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Carter Attacks the Man Responsible for Cleaning up His Messes

Posted by GayPatriotWest at 6:53 pm - February 7, 2006.
Filed under: Annoying Celebrities, Bush-hatred, Liberals

As sensible world leaders develop strategies to clean up the messes made by Jimmy Carter, both as president and ex-president, this classless ex-president uses the funeral of Coretta Scott King to attack (once again) the President of the United States. Perhaps the Islamist regime in Iran would not be developing nuclear weapons had then-President Carter acted responsibly in 1979 when thugs backed by the fledgling government there broke international law and seized American diplomats, holding them hostage until Ronald Reagan took office.

The North Korean regime may have fallen had Carter in 1994 not gone there to negotiate a deal on nuclear weapons against the wishes of the elected Democratic president of the United States and his Administration. As the world confronts the reality of these tyrannies armed with nuclear weapons, Jimmy Carter, quite possibly the worst president in U.S. history and almost certainly the most classless ex-president, has joined his pal Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan and others on the fringes of political discourse, in blaming everything on President Bush. In his vitriolic attacks on President Bush, he has departed from the policies of all previous ex-presidents while showing more contempt for President Bush than he does for America’s enemies.

Today, that contempt was on full display. He referenced the FBI’s wiretapping of Dr. King to take a swipe at President Bush. Carter claims that the president’s program to eavesdrop on the international communications of suspected terrorists violates the law (Via: Fullosseus Flap’s Dental Blog ). He brought up Hurricane Katrina to show “that all are not yet equal in America.”

Once again, this failed president used a public forum to bash the current president. As a sign of how classless this man is, he doesn’t limit his attacks to domestic fora, having also attacked the president abroad. He has put earning personal accolades ahead of the interests of the nation he was served in its highest elected office. As the Anchoress puts in her post on today’s activities:

any former president who will accept a “peace prize” given to him explicitly to (as the Nobel board admitted) “kick the current president in the pants” is unworthy of his office, or the esteem a former president is normally due.

At least we can thank Jimmy Carter for making it easier for Ronald Reagan to be elected in 1980. But, alas, that the Gipper only began to clean up the messes created by this sad and self-serving man. It is up to world leaders and President Bush – and likely to their successors as well – to deal with the legacy of Jimmy Carter’s failures.

-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com

(H/t: Michelle whose great links lead me all over the place, including and especially to the Anchoress’ most insightful post which bears reading and re-reading and perhaps re-re-reading.)

UPDATE: I agree with Gateway Pundit who writes that at today’s funeral, Democrats Prove Nothing is Sacred or Out of Bounds.

UP-UPDATE: Queer Conservative says that Jimmy Carter “gets loonier each time I hear him speak these days.” Guess that’s what happens when you keep company with Michael Moore.

UP-UP-UPDATE: Malcontent begs that “for the sake of decorum, decency and the memory of the dearly departed, please do not use my funeral as a platform to launch attacks on those with whom I disagreed politically.“

UP-UP-UP-UPDATE: Hugh Hewitt thinks that those eager to send Jimmy Carter “ message that might get through his self-righteousness and deeply dishonest posturing about illegal wiretaps and Katrina victims” should make a contribution to the re-election campaign of Nevada Senator John Ensign. The failed president’s son Jack is running against this good Republican.

UP-UP-UP-UP-UPDATE: Calling Carter’s remarks the “one moment of true malice,” James Taranto at Best of the Web asks whether the ex-president really meant “to suggest that Robert F. Kennedy’s spying on Martin Luther King is the equivalent of the current administration spying on al Qaeda terrorists?“

UP-UP-UP-UP-UP-UPDATE: The New York Post called Mr. Carter’s performance the King funeral “disgraceful” and “reprehensible,” reminding its readers that “There was a time when former presidents did not publicly attack their successors, but that respect long ago went by the wayside as far as Carter, America’s national scold, is concerned.” (Via Tammy who has more.)

UP-UP-UP-UP-UP-UP-UPDATE:Like James Taranto above, Lee Harris is troubled by Carter’s comparison of Martin Luther King, Jr. to Osama bin Laden and his followers:

Suppose Osama bin Laden, like Dr. King, had struggled with all his might to keep his organization from turning to bloodshed and violence. Would Bush have felt the need to launch a domestic surveillance program on such a pacifistic movement? Maybe; maybe not. But the fact that al-Qaeda embraces violence and celebrates terrorism — doesn’t this small detail destroy the basis of Carter’s analogy?

