Jimmy Carter, fresh off of sniffing wood glue, takes to legal parsing in defending the Sudanese government against charges of genocide:
“If you read the law textbooks … you’ll see very clearly that it’s not genocide and to call it genocide falsely just to exaggerate a horrible situation I don’t think it helps.”
Mr Carter, if outcome is any indications, didn’t think a nuclear-free North Korea helped much either — and he wasn’t too sanguine on how helpful would have been an aggressive US response to the Iranian Student Revolution that kept US citizens hostage for over a year. And lest we forget, it wasn’t helpful, in Carter’s view, to cast communism as evil, nor was it helpful to complain about a dying economy when all one needed to do was put on a few more layers of clothing to keep warm.
Or, to put it another way, the only thing Jimmy Carter seems to find helpful are the things Jimmy Carter finds helpful, though ironically, these things have a track record of proving completely unhelpful — unless, that is, your interests run counter to US interests. In which case, Carter is something of a transnational savior.
Ken McCracken at Say Anthing has a different take on the Sudanese conditions — citing the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide to make his case.
Which is helpful, given that the 200,000 people who have died in this legally non-genocidal Janjaweed depopulation program could not readily be reached to testify.
Their having been, you know, depopulated and all.
Not very helpful on their part, sure — but the blame almost certainly goes to AIPAC and Israel. Just because.
Mr. Carter: He has looked upon the face of Evil – and pinched it’s cheek and told it to go play.
Why is he alive when Reagan is dead? Seems to me the silly bastard has had Alzheimer’s since, shit, 1975?
Worst. Ex-President. Ever.
If I were one of the world’s many genuine Bad Actors, I’m certain I would feel there were no better guarantors of my bloody, despotic little status quo than people like Jimmy Carter.
Oh. OK. Another chance to bash the honorable former president Jimmy Carter. C’mon guys. He’s old. It’s not nice to make fun of old people.
One FAQ: How big would the piece of Orbit need to be to effectively tamp down Carter’s “rotten organ halitosis”? I’m thinking he’d need to chew something about the size of a standard cordless phone.
200,000 is just one estimate, and not even close to the highest.
He’s on the NPR this morning.
http://www.npr*.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15051264
“I don’t mind being used for benevolent purposes,” he says.
What a waste of air. He is by far the worst president of my lifetime, which does include Nixon. I’ll not mourn his passing.
Let us review infidels. Walter Duranty helped Stalin, every western reporter with a type writer covered for Mao, and Fidel and Che. Eason Jordan covered for Saddam. The BBC covers for Fatah, and Arafat, and Hamas. All of journalism covered for Hezbollah in Lebanon. Walter Cronkite cleared the way for Pol POt. Isn’t your President Carter merely covering the ground your journalists normally cover? And isn’t he doing it becuase he knows that your journalists will love him for it? And by allowing your journalists to promote this sort of behaviour, and indeed deem it noble, haven’t you all, every single one of you, helped it along just a little? Thanks so much. And rememeber the longer you let your media encourage this, the stronger you make me, and those like me. So perhaps some of you, those who are jealously protecting the readership numbers and their standing among the journo-class, should be a little less smug and a little more apologetic.
Apologies to the infidel Goldstein. To him I do not speak. He has been a consistent thorn in my side. Others not so much.
Yea, used. Like a tool.
However, the touchy/feely wing of Evangelicals worships him like a demi-god. Not to mention the fact that Ardsgaine uses Jimmah like a club to beat me upside the head regarding Christians and suicidal peacemaking and accommodation.
Hmm. Touchy/Feely evangelicals to my left … Godless Capitalist with Jimmah club to my right … THEY VEX ME!!!
“Jimmy Carter?! He’s history’s greatest monster!”
-The Simpsons
Time for Jimmuh and the rest of the “Elders” to take a nap before they get their prunes, I think.
He is worshipped by evangelicals and others because people have for two generations worked diligently to build a market for this sort of nihlistic perversion. Those people are called journalists. When will all of you develop mouths and point that out. I suggest I will be with you until you do.
Pancreatic cancer got the wrong Carter(s). Billy was at least entertaining.
Can no one rid me of this meddling peanut?
At least the old fool is not wandering around the house, fucking up my flower arrangments and leaving greasy fingerprints on the cabinets.
“If you read the law textbooks … ”
I think I perused that textbook. It was also made into a educational film starring Troy McClure entitled “So You Want to Sound Like You Know the Law”. You may remember Troy McClure in other educational films like “Come Back Zinc!” and “Andre the Giant: We Hardly Knew Ye”
Did anyone get around to asking Jimmah what the legal definition of abominatiom is? How about massacre? Oh and everybody’s favorite boogeyman ethnic cleansing!
