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2009-09-22 Caribbean-Latin America
Worst President Ever says US likely behind coup against Chavez
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Posted by Fred 2009-09-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 The fact that Chavez is still in power does suggest the CIA was behind it.
Posted by SteveS 2009-09-22 00:48||   2009-09-22 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 At times ima mazed that Jimmy Carter doesn't make himself puke when he talks.

Now that Obama is the House, Chavez is drifting toward authoritarianism and consolidating political power, making it almost impossible to establish good relations.
Posted by Mike N. 2009-09-22 01:05||   2009-09-22 01:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Every time this moron opens his mouth I get a nose bleed.

I can only imagine what BO will be like in about 25 years...........egad
Posted by James Carville 2009-09-22 01:16||   2009-09-22 01:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Not any more.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-09-22 01:32||   2009-09-22 01:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Peanut envy speaks again! Speaking all the evil he can whenever he can.
Posted by whatadeal 2009-09-22 02:35||   2009-09-22 02:35|| Front Page Top

#6 This sorry ol' bastard is what, 80 now? I guess he figures he better spew as much venom as he can before he starts pushing up ragweeds.
Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-09-22 05:26||   2009-09-22 05:26|| Front Page Top

#7 #4 - lol.
Posted by Jumbo Slinerong5015 2009-09-22 06:27||   2009-09-22 06:27|| Front Page Top

#8 The sad old man combines the cumulative effects of a long series of mini-strokes with an unending need for attention -- from anyone -- and a complete lack of proper upbringing. No? Then he's got his moral poles reversed. Perhaps a properly aimed lightning strike would help.
Posted by trailing wife 2009-09-22 07:43||   2009-09-22 07:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Like when he was on the Plains school board and tried to stop the state from building a Negro elementary school on the same block as the white elementary school because the two sets of children would mix walking to school?

I disagree with Fred though. James Buchanan is the worst President of all time.
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2009-09-22 08:35||   2009-09-22 08:35|| Front Page Top

#10 JB was a lousy President, unequal to the job, in a situation that was impossible. But what were the long term deleterious consequences of his Presidency? Carter has left a legacy that looks to last at least 20 years more.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-09-22 08:49||   2009-09-22 08:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Agreed, Nimble. Buchanan was awful, but virtually anyone in the Presidency at that moment would have looked bad with the two halves of the country reaching the unreconcilable point. Carter, on the other hand, created or hugely exacerbated most of his problems and managed to be a disaster in both domestic AND foreign policy. In foreign policy he was so obviously weak that Russia felt free to invade Afghanistan and we also had the Iran disaster. In domestic policy: awful inflation, interest rates, and unemployment.
Posted by Odysseus 2009-09-22 10:04||   2009-09-22 10:04|| Front Page Top

#12 Too bad few learn the lessons of history. Carter's failed policies are being repeated by the same Progressive libs now in power, with the same advisors at times. I'm afraid Carter is gonna lose the status as worst POTUS ever after just one year into his term.
Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-09-22 11:41||   2009-09-22 11:41|| Front Page Top

#13 "Carter also said that he believed Chavez was elected in a "fair" vote in 1999, and had carried out necessary reforms for Venezuela during his initially term"

Perhaps he's right and the 1999 election was a fair one. I believe there were a couple since then, however. One of which was monitored by Carter and his folks (who declared it fair at the time).
Posted by rjschwarz 2009-09-22 12:40||   2009-09-22 12:40|| Front Page Top

#14 When Clinton prepared for military strikes against Iraq in 1998, he griped about former President Jimmy Carter. "[Republican Senator Bob] Dole will support me," he told Branch. "Carter will probably criticize me. Carter always criticizes, but he doesn't have much positive to say."

From "Clinton on Gore: I Thought He Was in Neverland" in Mother Jones.
Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-09-22 15:02||   2009-09-22 15:02|| Front Page Top

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