(Via Instapundit.)

60 Comments »

  1. [...] Hey, they want to keep running against George W. Bush, why stop them? Dan at Gay Patriot says Carter attacks the man who is cleaning up his messes. Spot on, I think. More on this: Michelle Malkin calls it unhinged and has links, plus a video flashback of Ron Brown’s funeral. Sensible Mom saw the Wellstone connection Indy Conservative liveblogged it. Gina Cobb notes that Carter always praises Hamas, among others. Newton is writing with her baseball bat, again She’s mad! Sister Toljah ain’t happy neither. SoCalPundit suspects Dr. King would have had better manners. Bizzy Blog patiently goes through the No WMD meme again which is good, when you consider that (sssshhhh the press isn’t talking about it but) congress is looking into the maybe-there-were-WMD-afterall scenario. Which sooner or later, we’ll find to be the case. I wonder if Lowery remembered that Bill and Hillary et al were talking about WMD way before Bush got into office? They seem to like to forget that. [...]

    Pingback by The Anchoress » Wellstoning the King Funeral — February 7, 2006 @ 7:20 pm - February 7, 2006

  2. He was a lousy and clueless president, as dickless and saccharine as Mr. Rogers, and since his well-deserved exit from office has only contributed to the world by building houses for Habitat for Humanity. He is just a more pious and lower-decibelled version of Howard Dean. When I was a kid, I was told that “anyone” can become President of the United States. Carter certainly proves the point.

    Comment by EssEm — February 7, 2006 @ 7:48 pm - February 7, 2006

  3. Wonder if George W still wants to change the tone in DC? I get so tired of conservtives and republicans having to act like adults whilst dems the likes of Jimmy Carter and Rev crazy take pot shots at the President of the United States in his presence mind you. In my dreams I imagine W getting up grabbing the mic and telling Mr Carter it was JFK and RFK who bugged Dr King and his wife. And FDR who locked up thousands of Amer Japanese. And W would tellthe Rev crazy, that the President of the USA was attempting to protect our people from furthur attacks like the Cole and WTC #1 and 9/11…..instead of romping with interns. Some one tell me why republicans must always hold their tongues? This business of Dems and liberals firing constantly and not gettin any return fire is getting tiresome. Someone with the onions needs to stand up and calmly say “do we really want to take advice on keeping the country safe and our legal system honest from Mary Jo Kopecknes driver?” Teddy fled and people died. If that doesnt shut up the swimmer, ask him how many times he cheated on tests at Harvard. As far as Jimmy Carter goes…go interview some of the Iranian embassey hostages and see if they d like to throw a picnic for the ex Prez. I bought my first house when the peanut farmer was Prez. Interest rates were 18% Inflation 7%. Good God ,how many poor and minorities were buyng houses during Carters “twilight in America?”Our bloggers can play hard ball but our pols are pussies. No onions. Or the media have pics of republican pols going into gay bars lol.

    Comment by Gene — February 7, 2006 @ 8:25 pm - February 7, 2006

  4. Well, he is History’s Greatest Monster

    Comment by V the K — February 7, 2006 @ 8:34 pm - February 7, 2006

  5. What’s the latest number of sitting Democrats saying the President broke the law? We need a list. And we need to start calling for them to put up or shut up. If any President broke the law he needs to be impeached. The Democrat party should begin now to demand impeachment proceedings. Impeach the man fightting the good fight to protect the USA against the Islamofascists. And look for a huge runaway victory not only in 06 but o8 at the polls. The Democrat party simply isnt serious and cant be trusted with the future of the country. The people know it.

    Comment by Gene — February 7, 2006 @ 8:53 pm - February 7, 2006

  6. Perhaps the Islamist regime in Iran would not be developing nuclear weapons had then-President Carter acted responsibly in 1979 when thugs backed by the fledgling government there broke international law and seized American diplomats, holding them hostage until Ronald Reagan took office.

    And perhaps Islamists would not have been so emboldened to embark on a reign of terror if Ronald Reagan had not withdrawn our troops from Beirut. That first terrorist bombing, that could have been avoided, had Reagan followed the advice of Caspar Weinberger, - directly encouraged all that followed it.

    “They had no mission but to sit at the airport, which is just like sitting in a bull’s-eye,” Weinberger said. “I begged the president to pull them back and put them back on their transports as a more defensible position.”

