: I am not a Biblical literalist. I am an educated Roman Catholic, former Jesuit seminarian, who does not shrink from modern science. And yet, the older I get the more I have come to realize that there is in the universe an Evil Agency. It definitely exists, along with the Creator it seeks to discredit. And I think Jew hatred and hatred of the Jews being in their land is something of Satan. The Evil One casts about for ways to enlist people into the project of killing the Jews and dispiriting them. Why? To prove to the rest of us that God cannot keep His Word with respect to the Jews. That God cannot protect them. And if God cannot protect them, then God is not Lord and Master of the universe.
So, this should be a warning to all Jews in the United States who are tempted to vote for that long-legged mack daddy named Obama. He is a liar and no friend of Jews and Israel. And who better to make a statement about who one will be in continuity with than to have former President Jimmy Carter (a man I, regretfully, voted for twice)open the DNC? And even though Obama has had her resign from his campaign committee, that Jew hater Stephanie Power is in daily communication with Obama. And he has other Jew haters in his stable of advisers – many chosen for him by the puppet master, George Soros – a man who enthusiastically sold out his own people in Budapest then he was fourteen years old (and that is old enough to know right from wrong, in my tradition anyway) and publicly scoffed at the idea that he should feel guilt for it.
And Jimmy Carter gets his thirty pieces of silver from the House of Saud. In fact, a lot of silver.
Aug 21, 2008 - 9:05 pm 39. poul:worst. president. ever.
Aug 21, 2008 - 9:18 pm 40. heather:where oh where would one find a list of the donors to Jimmy Carter’s “Library”? Where does he get his money? That ol’ peanut farm can’t be rich enough to fund all of his travel.
And. Anyone remember his close association with the crooks running that 3rd world bank, the BCCI? I remember that he flew around in the BCCI’s private jet.
And. I have always wondered about that election that Chavez “won” in Venezuela… remember that it was Carter’s organization oversaw the voting and then claimed the election was fair and above board and final???
I really believe that Jimmah is not only anti-semitic, but he really hates the USA for voting him out of power. He is so consistently on the side of America’s enemies.
Aug 21, 2008 - 10:47 pm 41. Jane:Jimmy Carter does not hate Jews. It is our actions towards the Arab countries that has us in this mess. Does George Bush hate Jews because he is such great friends with Saudi Arabia? I don’t think so, he just likes to play both ends. Why does the Carlyle Group not allow any trading the Jewish companies, because that would make one of their prime benefactors upset, UAE–Dubai.
Aug 22, 2008 - 12:07 am 42. Ted Lawrence:All of this thinking is messed up
Carter’s a bozo, but he has to speak because he is a former President of the United States, just as “W” has to speak at the Republican convention (I hope everyone saw that Bush is refusing to deliver jets that Israel has paid for because he is worried they might be used to attack Iran). In the end though, Obama is the most Pro-Israel Presidential candidate since Scoop Jackson and his top foreign policy advisor Dennis Ross is a longtime friend of Israel. Quit seeing boogeymen in the dark.
Aug 22, 2008 - 12:21 am 43. Dr S McCosker:I agree with Fred.
Despite the terrible history unflinchingly recorded by James Parkes in ‘The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue’, and by Malcolm Hay in ‘The Foot of Pride’ (also known as ‘Europe and the Jews’), it is possible for people to be convinced Christians – as, indeed, James Parkes was – and to genuinely love and like and respect Jewish people, the House of Israel. Parkes, indeed, had deliberately enrolled in a yeshiva and steeped himself in Jewish learning. If more aspiring Christian ordinands and theologians did *that*, many misreadings of the TaNaKh would be prevented!
Jacques Ellul, Righteous Gentile, friend and mentor of Bat Yeor the historian of dhimmitude (he wrote the forewords for two of her books), was another good example of a philojudaic Christian; unfortunately his magnificent defence of Israel, ‘Un Chretien Pour Israel’, has not been translated into English, nor has his masterly exposition of a locus classicus of the Christian Scriptures, Romans 9-11, in a book called ‘Ce Dieu Injuste? – Theologie Chretienne pour le Peuple d’Israel.”
I believe that hatred of Jews, whenever it enters into a Christian community, spiritually poisons and cripples that community: for, like Fred, I see such hatred as alien to the faith, a deception coming straight from the Evil One. Correctly interpreted, the Christian scriptures do NOT teach ‘Replacement Theology’ nor do they enjoin hatred and persecution of Jews! Indeed, such hatred – where it manifests itself – is something that has to be formally named, challenged, renounced, repented of, and cast out.
