refuses debate, because there is no debate.
Former President Carter turned down a request to debate Alan Dershowitz about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the outspoken Harvard law professor “knows nothing about the situation.”
Carter, author of a new book advocating “peace not apartheid” in the region, said he will not visit Brandeis University to discuss the book because the university requested he debate Dershowitz.
“I don’t want to have a conversation even indirectly with Dershowitz,” Carter said in Friday’s Boston Globe. “There is no need … to debate somebody who, in my opinion, knows nothing about the situation in Palestine.”
The school’s debate request, Carter said, is proof that many in the United States are unwilling to hear an alternative view on the nation’s most taboo foreign policy issue, Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.
God, what a dipshit NUE.
Sorry, guys. Got a little hot under the collar.
As a native son of Georgia, born and bred:
We’re sorry. We really are.
I’d be careful about using words like “dipshit,” Dan. You never know when you’ll bring down the wrath of the Easily Offended Community.
Therefore, he refuses to debate Dershowitz. :S
How about flaming asshole? Or simply smeg?
NUE?
I still liked the old-fashioned language of Shakespeare and Milton.
Carter was, is and always be a twat.
Hmmmm…….NUE = disposable vagina ? Then why does Jimmah keep being recycled ?
Look, guys, you’ll never find me associating “cunts” or “twats” or “vaginas” with Carter. I have far, far too much respect for them.
Now some kind of disposable hand-job applicator seems more to me like Jimmah.
What Jimmah does not want to do is defend his specious opinions about right and wrong in public–because he’s just…RIGHT. Can’t you all see that?
I still marvel at the group psychosis that resulted in his election. If Gerry had just not made that Poland remark, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
Somebody fly in Netanyahu to debate him. Or would Carter insist Bibi doesn’t know anything about the situation either. Having never, you know, supped with Yasir.
How’s about we dig up Sadat so he and Carter can debate the merits of treating with radical islamists.
The ongoing imbecilic, anti-Semetic rantings of the worst ex-President in our lifetime makes me wish that the rabid rabbit had somehow managed to get into Carter’s rowboat and bitten him but good…..that guy is such a wanker!
Of course, having Roselyn carry his balls around in her purse probably doesn’t help.
Let me see if I can translate…I used to speak Carter fairly well:
“I am not going to talk with some $&%* Jew who will tear me to rhetorical shreds”.
Best I can do.
Or, if I apply more nuance:
“Oh, right. Like some #$^%*** Jew knows anything about Israel…”
I… I can’t look away.
It’s like the abyss is staring back at me.
It’s getting bigger. Do you see it? It’s growing.
It’s swallowing up IQ points from all over the universe.
It’s… it’s… OH MY GOD!
<dial tone>
proudvastrightwingconspirator, I predict that in ten years time when Clinton’s legacy remains stuck on blow jobs and perjury, he will lash out in such a way as to make us long for the “not-nearly-as-crazy days we experienced with Jimmah”. With Clinton, it was always about Clinton. And it always will be.
We should of elected his hammer.
Anybody that was over fifteen in the 70’s knows that Jimmah Carter was the worst president in the history of the USA. He had no clue that he was the supposed leader of our country.
This idiot whined about “malaise”. The only malaise was Carters whining idiocy. 20% inflation? What administration has ever even approached this number? The Iranians split their sides laughibg when Jimmah approached them with apologies for the Ameericans that were taken hostage!!!
How could anyone do anything but laugh at this original Butthead? He was born an asshole and he worked at it his whole life – either way it works out god, ‘cause he’s an asshole tonight
I remember when I used to wonder how the daughter of a US President could be such a Susan Sarandon, Timothy Robbins, style moonbat. I decided at the time that she was simply rebelling in the most hurtful way she knew how. Turns out she was just a chipette off the old block. I know how we elected him in 76. He was a backlash against Nixon and a hedge against Teddy. What I’m wondering is how the fuck did the people of Georgia elect him before that? Same way Texans elected Ann Richards I suppose.
