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September 10, 2005
Send in the Clown
Please tell me this is a sick joke:
The guy who certified Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez's last "election" charade, the guy whose "Carter Center" was evidently bummed out that real elections were held in Iraq, the guy who earned a Nobel Prize from America-hating Euroweenie moonbats for traveling around the globe undermining his own country like some buck-toothed Noam Chomsky, the guy who hamstrung the CIA and helped create the Islamofascist tragedy that is still unfolding in Iran, the guy who thought we could bribe North Korea into abandoning nuclear weapons by giving them nuclear technology, the guy who is Moonbattery's choice as the worse POTUS ever, and also the worst ex-POTUS ever — is the guy who has had his name put forward as a candidate to head up reconstruction in New Orleans.
From yesterday's Drudge Report, on a tip from Byron:
This morning on Fox's "Fox and Friends," former Indiana Democrat congressman and 9/11 commissioner Tim Roemer called on President Bush to name former President Jimmy Carter to the head of efforts to rebuild New Orleans.
Roemer told the stunned hosts: "The second thing we should do is put somebody like former President Jimmy Carter in charge of rebuilding New Orleans."
Please, why don't we just let Blanco and Nagin handle it. I'm serious.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 10, 2005 12:48 PM
Comments
I heard this & did a spit take with my coffee. Why on earth would anyone want Carter (at best an easily manipulated idiot & at worst, a traitor to America...I believe the latter) to be in charge of anything? He couldn't have any done worse than the tag team of Nagin-Blanco-Landrieu-Landrieu, or could he? Hmmmm.
Posted by: cube at September 10, 2005 1:11 PM
Well, if anyone knows a disaster, it would be have to be Jimmah Carter.
Unfortunately, the disasters you list are irrelevant when compared to one single overriding factor: he promotes Habitat for Humanity. He is the public face of an altruistic organization that builds houses for the poor, and that fact alone makes him the perfect candidate (in the eyes of the left). Never mind his poor leadership skills and odious America-bashing idiocy...he cares, and that's what's important.
And if there is any doubt about this being the dominant factor, try on as a thought experiment the idea of Donald Trump being put in charge of reconstruction. Trump has experience with projects on the thousand-unit, multi-billion-dollar scale (vs. one house at at time), and judging from his testimony regarding the remodeling of the UN building, has little patience for just the sort of third-world corruption and cronyism that anyone running reconstruction in NOLA/LA is going to have to confront to get anything accomplished. Now, think on that and tell me that those pushing for Jimmah wouldn't put on a lemon-face at the idea of Trump running the show, because Trump is famous for producing homes, offices, and playgrounds for the wealthy, and (horror of horrors) making a profit at it in the process. That would surely disqualify him, as we simply can't have someone rebuilding the region efficiently and at a profit, now can we?
Posted by: prince of leaves at September 10, 2005 1:19 PM
If you want a taste of Jimmy "Woodchuck" Carter's legacy, go here:
http://www.holycrime.com/CrimeHang12.asp
Posted by: Debris Trail at September 11, 2005 12:46 PM
You know, that Trump thing is not a bad Idea. Cut him in for about 5% (Well below what a successful effort would be worth) of the action and you would probably hve this thing done in scale to the repair of the highways in California in the 80's.
Posted by: Donald at September 11, 2005 1:32 PM
No offense, but on the heels of "never forgetting" 9/11 (which I won't - I watched as the plane went into the Pentagon and lost friends there), I can't help but wonder how it is that four years have gone by yet we are no safer than we were. Part of not forgetting is ensuring we are always realistic about where we stand today, and where we stand is vulnerable.
Posted by: T Supplet at September 11, 2005 4:20 PM
The problem here is that people under the age of 35 have no memory of Carter as president. I was around back then. To me, the way he handled the hostage situation in Iran, especially the way he aborted the rescue mission, disqualifies him for any leadership position.
I'll give him his props though. Carter is of a different era. Compared to current Democrats he looks like a shining example of moral rectitude.
The funniest thing I ever read about Carter was by P.J. O'Rouke:
"Not much a of a military record, but compared to Clinton he looks like Audie Murphy."
Posted by: phil at September 12, 2005 3:45 AM
