Archive for the 'Jimmy Carter' Category
Bookworm on Aug 16 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Democrats, Elections, Islam, Jews, Jimmy Carter, John McCain, Media matters, Muslim violence
In 1980 (and again in 1984), Ronald Reagan won in significant part because traditionally Democratic voters abandoned their party to vote for him. Those same “Reagan Democrats” have shown up frequently in the news today. Indeed, McCain is specifically targeting those same people and demographics. US News & World Report explained back in May:
As the [...]
Bookworm on May 02 2008 | Filed under: Jimmy Carter
J.R. Dunn ruminates about ex-Democratic leaders, who seem driven by some bizarre Narcissistic compulsion to cling to the spotlight long after their political moment has passed. Aside from being an enjoyable read, it has a great summary of the horrible effect of President Carter’s moral equivalence, a character failing that has seen him gravitate [...]
Bookworm on Apr 28 2008 | Filed under: Hamas, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Palestinians, Syria
The New York Times again gave a forum to Jimmy Carter. This time Carter defends his immoral, illegal decision to consort with terrorists, something that would be objectionable if the ordinary private citizen were to do it, but that rises to outrageous levels of indecency when a former President does the same thing.
Carter’s most [...]
Bookworm on Apr 19 2008 | Filed under: Congress, Hamas, Jimmy Carter
Congress isn’t actually doing anything beyond complaining about how upset it is, but I was very pleased nevertheless to see that two representatives have sponsored a bipartisan resolution specifically mentioning Carter in connection with Hamas and reiterating that Hamas is a dangerous terrorist organization that should be isolated, not courted. To date, it has 47 [...]
Bookworm on Apr 13 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hamas, Jimmy Carter
Hamas is an official terrorist organization. That minor detail, however, doesn’t seem to deter President Jimmy Carter, a man who has never met a sleazy Islamic or communist terrorist he doesn’t admire and trust:
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said in remarks to air on Sunday that his upcoming visit to the Middle East probably [...]
Bookworm on Dec 05 2007 | Filed under: Jimmy Carter, Mike Huckabee
As you may recall, I compared Huckabee to Jimmy Carter, foreseeing with the former some of the same problems we saw with the latter (and that despite the fact that Huckabee seems like a much more ebullient and nicer person than Carter). I’m not the only one making those comparisons. After listening to [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2007 | Filed under: Hollywood, Jimmy Carter, Media matters
I like to tweak NY Times movie reviews (heck, any MSM movie reviews), because of the relentless Progressive punditry that characterizes them, regardless of the movie’s actual content. With a movie about Jimmy Carter on the table, I was therefore prepared for a full frontal case of anti-Bush commentary in the review. It wasn’t there. [...]
Don Quixote on Aug 27 2007 | Filed under: America, Anti-Semitism, Israel, Jews, Jimmy Carter
For six hours this Sunday I watched my TIVOed copies of Christiane Amanpour’s God’s Warriors specials. Amanpour’s biases clearly showed through, especially when she tried to portray Muslim radicals as some kind of a small fringe group, or when she spoke to fundamentalist Christian leaders in a tone dripping with disdain. But, it appeared, she [...]
Bookworm on Feb 16 2007 | Filed under: Jimmy Carter
It’s no surprise to readers here that I really, really don’t like Jimmy Carter. I think he was a dreadful President and is, if possible, an even worse ex-President. But that’s just my opinion, unsupported by fact. For facts, you can go to this superb Josh Muravchik article in Commentary Magazine: Our Worst Ex-President. Read [...]
Bookworm on Jan 30 2007 | Filed under: Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter has been garnering a lot of press lately for his anti-Semitic positions, hypocrisy, falsification of facts, etc.
Bookworm on Jan 23 2007 | Filed under: Jimmy Carter
One of the most commented upon posts I’ve ever written had its genesis in an attack I made against Jimmy Carter. I think now, as I have thought for years, that he is a very bad man. I’m grateful that the vote I cast for him in 1980 came to nothing. Claudia Rosett, [...]
Bookworm on Dec 21 2006 | Filed under: Jimmy Carter
MOVED UP TO THE TOP, NOT BECAUSE I HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD, BUT BECAUSE THE COMMENT SECTION HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MOST FASCINATING TO APPEAR ON MY BLOG, AND I DON’T WANT IT TO GET LOST AS I PUBLISH NEW POSTS.
If you’re a Seinfeld fan, you may recall the episode in which Baboo, an [...]
Bookworm on Dec 18 2006 | Filed under: Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter has been good to my blog, since a post I did about him sparked a fascinating, free-wheeling discussion about America, American politics, the Middle East, etc. I still don’t like the man, and I like him less after learning that he’s received money from the Arabs, both directly (money in his own [...]