Oh come on, you KNOW whose fault it was that there was 20% inflation under his watch. I’m just saying that when there’s money around – well, don’t make me ask the McKinney family to spell it out for you.
The Ayatollah? Closet heeb, I swear. Just go to any Sunni mosque and they’ll gladly point you to Tabari’s history, which lays out (on the authority of Sayf b. Umar*) that Shi’ism was founded as a Jewish plot.
And you can’t spell “rabbit” without “rabbi”.
I rest my case.
(TW: “thinking”, a word Carter ain’t familiar with)
I think McGehee has addressed the issue here as concisely as it can be addressed.
Carter seems to be suffering from UN syndrome. They are such canting hypocrites that they can no longer see or smell the sewage in which they wallow.
Heaven forbid that I’d be seeming to defend Carter, but the first 15 percentage points of the inflation rate of that time was baked into the pie when he took office, a result of idiotic monetary policies that predated him.
He, however, did the hard work of adding the 16th through 20th percentage points to the miasma. He was an idiot throughout his presidency, and remains so, to this day.
Doesn’t that pretty much summ up the left these days?
A few years ago, Dennis Ross, Clinton’s chief middle east negotiator, gave a facinating interview on NPR one evening. He was describing the the situation when the US managed to convince Israel to, in effect, give Yassir Arafat pretty much everything that he was asking for. It was a stunning development and as he sat with Arafat and his cronies, Ross was excited at the possibility of, finally, achieving a real longterm peace settlement.
What followed was described by Ross as ther most dissapointing and, yet, illuminating period of his diplomatic career. Arafat, despite every opportunity to “pull the trigger” on a peace accord with terms that even Arab diplomats were calling almost miraculous … couldn’t do it. He dithered and dathered and asked for time and dissembled until, finally, both Israel and the US threw up their hands in frustration. The intifada resumed within a few months. Ross came away convinced that ther was no way to make a deal with Arafit. He was stuck in the “warrior prince” mentality and was thus ill-suited to make diplomatic nice.
Carter either has never talked to Ross or simply doesn’t care about his experience.
Jimmah seems to be stuck in a time warp loop of an endless handshake with Begin and Sadat. His current world view is almost entirely stuck in that moment of triumph (and a great achievement it was.) Having listened to interviews with members of the diplomatioc corps during his presidency, he’s not the only one basking in the reflected glow of that agreement. Jimmah and his minions really believe at the corps of their being that anything can be negotiated and should be, ad nauseum. Things like islamic radicals and suicide terrorists are simply the product of the situation rather than a cohesive plan for evil doings. If Israel would just relent and give the Palistinians a little more then all would be well. The oozing fact that the “little more” is constantly changing and that one of the major players from the Palistinian side continues to call for Israel’s destruction is viewed as irrelevent. Israel is on Palistinian land, so it is up to Israel to give and give until they reach a point of accomodation that will satisfy the poor, oppressed brown people and, finally, bring the Jews s true measure of peace (albiet secured by parties on Gaza and the West Bank that have no history at maintaining peace plans.)
In Carter’s quaint, colorful little world, Israel, the only real democracy in the middle east, is the totalitarian thug; Hamas and Hizbullah sre not terrorist organizations but freedom fighters and Yassir Arafat was a great diplomatic and political force for his people’s liberation, rather than a self absorbed narcissist who raped his people’s relief funds to enrich himself and his cronys.
I don’t know if there has ever been an ex-president who is so completely at odds with the reality of the one area in the world for which he claims moral and intellectual superiority.
It can’t possibly be more blatant. He actually asserts that an invitation to debate is in fact evidence that people don’t want to hear other views. Paging Mr. Orwell…
I laugh because it hurts.
Now if we could get Canada to apologize for Bryan Adams………..
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This, I think, is proof that many in the United States were unwilling to hear an alternative view on what was the nation’s most taboo foreign policy issue, the USSR’s occupation of European territory.