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4.18.08 @ 12:01AM

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Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Ruinous in Retirement:

Hey, let's not be too hard on Jimmy Carter. After all, he did in four short years what might have taken decades without him -- convince the America public that, illegal wiretapping aside, Richard Nixon was a pretty darn good president.
-- Ward Weber II
West Jefferson, Ohio

Excellent article as always. I hope if Jimmy Carter (who by the way is the reason I left the Democrats in 1980), leads to McCain's election, he will indeed continue to be "the gift that keeps on giving".

I'll never forget how after "Desert One", I was lectured by a German. He told me how weak America was and how we were not respected (sounds like today). I said to him that in November, 1980 he would see a change.

Hopefully the creep will go back to Plains and farm some peanuts. Once he opens his mouth all hell breaks loose.
-- Howard Goldstein

Wouldn't it be great if upon return to the USA , the state department pulled Jimmy Carter's passport? It would thrill me to see that done and I believe that it would be seen by many Americans in the same way. Just yank it and let him sue to get it back!
-- Gene Hauber
Meshoppen, Pennsylvania

I'll break my policy of not responding from my workplace to express my disgust as the Georgia Goof betrays his country again. It was H. L. Mencken who observed that ex-presidents should be hung in the interests of public sanitation. He must have had his Swami-hat on when he wrote that, peering down through the years to behold the Carter Manure Spreader in action. It seems to me that Jimmy should be invited to stay over there and not come back here...
-- W. G. Wheatley

RET, I was sitting in a doctor's waiting room a few years ago, and the TV was blaring Oprah. Melissa Ethridge and Dolly Parton, obviously two experts on the subject (Ethridge is a lesbian), were discussing gay marriage with Oprah. Parton, asked if she was in favor of said couplings, responded charmingly by saying something on the order of, ". . . sure, why shouldn't they have to put up with the same crap everybody else does."

Now, there's logic in there somewhere (remember Reagan's pony joke?), but what does this have to do with Jimmy "Mr. JC" (hmm, maybe that's where the problem lies) Carter? I'll take the last sentence in your piece. "A failure as a president, Jimmy is appraised as a useful tool by our enemies." Maybe, they will realize what a pain he is, and the honeymoon will be over. Let the headaches in Hamas begin.
-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

Americans and the world apparently, have very short memories of former President Carter's failed Mideast policies during his tenure as president. This is the very same man who threw the Shah of Iran a long-time loyal ally of the United States, under the bus of terrorism. President Carter's policies are directly responsible for allowing the explosive growth of terrorist states as Iran, Syria and these states proxies of Hamas.

As if President Carter hasn't meddled enough in a sitting president's foreign policy, the peanut farmer is now going to become the laughing stock of the Mideast and the civilized world with his misguided dreams of rewriting his failed legacy.

Iran has portrayed President Carter as a bumbling inept president once; now it appears that Iran is going to do so again. Some people are just gluttons for punishment, I guess.
-- Melvin Leppla
Jacksonville, North Carolina

It's become a rite of passage from winter to the balmier months. Every year just about this time former President Jimmy Carter says or does something to embarrass the U.S. This year he's on spring break in the Middle East, lending credibility to the terrorist organization Hamas.

Last year he launched a tirade against President Bush, stating that the Bush administration was the worst in history in international relations. In the same interview he excoriated British Prime Minister Tony Blair for supporting President Bush. "Abominable, loyal, blind, apparently subservient" were the terms he applied to Blair.

In 2004 he assailed Bush and Blair for "waging an unnecessary war in Iraq based on lies and misinterpretations."

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