I commend to any Christian or secular person reading this, Tom Cahill’s little paperback “The Gifts of the Jews”. Abraham Heschel’s “God in Search of Man” and Franz Rosenzweig’s “The Star of Redemption” are also very illuminating. And an article by Joshua Berman, “God’s Alliance With Man” – google it.
Fred – I think Psalm 82 explains Psalm 83; and Revelations 12 dramatises the same violent hostility of the Powers of this World, toward the House of Israel, the Bride of YHWH, as one sees described in Psalm 83.
It should be noted that in the stories of a number of apostates from Islam that I know of, who have converted to Christianity – Magdi Cristiano Allam, Walid Shoebat, Nonie Darwish come to mind – their conversion went hand in hand with a deliberate renunciation of the antisemitism inculcated in them by Islam. Somehow, for these people, embracing Jesus went together with a dawning of love for the people of Israel, the Jews. It’s like G-d says to them: Love Me, love my people.
Aug 22, 2008 - 1:23 am 44. Bloodthirsty Liberal » The Anti-Mensch [UPDATED]:[...] Phyllis Chesler provides indispensable background: Carter is not merely an anti-Zionist kind of anti-Semite. His is [...]
Aug 22, 2008 - 4:26 am 45. TomJW:Louis Santacroce:
Aug 21, 2008 – 7:00 am
I share your pain, but from the other side of the aisle.
How can someone see the horror of baby killing terrorists and side with them against a humane democratic people. Carter is a degenerate.
Aug 22, 2008 - 4:30 am 46. Sara:The UN has been manuvered by Arabs and Leftists to hate Israel and the US. Folks who refer themselves as “citizens of the world” rather than US citizens are cluing us into where they stand in respect to Israel and the US.
I don’t want Obama’s ideology and people in power in the US. It was bad when we had Carter; it is ten times more dangerous now.
Aug 22, 2008 - 5:15 am 47. TomP:Carter will do all he can for an Obama win. Old Jimma knows he’ll move up to second worst president ever with an Obama victory.
Aug 22, 2008 - 5:36 am 48. Canadian Neighbour:Jimmy Carter, the Palestinian from Plains, is an ego-maniac who believes that he is not only a born again Christian, he believes he is the second coming of Christ. He personifies the very worst anti-semitic aspects of Christianity with great enthusiasm and satisfaction. All this in spite of hisw miserable record as president. He speech at the Democratic Party convention will be a sickening example of liberation theology in which hewill blame Bush and Cheney for all the evil and problems in the world. And the delegates will give him a standing ovation.
Aug 22, 2008 - 5:49 am 49. Joe Buzz:Heck lets all chip in and buy some tickets for Chavez and Morales. We can send them a couple of those upside down flag demodistress tickets and write on “Honorary Guest Speaker” in sharpie. Why should they be left out of the party?
Aug 22, 2008 - 6:05 am 50. SAF:Jimmy Carter is the smartest man on the planet. He was the only one able to convince my long time democratic parents to vote for Ronald Reagan.
Aug 22, 2008 - 6:38 am 51. Dark Helmet:jimmy carter is without a doubt someone who needed to go into hiding after his failed term and never open his mouth again.
If you agree with this, read Zel Miller’s ” A Deficit In Decency “.
It is sad when an old fool will never understand what a complete failure his life has been.
Aug 22, 2008 - 6:42 am 52. Edmund Jenks (MAXINE):All Jimmy Carter was as a politician … was Barack Obama – without the backing of George Soros and the radical left, without the lack of a resume, without a lopsided “in the tank” fourth estate, without “netroots” internet operatives, without the admiration of China’s investment of infrastructure (and political system), without the uniqueness of skin color, without the backing and education of the Southside of Chicago political machine and Illinois state politics, without the termination of all life even if it manages to survive first attempts, and etc., etc., etc.
What we are all looking at here if Barack Obama gets elected and assumes office of the President of the United States is (as you have clearly laid out in your post) … Carter’s Second Term on steroids!
More insights on what we can expect in Carter’s Second Term found here:
Aug 22, 2008 - 8:02 am 53. david levavi:http://carters2ndterm.blogspot.com/
More clarity here in both post and comments on a very touchy subject (religion and politics combined) than I’ve seen anywhere. Hats off to Dr. Chesler and PJM.