    Followed up later by our withdrawal from Somalia, it gave rise to the belief that we cut and run and didn’t have the stomach for a drawn-out fight.

    Quit blaming Carter for everything that went wrong since the 70’s. Since the GOP has had the Presidency for the majority of the time since then, I don’t think you can hold them entirely blameless.

    Comment by Patrick (Gryph) — February 7, 2006 @ 9:20 pm - February 7, 2006

  7. Gene, while the Left attacks and attacks – and attacks – our man W as a mean-spirited SOB, he has shown himself again and again (and yet again) to be a man of class. A lesser man would have huffed off the stage today (or sulked on it). He refused to take the bait of his critics and instead took their barbs with grace.

    I can well understand your impatience, that you’re tired of our side acting like adults while our opponents act like spoiled children, screaming at their parents as the adults wipe us the child’s spills. The president today, as he has done repeatedly since his first election, showed himself to be capable of leading a nation where citizens have diverse views, not all of them expressed in a rational or civil manner.

    The contrast between Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush proved that Republican leaders are more capable of presiding over our great nation than the Carter-Moore-Dean Democrats.

    Comment by GayPatriotWest — February 7, 2006 @ 9:25 pm - February 7, 2006

  8. Patrick, you bring up one of the Gipper’s failures — and are right to criticize him for that. I agree that his mishandling of Beirut did help embolden Islamicists.

    Comment by GayPatriotWest — February 7, 2006 @ 9:27 pm - February 7, 2006

  9. Bravo, Dan. I’m one of those who would have gleefully bitch-slapped Lowery & Carter, but alas, I oftentimes lack the class that the President has shown since the American Castrati issued their fatwa against this administration.

    Regardless, let the moonbats continue to destroy themselves. I may find it exceedingly frustrating to listen to, but once they awaken to find themselves “on the graveyard of lies,” I’m sure it will have been well worth it.

    Eric in Hollywood

    Comment by HollywoodNeoCon — February 7, 2006 @ 9:38 pm - February 7, 2006

  10. #2

    Hey now! Don’t diss Mr. Rogers!

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — February 7, 2006 @ 9:47 pm - February 7, 2006

  11. #5

    Start off with Sen. Spectre who can’t seem to figure out which side of the waffle to be on.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — February 7, 2006 @ 9:52 pm - February 7, 2006

  12. #6

    Who was it that turned down the S.F.’s requests for armor and AC-130s and then cut and run from Somalia?

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — February 7, 2006 @ 10:02 pm - February 7, 2006

  13. Thank you Dan for making an excellent point. People who live in Georgia know that the pious Jimmy Carter–man of the people–is nothing more than a well-crafted persona intended to rehabilitate his deservedly tarnished reputation. In reality, Jimmah is a classless, mean-spirited, control freak who was a huge political hack as Governor (and President). His ego is monstrously large and his judgement flat out sucks. Anyone who still wants to look for bright spots in the Carter presidency need only remember two words–Teddy Kennedy. No sitting president ever faces a challenger from within his own party unless he is screwing things up royally and Jimmah sure did.

    At the rate he is going, there will be no good will left for this loser when he finally exits the stage.

    Comment by Scott — February 7, 2006 @ 10:51 pm - February 7, 2006

  14. President Carter received quite some applause from those attending. Are all those people classless, too?

    Comment by sean — February 8, 2006 @ 12:06 am - February 8, 2006

  15. Boy, that GWB is one busy custodian. Not only is he cleaning up Clinton’s messes, he also is cleaning up Carter’s. I’m sure we could find a way to clean up Johnson’s, Kennedy’s, etc, etc.

    Perhaps our diplomats wouldn’t have been taken hostage had the US not installed a despot dictator (the shah) treated his own people with contempt and created the situation to allow muslim fundamentalists to seize control (hmmm….muslin fundamentalists….christians fundamentalists….anyway)

    I do laugh that y’all can’t stand the fact that Carter and Clinton remain popular ex-presidents in general with the people of America. For whatever his failings (and he had a lot) Carter has shown himself to be probably one of the greatest elder statesman in the history of our nation.

    Comment by Kevin — February 8, 2006 @ 12:11 am - February 8, 2006

  16. Kevin,

    The only people they are “popular” with is the LLL wing of the Democratic party and the MSM which is their propaganda machine. Once people get past the BS put out by the MSM and see these men for who and what they are they are disgusted.

