Dow Tanks

Oh, my God!

Dow Sinks 500, Worst Day Since Dec. 2008

This is a nightmare.

Barack Obama is Jimmy Carter.

Debt Deal, Economy Still Sucks

The Senate has voted. A debt deal has been reached.



The United States of America is saved!

CELEBRATE!

Oh, wait.

The economy still sucks. It really sucks.

The stock market continues to tank. Home values continue to sink. There are no jobs.

From the New York Times:

A Senate vote to pass the debt ceiling plan on Tuesday may have averted the potential for the United States to default on its obligations, but it failed to lift investors’ spirits.

Within minutes of the news of the vote on the budget agreement, which had already passed the House on Monday, the three main indexes on Wall Street were down more than 1 percent.

Stocks had slumped since the morning opening as investors weighed recent data that drove home the challenges the economy faces. Their next step: weighing the debt limit agreement’s impact on the economy and whether it could possibly slow growth.

“As the macro data comes out, it seems like we may have more on our hands than just getting the debt ceiling raised,” said Myles Zyblock, chief institutional strategist and managing director of capital markets research at RBC Capital Markets.

"It SEEMS like we may have more on our hands than just getting the debt ceiling raised"?

NO KIDDING.

The Obama economy is an absolute disaster.

I can't take it anymore.

Obama has to follow in Jimmy Carter's footsteps. He has to be a one-term president.

It's the economy, stupid.

And the economy sucks.
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UPDATE: U.S. stocks in worst streak since credit crisis, Dow industrials extends declines into an eighth session

U.S. stocks fell hard Tuesday, posting their longest losing streak since the heart of the 2008 credit crisis, on investor worries about upcoming federal deficit cuts and a likely stall in the recovery.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average /quotes/zigman/627449/delayed DJIA -2.19% fell 265.87 points, or 2.2%, to 11,866.62, its worst one-day loss since June 1. The eight-day losing stretch was the longest since October 2008, weeks after the collapse of Lehman Bros. and by some measures, the peak of the U.S. credit crisis.

The S&P 500 posted a new closing low for 2011 and turned negative for the year.

What a nightmare!

Obama: Economy in the Ditch

Obama is Jimmy Carter. No doubt about it.

We need to find our Ronald Reagan.

Obama, Israel, and 1967 Borders

Obama reminds me of Jimmy Carter, the anti-Semite.

For example, Carter has spent years making offensive statements and writing books trashing Israel.

Back in 2006, David Horowitz called Carter out in his article, "Jimmy Carter: Jew-Hater, Genocide-Enabler, Liar."

Even as Islamic Hitlerites gather in Iran to deny the first Holocaust of the Jews and to plot the second, former president Jimmy Carter tours America with a new book that describes Jews as racists and oppressors, and suggests they are also a conspiratorial mafia that intimidates “critics,” controls America’s media and war policy, and are therefore also the source of Islamic terrorism and the Arabs’ genocidal campaign to eliminate them from the map of the Middle East.

In other words, Americans beware of the Jew in your midst.

Here is Carter’s description of the Middle East conflict in his own words, delivered during an interview he gave on National Public Radio during the second day of the Holocaust deniers’ conference in Teheran:

“I have spent a lot of time in Palestine in recent years. … The Palestinians have had their own land, first of all, occupied and then confiscated and then colonized. They’ve been excluded from their own gardens and fields, and pastures and churches. They have been severely restrained in their movements. They have to have different kinds of passes to go through different checkpoints inside their own lands on their own roads. The Israelis have built more than 200 settlements inside Palestine.They connect these settlements with very nice roads for the Israeli settlers, and then superhighways and so forth going into Jerusalem. Quite often the Palestinians are prevented from even riding on those roads that have been built in their own territory. So this has been in many ways worse than it was in South Africa.”

When hundreds of millions of Muslims are calling for the extermination of the Jews of Israel this is more than a lie; it is a blood libel.

Yesterday, Obama delivered a major speech and left no question that he has fully morphed into Jimmy Carter, the anti-Semite.

Here's video of Obama's full speech:



Transcript, from the White House:

OBAMA: The State Department is a fitting venue to mark a new chapter in American diplomacy. For six months, we have witnessed an extraordinary change taking place in the Middle East and North Africa. Square by square, town by town, country by country, the people have risen up to demand their basic human rights. Two leaders have stepped aside. More may follow. And though these countries may be a great distance from our shores, we know that our own future is bound to this region by the forces of economics and security, by history and by faith.

