Former President Jimmy Carter is no stranger to over stepping what is considered appropriate behavior for a former president. He has not hesitated to heap criticism on the actions of sitting presidents even though he had a decidedly undistinguished presidency of his own.
At times it has seemed that he is trying to garner some sort of meaningful legacy as a former president, seeing as a positive legacy alluded him as a president. He has spent most of his post-presidency as a self-appointed diplomat. He highlights the peace accords brokered during his presidency in an apparent attempt to make sure that is what people remember of his time as president.
Jimmy Carter has generally been viewed as a benign, if ineffective, former president until recently. In recent years Mr. Carter has upped the ante and his benign image is falling by the wayside.
Mr. Carter has stepped over the line with the publication of his latest book. His book is very critical of Israel’s role in the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. Worse, his attempts to defend his book have been nothing short of pathetic. He has the look of someone who is not accustomed to getting feedback from anyone but sycophants.
Today fourteen members of the Carter Center board resigned in protest.
From An Angeleno’s View of the World
The resignations announced today are the latest in a backlash against the former president’s book ‘Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid’. It has drawn fire from Jewish groups, been attacked by fellow Democrats and led to the resignation last month of Kenneth Stein - a Carter Center fellow and a longtime Carter adviser.
The members of the Center’s Board of Councilors wrote of Carter in the letter of resignation ‘you have clearly abandoned your historic role of broker in favor of becoming an advocate for one side.’
Jimmy really needs to go back to just building houses.
January 11th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Open Trackback Weekend #37…
I’m starting the OTA early because I’m likely to be unavailable most of the weekend. Just leave a post and you’ll get a trackback ping from me. Since I send trackbacks manually, it may take awhile for it to show up. Sorry ’bout that…
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January 11th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Beth,
There was time, circa 1979 that I actually sympathized with Jimma.
I now find him disgusting and wretched.
What an arse…
BSC: I know what you mean. I actually thought he was just kinda a benign guy who was just too nice to be a president. But lately is a whole different story ….
January 11th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Beth,
Please enable the spellchecker pronto…
BSC: LOL - now you have me looking for typos! I’m a terrible speller - I really keep thinking I need to upload a spellchecker plug-in but haven’t done it! BUT - I can read typos ….
January 11th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Hamas in Mississippi…
His name is Abdelhaleem Ashqar, a graduate student at the University of Mississippi in the early 1990s. He went on to be assistant professor of business at Washington’s Howard University. Now, Ashqar, 48, is accused of being a high-ranking member…
January 12th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Points of Interest: Jan 12, 2006…
Beth of Blue Star Chronicles does a yeoman’s job of pasting Mr. Peanut for conduct unbecoming a former Head Honcho. (I worked for Habitat for Humanity briefly once, and it’s a good thing. If only Jimmy-boy would have left it at that, I might like him…
January 20th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Jimmy Carter Interceded on Behalf of Death Camp Nazi…
In recent months we have been made increasingly aware of Dhimmi Jhimmi Carter’s meddling in the international affairs of the United States. As a former president, it is unseemly to say the least, it is dangerous to the security of our nation at t…
January 23rd, 2007 at 3:14 pm
I recently came across a long article in a 2004 New Yorker magazine stating that two sets of laws governed the Jews and the Palestinians in the West Bank and that those applying to the Palestinians were draconian. The gist of the article was that this is the definition of apartheid and that Israel was pursuing a policy of apartheid, I don’t recall any uproar at the time.I have read that the two most powerful lobbies in the U,S. are the NRA and the Jewish Lobby. One,the NRA is outfront and unapologetic and seemingly un concerned what anybody thinks. The other is so successful that it is virtually invisible and has seemingly implanted its point of view into the public consciousness so stealthily and successfully that its opinions are considered reality rather than a point of view and an extreme one at that.It is like a gigantic version of the guilt inducing Jewish mother. Such a monstrous and terrible thing happened to the Jewish people that if you criticize any Jew in any way or any policy of the stste of Israel in any way one is being anti-semitic. I am sure many Jews see what is happening in dismay, but the only voice we hear is that Israel must protect itself and thus it can do anything and can do no wrong. What percentage of advisors promoting an invasion into Iraq were Jewish compared to the percentage of the Jewish population? What percentage of the people resigning from the Carter Center and villifying President Carter are Jewish. And as one example of wrongful and destructive policies is the invasion of Lebanon. Things were relatively stable and Lebanon had a pro western government. Israel invaded and wrecked a country over two Jewish soldiers.How much more valuable is a Jewish life considered to be than anybody elses? And now there are riots with hezbollah attempting to overthrow the government. Israel could have peace and security, but it continues to pursue Zionist policies or does not prevent Jewish extremists from doing it for them. Get every settlement out of the West Bank, build an impregnable Wall along the 1967 lines and the world will try to help Israel be safe. But it appears that Israel wants to nibble its way to a greater Zionist state no matter whom it hurts or disenfranchises and no matter that it endangers its greatest and most loyal ally, the U.S. who has drunk its kool-ade.