Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KLP who wrote (27788)	4/16/2008 11:53:06 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

People like Carter seem to be oblivious to the harm they are doing. He appears to be the stupider brother.

To: KLP who wrote (27788)	4/16/2008 11:57:04 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

CARTER'S TRUE COLORS April 16, 2008 -- Kowtowing to the cutthroats who run Hamas obviously wasn't enough for Jimmy Carter, who yesterday also found it necessary to lay a wreath of red roses at the tomb of the bloody-handed terrorist Yasser Arafat. The increasingly bizarre ex-president and wife Rosalynn "wanted to pay their respects to President Arafat," said a spokesman. Thereupon Carter proceeded to Gaza, where he played kissy-face with Hamas' Nasser al-Shaer, one-time education minister of the Palestinian Authority. "We hugged each other, and it was a warm reception," boasted Shaer, who reportedly got a peck on each cheek from the meddler-in-chief. Even more amazingly, Carter then identified the one person best suited to "provide communication between people." That would be himself, of course. And just to drive home his point, Carter pointedly criticized what he termed Israel's "failure" to live up to its peacemaking obligations. (Little wonder that the Israelis basically - and quite justifiably - told Carter to take a hike, refusing even to provide him with the customary security detail to augment his Secret Service protection.) Tellingly, even Democrats on Capitol Hill increasingly are begging him to cut short his hug-a-terrorist tour and go back home before he makes an even bigger fool of himself. (And, no doubt, a bigger political liability when he takes it upon himself to endorse a presidential candidate this year - as he doubtless will.) At this point, can anyone really doubt the truth of what Carter's own secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, told then-Mayor Ed Koch back in 1980? Speaking at a private meeting shortly before that year's presidential election, Koch told Vance that Jewish voters were afraid that a reelected Carter "will sell them out." "Vance," Koch recalled, "nodded and said, 'He will.' " And, clearly, Carter has - even without being reelected. Now the fellow who set in motion the chain of events that resulted in the Iranian revolution is still hard at work making a hash of the Middle East. He's succeeding, sad to say. nypost.com