Who just saw Jimmy Carter give * the smackdown

[Maccagirl]

of a lifetime on the Today show? He hit every crime this cabal has committed against our people and the world. It was a thing of enormous beauty.

[CottonBear]

1. Darn. I didn't know he was on. I never watch the Today Show.

Jimmy Carter will be viewed kindly by history. He is a good and moral man who tried to lead this country in the right direction. Unfortuantely, he was taken out by the same cabal that is ruining our country and our government today.

What did he say? Details please. Maybe someone can post a video.

[patricia92243]

2. Link? Script? You tell us about it? n/t

[Maccagirl]

7. Paraphrasing

On the secret CIA prisons: Goes against all agreements the entire world has signed on to, Against basic human rights and American values.

Iraq War: Unjust and unnecessary. Proof is there that they planned to go to war because Poppy didn't take out Saddam.

Bush Admin: Radical, has rolled back our liberties, devestated the environment and the middle and working class.

He's proud of the Dems because the Repugs don't want the truth about the pre-war intelligence.

Matt did not play his usual whore role-I think he respects Jimmy Carter.

[tsuki]

9. What is not to respect? He is a great man. eom

[HeeBGBz]

3. I'll catch it on central time

I hope.

[Divernan]

4. Did he get through to whichever talking head interviewed him?

Or did he get Matty/Katie's raised eyebrow, cynical voice response?

[Connie_Corleone]

5. He'll be on Larry King Live tonight also.

For those of us who missed his Today show appearance.

[cynatnite]

6. He said this country is governed by radicals

He's got a new book out where he talks about the direction this country has taken and the lack of morals. He discussed the CIA prisons, the senate shutdown, the war and leading up to the war.

He talked about how long they've wanted to go after Iraq and without actually saying PNAC, he did mention it. I would bet it's in his book.

Good segment of Jimmy Carter giving the bush administration hell.

[gademocrat7]

8. I have always admired and respected President Jimmy Carter.

He was a good governor and a good president. He speaks eloquently and with conviction. President Carter and his wife Rosalyn have worked tirelessly with Habitat for Humanity. Not for a single photo op but for years now.

[stray cat]

10. He is on Hardball tonight also I think.

[berner59]

11. looks like the big guns are coming out...

YEAH!!! Now we need the Big Dog... I love Carter...

[Armstead]

12. I think he's on Larry King too

[HeeBGBz]

13. I love Jimmy Carter

He was calm, intelligent and right on.

He nailed the *admin.

[KnaveRupe]

14. As an atheist, I often lump all "Born-agains" together in the same group.

Carter reminds me that there are real, genuine Christians out there who take their faith seriously, and who genuinely try and follow Christ's example. People who deserve a lot more respect than I personally sometimes afford them because of my own prejudices. Jimmy Carter may not have been a "great" president, but I truly believe that he is a "good" man, which is way more important in the long run.

Wouldn't the world be a great place if all born-again Xtians (hell, if all PEOPLE) were like Jimmy Carter.

[Fly by night]

15. Best line: "It's not about Dems vs. Repubs: it's about the * admin ...

... versus all previous administrations (of both parties) over the past century."

Carter said that the Bushitler policies are so radical that they are at variance with EVERYTHING that has come before, that the Republi-Nazis in charge today have done more to damage our country's standing in the world (and have done more to damage the world itself) than has ever been done by an American administration.

Oh, the irony. The administration that wraps itself most pridefully in an American flag while perched on a stack of bibles is the most unAmerican and immoral administration in the past 100 years.

Tell it, Jimmy, just like it needs to be told.

[Ouabache]

16. Bushco, PNAC and the Christo-Fascists have hi-jacked the GOP and

America. Tell it, Jimmy.

[lucca]

22. The *Bush admin is destroying this country.

I want my country back.
It seems that for a lot of Republicans, their loyalty is not to America, but to the Republican party.

They don't care about the truth.

I agree with what you said...so true, so true:
"The administration that wraps itself most pridefully in an American flag while perched on a stack of bibles is the most un-American and immoral administration in the past 100 years."

[dadoo]

17. Blood on his hands

Sorry folks, but Jimmy Carter, while he has done more good works than any other ex-president, has blood on his hands, like every president before and after him.

On July 3, 1979, at the urging of his national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter signed a directive authorizing aid to the religious Mujahidin in Afghanistan. Note the date; this was six months BEFORE the Soviet Invasion. In Brzezinski's own words "And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention".

God only knows who many Afghan's have died as a result of Carter's decision to arm the Mujahidin. Some would argue that one of the end results of Carter's decision was the creation of Al-Qaeda and all that they have done.

At the very least, Carter's holier-than-thou boycott of the Moscow Olympics was nothing other than pure hypocrisy.

The quote above was taken from "The Clash of Fundamentalisms" by Tariq Ali. The original quote was taken from an interview in the french edition of Le Nouvel Observateur in January 1998.

Before you all pull out the knives, let me state for the record that I am not now, nor have I ever been a Republican.

[Toots]

18. Does that have anything at all to do with the Bush* Administration?

Carter was speaking of the Bush* Administration and that's what this post was about. You turned it into a Carter bashing post for what reason? Because he made a mistake almost thirty years ago if in fact it was a mistake. Please state your reason for changing the context of the Original Post.....

[Tactical Progressive]

19. We were in a Cold War back then

Maybe you heard about it?

[kestrel91316]

20. Welcome to DU. Enjoy your stay.

[kentuck]

21. Interesting first post ?

"Blood on his hands"?