    Comment by Nahanni — February 8, 2006 @ 12:35 am - February 8, 2006

  17. #14 - Jerry Springer and Maury Povich and Oprah and Dr. Phil and lots and lots of people get lots applause, too. You can decide for yourself if you consider the applauders to be without class, or in which instances.

    Comment by Calarato — February 8, 2006 @ 1:13 am - February 8, 2006

  18. I think we’ve all read about the kerfuffle over the alternate-universe speech attributed to Dr. King on Boondocks. But one grain of truth struck home as I surfed between the various channels carrying the opening moments of Madame King’s funeral…what was BET carrying at 100pm as the service started? …Some half-naked rap-”artist” with a bevy of equally half-naked “ladies” worshipping hedonism and Mammonism while shaking their ….well you get the picture.

    If any media outlet in this country benefitted from the work of Dr. and Mrs. King, it’s BET and it’s famously-Black ownership. But could they stop selling ‘bootie’ for just a few hours to honor a courageous Lady upon whom their very prosperity and “freedoms” are based? No.

    Disgraceful.

    My contempt for BET and it’s owner merely doubled.

    Comment by Ted B. (Charging Rhino) — February 8, 2006 @ 1:14 am - February 8, 2006

  19. Sean in #14, only if they’re former presidents.

    Kevin in #15, to call Carter an elder statesman is to twist the meaning of statesman so out of context that it means buffoon. No elder statesman attacks his successor with the venom Carter has used. No elder statesman attacks his successor to earn accolades from foreign audiences. No elder statesman goes around his elected successor (of his party no less!) to negotiate with a hostile nation.

    Elder statesman show decorum and make wise observations. Not things Carter has done much of in the last quarter-century.

    Comment by GayPatriotWest — February 8, 2006 @ 3:27 am - February 8, 2006

  20. UPDATE: I agree with Gateway Pundit who writes that at today’s funeral, Democrats Prove Nothing is Sacred or Out of Bounds.

    I haven’t seen much of the King funeral, but I thought that the Wellstone pep rally proved that nothing is sacred or out of bounds.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — February 8, 2006 @ 3:34 am - February 8, 2006

  21. #14

    Evidently they got all orgasmic when lord BJ stepped up to the altar. Need I say more?

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — February 8, 2006 @ 3:39 am - February 8, 2006

  22. #16

    “‘Disgraceful’ That was former president Jimmy Carter’s word for the final days of the Clinton Administration”

    Inside flap of Final Days by Barbara Olson.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — February 8, 2006 @ 4:10 am - February 8, 2006

  23. It is funny. President Carter assigned no blame in his remarks about Katrina. He didn’t say it was a failure of the federal government. So, if you’re sensitive about his remarks, perhaps you feel President Bush did fail.

    Comment by Jeremy — February 8, 2006 @ 9:39 am - February 8, 2006

  24. #23 Jeremy, nice try but the spin and shuffle don’t get you on the dance floor.

    Democrat poster boys like JJackson, ASharpton, HowieDean, TeddyK and others have repeatedly tried to linked Katrina’s wake to the W Administration so that even raising the issue, as JimminyCricketCarter did at the funeral, and using the code words like “unequal” and pandering to the race baiting card of victimhood is sufficient for the Left. Pandering. Who doesn’t applaud a pandering ex Prez? Carter’s just taking a play out of the Clinton Playbook.

    Nope, the peanut farmer knew what he was doing. He’s a slick, sly underhanded, two-faced fundamentalist Christian of the first order.

    Hey, where are all the GayLefties who decry Christian fundamentalists when it comes time to pity hug Jimminy? Answer: Stepping over the Islamofacists for the embrace I guess. Politics DOES make strange bedfellows.

    Comment by Michigan-Matt — February 8, 2006 @ 10:20 am - February 8, 2006

  25. Jeremy, the left-leaning LA Times titled its piece on yesteday’s funderal, A Eulogy for King, a Scolding for Bush. ‘Nuff said?

    Comment by GayPatriotWest — February 8, 2006 @ 12:17 pm - February 8, 2006

  26. Dan, why in the world would you still want to read that rag? It’s got about as much credibility these days as the LA Weekly.

    Personally, I’m thinking of getting a subscription to The Onion! :)
    Eric in Hollywood

    Comment by HollywoodNeoCon — February 8, 2006 @ 12:22 pm - February 8, 2006

  27. I also note the LA Times recently published an editorial in opposition to virtually all military weapons procurement programs.

