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Home Front: Politix
Carter: Tea Party forebears elected me
2010-11-01
Interesting criticisms. If only they didn't come from WPE.
"I don't have any criticism of the members of the Tea Party. A lot of those same people, 30 years ago, were the ones who put me in the White House."

"This Tea Party doesn't realize that they are financed by oligarchs, in the oil industry primarily - the Koch brothers and others.
Mr. Carter is claiming he was put into the highest office in the land by oligarchs and oil interests, not the peepul? How odd.
They've been pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the political system ... after what I call a stupid Supreme Court ruling last January."
So just where does the Tea Party get its money? I never did give this much of a thought. But it kind of makes me wonder.

I also laugh at WPE's derision about oligarchical funding and his hand-in-hand denial of where liberals and their organizers get their funding. Which has more than its share from oligarchists, opportunists and detractors. Some traceable, some not quite.
Posted by:gorb

#19  Decisions decisions . . . .

Maybe Former WPE Champ and Current WPE Champ?

:-)
Posted by: gorb   2010-11-01 23:55  

#18  Carter- WP20 (worst president of the 20th century)
Obama - WP21 (worst president of the 21st century)
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2010-11-01 22:00  

#17  So now that the title of WPE goes to Obean, what do we call Carter?

Original WPE?
Posted by: Pappy   2010-11-01 21:33  

#16  The one good thing Carter did was to block Teddy Kennedy from the Dem nomination against Reagan.

I was a registered Democrat in the spring of 1980 (my father was active in local politics, and if I'd shown my true colors it would have been awkward for him) and I proudly voted for Ted because that meant I didn't have to wait until November to vote against Carter!
Posted by: Mike   2010-11-01 16:35  

#15  gorb, he still retains the title of "History's Greatest Monster".
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2010-11-01 16:05  

#14  A lot of those same people, 30 years ago, were the ones who put me in the White House.

That's the main difference between ordinary people and "intellectual" elites---the former can learn from mistakes.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2010-11-01 15:21  

#13  Obammer has managed to exceed Carter. He has managed to piss off just about everyone in only two years.

I was a little torn on the use of "WPE" here. Personally, I think Obean has edged out Carter after only two years on the job.

So now that the title of WPE goes to Obean, what do we call Carter?

I'm so confused!
Posted by: gorb   2010-11-01 14:22  

#12  The one good thing Carter did was to block Teddy Kennedy from the Dem nomination against Reagan.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-11-01 14:14  

#11  I would say that Carter had the unique distinction of pissing just about everyone off in his 4 years. Republicans and Democrats thought him incompetent. He unleashed an internal war within his party and they ended up booting him.

Obammer has managed to exceed Carter. He has managed to piss off just about everyone in only two years.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-11-01 13:22  

#10  Eh wut?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2010-11-01 12:35  

#9  I dunno, Glenmore, it sounds pretty oligarchichal to me. You should have sent the money to some long-suffering deserving proletariat such as myself instead.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2010-11-01 12:24  

#8  Yeah. And then four years later they gave his silly ass the boot.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2010-11-01 12:15  

#7  1. There is no ONE Tea Party, just a collection of local Tea Parties. And organizing them is as tough as herding cats.

2. I can't speak for other Tea Parties, but ours is most assuredly NOT financed by oligarchs (unless I, and my $100 contribution, and others like me qualify as such.)
Posted by: Glenmore   2010-11-01 11:41  

#6  "I don't have any criticism of the members of the Tea Party. A lot of those same people, 30 years ago, were the ones who put me in the White House."

Actually, it was 34 years ago. 30 years ago, they elected Ronald Reagan and kicked your sorry rump out of the White House.
Posted by: Mike   2010-11-01 10:26  

#5  The whole paid for by billionaires shows a lot of projection on the lefts part. They understand that they could only get that kind of attendance at great financial cost.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2010-11-01 10:19  

#4  Bitter and bilious.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-11-01 08:07  

#3  Remind me again, Dhimmi, where does the Carter Center gets its funding? Oh that's right - the Magic Kingdom. So STFU.
Posted by: Spot   2010-11-01 08:02  

#2  It may be true that some of the people in the Tea Party voted for Carter - that was 34 years ago. Since then, a lot of people have grown up and come to their senses.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2010-11-01 07:29  

#1  So, these ordinary Americans who are organizing themselves from the grassroots on up, are just useful idiots? Gimme a fucking break, Carter. This is just the typical leftist "your entire idealogical foundation is corrupt and your ideas cannot be spoken in public" thinking that has led them to the desert of ideas. Unless one speaks from a leftist frame, one's ideas are not acceptable in public MSM discourse.
Posted by: gromky   2010-11-01 01:41  

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