Jimmy Carter is CLEARLY a DUMBASS

Arguably the WORST American president in living memory, Jimmy Carter is apparently a prolific writer; now traveling the media circuit promoting his 20th book, entitled Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. As yet another platform intended to assail his nemesis President Bush, and what he terms Christian "Fundamentalism" in general, Carter has gone completely off the deep end in his interviews. While it has been a tradition among former presidents to abstain from overt criticism of sitting presidents, Jimmy Carter is blasting both barrels at a time when President Bush's approval rating has hit an all-time low. (It should be noted that Carter's all-time low was 28% - a full 10 points lower than Bush's).

One critic sites "He criticizes fundamentalists for simplistic and superficial convictions, while he offers superficial and simplistic assessments of urgent moral questions."

Of course, I would put it very differently. Don't fool yourself - with this DUMBASS it is very much about lost opportunity, sour grapes, and money. His humanitarian work since losing a second term aside, Carter tends to pop into public awareness with his bitter whinings every few years - ad nauseum.

In his book, Carter attacks President Bush's "arrogance" and claims that he is using his "fundamentalism" to force this country down a path it does not want to follow. "This President has radically departed from (the policies) of all previous presidents."

If following the Carter example is what he means by a radical departure, than I am all for the departure - and as radical as can be. George Bush, unlike this Peanut-head, has made the hard choices for our country by doing what he felt was best. Even his staunchest critics admit that he is unwavering in carrying out his office, and seems to care little for polls to guide him in setting policy.

While recently in Kansas City, Missouri, Carter cited "In the last 5 years there's been a dramatic and disturbing and radical change in the values of this country." As an example, he added that peace is an American value, not pre-emptive war: "We don't wait until our country is threatened," Carter said, "we publicly announced our new policy is to attack a country, invade a country, bomb a country."

The actual policy collective, which has been called "The Bush Doctrine," included a warning that there would be no distinction between terrorists and those who harbor them. Policies for preemption and unilateralism were also delineated.

Stating that for many years the US supported the Geneva convention, saying we won't torture prisoners, he laments "our senators are voting to keep torture. It's inconceivable this would happen in the United States of America."

Two fully-fueled jumbo-jets slamming into the World Trade Center and killing nearly 3000 innocent people was pretty damned inconceivable too, ass-wipe! Before 9-11 came raining down on our heads, like so many bodies and buildings falling from the sky, this country was in a drugged out slumber. If slapping the beejesus out of a couple of terrorists saves even one American life, to me that is well worth the trouble. And to publicly debate where we draw the line on interrogations is just one more indicator to the common terrorist thug that we are weak and ineffectual (like a certain former president, perhaps?)

Just last week, The Washington Times reported that the (Evangelist Christian) President Carter had condemned America's abortion culture. "I have never felt that any abortion should be committed -- I think that each abortion is the result of a series of errors..."

No abortions? Ever? What about rape victims? Should they be forced to carry a rapists baby to term? And young adolescents or those whose life is endangered by the pregnancy - what about them? My point is, there has got to be a line in the sand, somewhere on this practice. I'm not too crazy about abortion, in general, myself - but there are always exceptions. It would seem that old Jimmy himself is letting HIS religion get in the way here.

My reaction to this DUMBASS goes something like this: Dear Jimmy Carter - If you had done your job as Commander-in-Chief back in 1979 we would not be where we are today, in fact may not need a strong leader like President Bush to make hard decisions, which you could not bring yourself to do when history came knocking. For 444 days, starting in 1979, 66 of America's sons and daughters were held hostage by a fanatical gang of Islamic fundamentalist thugs in Iran. The Iran Hostage Crisis could have been swiftly brought to a close if you had done the right thing. America was seen as weak throughout the world while you kissed Ayatollah Khomeini's ass, and since that time we have been victimized time and again by these very same Islamic Terrorists -- we have YOU to blame for setting the stage for what ultimately led to 9-11, and you should be thanking President Bush for4 having the balls to finally clean up your mess. Dumbass.