Today, I want to talk about this change -- the forces that are driving it and how we can respond in a way that advances our values and strengthens our security.

What does Obama mean by "our values"?

Is abandoning Israel, our democratic ally, an exhibition of "our values"?

I don't think so.

From the Wall Street Journal:

President Barack Obama, seeking to get ahead of historic changes rolling through the Middle East, promised support for democratic uprisings in the Arab world and called for the first time to begin negotiations for a Palestinian state based on Israel's pre-1967 borders.

Mr. Obama, in a wide-ranging speech on the Mideast, stressed to a global audience—the speech was broadcast in English, Arabic and Farsi—that with the fall of governments in Tunisia and Egypt and the death of Osama bin Laden, the era of al Qaeda and Islamist militancy is giving way to an age of popular rule.

Yet the responses to Mr. Obama's speech highlighted the difficulty he will have in reconciling myriad interests in Washington, Israel and the Arab world.

With grievances deep and ideological lines drawn decades ago, some in the Mideast, including Israel's prime minister, said Mr. Obama went too far; some pro-Israel U.S. lawmakers agreed. Others, from Palestinians to Arab diplomats, said he didn't go far enough.

...The speech had its biggest resonance in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet Mr. Obama Friday at the White House.

Mr. Obama entered office pledging to end the Arab-Israeli conflict, and White House officials have voiced frustration with Mr. Netanyahu and his commitment to expanding construction in disputed territories.

Mr. Obama sounded pained in describing the state of the dispute, noting that "the international community is tired of an endless process that never procures an outcome. The dream of a Jewish and democratic state cannot be fulfilled with permanent occupation."

For the first time since entering the White House, Mr. Obama said his administration sees the Mideast peace process producing an independent Palestinian state set along Israel's borders as they were before the 1967 Six Day War. Creating such a state would require Israel to cede control of parts of East Jerusalem and exit settlements in the West Bank, though Mr. Obama acknowledged that some elements of a future Palestinian state's borders would still be up for discussion.

...Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the only Jewish Republican in Congress, said the path Mr. Obama laid out for Middle East peace "undermines" the U.S. relationship with Israel. "By keeping the burden and thus the spotlight on Israel, the president is only giving the Palestinian Authority more incentive to carry on its unhelpful game of sidestepping negotiations and failing to put an end to terrorism," Mr. Cantor said in a written response to the address.

In his speech, Obama referred to the Palestinians "suffering the humiliation of occupation" by Israel.

That sort of terminology sounds exactly like it was lifted from Jimmy Carter's anti-Israel book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.

Here's stunning video of Carter slamming Israel:



What a mistake for Obama to adopt Carter's views!

That's not the way to peace. It's an invitation to annihilate Israel.

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Israel Celebrates 60 Years

The Dome of the Rock is seen as fireworks light the skies of Jerusalem marking the start of Israel's Independence Day on May 7. Israel launched celebrations for its 60th anniversary after remembering its fallen in successive Middle East wars, with the premier's fate under a cloud and the nation still far from making peace with its neighbours.(AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)


Israelis and tourists watch air force jets fly in formation over the Mediterranean Sea in Tel Aviv, during celebrations for Israel's Independence Day, marking the 60th anniversary of the creation of the state, May 8, 2008. (REUTERS/Eliana Aponte)

JERUSALEM -- A Jewish astronaut greets Israel from space. Revelers try to set a record for the most people singing a national anthem. To celebrate turning 60, Israel is staging fireworks, air force flyovers and a birthday bash for anyone born on the day the Jewish state was founded.

Israel is marking its 60th Independence Day, which began at sundown Wednesday, with a great sense of pride but also uncertainty about its future and doubts about prospects for peace with the Palestinians. Six decades after rising from the ashes of the Holocaust, the Jewish state is still plagued by threats from abroad and an identity crisis at home.

Israel at 60 is a paradox of exuberance and despair — a country enduring near daily rocket attacks from militants while producing scientists who have pioneered Wi-Fi and instant messaging.

Its 41-year occupation of Palestinian territories has invited international condemnation. Yet Israel is a thriving democracy that has provided a haven for the world's Jews.

