A Note on the Jimmy Carter dust-up at Emory

Ken, when I wrote that Dr. Stein should offer his own response to Carter's book, I didn't mean that it should try to refute on a point-by-point basis what Carter's arguments are. You're quite correct in that Dr. Stein's resignation speaks volumes. I was thinking more along the lines of something to indicate how distorted Carter's views and interpretations are. My mistake for incorrectly using the term "errata sheet," when that wasn't what I really meant.

Maybe not so much an anti-semite--just one of many among us who derive their moral authority from a tendentious and cowardly posture of self-righteous sneering at the "oppressors" of "victims". Carter learned very early on that he would be canonized by all the right-thinking people around the country if he would stand as the brave and lonely white southern man who would dare to criticize his "own kind"--in the process confirming all the comfortable prejudices of anti-southern bigots. Later in life, he repeats the act, bravely posturing to great accclaim from the global community of anti-US bigots.

Bah, I voted for Carter, thinking at the time that he was very intelligent - of which I was fairly quickly disabused once he took office. Imo, he's only gotten demonstrably worse since then, now also showing signs of amnesia, confabulation, delusions of grandeur, and senile bigotry.

Is that what they mean by being "progressive".

People must remember the overt anti-semetism and racism of the pro-segregationist Jimmy Carter --- He won the Georgia governership campaigning against the "malignant influence of New York City Kikes" (his exact words)

For those interested in a fisking of Mr. Carter’s book see the XDA blog http://rfraley301.blogspot.com. I was in the nuclear navy at about the same time as he was and I too voted for Mr. Carter, the first time, looking for someone who offered integrity for the Office of the President. I thought he had that, but he soon showed that he had little leadership ability. He got off to a good start with his center after his presidency. But that has now dissolved into something that seems to provide cover for any radically anti-American regime. Sadly Mr. Carter (and now Mr. Clinton) has broken the unwritten rule to not criticize succeeding presidents. I have now concluded that Mr. Carter is an utter disgrace as an ex-president and moving ever so close to Mr. Ramsey Clark’s ideology. Such a sad ending for one who I originally thought had so much promise as an American leader.

Chuck wrote "Perhaps Dr. Stein should issue his own response to Carter's book, an errata sheet if you will, to indicate precisely what misstatements the book contains."

I will offer up that due to Dr. Stein's stature, background, and decades-long involvement in issues relating to the middle east that his resignation sends a message sufficiently strong enough about the falsehoods in Carter's book that he doesn't need to refute Carter point-by-point. Carter's credibility as to honestly representing both sides of this issue are near zero.

Thank God his presidency was "Unfinished."

My vote for this evolving moonbat back in 1976 was one of two votes I've ever regretted casting. Double digit inflation, double digit interest rates, double digit mortgage rate and unemployment as high as 7 plus percent. The man was an utter failure as a President, couldn't get elected and he's lecturing the Bush Administration on how to conduct this nation's business? And let's not forget the nuclear deal he help broker with North Korea in 1994.

Ol' Jimmah Carter should be the act following Michael Richards at Comedy Central. Either that or go back to something he's good at like bending nails. That's the only thing I admire about the man, his work with Habitat for Humanity.

As a Christian, Mr Carter knows that God gifts all His children with different gifts. Mr Carter was gifted as a very good humanitarian, but got NO gifts of political discernment or political leadership. While he may be one of the best humanitarians of the last 25 years, he is undoubtedly the worst politician in my lifetime (50 years - and yes, I did vote for him). And, unfortunately, much of the good he has done in his humanitarian work is overcome by the damage his poor politics have wreaked on the world. He committed a grave mistake for a Christian--he misinterpreted his gifts, and pursued his own political ambitions, and it is to our harm that he did so.

Like John Kenneth Galbraith in Moscow, and Paul Robeson before him, Carter simply shows that you can drive a clueless American dignitary into a region where he doesn't know the language or the people and allow him to confirm the prejudices that he already has. Especially when the locals have the entire say about what you are shown or told.

Not content with being the worst president in recent history, Carter must also stake claim to worst EX president. He has demeaned the office and still bitter over his defeat by Reagan (I'm sure all the eulogizing about RWR drove him bats) he has lowered the discourse and professional ettiquette observed by almost all presidents re: their successors. He should know how hard the job is and the problems involved, god knows he screwed up enough, but yet he is content to demagogue and distort. Thank god someone finally called him on it.

Disgraceful man, Jimmah Carter. Shame on you.

Douglas Brinkley paints this as "more ideological than ethical." Given that "factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments" can be declared ideological only by completely reinventing the word.

As Carter's hagiographer, Brinkley's bias is showing.

Only Al Gore could rival Jimmy Carter as a sore loser and a fool. Carter went the way of the dinosaur left years ago and will be remembered as the most incompetent, gutless fool to every hold the Presidency of the United States.

Dershowitz has enumerated the errors in the book

I'm pretty sure Ayn Rand is rolling over in her grave, wishing she had lived long enough to include a Carter-like character in her next novel. When it comes to deluded, messianic prosyletizers of despotism and ethnic cleansing, the ol' peanut farmer is sui generis.

Jimmy Carter truly is as bad an ex-president as he was in office. So many of today's real threats to world peace, from North Korea to Islamic terrorism, can be traced back to his mishandling. And he has long since lost the tint of honest broker. In reality he is a very little man with petty grievances with his own country.

You've got to credit Jimmy Carter for not resting on his laurels. Not content to simply be the worst president of his day he has gone hell bent for leather to be the worst ex president as well.

Ron Coleman- the only reason no-one has debated him about his public statements is that he will not debate. Just like Algore, his truths are self-evident; there is no debate, see?

Jimmy: nice observation! Leftist icons in meltdown do seem to exhibit a kind of "end of the world" look reminiscent of Marshall Applewhite

Could this be a medical phenomenon?

It probably began when he first saw the helicopters in the Iranian desert. The full crush of reality was so overwhelming that every last bit of him turned and ran for the (far left) hills. And now, in 2006, he finds himself using "Israel" and "apartheid" in the same sentence, just like neo-Marxist professors around the world do every day. Difference is: he's supposed to be a former US President, not a brainwashed, ahistorical, leftist psycho idealogue.

Prof Brinkley says the dispute is ideological not ethical. I can agree that Prof Stein and ex-President Carter aren't on the same page ideologically. However, there are ethical charges against Carter too, one of which is plagiarism ("copied materials not cited").
Carter has gotten a free ride. I'm glad to see someone take him on. The way that Brinkley twists what's happeneing doesn't help his credibility.