As a Conservadox American Jew who scratches his head at the notion that Jews reflexively or ordinarily hate Christians, I’d like to believe that former President Carter’s religious views are not widely held. Reading some of the comments here after following the link to President Carter’s sermon with commentary by Miller, I’m reassured.
But I believe in the power of myth and its plasticity. Jimmy Carter lives in a purpose driven world with himself the Lord’s holy instrument who’s purpose is to bring the Jews, broken, to Christ. President Carter was born of a family of divines.
It is Walter Cronkite’s entirely secular lament that poor JC is misunderstood and will eventually be recognized for the great president he really was that chills me. Cronkite, a gravelly, sonorous MSM Prophet in his day, understood the inevitable.
JC will be redeemed and resurrected. A humble peanut farmer. Man of the people. Come up to Washington to cleanse the Temple of American Government. A Christian Evangelist who brought peace between Muslims and Jews. Brutally sacrificed. Slandered and hounded from office by you-know-who.
Then will the evil Pharisees and their dark brood pay for their sins.
Aug 22, 2008 - 8:40 am 54. rj:As many have pointed out the Carter years would best be forgotten. But, by forgotten I mean repeating the same mistake. Carter was never a leader but was always anti-semitic and proved it by supporting the holy man???Khomeni in taking power. I was 16 when Carter was elected and he is the reason that I keep up with politics and make sure I vote in every election. I remember the gas lines and the inflationary prices my parents talked about every time they went to the grocery store. I believe if Obama is elected president, it will be another Carter administration remembered for the lack of decisivness, lack of support for Israel and the decline in America’s strength. Hopefully this will ring in another 8 years of Reagan conservative thought and disgust over big government and taxes. Now we just need someone like him to come to the forefront of the political scene. Really it would be nice to have someone to lead the nation who really did understand the working class. But I’m just dreaming here. Lets hope Barack Hussein Obama (sorry I know we are not supposed to mention that middle name) isn’t elected but if he is hope that he can’t destroy the country in 4 years.
Aug 22, 2008 - 9:03 am 55. Anne-Marie:Jimmy Carter’s book about the Middle East is accurate.
Aug 22, 2008 - 9:10 am 56. 4infidels:Just because the UN decided that a bunch of oddly dressed nomads lived in Palestine, that did not give them (the UN) the right to give away Palestinian land.
If Germany felt so bad about what happened to the Jewish people there, and throughout Europe, they should have made their land available for those that were displaced.
Forty years after the UN committed their atrocity, the Middle East is still paying for it.
If the UN can giveth, then the UN can taketh away. Give the Palestinians back their land and give the people that consider themselves to be Israeli’s a large piece of neutral land.
Peace will require nothing less. Good day.
All you need to know about Carter is when asked in a New York Magazine interview what he thought of various Hamas leaders he met with, Carter’s responses were, “Very nice, he’s a physician.” “Nice, he’s an engineer.” Etc.
Aug 22, 2008 - 9:18 am 57. Roy:I sincerely believe that if President Carter had done his job, we wouldn’t have to be in the middle East now. If he had acted forcefully when the hostages were taken, the Ayotollah Khomeini would have stayed in exile. Instead, he failed to act, the Ayotallah returned to Iran — took control of the hostages — and the rest is history.
Aug 22, 2008 - 9:34 am 58. Dodgeblogium » Guess Who’s Opening The DNC? The Man From Plains, Georgia:[...] Jimmy Carter, is of course, their senior statesmen. Chesler makes an ample case against him. read more | digg [...]
Aug 22, 2008 - 9:59 am 59. Believer:The Christian should be as bound to the Jew as America should be bound to Israel.
If, as David Levavi suggests, Jimmy Carter thinks it is he who must bring Jews to Christ, he has a lot to learn. I hope one day Jimmy awakens to find it is Christ who will make Jimmy a Jew.
It is then that his heart will be overflowing with love for Israel.
Aug 22, 2008 - 11:29 am 60. Believer:Anne-Marie, I hope your “Good day” doesn’t mean you won’t return to the comments section again.
Not long ago, I began thinking about Jerusalem. And to whom it truly belongs. I thought about how one party prefers the city divided. The other party would keep Jerusalem whole.
And then I thought of another man I’d read about who encountered a similar situation. He was tasked with deciding true ownership. His name was Solomon. A king known for his wisdom.
If we take the time, and look deeply enough, the intent of the heart usually leads us to truth. This has led to confirm for me to whom Jerusalem belongs.
Aug 22, 2008 - 12:18 pm 61. cedarford:Believer:
The Christian should be as bound to the Jew as America should be bound to Israel.
