Carter: “Cheney is a Disaster”
It’s no secret I think Jimmy Carter is probably the worst president in history, but certainly in my lifetime.
I admire the humanitarian work he has done with Habitat for Humanity, but I deeply resent his getting in the way of our foreign policy some 27 years after he was soundly kicked out of office.
Now he is saying Vice President Cheney is a disaster for the U.S.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday denounced Vice President Dick Cheney as a “disaster” for the country and a “militant” who has had an excessive influence in setting foreign policy.
Cheney has been on the wrong side of the debate on many issues, including an internal White House discussion over Syria in which the vice president is thought to be pushing a tough approach, Carter said.
“He’s a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military and he has been most forceful in the last 10 years or more in fulfilling some of his more ancient commitments that the United States has a right to inject its power through military means in other parts of the world,” Carter told the BBC World News America in an interview to air later on Wednesday.
“You know he’s been a disaster for our country,” Carter said. “I think he’s been overly persuasive on President George Bush and quite often he’s prevailed.”
Coming from him, if I were Dick Cheney I would take that as a compliment.
Will someone please point out to me where in the Constitution it states a president or vice president must have served in the military in order to hold office?
Did Bill Clinton serve? No, in fact, he wrote a letter to his supposed National Guard officer telling him he “loathed the military.” This after getting a deferment so he could study at Oxford.
Many people were defered for having families. If my husband and I had been married a year earlier and had a child he wouldn’t have had to serve, but the law was changed by then and he signed up to join the Army.
Wasn’t it Jimmy Carter who gave amnesty to all the draft-dodgers in the Viet Nam era who ran away to Canada?
Each time Carter speaks he shows himself to be a petty man who can’t get over the fact he is not held in high esteem by history.
Written by ~J~
Shirley Says:
October 11th, 2007 at 8:29 amVisit Shirley
I can’t help but wonder what kind of Sunday School classes this man teaches..
Big Mo Says:
October 11th, 2007 at 11:25 amVisit Big Mo
It will certainly be a challenge to be fair to Mr. Carter when I get to his presidency, because I am so repulsed by his post-presidency antics. But I will.
Carter is a man still bitter that he was kicked out of office. Two things:
1) There was a time in this country — pre-Vietnam-era — when government service was considered as noble as military service. Serving in three administrations (Ford, Bush I and Bush II) and in the House is nothing to sneer at, Mr. Carter. Some of the nation’s greatest statesmen never wore the uniform, Mr. Carter. Did they “avoid” service, too? (Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, etc.)
2) I am really disgusted with liberals who claim that Republicans must have military service in order to support a war, otherwise they’re “hypocrites.” It’s a brainlessly stupid liberal charge that should be slapped down forcefully and harshly whenever it’s said. There is no truth to it, and it only gives liberals a false sense of superiority.
Jimmy Carter is a foul, disagreeable, bitter, arrogant jerk. It is a tragedy that Watergate led to him. But then again, without this hapless clown, we might not have gotten Reagan.
Guss Says:
October 12th, 2007 at 5:30 amVisit Guss
Big Mo, I think that your biggest challenge will be G.W.B.
Big Mo Says:
October 12th, 2007 at 2:53 pmVisit Big Mo
Guss - na. It’ll be Carter.
Dubya ‘ll be a different challenge, just like Clinton. Neither man is as much of a devil as the oppopsition says.
Guss Says:
October 14th, 2007 at 4:25 amVisit Guss
Big Mo, Can’t wait.