    Comment by V the K — February 8, 2006 @ 12:52 pm - February 8, 2006

  28. I was JUST on the phone talking about this with my girlfriend when I pulled up you blog. How dare Jimmy Carter take time out of what should have been a postitive moment, in order to vilify the administration. Reprehensible. I can’t imagine that this is what Coretta King wanted.

    Comment by Melanie — February 8, 2006 @ 1:20 pm - February 8, 2006

  29. Patrick, you bring up one of the Gipper’s failures — and are right to criticize him for that. I agree that his mishandling of Beirut did help embolden Islamicists.

    btw, I do think Carter was being a prime class-A jackass.

    Comment by Patrick (Gryph) — February 8, 2006 @ 1:43 pm - February 8, 2006

  30. Note the ironic juxtaposition:

    melanie, how dare of you to speak for Coretta Scott King!

    with:

    I think Coretta Scott King wanted to take a swipe at GW Bush anyday, anytime and somehow.

    Comment by North Dallas Thirty — February 8, 2006 @ 2:08 pm - February 8, 2006

  31. 19: By any chance, are you a fan of Nixon? Here’s the guy who brought the country and the presidency down to its lowest level, yet he was praised by conservatives years later when he went on tour talking about how to bring the country back. Carter’s down more to promote real peace and humanity, especialy in his post presidential years, than most.

    Comment by Kevin — February 8, 2006 @ 2:47 pm - February 8, 2006

  32. Perhaps it’s a bit late to note that “classless” is not quite the right word here, since it pertains to social status and not to behavior as such.

    Comment by Tim Hulsey — February 8, 2006 @ 3:37 pm - February 8, 2006

  33. #35: No, sarcasm is usually intending to be funny in the first place. What you did was make a stupid statement that you didn’t think through, which you are now attempting to write off as sarcasm.

    Comment by North Dallas Thirty — February 8, 2006 @ 3:50 pm - February 8, 2006

  34. #26

    I had a subscription to The Onion, but it was too left leaning.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — February 8, 2006 @ 3:56 pm - February 8, 2006

  35. The problem as I see is not what was said at the funeral of the sista (MLK would have said as much, if not more).

    Actually, I think Aaron McGruder did a much better job of portraying what Dr. King would be saying. Especially to an audience of black racists and white exploiters of minorities like Jimmy Carter, et al.

    Comment by North Dallas Thirty — February 8, 2006 @ 3:57 pm - February 8, 2006

  36. #40

    That was a good episode, and I don’t usually watch that.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — February 8, 2006 @ 4:05 pm - February 8, 2006

  37. no, Never, we don’t claim Liberals are anti-Americans.

    And how dare you to speak for Mrs. King! How do you know you wanted to make a swipe at the president? Can you communicate with the dead?

    Comment by GayPatriotWest — February 8, 2006 @ 4:14 pm - February 8, 2006

  38. Kevin, it’s amusing you would ask if I’m a fan of Nixon. It shows that you, like so many liberals, see the president in Nixonian terms. Nixon shamed himself (and the nation) as president and did the right thing in August 1974 when he resigned.

    That said, at least, he behaved with grace as an ex-president. He never took issue with Carter’s foreign policy (while the Georgian was in office) and made sure each of his successor’s knew about his travel abroad where he refrained from criticizing their Administration – even when he disagreed.

    Carter may think that he has done more to promote peace, humanity and other good things since he left the White House than most. But, those who promote those good things don’t appease tyrants and criticize democracies. Nor do such individuals attempt to pick fights with the elected leadership of their own nation.

    Comment by GayPatriotWest — February 8, 2006 @ 4:21 pm - February 8, 2006

  39. Kevin, it’s amusing you would ask if I’m a fan of Nixon.

    You think that’s amusing? He’s trying to tell people I’m not gay. :)

    Comment by North Dallas Thirty — February 8, 2006 @ 4:45 pm - February 8, 2006

  40. #31, et al.

    For all those GayLeftists who append that Mrs King would have criticized the Prez if she could have spoken at her funeral, let’s remember she did have the chance to do exactly that at last year’s “Let Freedom Ring” event honoring her husband’s body of work and memory.

    She thought it a fitting event and recognition. She came off the Democrat plantation long enough to applaud President Bush and former Scy of State Powell for honoring her husband’s memory on the MLK national holiday.

    So stick the “Coretta would have dis’ed the Prez” crap where it belongs ==> in the dustbin of cheap political opportunism by the same crowd who hijacked Paul Wellstone’s funeral and turned it into a pep rally for the reality-challenged.