Which makes as much sense as the Christian should be bound to the Hindi as America should be bound to India. As all are the subjects of Sweet Jesus…
In the secular world, however, such sentiments foster dual loyalties.
Aug 22, 2008 - 1:05 pm 62. Rubicon:I remember the “misery index.” Carter caused this nation to enter into a malaise that today gives many who remember, serious shivers. Obama may have to give Carter a speaking spot due to tradition, but, if Obama had any sense at all and based on the hateful words of Carter toward his own country, Obama would enact an immediate
Aug 22, 2008 - 1:38 pm 63. spindok:“change” & end that tradition.
While Carter may have authenticated the Venezuelan election, I think there is at least one group who has totally refuted the idea it was anything close to fair. I’ll Google that & hopefully get back here.
Carter’s speech had better be totally vetted “before” he stands at that podium.
If Carter is allowed to babble on, he could singularly cost the Democrats the election.
Oh wait, I would cheer that result.
Hopefully, many Americans will listen to the speakers at this convention & compare what Democrats really plan for America, versus what Republicans plan. If we can get “real” Republicans elected & not the Rino types that screwed up after the 2000, 2002, 2004 elections, the people will embrace them once again.
Under no circumstances do we need socialism in America & the huge bureaucracies Democrats have planned, plus the additional taxes & costs they plan to obligate us too world wide, by committing us to UN goals and/or the great global warming swindle Gore is preaching to us to buy into.
Carter will hurt the Democrats as many remember his presidency, and that is the populace who will cast the bulk of the deciding votes for this election. It may be the last time since the kids are coming, but, it will be the largest contingent & Democrats cannot afford to alienate them.
Oldie but a good one:
http://www.satirewire.com/news/march02/chosen.shtml
Anywhoo. Fishing sucks here in Ohio IMO. Oh they are there, but so well fed they won’t take easy bait.
Maybe the Dems are not so dumb after all.
How about by you’se guys?
Spin
Aug 22, 2008 - 2:24 pm 64. AdrianS:Philip J. Berg, Esq. Files Federal Lawsuit Requesting Obama Be Removed as a Candidate as he does not meet the Qualifications for President.
http://www.nextgenerationcorp.com/NextGenBlog/?p=43
Aug 22, 2008 - 3:52 pm 65. Chris:President Carter’s recent works relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have proven to be quite informative. It’s shameful the “Israel-first” crowd has attempted to tarnish his career, especially when he is responsible for so much American taxpayer dollars ending up in Israel. I was a Republican and will remain so until AIPAC and the neo-cons are gone. If Americans took the time to understand what is going on here, significant foreign policy changes would occur. And this is why we have these attacks against a former President of the United States of America.
Aug 22, 2008 - 6:35 pm 66. BL:Jeez, I thought Grandpa Jimmy and Rosalyn were just shucking peanuts and building houses for poor people. “Eyes Wide Shut” on my part. If even a quarter of Mr. Miller’s commentary are right, it’s clear to me that Carter has lost his marbles, I mean nuts! I have never been treated as unclean or considered a “dog” by the the many Jewish people I have met in my life! They have never run off to be cleansed at the Temple. Instead, they have engaged me in highly intellectual and lively debates and conversations. They have welcomed me into their homes, fed me, and treated me with humility and the respect that I and they think are deserving of all members of the human race.
I particularly agree with your excellent point about where is the change? It appears that hookwinking the masses is “business as usual” for the DNC and the annoited one, Obama. Will Grandpa Jimmy snooze us into a “deep” sleep, droning on about CHANGE! Or will we read between the lines and realize that Jimmy the “Elder” is setting us up for appeasement with Islamic terrorists, dialogging with killers who will strike, destroying the Democratic party once and for all, so that Obama will indeed be the Neville Chamberlain of our times?
Hillary Clinton should, at least, be second in command: she has economic plans, is a woman who knows the insidious nature of the Islamo-facists that will never bring us “peace in our time.”
McCain, the Vietnam vet, with his trophy wife, doesn’t understand the plight of women, nor the economic situation we are in.
Fall asleep at the wheel, and flip a coin, those are our choices. We are at the precipice of disaster and neither candidate understands!
Aug 22, 2008 - 7:40 pm 67. Elena:Jimmy??what about Obama inviting his half brother who lives in a shack to introduce him at the convention!
