Good grief!
How could I have ever admired and supported this man?
Well, actually, I know how. He was, after all, the last pro-life Democratic presidential nominee, and a man who combined my conservatism about such matters with genuine compassion for the poor and an honest and humble approach to foreign policy such as had been so disasteriously lacking in the administrations which governed our nation during the Vietnam era.
But that is in the past. His humility in foreign policy has turned to a fondness for "blame America first" appeasement, and his honesty to petty and malicious partisan nonsense such as the statement quoted in the story to which I linked above. I say this with profound sorrow, but Jimmy Carter has disgraced himself and rendered himself unworthy of anything but the contempt of his countrymen. I am embarrassed to have ever had him as my candidate, and as my President. And that's something I never imagined I'd ever say in a million years.
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A truly grieve for what Jimmy Carter has become: not merely a petty partisan, but one willing to say the most incredibly malicious and downright silly things imaginable simply to put down George W. Bush. That, and what I always insisted during his presidency that he was not- a naive, fuzzy-headed appeaser.
Cheers--AE