    Comment by Michigan-Matt — February 8, 2006 @ 5:03 pm - February 8, 2006

  41. Actually, I think Aaron McGruder did a much better job of portraying what Dr. King would be saying. Especially to an audience of black racists and white exploiters of minorities like Jimmy Carter, et al.

    This is not a defense of Jimmy Carter, who as I have said, was a jackass.

    But….
    To say …an audience of black racists and white exploiters of minorities like Jimmy Carter, et al.”

    You had a crowd of 10,000 mostly black people who loudly applauded Carter’s and others comments. Most of those comments were not in any way dissimilar from things that Mrs. King has said as well. To chalk it all up to “black racists and white exploiters” vastly underestimates the extremely poor image of the GOP that black Americans apparently hold. You should not discount out of hand that there is truth to their grievances. Even if you do, its still a major problem for the GOP.

    One thing that I really liked was that Bush DID have to sit in front of an audience that was not friendly to him. That was not hand-picked for party loyalty, or required by the UCMJ to not openly criticize him since he is the CIC.

    It is to Bush’s credit, that he did this. Granted, in many ways he was forced too, since ignoring the funeral would have had pretty negative consequences in public opinion for him. But still, he did go, and by all accounts, appeared to be attentive and gracious.

    I think ALL our Presidents should be required to speak in front of hostile audiences once in a while. Its good for the country that a President be forced to hear opinions other than those of his yes-men.

    Comment by Patrick (Gryph) — February 8, 2006 @ 5:11 pm - February 8, 2006

  42. I had a subscription to The Onion, but it was too left leaning.

    Scrappleface.

    Comment by rightwingprof — February 8, 2006 @ 5:40 pm - February 8, 2006

  43. I’m still waiting about the armor thing that I mentioned earlier — I don’t see anything from you guys applauding Liberals for doing something good. You’re spending too much on negative things against the Liberals.

    Grow a spine and do something different!

    What, like use proper syntax?

    Please, if you insist on trying to provoke arguments, please have the courtesy of speaking the truth. Your insistence that conservatives spend far too much time attacking the American Castrati is disingenuous at best, NeverAnHonestBoy. While we DO indeed spend an inordinate amount of time simply ackowledging your petulant rantings, ’tis not because we wish to avoid an honest debate, rather ’tis because you incessant felchers insist upon lying with each and every argument you put forth.

    Face it, my little drama queens…you’ve lost, you’re going to continue to lose, and there ain’t shit any of you morons can do about it. You’re selling bullshit, and no one’s buying it.

    Have a nice day!

    Eric in Hollywood
    happily eviscerating the ignorati since 1979

    Comment by HollywoodNeoCon — February 8, 2006 @ 6:46 pm - February 8, 2006

  44. Never (or is it Ridor?) if you’re gonna make an accusation against this blog, particiularly in the space we provide for comments, please provide evidence, namely references to particular posts. Thanks.

    Comment by GayPatriotWest — February 8, 2006 @ 6:57 pm - February 8, 2006

  45. #48

    Ridor - “BLAHHHH, TIMMER!!!!”

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — February 8, 2006 @ 7:29 pm - February 8, 2006

  46. I heard a reference to Katrina/blacks at the funeral. I live in south MS and I’m a whitey) and my home and business was submerged. Katrina was an equal opportunity hurricane, my hometown in 60/40 white and there was no difference. FEMA is a response agency to come in after the storms; they don’t handle evacs, the job of local and state governments. This monster, no one was prepared for. Its just like the libs to blame just the repub feds for the storm and not local government cause they are dems. It is also their normal reaction to judge ones heart “George Bush doesn’t care about black people”. One can say Fema wasn’t prepared for this monster, NOLA wasn’t prepared for this monster, or LA wasn’t prepared, but only conservatives are judged for not being prepared “because they don’t care”. Nagin left 100s of buses parked to be flooded instead of using them to evacuate. Was it because he hates blacks? Was it because he’s stupid? No as a conservative white guy I say he left them because no one knew how bad this storm was going to be . Only Libs would use this as a chance to smear an opponent and say it was because “He doesn’t care” . And only Libs would do it at a F%cking funeral! They make me sick. They are a bunch of whiney Pussys.

    Not all Libs beleive this BS, but the ones that do are like the dumb housewife that believes her husband when he tells her the lipstick on his collar was planted their by his coworkers because they are jealous of their great marriage..yeah right, and the checks in the mail.

    Comment by greenmiler — February 8, 2006 @ 7:59 pm - February 8, 2006

  47. I’m still waiting about the armor thing that I mentioned earlier — I don’t see anything from you guys applauding Liberals for doing something good. You’re spending too much on negative things against the Liberals.

    Hey never; RE your above paragraph:
    Change Liberal to conservative and THAT is the state of your party

    Comment by greenmiler — February 8, 2006 @ 8:05 pm - February 8, 2006

  48. To chalk it all up to “black racists and white exploiters” vastly underestimates the extremely poor image of the GOP that black Americans apparently hold. You should not discount out of hand that there is truth to their grievances. Even if you do, its still a major problem for the GOP.

    What, that they can’t win the hearts of people who, under orders from black and white Democratic leaders, throw oreo cookies at the first black elected official in Maryland because he’s a Republican and post pictures of him as Sambo on their websites?

    That they can’t appease the people who call the first black Secretary of State and first black AND female National Security Advisor and Secretary of State “house slaves” because a Republican President appointed them?

    That they can never please the ones who mock and berate academically-successful blacks who are more likely to vote Republican as “acting white”?

    That they look bad to people who push music calling women bitches and ‘hos, encourage men to have as much unprotected sex as possible, and then blame it all on white people?

    I bet every single liberal on this board will now descend on me in fury and call me a racist. Case made.

    Comment by North Dallas Thirty — February 8, 2006 @ 9:10 pm - February 8, 2006

  49. Re: #15 — I guess if one is delusional enough to believe that Republicans are Nazis who would be perfectly happy to see gays exterminated, one is delusional enough to think Jimmy Carter is a great elder statesman.

    I had a subscription to The Onion, but it was too left leaning.

    Try Iowahawk or Beautiful Atrocities. There’s also that idiot with the captions.

    Comment by V the K — February 8, 2006 @ 10:38 pm - February 8, 2006

  50. #52

    Katrina was an equal opportunity hurricane, my hometown in 60/40 white and there was no difference.

    Sorry. You didn’t have enough “poor blacks” to exploit. That’s why the lib media ignored MS, AL and GA, except for shots of the Hard Rock.
    Not only that, but you had a Republican governor who got off his ass and got to work after the storm instead of sitting on his ass in the mud whining.

    BTW, I grew up in Raymond.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — February 9, 2006 @ 1:29 am - February 9, 2006

  51. #56

    TGC, speak for yourself.

    I’m pretty sure I did. I don’t require other people to type for me, fucktard.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — February 9, 2006 @ 1:31 am - February 9, 2006

  52. James Earl Carter is a petty little man who still has a chip on his shoulder from losing to Ronald Reagan in 1984. His ego is driving him to find the same cliff Ramsey Clark jumped off years ago.

    Carter did more damage in the Middle East than fail to end the hostage crisis. While the Shah was bad for Iranians the Shiite extremists who overthrew him are worse, and Carter had a part in the Shah’s downfall. I knew the American general who did some of the dirty work.

    Carter is an embarrassment for most mainstream Democrats I know and we ought to do our part by figuring the pitiful little man has had his 15 minutes, plus more, and we need to ignore him. And we need to ignore Cindy Sheehan, and Jesse Jackson, and Michael Moore, et al. Once they’re left to just preach to the choir they’ll be as relevant to the debate as Paris Hilton is. At least we can hope so. (It was encouraging to hear longtime Democratic activist Bob Beckel say he’s ambarrassed by Howard Dean!)

    The Omaha World-Herald had an excellent editorial cartoon today(Feb. 8) that I’m sure was drawn before Carter’s remarks at the King funeral. It shows Judiciary Committee member Senator Ted Kennedy quizzing Attorney General Gonzales about wiretapping. Over Teddy’s shoulder is the ghost of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy saying how glad he was that no one quizzed him about wiretapping Martin Luther King Jr. (Go to http://www.omaha.com and check opinion archives.)

    Comment by Jack Allen — February 9, 2006 @ 3:23 am - February 9, 2006

  53. So, Jimmy Carter, Howie Dean and Al Sharpton were lined up in the Coretta Scott King funeral’s green room, awaiting their opportunity to ascend the dias.

