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-Cp
05-20-2007, 12:37 AM
WHAT A FRIGGIN TOOL this guy is....

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Former President Carter says President Bush's administration is "the worst in history" in international relations, taking aim at the White House's policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.

The criticism from Carter, which a biographer says is unprecedented for the 39th president, also took aim at Bush's environmental policies and the administration's "quite disturbing" faith-based initiative funding.

"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history," Carter told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a story that appeared in the newspaper's Saturday editions. "The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me."

Carter spokeswoman Deanna Congileo confirmed his comments to The Associated Press on Saturday and declined to elaborate. He spoke while promoting his new audiobook series, "Sunday Mornings in Plains," a collection of weekly Bible lessons from his hometown of Plains, Ga.

"Apparently, Sunday mornings in Plains for former President Carter includes hurling reckless accusations at your fellow man," said Amber Wilkerson, Republican National Committee spokeswoman. She said it was hard to take Carter seriously because he also "challenged Ronald Reagan's strategy for the Cold War."

Carter came down hard on the Iraq war.

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

Carter, who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, criticized Bush for having "zero peace talks" in Israel. Carter also said the administration "abandoned or directly refuted" every negotiated nuclear arms agreement, as well as environmental efforts by other presidents.

Carter also offered a harsh assessment for the White House's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, which helped religious charities receive $2.15 billion in federal grants in fiscal year 2005 alone.

"The policy from the White House has been to allocate funds to religious institutions, even those that channel those funds exclusively to their own particular group of believers in a particular religion," Carter said. "As a traditional Baptist, I've always believed in separation of church and state and honored that premise when I was president, and so have all other presidents, I might say, except this one."

Douglas Brinkley, a Tulane University presidential historian and Carter biographer, described Carter's comments as unprecedented.

"This is the most forceful denunciation President Carter has ever made about an American president," Brinkley said. "When you call somebody the worst president, that's volatile. Those are fighting words."

Carter also lashed out Saturday at British prime minister Tony Blair. Asked how he would judge Blair's support of Bush, the former president said: "Abominable. Loyal. Blind. Apparently subservient."

"And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world," Carter told British Broadcasting Corp. radio.


http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070519/D8P7O79O0.html

nevadamedic
05-20-2007, 12:53 AM
WHAT A FRIGGIN TOOL this guy is....

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Former President Carter says President Bush's administration is "the worst in history" in international relations, taking aim at the White House's policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.

The criticism from Carter, which a biographer says is unprecedented for the 39th president, also took aim at Bush's environmental policies and the administration's "quite disturbing" faith-based initiative funding.

"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history," Carter told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a story that appeared in the newspaper's Saturday editions. "The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me."

Carter spokeswoman Deanna Congileo confirmed his comments to The Associated Press on Saturday and declined to elaborate. He spoke while promoting his new audiobook series, "Sunday Mornings in Plains," a collection of weekly Bible lessons from his hometown of Plains, Ga.

"Apparently, Sunday mornings in Plains for former President Carter includes hurling reckless accusations at your fellow man," said Amber Wilkerson, Republican National Committee spokeswoman. She said it was hard to take Carter seriously because he also "challenged Ronald Reagan's strategy for the Cold War."

Carter came down hard on the Iraq war.

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

Carter, who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, criticized Bush for having "zero peace talks" in Israel. Carter also said the administration "abandoned or directly refuted" every negotiated nuclear arms agreement, as well as environmental efforts by other presidents.

Carter also offered a harsh assessment for the White House's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, which helped religious charities receive $2.15 billion in federal grants in fiscal year 2005 alone.

"The policy from the White House has been to allocate funds to religious institutions, even those that channel those funds exclusively to their own particular group of believers in a particular religion," Carter said. "As a traditional Baptist, I've always believed in separation of church and state and honored that premise when I was president, and so have all other presidents, I might say, except this one."

Douglas Brinkley, a Tulane University presidential historian and Carter biographer, described Carter's comments as unprecedented.

