Prodigal Goober?
Jimmy Carter spent the first decade or so of his post-presidency acting out his faith, doing good deeds and helping people through initiatives like Habitat for Humanity. In this he was both noble and admirable and looked to be building a legacy after the White House that was the diametric opposite of the disastrous years he spent within it.
Then pride entered into the equation and he started fancying himself a sort of unappointed goober plenopotentiary, roving around the globe butting into U.S. foreign policy, interfering in other countries' internal affairs, feting and propping up dictators and sabotaging freedom.
But whereas Bill Clinton tolerated this pacifistic buttinskyism (ensuring, among other things, that North Korea would gain nuclear weapons) because it was, beneath the "New Democrat" bluster, his own foreign policy, J.C. Worthless really ramped up his efforts when Clinton was succeeded by a man who unequivocally did not share his foreign policy leanings, culminating in a Nobel Peace Prize that was equal parts condemnation of the Bush Doctrine and reward to the Squire of Plains, GA for his endlessly ignorant and caustic denunciation of it.
The Democrat Party, looking to ride that same neoMcGovernism back into the White House a year ago, not only took Carter's face off the proverbial side of the milk carton, but seated him in their place of highest honor at last summer's Boston convention: right next to Michael Moore.
So what on Earth can possibly explain these comments from the Georgia Giant?"
Is the man rediscovering his conscience? Is he regaining some rational perspective on "some issues," including the good grace to shut up about the other ones? Or is his party's flight from the mainstream into left-wing extremist lunacy so pronounced that even he is sufficiently disturbed to sound an alarm? Can you say, "Don't filibuster the Alito nomination"? It's right their between Carter's lines.
One thing seems certain - Mr. Peanut and milk carton sides look to be making a rousing comeback in the not too distant future.
UPDATE 11/7: Ramesh Ponnuru opines that, "There seems to be a lot less to [Carter's] "pro-life" stance than meets the eye.
Then pride entered into the equation and he started fancying himself a sort of unappointed goober plenopotentiary, roving around the globe butting into U.S. foreign policy, interfering in other countries' internal affairs, feting and propping up dictators and sabotaging freedom.
But whereas Bill Clinton tolerated this pacifistic buttinskyism (ensuring, among other things, that North Korea would gain nuclear weapons) because it was, beneath the "New Democrat" bluster, his own foreign policy, J.C. Worthless really ramped up his efforts when Clinton was succeeded by a man who unequivocally did not share his foreign policy leanings, culminating in a Nobel Peace Prize that was equal parts condemnation of the Bush Doctrine and reward to the Squire of Plains, GA for his endlessly ignorant and caustic denunciation of it.
The Democrat Party, looking to ride that same neoMcGovernism back into the White House a year ago, not only took Carter's face off the proverbial side of the milk carton, but seated him in their place of highest honor at last summer's Boston convention: right next to Michael Moore.
So what on Earth can possibly explain these comments from the Georgia Giant?"
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has scolded leaders of his own Democratic Party for their support of unrestricted abortion.
"I have always thought it was not in the mainstream of the American public to be extremely liberal on many issues," Carter told reporters in Washington on November 3, as reported in the Washington Times. The former president continued: "I think our party's leaders - some of them - are overemphasizing the abortion issue."
In a breakfast meeting with reporters, the former president, an Evangelical Christian, said that he agreed with President George W. Bush on some issues, including this one. "I've never been convinced, if you let me inject my Christianity into it, that Jesus Christ would approve abortion," he said. [emphasis added]
Is the man rediscovering his conscience? Is he regaining some rational perspective on "some issues," including the good grace to shut up about the other ones? Or is his party's flight from the mainstream into left-wing extremist lunacy so pronounced that even he is sufficiently disturbed to sound an alarm? Can you say, "Don't filibuster the Alito nomination"? It's right their between Carter's lines.
One thing seems certain - Mr. Peanut and milk carton sides look to be making a rousing comeback in the not too distant future.
UPDATE 11/7: Ramesh Ponnuru opines that, "There seems to be a lot less to [Carter's] "pro-life" stance than meets the eye.
posted by JASmius at 8:56 AM
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