What makes this all the more disgusting is his desire to provide rhetorical and legal cover for the UN’s lack of action and impact. I’m sure we all feel better that he’s now established himself as the diplomatic equivalent of Johnny Cochran.
“If the genocide don’t fit, you must stop picking nits!”
I apologize for my state. The traffic used to flow well on Holcomb Bridge Road in Atlanta until they renamed half of it Jimmy Carter Blvd., so that was the first inkling of what was to come later.
Permit me an esoteric question infidels. Isn’t the quest for access and influence most of often an abandonment of one’s personal beliefs, principles and responsibilities in favor of one’s financial and personal advancement? If so, why have those who calim to be conservatives, who claim to be in contact with the rock ribbed morals of yester-year and all that is true and good in man, created the acess fetish that currently grips the conservative punditry?
The reasons wouldn’t happen to be venal, of course, but what are they?
I am merely curious, of course, but I would suspect that those who have volunteered to defend those principles in difficult circumustances all across the globe have a right to know. If any of you are out there you certainly have a right to ask, and ask loudly.
I don’t have time to read the links. Has Jimmuh or any one else started in on all the oil under Sudan?
Carter is the same age as my mother. She called me up Monday night to tell me that she couldn’t get back to bed from her kitchen. I am going to have to put her in the home pretty soon. Isn’t it time for Carter’s family to do likewise?
Infidels? Infidels? Ah, well I have no time to await your reply now. Tennis with Walter Duranty in the Lake of Fire. Feel free to leave your answer on my cell. If you don’t have my number, ask a journalist. They all do. Funny they never use it publicly.
George Clooney just took Carter off his Christmas list.
It seems he really rushed this new book on the heels of the Jew-bashing one. I guess he knows on some level that he doesn’t have the luxury of time to try and make something of himself.
At the link up at #7 you get bonus Carter poetry about Liberia:
Seems that now Sudan is feeling all warm and fuzzy towards the poor, poor “Palestinians” that got their subsidized asses run out of Iraq after Sammy got his butt kicked. Because you can’t have too many wild-eyed killers when there’s ethnic cleansin’ to be done!
Maybe Jimmah will meet up with a pack of feral swamp bunnies.
When Carter kicks the bucket, I am going to make a point of traveling to his grave.
With a six-pack (of soda) and a funnel.
(Some things need to be said that mere words just won’t convey.)
I know lots of people were doing drugs during the seventies, but c’mon, people?! No amount of cocaine can justify Jimmeh, leisure suits, and chocolate-brown refrigerators.
What were you people thinking?
This is from the man who looks at Palestine and screams “APARTHEID!!!.”
chocolate-brown refrigerators
Look, the avocado ones were much, much worse, but neither exceeds the horror of the Burnt Orange Appliance.
Except maybe this.
This is what happens when you take transgression of bourgeois tastes too far, kids. Let this be a lesson.
If it is still in existence, I think the Gobbler must be given serious consideration for a PW get together thingy.
Sadly, it’s gone.
I saw “Janjaweed” and thought of Jamaica. Are they committing genocide by forcing their victims to overdose? How are they transporting the stuff halfway around the globe like that?
T&T
I don’t believe in speaking ill of the dead (I know, I know — work with me here), so I’ll say nothing whatsoever about Jimmy Carter’s brain.
Or his moral sense.
The Gobbler restaurant is still there, but it’s probably been redecorated. My bro drove past once. Says that all that’s left of the hotel is a round cement slab. Hey, build a bonfire in the center, and do you need anything else?
Jimmah and “The Elders” (including Tutu) over there in Sudan, wandering around, being al Bashir’s lapdogs.
Of course the mass slaughter done at the bidding of the Bashir government by the janjaweed (until the J’weed started doing their own thing and spun out of control) doesn’t constitute “genocide”.
How perfectly absurd, even tho’ it took “The UN” years to finally label Sudan’s most recent carnage as “genocide”.
How much $ is The Carter Foundation getting from Muslim/Arab states, anyway ?
Maybe Jimmah and friends were interdicted by one of Ahmad Harun’s boyz in the hood.
(it’s from wikipedia, but it’s still true)
Ahmed Mohammed Haroun (or Ahmad Harun) is one of two Sudanese men wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Despite international pressure on the government of Sudan to surrender him to the ICC, Haroun continues to serve as the Sudan’s Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs. In September 2007, he was appointed to lead an investigation into human rights violations in Darfur.
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