Aug 22, 2008 - 8:00 pm 68. fmfnavydoc:Obama = Carter, version 2.0
Aug 22, 2008 - 10:52 pm 69. Noga:Dear Phyllis:
I completely agree with your opinion about Jimmy Carter. But I do not see his addition to the speakers on the opening night in the same harsh way you describe.
As his party nominee Obama has to respect Carter. By placing him in the opening night roster of speakers, he is giving Carter his due while obscuring whatever damage he may do to his image in he following way:
First, the evening will be dominated by much more interesting and attention-grabbing individuals, like Michelle Obama or Obama’s sister. People are much more interested in learning about Obama’s childhood and family, than they are in what Carter may predictably and tediously have to say about him. He will be easily overshaddowed by the other speakers.
Secondly, by the time Obama speaks, at the end of the convention, a full three days of speeches will have passed. Seems to me that Obama’s choice is the only one he could make in good faith, while putting as much of the proverbial water between himself and Carter without actually cold shouldering him, which is not Obama’s style at all.
Note also that Jesse Jackson is also slotted to speak on Monday. Another embarrassing figure being given its due respect and sidestepped, in full sight of the public.
Aug 23, 2008 - 9:15 am 70. Eleanor:Carter reminds one of what JFK said about Stevenson: “A bitter old man with a little thing.”
Aug 23, 2008 - 10:12 am 71. Bill Bradley:This will teach me to give a fast off-the-cuff reaction to a blog item.
Aside from Dick Cheney, who really is opening the first night of the Republican convention, being much more unpopular than Carter …
I knew Jimmy Carter wasn’t a major speaker at the Democratic convention, but thought it possible that he was appearing in Denver.
As I mentioned to Phyllis the other day, had I checked the schedule I would have noticed that Carter was not scheduled to appear in Denver.
He was scheduled to introduce some video via satellite.
Which is not exactly placing him in a high profile position.
Aug 23, 2008 - 1:49 pm 72. Believer:We obviously see things differently, Cedarford.
My prayer is that every man and every nation will one day love Israel and her people.
Salvation led me to a better knowledge of God’s Chosen. They are of the root – holy and set apart – and I’ve only been grafted into the tree of life.
When loyalty is first to God, we needn’t be concerned about the secular.
Aug 23, 2008 - 2:58 pm 73. Judy, NYC:voting the democratic ticket was possibly the one thing in my adult life about which i was not ambivalent. now, just as the germans saw the dissolution of one of the world’s greatest nation states and the rise of hitler and his party, i see there is no stopping barry and his america hate mongers party. to make sure we get it, they will open with jimmy carter, an innocuous but once-respected figure, now an ardent islamofascist apologist, turned treacherous, if not demented. ingrid mattson, who calls for murdering jews on her website, president of the insa with ties to the muslim brotherhood, will speak. and, more to come.
suffice it to say, i am outta there. i will vote mccain.
Aug 24, 2008 - 3:24 pm 74. Bill Bradley:Er, actually, see above, the Democrats are not opening with Carter.
But have a ball.
Aug 24, 2008 - 4:36 pm 75. Bill Bradley:Gee, I don’t see it.
Well, off to work.
Aug 24, 2008 - 4:37 pm 76. anthony:why is the former worst president carter speaking at dem convention,i have heard that obama wants new people and not same old crap we get every time he speaks.i hope all democrats do what bob shrum says because he has never won anything.
Aug 24, 2008 - 5:48 pm 77. Marion L.:Dear Dr. Chesler and others:
Jimmy Carter was not asked to speak becuase of his views on Israel. Moreover, at the recent AIPAC oonvention, Barack Obama clearly demostrated that his is pro-Israel and committed to ensuring the safety and security of Israel.
Jimmy Carter was asked to speak because it is a form of traditional protocol to ask former Democratic presidents to speak at Democratic convesntions.
In any case, it is unjustified and unethical to attempt to discredit Barack Obama through the tactic of guilt by association.
Finally, a strong argument can be made that John McCain’s bellicosity and extreme militarism would pose a far greater threat to the security of Israel than Barack Obama’s more thoughtful and moderate approach to foreign policy.
Aug 24, 2008 - 6:20 pm 78. Believer:Thanks to Judy, NYC — I tried to find out more about Ingrid Mattson on my own, searching the internet. But didn’t find much. Her “website” offers little.
Finally, I went to a site I don’t visit often enough:
atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com —- Geller stays on top of this stuff.
Today’s post has a link in its first line to her earlier report (8/23) on Mattson and ISNA at the Dem Convention. That this group was helped in its founding by Sami Al-Arian tells me alot.
