Say Anything Blog

No of course not, I don’t see any redeeming features of al Qeada…

Which implies in this context that he does see redeeming features in Hamas.  What redeeming features are those Mr. President?  Their continued terrorism, their continued exploitation of the Palestinian people, their commitment to destroy Israel or die trying?

Useful idiot. The very definition of the word.

Election ‘08 - We Are So Screwed

Well said kbiel.  And why would Carter’s children and grandchildren need his permission to support or endorse Obama.  If my grandfather was a former president I honestly would not ask for his permission to support someone.  I wonder if Carter’s family asks him who they are allowed to vote for as well?

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

Carter is a non-minister without a portfolio who is not negotiating, not undermining, and not really doing anything else worth mentioning EXCEPT following, and clearing, his conscience.
I admire his determination to do the right thing in his mind because I know he has a Christ-like spirit and intentions. HOWEVER…
Hamas sees him as some quasi-official person and do not understand when one of Mr. Bush’s minions (this is how they think, ok. Don’t blame me) can come over there on his own and talk about things WITHOUT any official imprimateur at all (they’ll see his visit as being to no purpose at all). The poor sods think they’ve counted some coup on the Israelis and will be insufferable - even more than usual - for a spell.
Carter truly wants to help establish peace in the world; however, he is a naif. He speaks God’s language of reconciliation and trust, but that’s a foreign language in Gaza. He doesn’t realize or care what reaction he causes, as long as his own conscience is clear.
Hamas is a group that keeps their people in a seige mentality unnecessarily and purposefully.  They JUST got back from attacking a major border crossing with Israel (where cooking oil, food and supplies are brought in to Gaza) and will never accept Israel, for one particular reason.  Islam never gives back any land. Once it is captured by Muslims it is ALWAYS going to be Muslim land. Not to mention, the Hamas leadership and cadres are getting fat off their people’s misery, just like Fatah did. As long as the money comes in, funding their imperial lifestyle and keeping the cadres bought, things will remain the same.  God help the Palestinian people, and save them from their leaders.
Poor Jimmy, he really doesn’t have a clue.

Can’t blame Jimmy for not meeting with al Qaeda.  After all, the accomodations with Hamas must be better than caves.

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” BO - Audacity of Hope - 2006.
Very Jimmy-like.

It’s nice to know that Carter is picky about which murderers he fallaciates.

Kenny,

Shouldn’t your post read:

It’s nice to know that Carter is picky about which murderers he fellates.

Out Here
Rodney G. Graves

Persia delenda est.
Latin: “Persia (modern day Iran) should be destoyed”

Who gives a damn about what Jimmy Carter does, says or who he sees. If the media would stop making a big deal about this trip, it would be irrelevant. Once again the media is dictating what is, and is not, important to the American public. Turn off the mikes and cameras and Carter will fade into obscurity.

I admire his determination to do the right thing in his mind because I know he has a Christ-like spirit and intentions.

That is a whooly subjective analysis of Carter and absent, IMO, any foundation. Doing the tight thing like being a peacemaker?

What peace has he ever acheived anywhere without coddling and appeasing a muderous dictator at the cost of the people that dictator abuses daily?

What price is his peace if he publicly condemns Israel and his own country on foreign soil, while praising and appeasing murderous terrorists that are dedicated to the annihilation of every Jew on earth and the complete destruction of Israel?

In what way does he portray a Christlike Spirit? By condemning Israel and supporting the people that kill Jews, “the Apple of His eye,” the people wherein His Son was born and to whom he has promised Israel forever?

If you are going to praise Jimmy Carter, The Crown Prince of Appeasement, please provide reasons for your compliments otherwise it is all gas.

No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Carter achieved the Camp David accords for one reason and one reason only: both sides wanted peace.

He fails to see that Hamas only wants war, more war, and more bloodshed.

This is same man who turned his back on the Shah of Iran - our most loyal ally in the Middle East - then brought the Ayatollah back to Tehran to creat an Islamic state ruled by the Mullahs.

When Iranian terrorist overran the US embassy [in apparent gratitude] and held our people hostage for over 400 days, he dithered, finally agreeing to a rescue mission on which he placed so many restrictions that it failed and American soldiers died.

To help them fight against the Soviet Red Army, he provided funds and guns to Afghani ‘warriors’ who later morphed into the Taliban. The Cold war deepened significantly as a result.

He engineered the Peace Accords leading to the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, the fall of the Menachem Begin government and the weakening of Israel’s military.

No question about it, Jimmy Carter is emminently qualified to act as an informal ambassador for peace in the very Middle East which he single-handedly destabilized.

"Here lies, in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God.”

THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT TWO THINGS: WINNING THE WAR ON TERRORISM AND SAVING THE SUPREME COURT.

Rodney, apt correction.

It’s nice to know that Carter is picky about which murderers he fellates.

As a good democrat he is familiar with which direction the wind is blowing. He should hold himself to the same standard.

“To love is not to stare steadfast at one another...it is to look forward, in the same direction.”
Saint-Exupéry

Talking to Hamas will insert Iran and Syria squarely into the Palestinian track. Meshaal in Damascus is more accessible and can call on substantial Iranian funding, which they would support in exchange for political access to palestinian affairs.

Plus Hamas is not interested in a peace treaty with Israel, because its ultimate ambition is to liberate the whole of Palestine.

Peace may be a long way away between Palestinians and Israelis, but Carter won’t speed things up any by turning into Meshaal’s patsy.