"This is the most forceful denunciation President Carter has ever made about an American president," Brinkley said. "When you call somebody the worst president, that's volatile. Those are fighting words."

Carter also lashed out Saturday at British prime minister Tony Blair. Asked how he would judge Blair's support of Bush, the former president said: "Abominable. Loyal. Blind. Apparently subservient."

"And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world," Carter told British Broadcasting Corp. radio.


http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070519/D8P7O79O0.html

President Carter is a joke. He has no room to talk at all. He is the worst President in history. If it wern't for him, 9/11 wouldn't have happened and we are still fixing his fuck up's to this day.:pee:

avatar4321
05-20-2007, 01:14 AM
I think Carter just wants to rewrite history and remove his own name from the worst President in History spot.

nevadamedic
05-20-2007, 01:35 AM
I think Carter just wants to rewrite history and remove his own name from the worst President in History spot.

That wont happen unless Obama or Hilary get's elected.

KarlMarx
05-20-2007, 05:58 AM
Gee, cp, you beat me to it. I just about fell out of my chair laughing. Carter is not only an idiot, but a blind and senile one, too.

He is like Limburger cheese complaining about the smell of American cheese.

Carter obviously has forgotten that his administration was the one that gave us the highest inflation rate in living memory, if not in history, (18% compared to less than 4% today), high unemployment (about 7 or 8 percent, compared to about 4.4%today), gas shortages plus high gas prices, the Iranian hostage crisis (400+ days of the Iranians holding 66 Americans hostage), a nuetered military that could not rescue the aforementioned hostages (a mission to rescue the hostages ended in total disaster), a failed foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union that resulted in the invasion of Afghanistan (and doing nothing but boycotting the Olympics in response), the fall of Iran to the Islamofascist state that currently is in power (and being allied with the Shah of Iran beforehand), the Merilitto boat lift which resulted in thousands of the worst criminals in Castro's prisons being dumped on our soil.

It's no wonder that Carter's administration only lasted one term.

nevadamedic
05-20-2007, 11:18 AM
Gee, cp, you beat me to it. I just about fell out of my chair laughing. Carter is not only an idiot, but a blind and senile one, too.

He is like Limburger cheese complaining about the smell of American cheese.

Carter obviously has forgotten that his administration was the one that gave us the highest inflation rate in living memory, if not in history, (18% compared to less than 4% today), high unemployment (about 7 or 8 percent, compared to about 4.4%today), gas shortages plus high gas prices, the Iranian hostage crisis (400+ days of the Iranians holding 66 Americans hostage), a nuetered military that could not rescue the aforementioned hostages (a mission to rescue the hostages ended in total disaster), a failed foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union that resulted in the invasion of Afghanistan (and doing nothing but boycotting the Olympics in response), the fall of Iran to the Islamofascist state that currently is in power (and being allied with the Shah of Iran beforehand), the Merilitto boat lift which resulted in thousands of the worst criminals in Castro's prisons being dumped on our soil.

It's no wonder that Carter's administration only lasted one term.

:clap:

Doniston
05-20-2007, 12:01 PM
I think Carter just wants to rewrite history and remove his own name from the worst President in History spot. He doesn't have to. the present occupant of the whitehous alread has qualified for that "Honor"(IMHO)

nevadamedic
05-20-2007, 12:18 PM
He doesn't have to. the present occupant of the whitehous alread has qualified for that "Honor"(IMHO)

and the peanut gallery chimes in.

Doniston
05-20-2007, 01:59 PM
and the peanut gallery chimes in. Nah, you are wrong the peanut gallery chined in with the initial piece. Peanuts are Carter's forte' not mine.

nevadamedic
05-20-2007, 03:39 PM
Nah, you are wrong the peanut gallery chined in with the initial piece. Peanuts are Carter's forte' not mine.

:lame2:

nevadamedic
05-20-2007, 03:41 PM
If I were on President(and I use that term lightly) Carters Secret Service detail and I saw someone pull a gun, I'd probably push him twords the person.:laugh2: