Jimmy Carter: Occupy Movement Has Been ‘Relatively Successful’ & the U.S. Is ‘Extra Stingy’
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ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter said on Wednesday that Occupy organizers have created a “relatively successful” movement because they focused national discussion on wealth disparity despite lacking leadership and a unifying set of goals.
The Georgia Democrat said at an event in Atlanta that Occupy organizers have succeeded in forcing the media and Congress to realize the “chasm is getting greater than leaps and bounds” between the rich and the poor.
“It‘s been relatively successful even acknowledging there’s no leadership, there‘s no coherence and there’s no single list of issues they want to succeed,” the former president said of the movement started late last year in lower Manhattan to decry corporate influence in government and wealth inequality.
“That issue was basically ignored by the Congress and the news media a year ago,” he said. “I believe they’ve achieved putting that back on the agenda.”
The remarks came at a Duke University event that also featured his oldest grandson, Jason, who was elected to the Georgia Senate in May 2010.
The former president said his travels abroad since he lost the 1980 election helped him realize the U.S. is “extra stingy” about sharing its wealth with developing nations, particularly when compared to European democracies that put an emphasis on foreign aid. Helping the less fortunate, he said, should be viewed as a moral obligation and not an act of charity.
“It dawned on me they were just as intelligent, they were just as ambitious, and their family values were just as good as mine,” he said. “It’s not a matter of superiority or generosity or handing out gifts to others who are less than you. They just haven’t had a chance in life.”
Jason Carter, who displayed the effortless Zulu he learned while working in rural South Africa for the Peace Corps, said his experience overseas helped shape his world view. He suggested that those who talk about liberty purely as a financial issue have lost sight about what it means to respect human rights.
“We talk about freedom at the Georgia Legislature as a half a point in your income tax,” he said.
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thegodfather
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:27amApparently Jimmy the Jew hater judges success by how often they riot, get arrested, throw bricks at cops, destroy property, and crap in buckets.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:29amMore words of wisdom from our NATIONAL HEMMORHOID…
Report Post »Highland
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:34amWhat a silly, stupid, bigoted, terrorist-loving, demented old man he is.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:39amJImmy Carter and Tony Bennet should be room mates at Shady Pines
Report Post »libtardian-refugee
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:47amIt’s hard to believe that 40- 50 years ago that empty dried up skull housed the brain of a nuclear scientist. I wonder who the public servant is who has to change his diaper
Report Post »Jezcruzen
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 9:14amWhen will this national embarrassment do us all a favor and just die?
Report Post »Dstarr55
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 9:25amGodfather, you said it so clearly. It is the MSM and fools like Carter that are desperately trying to make the OWS movement successful by downplaying or ignoring the filth, violence, crimes and cost. They are the ones driving the wealth disparity message.
As far as America being stingy – who is it the nations call on when disaster strikes? It is the US. Carter is not counting the cost of our military protecting and keeping most of the world safe. He is not counting the many humanitarian missions of the military which is basically ignored by the MSM. We give far more not just in aid paid by taxpayers but by charitable organizations with generous donations from Americans. He is not counting our free market which allows for the development of medicines and medical procedures, which the world benefits from as well. It is America that is at the forefront of innovation, of which the rest of the world benefits.
If only Carter loved his country as much as he loves the despots of this world he would not be making such foolish statements.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 9:36amThere’s a difference between Jew and Zionist. Most Zionists are not Jews. Carter’s comments were about Zionists and those Zionists who are Jews. Need to know the difference before you can debate the issue.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 9:45amDStarr55, “If only Carter loved his country as much as he loves the despots of this world he would not be making such foolish statements.”
Listen, I‘m no fan of Carter but that doesn’t permit me to run from the truth. Here are facts that refute your statement. America loves despots.
1) America overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran.
2) America placed an oppressive tyrant in power over the Iranian people.
3) America kept that tyrant in place with force for 26 years.
4) Supported the tyrant in Egypt.
5) Support the tyrants in Saudi Arabia.
6) Supported Hussein in Iraq, until he was no longer needed.
7) Support the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
Why go on… haven’t even touched on Central or South America… facts speak for themselves?
Report Post »littlefish
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 9:56amThe word “Successful” like so many other words lately . . .has been “occupied”
Report Post »its meaning completely bastardized
dublinthewagons
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 9:57amGOOBER GOOBER GOOBER
Report Post »PEANUT BRAIN
Jimmy you are no longer the sorriest president.
Walkabout
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 10:34amThe_Jerk
I’ll put up a list of the of the U.S. sins in supporting ‘bad” governments versus China or USSR/Russia.
Russia supports Assad in Syria.
USSR supported Egypt until the Camp David Accords. To get the peace treaty we had to provide financial aid to Egypt. Egypt was ruled by Answar Sadat & his legitimate successor was Mubarak. When Answar Sadat was assassinated by the Muslim Brotherhood Mubarak was also wounded in the same attack. Would rather have us renege on the Camp David Accords & give Egypt the cold shoulder because Sadat or Mubarak ruled? The Muslim Brotherhood is so much better.
Iran came about because the British refused to renegotiate oil contract. They were legally right to refuse although they should have renegotiated. Iran nationalized their assets that they had built.
Nationalization of assets is such a great thing. Why even Mexico has a problem when Hugo Chavez nationalized the assets of a Mexican concrete company. A Concrete company? Really? Chavez must really have screwed up the Venezuelan economy.
The Iranians were jealous because the U.S. were paying more for Saudi oil than the British were paying the Iranians. The British should have renegotiated.
If Abdul Aziz was not the legitimate ruler in 1932 of Saudi Arabia then who was? You cannot make an argument that someone else could have been & could have been elected & make it a believable cogent argument.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 10:38amThe_Jerk
Mubarak bad!!!!!!!
Overthrow him! GOOOOD!!!!
you should be with La Hood’s son over in Egypt living your values. Democracy. Direct Free elections.
Clink! Wait ! What? Why are you throwing me in jail? I hate Mubarak like you! Hey I am on your side.
so will you go to Jordan or Saudi Arabia & promote Democracy Like La Hood’s son? Because if you will I’ll buy the ticket. You will have to get a visa to the country & sign a contract.
It will be worth every penny.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 10:44amI‘m in 60’s and remember this great president. Intrest rates on a new car was 21% and the UAU backed him with halfn of auto workers llaid off. Gas lines a mile long. He tried to talk the Iranians to death on the release of the Americans held hostage. I was afraid he was going to get re-elected and we would be using Russin Rupels for currency. With the unions backing him it proved that even Union members in that voteing booth sometimes are smarter than we give them credit.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 10:50amThe_Jerk
Mossadegh was a populist. Is riling up the populace & nationalizing a company the only way to get a renegotiation?
“refusal of the AIOC to offer of a ‘50–50% profit sharing deal’ to Iran as Aramco had to Saudi Arabia”
“anger over Iran’s defeat and occupation by the Allied powers — nationalization of oil was an important and popular issue with “a broad cross-section of the Iranian people.”
Iran was occupied because they were going to side with the NAZIs. But that is a bad thing . We must let them side with the NAZIs
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 10:54amForgot to mention that my wife and self feel that with obama it is like the reelection of Jimmy Carter all over again! Instead of Billions in the hole it is 16 $ Trillion and now we are going to refund Minium wage folks $400 and for the over $100,000 folks give $2,000.00. Mr. Obama is trying to buy votes again. We screwed up not for the money but fell for “Hope and Change and don‘t like the Change and I don’t think there is any hope.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 10:58amMossadegh would conduct reconts like a Democrat. Count some votes & not others.
Realizing that the opposition would take the vast majority of the provincial seats, Mosaddegh stopped the voting as soon as 79 deputies – just enough to form a parliamentary quorum — had been elected.”
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:14amJimmy “bob” Carter has always been and will always be a hateful little man that cranked up the terrorists back in the 70′s…BTW liberals he is a dem, far left of center.
Report Post »Dstarr55
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:25amJerk, There is no ‘love’ of the despots. America used them for their own national interest. You can criticize that but it is not like Carter who glowingly praise tyrants like Castro and Chavez. Your first three items are the same. Britain and the US did participate in the coup but it was because of Iran nationalizing their oil industry. It was Carter that pulled support from the Shah which brought us Khomeini – a tyrant fell only to have rise a threat to the region and to the US.
On your actual 2nd point, Egypt, Mubarak’s leadership in Egypt helped keep stability in the Middle East. The so-called Arab Spring is putting the Muslim Brotherhood into power and destabilizing the region causing a massive growth in violence.
On your 3rd point, Saudi Arabia – the fact we depend on their oil leaves us little choice but to protect and support them. Perhaps if Obama would open up drilling and would have allowed the Keystone Pipeline to be built, we would not have to depend on foreign oil as much as we do.
With Saddam it was the enemy of our enemy type situation and with Jordan I really don’t get your point. Jordan is a free market country with a growing middle class. It is a constitutional monarchy with an appointed government and is considered one of the safest countries in the world – hardly the kingdom of a despot.
To equate national interest with Carter’s praise of despots is not an equal or fair comparison. Nice try, Jerk.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:28amYou know I’ve come to the conclusion that the confusion of no conclusive message from the clueless may be divinely inspired. Yep! Kinda like in Nimrods day when the Lord confounded or changed their language so they could be dispersed and set free from bondage they did not know was headed their way.
Sometimes you gotta thank the Lord for these things. Although in reality its not confusion to be true to the definition because they all have a message but there is no COHESION of that message. So I thought I’d add that clarification because God is not the author of confusion…Satan is.
I’ll add that the last empire Daniel was allowed to see was one that also had no “COHESION” because it was formed from Miry Clay and Iron which do not mix….thats the EU in all of its multi-culture glory and we can see its falling apart.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:29amOh sure….about as successful as Jimmy Carter’s re-election bid.
Report Post »brother_ed
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:33amI think it’s fair to say that if a country needs our humanitarian support, then it is because their government has failed them.
If they have the opportunity to elect a different leader and they do not, then they get what they deserve.
I believe most Americans would rather stay home and let other countries fend for themselves, but our Judeo-Christian values compel us to help those in need, hence we step in and get rid of nasty leaders through military action, sanctions or the like.
During a disaster, we help all, regardless of race, color or creed,
There may be exception, we are not perfect, but overall that is what we do.
Report Post »ThemDemsLie2much
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:33amStill pissed that the South lost I see Jimmy! Where is the Obama Death panel when you need them? I remember sitting in Billy’s gas station as a kid and listening to Billy talk about his peanut head brother. That was even before Billy Beer. He actually drank PBR if I remember right. I think he may be upset that he is no longer the worst president ever…
Report Post »Arthur Spooner
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:33amWhat a despicable human being being this man is. He truly hates America, as well as Israel.
Report Post »omgfolks
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:52amNow wait just a minute. Your spouting off as if you have some first hand knowledge of what iit is truly like to take a stand for something. The OWS has a legit cause, they did what these keyboard rambo’s only wish they had the nere to do. Republicans and Democrats all have their fair share of idiots too, so don’t go pointing fingers at the movement. You no better. There is a big problem in America, and it mostly has to do with GREED, Corp. Greed, Bankers Greed, Bad leadership in goverment. So if these folks wish to raise the issue and take a stand, let them.
Report Post »db321
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:00pmBut there is Good New! Obama is going to pay for every Women in America Birth Control. Just think that is a savings $30 a month for each Women that takes BC. On one hand each Women supporting Obama’s plan is giving up Life in Eternity and selling out America, but the flip side is a savings of $30 a month.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:01pmall the extreme leftists keep saying the lie that there is no leadership. There is leadership all the way to the white house. There is a chain of command, there are riot training seminars paid for with mostly union and soros money.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:03pmHe looks crazy!
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:04pmJimmy Carter: If it weren’t for Obama you would retain the honor of being the worst Prez. Shut up!
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:06pmDoes this man ever come down on the correct side of any issue?
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:10pmomgfolks
Attacking cops
Selectively marching on the homes of some millionaires/billionaires but not others
Protesting Wall Street but not telling the story of Government Sachs (GoldMan Sachs).
Shutting down ports (Oakland).
American Spectator has a great expose of Government Sachs
Your man Obama is the largest recipient of ‘Government Sachs’ money & yet he supports OWS.
OWS are shock troops of the Democrat political party like the Stormabeitlubng (SA) were the shock troops of the NAZIs. A little less blood but they are the street fighters for the Demorats like the SA was for Hitler.
Again Obama gets the most from government Sachs & the OWS protests ignore Democrat millionaires? Dude you have bought & paid for.
Report Post »kfalcon22000
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:11pmIts time to put Carter in a home.
Report Post »cgent47
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:23pmYou forgot the guy defecating on the car.
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:25pmLooking at the pic. he just came from spending
Report Post »wk end with Barny Frank.
atechgeek
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:41pm@Jezcruzen :
Took the words out of my mouth. I thought he was dead by his zombie looking pictures. His days are numbered. Please be patient.
Report Post »whitelephant
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:55pmWorse time my father ever had was living through the Carter years!
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:59pmHey Jimmy I see you and other past presidents are still cashing your paychecks from the Government all the while making more privately on giving speech’s time to not be so stingy and send that Government check back.
Report Post »THEUNKNOWNPATRIOT
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 1:40pmJimmy, you‘re a friggin’ disgrace to our country. The shoe fits when you said (about occupy) “It dawned on me they were just as intelligent, they were just as ambitious, and their family values were just as good as mine”. Hmmm, let’s just google “occupy images”….mmmmkay……ahhhh, here we go: cops in riot gear arresting people, looters, more cops in riot gear, pics of the socialist/communist solidarity fist, capitalism is a failure banner, try socialism banner, social justice signs, kids throwing rocks at police, tear gas being launched into crowds…etc….There ya go Jimmy, I hope your proud of their accomplishments!
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 1:52pmNo -he doesn’t hate anyone .rather he’s a great american and a true christian.he actually values human life and didn’t jump to war when the hostage crisis broke out.Reagan gets the credit but of course carter got them out alive. And he has the courage to equate the occupation of palestinians and israels’ insistance on having a majority jewish population as apartheid and racism. he could care less what the zionist dominated media and the right wing manipulated gulls say about him.he speaks truth to power and rightfully saw that the real victims in the whole arab- israeli conflict are the arabs[palestinians] .of course he has to be demonized once he goes public on that one. Gulls!God bless jimmy carter-a great american and a great christian.
Report Post »Michael61
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 1:55pmEuropean democracies are ahead the US? You are right, they are way ahead, just look at Greece. We will be there in a few years.
OWS? Stupid liberals don‘t realize those OWS are exactly like Hitler’s stormtroopers.
The same stupid liberals missed all signs of coming fascism the last time in 1920s…
Report Post »rush_is_right
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 2:03pm“1) America overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran.”
america saved the iranian people from a communist government..dominated by the soviet union…
“3) America kept that tyrant in place with force for 26 years. ”
that ‘tryant’ was allowed far more freedom than the real tyrants, the mullahs that you love so much…you fascist stooge.
“4) Supported the tyrant in Egypt.”
and the new tyrants are far worse…get a clue gomer, you can’t have democracy and freedom in an islamic land….
“6) Supported Hussein in Iraq, until he was no longer needed. ”
yeah as long as he was fighting iran…it was a great move to support him…bleed them both….
you really don’t understand strategy very well do you?
“Why go on… haven’t even touched on Central or South America… facts speak for themselves?”
when have you posted any facts? you anti-semitic loon.
Report Post »rush_is_right
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 2:05pm“No -he doesn’t hate anyone .rather he’s a great american and a true christian.he ”
uh yeah real christians are anti-semities……yeah….you do know that Jesus is JEWISH right??? duhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 2:05pmYou left out RAPE, MURDER, PUBLIC DEFICATION, PUBLIC FORNICATION,….
OWS are perfect representatives of the liberal agenda.
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 2:20pmIf you give this idiot an IQ test and a drug test, I bet he‘d flunk ’em both.
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 2:36pm@THE_JERK
Many times we’ve been in the unfortunate position in the middle east where we had to choose between horrible and awful. We made the choice we thought best at the time. Sometimes we were right, sometimes we were wrong. But to suggest that we loved our choices is entirely disengenuous.
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 2:36pmWhere is the “grim reaper” when you need him?
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 2:39pmWhoever said that everyone is good at something never met Jimmy “cracked-corn” Carter.
Report Post »The_Fox
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 2:40pmDoes anyone else see a peculiar simularity between Jimmy’s second photo and this one:
http://mevolving.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/tarsier.jpg
Report Post »blamelessace5
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 2:44pm@ detroit paperboy
lol love it
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 3:07pmAmerica is stingy? Where have you been for the last 50 years Mr. Carter? BTW: Europe is BROKE, and so are we as a nation. Most rich people got that way working their butts off. The permanent “suck off the working taxpayer” class should try working up a sweat once in a while and EARN their way. It’s time for a real change and it starts in NOvember.
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 3:13pmHey Andy! I’ve got Otis locked up in cell 1. I was just about to polish my shoes when Thelma Lou called and I had to go get her cat out of a tree….Stopped at Floyd’s barber shop on the way back. Oh yea, Aunt Bea wants you to call the man about the freezer on the back porch. I told her you would nip it, nip it, nip it in the bud.
Report Post »WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges10
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 5:14pm“Jimmy Carter: Occupy Movement Has Been ‘Relatively Successful’ & the U.S. Is ‘Extra Stingy’”
HEADLINE TYPO CORRECTION –
Report Post »“Jimmy Carter’s CORPSE: Occupy Movement Has Been ‘Relatively Successful’ & the U.S. Is ‘Extra Stingy’”
Wilbur Longshank
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 5:44pmCartvor and drop dead already. maybe choke on one of his peanuts
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:20pmDoes he channel Joyless Behar?
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 9:26pmOne word for Carter: PATHETIC!
Report Post »stormcrow53
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 10:46pm@ the Jerk: Your name is so appropriate. Were you raised by a poor, black family?
Report Post »Anti slavery movements were started in the 1600s in churches in America while the rest of the world bought and sold slaves as they had done for millenia.
American sons and daughters shed their blood to abolish slavery.
(1) The Soviet Union and China were and are democratically elected dictatorships. They need to be overthrown. China has imprisoned people for writing essays on the internetincluding a Nobel Prize winner. I suggest a prisoner exchange. Our Nobel prize winner for theirs.
(2) America supported an enemy of the Soviet Union and Communist China (dictatorships responsible for the deaths of uncounted millions of people) in Iran for 26 years. Jimmy Carter basely betrayed the Iranian people just as the Foreign Dictator has.
(3) America kept the Soviet Union and China from enslaving the people of Iran for 26 years.
(4) America supported the only democratic republic in the middle east for decades by supporting Egypt(especially Sadat who was assasinated by the Muslim Brotherhood.)
(5) America supported an ally in Saudi Arabia which helped us overthrow the Ottoman Empire.
(6) America had to stop Sadaam Hussein because he invaded Kuwait another ally and threatened every nation in the region and his own people.
(7) Supported the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (the real Palestinian state) as an alternative to the dictatorship of Yassir Arafat who attempted to destroy Jordan in a military c
stormcrow53
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:22pm@ duh Jerk:
Report Post »You don‘t know the facts and can’t handle the truth.
Jimmy Carter is the cause of so much death and misery in the middle east it boggles the mind that those tyrannical regimes pay him so well. How embarrassing he is to be nothing more than a paid shill. He has brought dishonor and disgrace to the Office of the President of the United States of America. Again. He will be villified by history.
Hey Mecca Rose. Kill any apostates lately? Can you explain the Satanic Verses? Is it true that the Ayatollah Khomeini wrote that sex with animals is acceptable? Was he just the Islamic predecessor to the Occupy Wall Street useful idiots? Is that why the commies, socialists and muslims support each other? Is bestiality the foundation of your alliance? Why would one prefer an animal over the inherent goodness of woman in love? Is it acceptable for women to have sex with animals? Oh, but only Jews are the sons of pigs, dogs and monkeys, isn’t that right? But aren’t you both Children of Abraham? So wouldn’t that mean…? Muslims are so pathetic. Are women mere chattel in your world? moHAMmed really was a monster. Go ahead. Compare him to Jesus. You will always lose because moHAMed was a monster. How pathetic muslims are.
Must be sad to be a muslim. And a communist. Of course I suspect you can always find solace in the inherent submissiveness of a goat. Or a child.
ConstLaw
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:42pm“When will this national embarrassment do us all a favor and just die?”
Could not have sai it better.
Report Post »RabidPatriot
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 12:46amSee how crazy you get when you live a liberal lifestyle.
Report Post »ILUVJESUS
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 3:33amCarter: a human cesspool, a living, breathing disaster, failure personified, anti Semite bigot, useless forunner of Obama!
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 5:17am@Storm: I was under the assumption that the Kuwaitis were drilling Iraqi oil on their shared border. They would start to drill on the Kuwaiti side, but drill at a slant to tap Iraqi oil fields. That’s what I remember being told. I had a friend in the Marines who served during Desert Shield/Storm, and my brother was shipped to Germany, for the Air Force, at the tail end of Desert Storm.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 6:04amWell if the SECOND WORST President in our generation said it, it must be true.
Report Post »We all know who the WORST one is, as we continue to serve him every day until this coming January.
Heavenly Father help us!!
bigfatslob
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 7:55amThe_Jerk meet Rose-Ellen
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 9:20amjimmy wasn’t that bright when he was younger now he is a daft old man.
Report Post »readytostand
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:33amWhen will that old windbag , ever become a pile of Composte ??
Report Post »readytostand
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:56am@ Rose- smellin – Oh sure Carter (peanut boy) was just terrific ! Implementation of regulation on his people , 18 % interest on a home loan , unless of course you were so lucky as to be getting a home for free from hab. for humanity ( via my tax dollar) ! I just love how liberals will take a mans hard earned money , and give it to someone else , and demand it’s your Moral obligation ! All Liberals are THIEFS , Including CARTER ! Hey ROSIE , we call that Distribution of wealth ! You call it ( moral obligation ) ! You say Carter is a great christian – I say he is a Thief ! I have read your postings in the past , and what would you know about christianity , being the GOD -HATER that you are !.
Report Post »Scotland1314
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 12:54pmHe was born an IDIOT and hell die an IDIOT !!!!
Report Post »digitalist
Posted on February 17, 2012 at 7:40pmeveryone knows they crap in the streets… not in buckets. :P
Report Post »geo01
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:20am.
Report Post »Mr. Carter . . . Giving due respect to the Office of the Presidency:
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CRAWL BACK IN YOUR HOLE.
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There are more influential people that we would rather listen to.
Darla_K
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:52amHe should be picking peanuts and save his comments for someone who gives a darn.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:57amHe was a crummy President — but he is a much WORSE ex-president.
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:11pmSenility is a terrible thing,As for his comment on America’s greed, I won’t even justify that with a reply.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:17amWho keeps letting this senile old fool escape from the home and go out and babble his dribble. He was a fool when he was President and he has gotten much worse with age.
Report Post »TheLeftMadeMeRight
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 10:21amHabatat for humanity built his retirement home, and all the doors fell off it…
Report Post »capecod1
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:16amWith respect to the office of the President and considering the fact that I was not alive when he held office, I make the following comments based on what I have read and heard from those who witnessed his administration first hand. Fmr. President Carter is still serving those who put him into office and is only doing as he is told to keep pushing the communist agenda. For those young adults less informed than I he may represent the elder statesman role. He needs to go off into the wilderness or keep building homes for the poor, and stay out of current politics.
Report Post »TheLeftMadeMeRight
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 10:24amOr start construction on the “Museum of really bad US presidents” of which he will be featured.
Then Obama will have a place to go too.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:38amCan he really believe he is a Christian and hold the view that Socialism is the vehicle to get the kind of world Jesus would agree with? Those two do not mix. Socialism then communism are forced on the people to control their wicked nature. Instead Freedom, Liberty under God have set man free and allow man to decide things for himself. Its that power of choice that God gave each of us and that man has worked to rob.
I cannot for the life of me understand how this former president has gotten so misguided. I was alive when he was president and remember the turmoil this country went through. The shock waves of his misguided policies went well into Reagans second term. Most people who were working back then were thankful to have jobs even though most at that time were being shipped overseas, our steel industry shut down, car manufacturing being surpassed by the Japanese etc. At the conclusion of my first enlistment in 1985, there still were no jobs and even college kids were struggling to find work. I decided a career in the Navy was the way to go. I saw many of my shipmates take the gamble against firm advice and exit the service only to return within a year or two as NAVETS under that program which allowed you to return at one rank less. No sir! Carter is bad news for all concerned.
Report Post »quiltgal
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:12amBy this age, Jimmy Carter should have learned a little bit about economics. What an old fool.
Report Post »crazyoz
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:09amThere is an old saying Jimmy, “Blow up and dry away”. It’s your time Jimmy.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:06amCarter needs to go back to the nursing home.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:01am.
Report Post »Are we sure Carter is not Obama’s long lost Daddy?……..
progressiveslayer
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:03amWho’s yer daddy? Could be Barry is half white after all and all Marxist.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:59amDementia is a horrible disease and Jimmy is in the throws of it now,he deserves a sweet release soon.
Report Post »M13
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:03pmMay he can do some P.S.A. about the effects of dementia, because it is really taking its toll on him.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 3:53pmno-rabid right wing hypercapitalism-if you’re rich you must be good-work till you drop,pull yourselves up by your own bootstraps-american puritanism is the disease . The 21stc will bring us enlightened european style social/capitalist hybrid democracy here at home.Carter is an enlightened great american and a real christian
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:08pmRosie you’re an idiot,spew your communist socialist BS somewhere else.
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 9:23pmROSIE, you’re also a gorp. You and a half dozen other libs that show your pie holes on the Blaze can take an extended vacation whenever yo like. Call us before you come back, because we’ll give you another 6 months off.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:56amAmerica has always been the most generous country in the world, always at the forefront with aid to any country who is in need.
Report Post »I lived under the Carter administration and thought he would be the worst President in history until Obama came along but Americans were smarter then and gave him the boot after his one and only term.
I think this liberal, foolish old man is still angry about that.
Walkabout
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:07amWho stopped the Bosnian Genocide? The U.S. or the Europeans.
Bosnia is right next to Italy & Austria & the mighty, beneficent Europeans could do nothing?
So who saves more people? The U.S!
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:09amWho stopped Gadaffi?
The U.S. the Europeans wanted to but they couldn’t. The Europeans didn’t do it for humanitarian reasons. They did it for oil. France & Italy get significant amounts of oil from Libya. So they badgered Obama to help them do what they could not.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:46amI was working in a gas station when he was President. I saw the long lines and rationing. I saw the utter foolishness of his administration. I saw what Marxism disguised as Christianity looks like. I will never forget Jimmy…He was a nightmare.
Report Post »I was offered to attend his Sunday School class about 10 years ago. I almost exploded with laughter and told the person who invited me how idiotic he was for even listening to this fool. I would call Jimmy a turd but that would be insulting turds…
The_Jerk
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:50amWhy is wealth disparity considered an evil, and better yet, why do we allow them to tell us that it is? If you want to improve your lot in life, work harder.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:57amThe “Rich is evil” montra has gained a lot of ground with the election of Obama. To cure it, the rich should go Gault and let the Marxist Commie Lazy no good teat suckers see how much the rich are needed.
Report Post »I am not rich. I am comfortable, but I see several people looking at me as someone who did something illegal to get my money. It all comes from the leadership and media that promotes this way of thinking. I am as far Gault as I can be. I have paid my taxes and done all the right things. Still they want more? They will need to bring a bigger gun if they want any more of my money.
Go gault and get free..
Mess23
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:43amJimmy was definitely not one of our proudest moments.
Good news for him, he is no longer our blight in history – that chapter is being written as I type.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:52amListen, Obama is a more dangerous threat to America than Carter, who was also a traitor.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:36amJimmy’s just glad Obama has come along to take his title as Worst U.S. President in History.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:32am@HIGHLAND
Report Post »I think Jimmy is still fighting for the right to the title as we speak.
jetmech568
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:44ambut it looks like Carter is trying to keep his #1 spot as the worst. I think he is afraid that Obama is taking title of worst so he is working hard to stay #1 at something…….
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:43amHeaven. Hell. I don’t care anymore. Just take him.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 9:46amWell said. I would personally like to see him stumble down Peachtree in Atlanta without security and see all of his poor, down trodden supporters loot his person and leave him on the curb mumbling about the rich and meek arabs being pushed by the Zionist Israeli’s. Not nice, I understand, but …
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:41amThe man belongs in a Home…and on 24 hour meds.
Report Post »Maybe he‘s jealous that obama has taken over as the worst president ever and he’s hoping he can get back in the running by reminding us of what a bizarre loser he is.
And they keep putting microphones in front of his decomposing face…
Nemo13
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:41amWhy is this fossil still relevant? We already have Jimmy 2.0 is the off-white house.
Report Post »2RightToBeWrong
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:47amHe is not relevant and never has been. Slow press day.
Report Post »bpodlesnik
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:38amHe lools like a zombie.
Report Post »aro5o75
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:46amI wish he’d hurry up and die.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:06amThe second pic says it all,that cat is GONE.
Report Post »MiCurmudgeon
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:37amHis description sounds like the country….no leadership and no coherent attempt to unite.
Report Post »ustabhip
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:37amAhh shut up and go crap on a cop car ya old coot!
Report Post »2RightToBeWrong
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:48amHe could not get out of his Depends to crap on a cop car.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:32amAnd here is the “peanut head” again: always ready to put down America.
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:39amYa know, Jimmy … it‘s not that America is ’extra stingy’, it‘s that the federal government is ’EXTRA CORRUPT!!’
You had yer moment in the sun and you screwed it up, old man. Go away.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:42amditto
Report Post »BeetleB
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:31amWhere are his comments about racism and antisemitism? Oh yeah, the occupy movement is bought and paid for by the Democratic party.
Report Post »Kinnison
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:31amPresident Carter: Your presidency was a dismal failure. Your economic policies were a disaster. Your waffling, insipid, inept “leadership” during the Iran Hostage Crisis was an international embarrassment. How about just going back and working on Habitat for Humanity and shutting up, because what tiny bit of positive legacy you have is rapidly eroding away. Take a lesson from the Presidents Bush and bring a little dignity and silence to retirement. President Obama can use all the help he can get, but you are not helping.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:30amHey Jimmy you ARE one of the 1%, if you hadn’t noticed. You inherited your fathers business. Why didn’t you split it up among the 99%, you capitalist pig.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 8:00amNo no no Gonzo…he is the 99% shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Report Post »He can disguise it well…he is just as stupid as the OWS crowd. He fits right in.
DD313
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:29amThis guy may be injecting himself into the spotlight in an attempt to make Obama look good. Brilliant strategy that.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:37amHe loves Obama! Obama has taken our nuclear force from 5,000 warheads to 1,500 warheads and is now pushing to reduce it to 300 warheads. All at the same time he is reducing our conventional forces. Carter definately has a tingle up his leg.
Report Post »BackstepAndShift
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:29amWho listens to this guy?
Report Post »And…
WHO WOULD VOTE ANOTHER CARTER INTO OFFICE!!!!!! AHHHHH!
Walkabout
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 10:44amEurope has so much money to spend on foreign aid because they spend only 2% on the military instead of 4% mandated by treaty (NATO).
The U.S. does it’s fair share in NATO & then some.
The RAT FINK basterds in Europe could not stop the genocide in Bosnia. They could not stop Gaddaffi. It was U.S. military muscle that did it.
Now if the European met their military obligations & gave as much as they do to in foreign aid, they would have a nobler & a solid case.
Until then, they are LIARS!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:21amKeep in mind that Jimmy thought his presidency was “relatively successful”.
Report Post »fande3rls
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:29amBY Who’s Standard ? JImmy Carter is ,was ,and will always be a Bafoon of a President , Obama is joining him quickly. The big Problem we have with Iran is because of Jimmy (peanut sized brain) Carter.
Report Post »DD313
Posted on February 16, 2012 at 9:48amFande3rls: Whether deliberate or inadvertent, your portmanteau word is a delightful combination of “Buffoon” and “baboon”.
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