    Rev Al explains to the other two that he had a dream last night and God told him he was going to be the Democrat nominee and next President of the United States. Howie Dean, not a shrinking violet even in the presence of holy man clearly touched by God said “Well, I too had a dream while I napped on the way here from the airport. God said to me, Howie –you know we’re on a first name basis since I utter his name a lot these days– Howie,” God said, “I’m going to reverse my mistake and make you President in 2008.”

    Jimmy Carter, intensely correcting his newest edition of the funeral-stump speech said, “Guys, I had some dreams too… but I don’t remember talking to either of you.”

    Jimmy Carter’s ego and penchant for preserving his “standing” in history has always gotten in the way of making good choices. This latest flap over his pandering statements before the King mourners underscores that point. He thinks he’s God, but he’s just a failed president and a succession of Blitz Builds or speeches ala Al Gore won’t change that fact.

    When Jack Allen at #59 linked Carter’s comments to his troubling ego, it just fit as the perfect, logical explanation. Thanks Jack.

    Comment by Michigan-Matt — February 9, 2006 @ 9:10 am - February 9, 2006

  54. Pitiful comments, GPW and Eric. Again, grow a spine.

    Pitiful? The only pitiful thing about our comments is the fact that we’ve even bothered responding to you.

    Look, you halfwit, most adults know you don’t bring a knife to a gunfight, and since you’ve decided to try to fight with an emory board, don’t get your panties in a bunch when you’re invariably exposed as a complete imbecile. If you’re looking for validation, either call your mommy or keep your lips locked on that glory hole. After all, you’re bound to find SOMEONE who thinks you’re the shiz-nit.

    As for growing a spine, you’ll pardon me if I don’t necessarily respect the criticisms of a guy trolls Santa Monica Blvd., then bitches because the government won’t save him from himself.

    Eric in Hollywood

    Comment by HollywoodNeoCon — February 9, 2006 @ 10:32 am - February 9, 2006

  55. last time I visited SM Blvd, large percentage of men that strolls down that particular street is a fan of GW Bush and Republicans because it pays.

    So…you go there often? I didn’t know curious georges such as yourself could manage to find their way out of the valley. Good for you! You still might want to work on your syntax, though. I know Wendy’s doesn’t expect very much of their employees, but you might get further in life with proper grammar. Just a tip, mind you.

    But as far as the conservatives who “stroll” down SMB, you might wish to acknowledge that we’re either paying our respects at the cemetary, or attending plays on theatre row. Who’s distorting now, fuckwit?

    when someone nailed you on a particular subject, you try to attack or change the subject. That is so typical of conservative Repubican pig

    And as for that little bit of disingenuosness, sweet cheeks, I don’t seem to remember you ever discussing a SUBJECT. In case you’ve forgotten my earlier lesson, lies do not count as a valid argument.

    Jesus, you really ARE a moron, aren’t you?

    Comment by HollywoodNeoCon — February 9, 2006 @ 2:25 pm - February 9, 2006

  56. My first time visiting. Whoa, where did all you creeps come from?

    Comment by M Bogard — February 9, 2006 @ 3:44 pm - February 9, 2006

  57. Never, I live in West Hollywood and whenever I visit the central part of the town, I don’t find many supporters of the President or the GOP strolling there.

    Comment by GayPatriotWest — February 9, 2006 @ 4:03 pm - February 9, 2006

  58. I thought Ridor lived in Shitcago.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — February 9, 2006 @ 5:59 pm - February 9, 2006

  59. One does not need to work on syntax or grammatical rules if they do not consider English as its first language.

    Are you SERIOUS with this? Becuase you don’t consider English as your first language, your position is that you’re somehow entitled to mangle it at will? And I’m a “fucktard” because I find it lacking in intellect? This ain’t Europe, genius, and if you think Americans feel obligated to allow you to stagnate linguistically, then you’re a bigger moron than I initially thought.

    Incidentally, this whole “debate” with you has not only grown stale, but it’s gotten so far off-topic as to be ludicrous. My apologies to Dan and everyone else here.

    Eric in Hollywood
    p.s. - NAR, you’ve just confirmed it - you’re from Pacoima, aren’t you?

    Comment by HollywoodNeoCon — February 10, 2006 @ 9:09 am - February 10, 2006

  60. See me in the next post, NAR, becuase this one is worn out.

    Seriously, let’s start agin on another topic, because we’ve mutually killed this one, agreed? We’re getting nowhere here…

    Eric in Hollywierd

    Comment by HollywoodNeoCon — February 10, 2006 @ 4:21 pm - February 10, 2006

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