This Independence Day is marred by a fresh criminal inquiry of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, whose legal woes are calling his political survival into question just as he is moving to forge a peace deal with the moderate Palestinian leadership in the West Bank.

However, Israelis are putting aside their frustration with politics for what is expected to be one of the most joyous birthday celebrations since the first on May 14, 1948 — a date marked each year in Israel by the Hebrew calendar.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad isn't sending any best wishes Israel's way.

No surprise there.

"Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken," the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as having said.

"Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation."

Ahmadinejad further stated that Israel "has reached the end like a dead rat after being slapped by the Lebanese" - referring to the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006.

What a guy!

Jimmy Carter should go visit Ahmadinejad, just to talk.

I suppose Iran probably holds too many bad memories for Carter.

Jimmy Carter and Jay Leno

In this photo provided by NBC, showing former President Jimmy Carter, left talking with Jay Leno during the taping of 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' in Burbank, Calif., Wednesday, May 7, 2008. (AP Photo/NBC, Paul Drinkwater)

On Wednesday, former President Jimmy Carter was a guest on the Tonight Show.

Jay Leno gave Jimmy Carter one of the most glowing introductions I've ever heard him give a guest. Leno gushed about how thrilling it is to interview former President Carter. What a great man! So many accomplishments!

In Leno's introduction, he noted that Carter is an "undeclared super delegate."

That, of course, is somewhat of a crock. Carter keeps insisting that he's undeclared but then he adds that everyone in his family supports Barack Obama, his way of hinting that he does, too.

Carter said he would not be declaring until after the primary season concludes in June.

Leno asked Carter what he thought about Tuesday's primaries in Indiana and North Carolina.

Carter responded, "Well, I thought that Obama won one and Hillary won one."

He said it takes a super delegate to analyze that. Right.

Something that had to tick Hillary off was Carter's comments about the delegates from Michigan and Florida.

Carter did a dramatic lead up, asserting that they "ought to be seated for sure... in 2012."

Leno agreed with Carter when he said it would be wrong to seat them in 2008 because "they disqualified themselves."

Leno ended the topic by saying, "That argument is pretty much over."

On what planet? I wouldn't say that the issue of Florida and Michigan is settled, not by a long shot.

Talking about the Democrats' primary methods, Carter said the Dem party went with the super delegate system because at the 1980 Dem convention, Carter's opponent Ted Kennedy refused to shake his hand.

If you say so, Jimmy.

Leno asked Carter if he thought McCain was too old to be running for president. Carter said that McCain is 12 years younger than he is. It sounded as if Carter would say that McCain wasn't too old.

Wrong.

Carter flipped and said, "I think we need a younger person to be president."

Way to diss older Americans!

Naturally, Leno brought up Carter's recent talks with Hamas.

Leno asked, "Why do it? It seems like...boy, it gets people riled up. I mean..."

Carter led off with, "Well, for 32 years, I've been trying to bring peace to Israel, and was successful in getting a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt."

Gee, when was the last time you heard Carter mention the Camp David Accords?

It had to be the last time you heard Carter speak because he manages to work that into every statement he makes.

Then, Carter blathered on about meeting with Hamas, and the need for dialogue, and blah, blah, blah.

Carter said that the State Department didn't ask him not to go on the trip and meet with Hamas. He claimed no one even insinuated that he shouldn't go.

If you say so, Jimmy.

The real purpose for Carter's guest appearance was to hawk his new book about his mom, supposedly a great Mother's Day gift. He mentioned how she loved to be the center of attention. Carter added that he's "really not that way."

HUH? Carter wasn't joking. He claimed that he doesn't like to be the center of attention.

I never knew that. He sure fooled me.

Jimmy Carter and Charlie Rose

Jimmy Carter was talking about his recent Terrorist-palooza Tour with Charlie Rose on his show last night.

Again, Carter said that he in no way was acting in the role of a mediator or negotiator.

Then, of course, he went on to detail his talks with Hamas.

Rose said that it sounded like Carter was talking about negotiations.

Carter babbled that they were not negotiations.

Rose then called them "conversations."

Carter went on to talk about the "commitments" that Hamas made.

Rose questioned the "commitments."

Carter quickly added that Hamas made "commitments to me." What is that? Peace for Jimmy? Promises to Jimmy?

This is insane. Rose eased off and accepted Carter's assessment that he wasn't involved in any negotiations.

