JIMMY CARTER IS A RETARDED HILLBILLY

JIMMY CARTER IS A RETARDED HILLBILLY   When Jimmy Carter, quite possibly the most incompetent president of the twentieth century, accuses you of manipulating government intelligence to lead the country into war, you know you’re on the right track. I know it comes as quite a shock to hear a conservative make such a malicious comment about a politician from the opposing party (that’s Howard Dean’s forte), but in this case, it’s true. I’ve been listening to former president Carter’s comments of late, and every time he opens his mouth he sounds dumber and dumber. He’s like Rainman without the math ability or the keen personality. Alright, I suppose that was harsh. But so is a former president of the United States traveling the world over to defame the character of the sitting president.  He recently made the accusation that Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election. "Well I would say that in the year 2000, the country failed abysmally in the presidential election process," Carter told a panel at American University in Washington, D.C. To be fair, if there’s anyone who knows about abysmal failures, it’s Jimmy Carter. After all, his entire presidency was an abysmal failure.  If you ask me, former president Carter’s chief blunder is reminding the American people that he ever was president. I’ve tried to put myself in his place and I’ve come to the conclusion that if I were him, I would have done everything I could think of, short of mass mind-alteration (a technique which has been slowly perfected by CBS, CNN, et al) over the last twenty-five years to make America forget I had ever set foot in the White House. If my legacy had been marred by gas shortages, tax hikes, increased unemployment, economic instability, and my inability to negotiate the release of hostages from Iran I’d want to get as far away from that train wreck as possible. Yet there he is, writing books and trying to pass himself off as some literary scholar.  I do admire his work with Habitat for Humanity, and for that and his other humanitarian endeavors, he deserves the Nobel Prize he earned. But, let’s face it, he was a lackluster president at best. Exactly what we’ve come to expect from the party that has brought us such luminaries as Howard Dean, John Edwards, and John Kerry. This is to say nothing of Bill Clinton, who is all luster and very little else, and Ted Kennedy, who can’t be more than two shots of Old Granddad away from the grave.  I hate to say it, but I think that once a president becomes a former president, there needs to be some formal ceremony wherein they are forbidden to speak about matters of government. What the hell, maybe all retired politicians (and a few current ones) need the same gag order imposed. It’s just bad form when the man who once wielded more power than any other man on the planet spouts off about how his country is being flushed down the proverbial shitter by the current president. It just makes the whole country look bad. Then again, it’s obvious to anyone who has seen Helen Thomas lately that liberals are not overly concerned about looks.  -Mike Smith