She’s a Canadian and former Catholic. Disconcerting, to say the least, how radical she might now be.
Aug 24, 2008 - 6:24 pm 79. Marion L.:Dear Dr. Chesler and others:
Below is a brief excerpt from Barack Obama’s speech at the AIPAC Convention that demonstrates his support for a strong and secure Israel:
“I will ensure that Israel can defend itself from any threat – from Gaza to Tehran. Defense cooperation between the United States and Israel is a model of success, and must be deepened. As President, I will implement a Memorandum of Understanding that provides $30 billion in assistance to Israel over the next decade – investments to Israel’s security that will not be tied to any other nation.”
This is in stark contrast to Jimmy Carter’s views on Israel.
Aug 24, 2008 - 6:31 pm 80. Believer:Was this the same speech at AIPAC where he firmly stated he preferred an “undivided” Jerusalem?
But then, less than 24 hrs. later, after feeling the heat from those he’s pandered to most of his political life — he amended his words to say that it would have to be “worked out” is how I think he put it.
Sorry, Marion L.
Barry’s word is worth nothing. Zip. Nada. I could paper my entire house with his lies. Only a fool would believe anything this charlatan has to say.
Aug 24, 2008 - 8:14 pm 81. mb:Jimmy Carter? Yes, the President who took away the ability of the CIA to have effective human resources- spies- on the ground in Iraq.
Causing us to have to rely on foreign intelligence services for all our information about WMD programs.
Causing us to invade Iraq, because we could not take the unthinkable risk of doing otherwise.
Causing the Iraq war.
Aug 25, 2008 - 7:55 am 82. Believer:Is anyone foolish enough to believe Obama has the ability to bring people together?
Look at what he’s done with his own political party.
Look at what he’s done in his own neighborhood — Chicago.
Look at what he’s done with race relations in America.
His Alinsky tactics taught him just the opposite of bringing peace between men. He studied, practiced and taught the methods of a man who dedicated his work to Lucifer.
And that “church” he went to for the past 20 years taught him the opposite of peace-making as well.
Where is any record of success? It’s all failure. He’s a man who’s been shaped by evil influences most of his life. He turned his back on Truth a long time ago.
A man who cannot recognize evil is unfit to lead. And certainly unfit to lead a nation as great as ours.
Aug 25, 2008 - 10:31 am 83. Dark Helmet:marion l,
Israel already ‘gets’ $3 Billion a year,no questions asked, so over the next decade is same old same old.
Aug 25, 2008 - 10:36 am 84. Dark Helmet:Ya know, censoring full my point is not going to give the real flavor of the disdain intended for such stupidity.
Be more tolerant of the intolerant.
Aug 25, 2008 - 7:40 pm 85. sixties child:Perhaps it is you who is ignorant. You clearly do not know anything about the person and politician that former President Jimmy Carter is and was. He is a brilliant man and has dedicated his life to this country and others.
Aug 27, 2008 - 5:45 pm 86. Pajamas Media » It’s All Coming Down to a Few Key States…:God gave you a brain, use it!
[...] Bush won North Dakota and Montana by nearly 30 points, so exactly how would the most liberal senator in America win over a man and his running mate respected by both sides for his “originality”? The aggregate total of Democrats in places like Utah, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Idaho, Nebraska, Montana, non-Vegas Nevada, and Kansas is as stunningly low as their ethnic diversity. North Dakota has roughly 6,000 African-Americans. So, though “minorities” may help decide the election, they won’t influence these red states very much. Certainly Michelle Obama’s rhetoric won’t help here either, nor will embracing Jimmy Carter’s bilious views. [...]
Oct 3, 2008 - 1:44 am 87. It’s All Coming Down to a Few Key States … | USA TERM LIMITS:[...] Bush won North Dakota and Montana by nearly 30 points, so exactly how would the most liberal senator in America win over a man and his running mate respected by both sides for his “originality”? The aggregate total of Democrats in places like Utah, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Idaho, Nebraska, Montana, non-Vegas Nevada, and Kansas is as stunningly low as their ethnic diversity. North Dakota has roughly 6,000 African-Americans. So, though “minorities” may help decide the election, they won’t influence these red states very much. Certainly Michelle Obama’s rhetoric won’t help here either, nor will embracing Jimmy Carter’s bilious views. [...]
Oct 4, 2008 - 8:59 am 88. John Becker:Bradley posted here? After leaving PJM? Not enough to do at his own blog, HuffPo, writing CalBuzz?
Sep 15, 2009 - 8:32 pm