First, there's plenty of time between now and November to make everyone remember Jimmy Carter.

Second, Carter didn't win the Nobel Prize for anything inherent in his own work; the committee itself said they gave it to him as a way of sticking their thumb in W's eye. Besides, Carter is in good company with Yasser Arafat and Le Duc Tho.

Carter let the Iranians yank his chain for 444 days as he wimpered about in the Rose Garden. The one and only military rescue attempt failed because Carter micromanaged it and wouldn't let them bring in enough helicopters lest they seem "too aggressive."

Our economy suffered the twin insults of double-digit inflation and no economic growth. His term is remembered for a new economic term: "stagflation."

Oh, and Carter is a favorite of Hammas and Hezbollah, just like Obama.

Plenty of time to remind voters of all this.

We can tell it's you, Mr President.

Actually, the President used to call me 'Rummy'. That would be what you'd call a "known known".

Monsieur Pauliac - Have you no morals Sir? Today is wednesday. 'Nekkid dancing' only occurs on Fridays. And only under very special circumstances.

Mooser, is that Yiddish?

You know my position: Think Yiddish, dress British. But by checking Leo Rosten(he's the mayven on this) we can say it's definitely "Yinglish". Use it in good health!

Damn, but you are a perceptive guy! Everyone I know or hear on the ferry is sitting around going "Screw Jimmy Carter, he ruined my life!"

You just keep reminding them of Carter, oh, the anger you will release. I'm sure the enlistment figures for the military will double.

But you will get the lifetime supply of cheetos and a free blog.

Except that -

Unlike Bush, who will probably wind up drinking himself to death in Kennebunkport or Crawford after he finishes screwing the country over next January, Carter has actually covered himself with glory since leaving office as a force for peace and democracy. I suspect most voters remember him more for those things, than for his time in office.

Once again, this brings up the age issue, in a tangential way, for McCain. He’s bringing up a President who half the electorate has no clue about, good, bad or indifferent.

(But hey, Reagan was about to negotiate with terrorists behind the real President’s back, and then sell weapons to Iran AND Iraq. He was sooo awesome, that Reagan.)

I give this meme about one week before it dies, never to be heard of again.

I hate it when my sarcasm detector malfunctions!

Wright's theology not "new or radical"

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Black religion expert Jonathan Walton on black liberation theology's roots in slavery, MLK Jr.'s "God damn America moment" and what Jeremiah Wright has in common with Gennifer Flowers.

By Sarah Posner

May. 03, 2008 | Although the firestorm over Barack Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is about politics, the notion that Wright's version of Christianity, black liberation theology, is radical, subversive, even un-American, is its essential subtext.

To discuss black theology, its history and its influence today, I spoke with Jonathan L. Walton, an ordained minister, expert on African-American religion and assistant professor of religious studies at the University of California at Riverside. Walton argues that black theology is not as radical as it has been made out to be and that Martin Luther King Jr. was actually more controversial than Wright. He also says that Wright -- the most visible adherent of black liberation theology in America -- will end up as a footnote in the history books alongside Gennifer Flowers, Willie Horton and Donna Rice...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/print.html

Carter has actually covered himself with glory since leaving office as a force for peace and democracy.

Oh, like when he defended the initial election of Hugo "Just Call Me Stalin" Chavez in Venezuela, even though there was ample evidence of vote fraud? Just this week Chavez has tried to institute a law that calls on all Venezuelans to rat on their neighbors. Thanks, Jimmy!

Or the way he constantly criticizes the only true democracy in the Middle East but sucks up to and takes money from the likes of Saudi Arabia, Hamas and Hezbollah?

Yeah, that Jimmy's quite a guy!

And you forget a key factor in your solipcistic historical ignorance: a key constituency Obama lost thoughout the primaries are middle-age working-class voters, who will very well remember the Carter years. They live disproportionately in key states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and W. Virginia.

So, just because you're dumb, don't assume everyone is.

Then again, anyone who is incapable of seeing through Obama's empty suit is probably just as blinkered as you.

Didn't Commodus kill you?

You mean kind of what they're going through right now under the chimpster?

Carter was, very likely, smarter than anyone who’s occupied the Oval Office since he left it. The guy commanded nuclear submarines. You don’t get to do that without being top notch. I’d bet real money that Bush’s "C's" at Yale were achieved through money and connections.

Carter was trying to do a lot of stuff that made sense in the long term - such as energy conservation - but he couldn’t get Washington to go along with it and then Reagan dismantled most of what he did get done. Looking back at the prescience of stuff he said today is a humbling experience. Bush is going along with rote Conservative ideology for virtually every decision that he makes and he’s only going to look dumber as time goes on.

Saving the best for last, the Middle East. Carter negotiated a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. I am still impressed by that. Bush gave us the Iraq invasion and named Iran as part of the “Axis of Evil” and sent a clear signal that he was planning on coming after them when Iran was (invaluably) cooperating with us on the Afghan invasion and making clear signals that they wanted to normalize relations with us. Our standing with them went from great to in-the-toilet the very next day. I suppose I’m impressed by that too, but not in the same way.

But, hey. Keep shrieking about Chavez and Hezbollah. Which stars of the flag are theirs?