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2004-11-12 Home Front: Politix

Jimmy Carter calls Arafat a "powerful human symbol"

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-11-12 5:34:36 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Lord Hawhaw Jimmy Carter always did prefer Arafat to that damned Jew whatsismname, anyway. Carter and Arafat had a clear meeting of minds on the subject of proper Palestine/Israel relations.

Posted by trailing wife 2004-11-12 6:08:54 AM|| 2004-11-12 6:08:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 He is almost right,a symbol of human misery is closer to the mark.

Posted by raptor 2004-11-12 6:57:09 AM|| 2004-11-12 6:57:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 There is no limit to Jimmah's Huzpa.
The small example below makes this clear:

Former US President Jimmy Carter called Ossama Bin Laden (news - web sites) "a powerful human symbol and forceful advocate" who united Islamists in their pursuit of a Khalifa.

"Ossama's death marks the end of an era and will no doubt be painfully felt by Moslems throughout the Middle East and elsewhere in the world," Carter said.

"He was the father of the modern Arab/Moslem nationalist movement. A powerful human symbol and forceful advocate, Moslems united behind him in their pursuit of World Dominance" he said in a statement distributed by his Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center.

He said that while Ossama provided "indispensable leadership to a revolutionary movement" and played a key role in forging a balnce of fear with the USA on 9/11, he was excluded from negotiations with the LLL camp and with the Phrence in recent years.

QED

Posted by Elder of Zion 2004-11-12 7:05:55 AM|| 2004-11-12 7:05:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 http://www.nationalreview.com/20may02/nordlinger052002.asp
As (Carterâs biographer, Douglas) Brinkley writes in his book The Unfinished Presidency â about Carter's celebrated post-White House years â "there was no world leader Jimmy Carter was more eager to know than Yasir Arafat." The former president "felt certain affinities with the Palestinian: a tendency toward hyperactivity and a workaholic disposition...."

In their first meeting â held in 1990 â Carter boasted of his sternness toward Israel. For example, he said, "When I bring up the [PLO] charter, you should not be concerned that I am biased. I am much more harsh with the Israelis." Arafat, for his part, complained about the Reagan administration's alleged "betrayals." Rosalynn Carter, who was taking notes for her husband, interjected, "You don't have to convince us!" which, as Brinkley records, "elicited gales of laughter all round." The ex-president "agreed that the Reagan administration was not renowned as promise keepers" (this, to Arafat).

Posted by ed 2004-11-12 7:10:58 AM|| 2004-11-12 7:10:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Chutzpah, EoZ, Chutzpah.

You putz . . . ;-)

Posted by Jame Retief 2004-11-12 7:10:58 AM|| 2004-11-12 7:10:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Jame,
I stand rebuked
Chutzpa it is
Must be my Yemenite accent :)

Posted by Elder of Zion 2004-11-12 7:23:05 AM|| 2004-11-12 7:23:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Man, Jimmah, Yasshole must've saw you coming from a mile away!

Posted by tu3031 2004-11-12 9:25:57 AM|| 2004-11-12 9:25:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Isn't Jimmy off somewhere, building low-cost igloos for the Eskimos or something?

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-11-12 9:33:17 AM|| 2004-11-12 9:33:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 In other news - former US President James Buchanan called Jefferson Davis "a powerful human symbol and forceful advocate" who united Southerners in their pursuit of a homeland. The ironies abound. Maybe Jimmuh can plead senility - wottah maroon.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-11-12 10:17:40 AM|| 2004-11-12 10:17:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 With every word, Carter reinforces his image as the biggest FOOL we have ever elected.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-11-12 10:17:55 AM|| 2004-11-12 10:17:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Jimmy Carter is senile, but it is of those rare people who became senile at the very instant of their conception.

Posted by JFM 2004-11-12 10:53:35 AM|| 2004-11-12 10:53:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Jimmy is a powerful human symbol too. A middle finger of what liberals call compassion directed at reality. His densness "bloggles" the mind.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-11-12 11:00:18 AM|| 2004-11-12 11:00:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 I personally think Jimmy Carter personifies everything that is currently wrong with the Democratic party.

My GOD IN HEAVEN'S NAME and SAINTS ON BICYCLES!!!!!!!! Arafish was a thug and a brute, a tyrant of the worst order, a charlatan, rapist, murderer and scheming backstabbing camel thief. He is the god father of terrorism, Fatah, the PFLP and the PLO trained the Baader Meinhof gang, the Red Army Faction, the IRA, Hamas, Hezbollah and the rest. Not only that he skimmed off BILLIONS (THAT is with a B) from aid for the Palestinians to line his own little greedy pockets. Think what Suha's allowance would do for Ramallah.
Too bad we can't put the little weasel in a wood chipper and fertilize the Negev with his AIDS ridden little ass.

Posted by SOG475 2004-11-12 11:07:20 AM|| 2004-11-12 11:07:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 a powerful human symbol

Riiight.

Arafat was first Brezhnev's dildo and now he is the Hamas/Mullahs' dildo. How's that for a human symbol?

Posted by badanov 2004-11-12 11:12:34 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-11-12 11:12:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 Jimmy Shut the fuck up

Posted by Cheaderhead 2004-11-12 11:34:11 AM|| 2004-11-12 11:34:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 Apparently, Carter fancies Arafart as having been another Anwar Sadat. Ol' Yasser didn't even remotely come close.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-12 11:36:14 AM|| 2004-11-12 11:36:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 "Both Carter and Arafat are Nobel peace prize laureates..." who suffered brain problems in later years.

Posted by Tom 2004-11-12 11:39:35 AM|| 2004-11-12 11:39:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 Leave out the "human" part and he might have something there.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-11-12 11:41:50 AM|| 2004-11-12 11:41:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 I think it is a prerequisite that you have to be a complete fuckwhit in order to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Carter certainly fits the bill and is, without question, the worst president of the last 100 years. He should be muzzled. Put in a home and muzzled.

Posted by Remoteman 2004-11-12 1:16:11 PM|| 2004-11-12 1:16:11 PM|| Front Page Top

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