Political Punch

He imagines himself as a brilliant mind. The Bible speaks of the "wisdom of the world being foolish unto him." Mr. Carter has no godly discernment and has shown that repeatedly. He doesn't understand what he is doing to our nation by his actions! Now, he is teaming up with another former president, Bill Clinton, who has been an embarassment to our nation and was the worst president we have had. Bill Clinton caused harm to America which actually led to our present day problems.

I am bewildered at the vicious rant emanating from virtually every comment. I have read Jimmy Carter’s book and find it pro-humanity and not anti-Semitic. Like a canary in coal, this book is an early warning of disastrous consequences if nothing is done to resolve Israel-Palestine conflict. To vilify and discredit Jimmy Carter is a poorly calculated attempt by pro-Israel lobby to suppress the truth.

You have to give credit to Jimmy Carter for not resting on his laurels. Not happy in the simplicity as the worst president of his day he has gone hell bent for leather to be the worst ex president as well.

Of course he bashes Isreal with wild abandon, lies, and misinformation.

But lets be fair... he's "also equally critical of Palestinian and Arab leaders."

Just like I could be fair, if I criticised Jeffrey Dahmer and the cops who arrested him equally...

I would be willing to give 10-1 odds that most of the folks spilling their bile against Carter have not read the book. If they had, they would be embarrassed at the wrong-headedness of most of their comments (most of which are ad hominem and irrelevant and slanders in any case.) Is it tough on some Israeli leaders? Yes--but he's also equally critical of Palestinian and Arab leaders. The plain fact is this: criticizing Israeli policy in any way inevitably evokes a fire-storm of accusations of "bigotry" and "anti-Semitism"--hardly a healthy atmosphere in which to discuss these critical issues. So please stop forming your opinion from ranting blogs, news snippets and misleading and slanted press releases from the ADL, etc. Please just take a deep breath and read the book. You may not like it, but I think--if you have an ounce of fairness--you will see that in tone and content it bears no relationship to the caricatured accounts from its critics.

Some that make comments did vote for Carter. Try,(you must be old) and remember who the choices were when Carter was elected. Some seem to forget the shape of the world then. The country that brought the world Baby Doc and Pinochet and the Shah of Iran forgets. Carter was ineffective with the help of the Washington machine, same one that keeps Bush's agenda limping along.
Yeah, Carter believes what he says, as W probably does. Idealistic fools, yes. Bad people?

The least said about Jimmy Carter the better.

I applaud Jimmy Carter's fearless rant against Isreal's casual policy of killing innocent women and children. His maverick position, of course, brought about a sudden united front of Jewish intellectuals to discredit his work. I think Jews contribute meaningfully to our society, but the American Jewish lobby is on the wrong side of right and I am one white man who is tired of the US supporting bias to Isreal. For all of Jimmy's failures in foreign policy I think he has usurped the moral authority the Jewish Lobby has lost.

I also voted for him, thinking him more honest than Ford. A terrible mistake for which I have long been ashamed--especially after watching his smug expression seated next to Michael Moore at the '04 Dem convention, not to mention his embrace of Arafat and other thugs. But the MSM and the Dems aren't the only ones who love the sanctimonious little weasel. Mustn't forget that the U.S. Navy has named a Sea Wolf attack submarine after him.

I watched President Carter discuss this theme with Charlie Rose. Although he is making an honest attempt to deal with conflict, he gets the culture of the Palestine people and Israelis wrong. He overestimates the rational of Palestine's people to make and keep any promise. The Hamas or PLO will make an agreement such as the recent cease fire with Israel. Then a few days later send rockets or bombers into Israel. When retaliated against, they claim defense against Israeli aggression. Until the region stops those aggressions and helps themselves to peace and prosperity, Israel and their allies will retaliate and dominate the disputed territory. The Arab population in Israel is not indicating apartheid by Israel.

By the way, Regan's 'success' with Iran was negotiated behind the scenes as was Kennedy's with Russia over the Cuba missile issue.

Hankmeister: Agree with what you said, but let us also agree that the very worst thing(s) this self-proclaimed Christian has done is speak ill of -- or maybe more accurately, speak with outright hatred of -- other Christians, beginning with our current President. In those ways, as far as I'm concerned, he has revealed where his faith stands in relation to his politics...a distant second. He has to answer for that, but not to me...

"Tulane historian Douglas Brinkley, author of the 1988 Carter biography, "The Unfinished Presidency," paints the dispute as more ideological than ethical."

Naturally. Lies, misrepresentation, plagarism--it's all just a new system of ideas, and Dr. Stein just happens to be an "idealogue" of honesty.

I liked him when he built houses for Habitat For Humanity, and when he and Rosalyn worked for vaccines for children in poor countries. He should have stuck to those things.

He is senile and anti American. very frightening to think he was once in the US Navy. Yes, everything that is wrong today began with his botched presidency.

Watch yourselves, the MSM loves this little weasel, ABC is doing their little occasional pretense at looking balanced. Carter, one term of vacuous misery by every standard, would be relegated to a sheltered workshop if the MSM didn't keep his bogus story, never the real details about it, alive.

At the moment that Reagan was sworn in, Iran, after 400+ days, released our hostages. Tell you something about spineless Carter? You'll never get an honest retrospective of Carter by the MSM.

Michael Moore as his guest at the DNC, a class act, I don't think so. He has never missed a photo-op with a thug. Google it.

I think the killer rabbit pushed him over the edge.

What other damage can this man do to his county before he passes into ignoble history? He has sold his county out again and again for aggrandizement of self. He has started the Iranian maniac's upon their war against Western Civilization, he has given the means to make an atomic bomb to our deadly enemies. There is not one despot on earth that he hasn't hailed above our own country, a despictable man; hopefully acturial tables will soon act upon this fool and put an end to him.

This is pretty shoddy by blog standards. Maybe you can get away with this in print or on air, but the readers here aren't stupid.

"Ken Stein ... doesn't trust the Palestinians as much as Carter."

Yea, that explains the accusations of plagarism and outright fabrication. He could have just said "Hey look everyone! Over there!" and you would have let him get away with it. Pathetic.

Chuck,

I agree completely. The beautiful thing about the blogosphere is that his book WILL be fisked and the lies and distortions will be made public. Someone commented elsewhere a couple of days ago that Carter has published something like 20 books since he left office. That raises a question -- is he really that prolific a writer, especially at his age? Or are others actually ghost writing and Carter is only adding his name to books that fit his worldview?

I first saw Mr. Carter speak in December 1975 at a Democratic Party caucus in NYC where I was working for one of his opponents. I was incredulous at his naive, pedantic, worldview at a time when our country was on its heels. His presidency did nothing to disabuse this first impression. He has brought dishonor upon the office of the presidenct and upon his country. Now he is simply a senile anti-American bigot.

I'm no fan of Jimmy Carter's but I googled the alleged quote re: "malignant influence of New York city [Jews]" and couldn't find a supporting reference. Is there any support online for this?