Carter claimed to be neutral, but he clearly is anti-Israel.

Rose asked Carter if Israel is engaging in acts of terrorism.

He didn't hesitate to say yes.

Carter gave his idea of what would be a perfect inaugural speech for the next president.

He said America's standing in the world could be changed in ten minutes, if the new president promises not to torture, and not to invade countries, and to be a leader in peace and human rights. A simple speech will change everything. Good grief.

When Rose and Carter get together it's torture.

Rose wondered, "What should we fear the most?"

Carter replied, "Continuing the current policies."

According to Carter, Americans shouldn't fear radical Islam and terrorists or suitcase nukes or anything as much as they should fear the policies of the Bush administration.

Carter is a hack. He's a disgrace.

Jimmy Carter and Pariah Diplomacy

Jimmy Carter has written yet another op-ed piece.

I think Carter's ramblings are appealing to lib publications not because of his status as a former president, but because he is ruthless when it comes to criticizing the Bush administration.

In the New York Times, "Pariah Diplomacy":

A COUNTERPRODUCTIVE Washington policy in recent years has been to boycott and punish political factions or governments that refuse to accept United States mandates. This policy makes difficult the possibility that such leaders might moderate their policies.

...On the way home from monitoring the Nepalese election, I, my wife and my son went to Israel. My goal was to learn as much as possible to assist in the faltering peace initiative endorsed by President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Although I knew that official United States policy was to boycott the government of Syria and leaders of Hamas, I did not receive any negative or cautionary messages about the trip, except that it might be dangerous to visit Gaza.

Translation: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is a liar.

Carter explains:

We met with Hamas leaders from Gaza, the West Bank and Syria, and after two days of intense discussions with one another they gave these official responses to our suggestions, intended to enhance prospects for peace:

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Hamas will accept any agreement negotiated by Mr. Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel provided it is approved either in a Palestinian referendum or by an elected government. Hamas’s leader, Khaled Meshal, has reconfirmed this, although some subordinates have denied it to the press.

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When the time comes, Hamas will accept the possibility of forming a nonpartisan professional government of technocrats to govern until the next elections can be held.

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Hamas will also disband its militia in Gaza if a nonpartisan professional security force can be formed.

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Hamas will permit an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian militants in 2006, Cpl. Gilad Shalit, to send a letter to his parents. If Israel agrees to a list of prisoners to be exchanged, and the first group is released, Corporal Shalit will be sent to Egypt, pending the final releases.

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Hamas will accept a mutual cease-fire in Gaza, with the expectation (not requirement) that this would later include the West Bank.

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Hamas will accept international control of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, provided the Egyptians and not the Israelis control closing the gates.

In addition, Syria’s president, Bashir al-Assad, has expressed eagerness to begin negotiations with Israel to end the impasse on the Golan Heights. He asks only that the United States be involved and that the peace talks be made public.

Does this sound like Carter is summing up his negotiations with Hamas?

"Intense discussions."

"OFFICIAL responses to our suggestions, intended to enhance prospects for peace."

Carter goes through them, point by point. It's to reconcile that with what he said last week.

From an interview with Reena Ninan on FOX News:

NINAN: One Israeli official actually said to me, 'We don't know whose behalf he's negotiating.' Why are you doing this? And would you have appreciated someone undermining your administration?

CARTER: First, I'm not undermining anything. And secondly, I'm not negotiating. I have no role to play as a mediator or a negotiator. I'm just here representing myself and the Carter Center, no one else, with no authority at all. I don't want any authority. And my decision was just to talk to people who must be involved in the final peace agreement, who are excluded at this point from any discussions leading to a peace agreement.

WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT?

Carter just laid out Hamas' OFFICIAL responses to his suggestions.

But don't forget, he wasn't acting as a mediator or a negotiator.

No. Of course not.

Carter does have a lot in common with those "political factions or governments that refuse to accept United States mandates."

Pariahs of a feather flock together.

Israel Ambassador Calls Carter a "Bigot"

NEW YORK -- Israel's ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday called former President Jimmy Carter "a bigot" for meeting with the leader of the militant Hamas movement in Syria.

Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, "went to the region with soiled hands and came back with bloody hands after shaking the hand of Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas," Ambassador Dan Gillerman told a luncheon briefing for reporters.

...The ambassador's harsh words for Carter came days after the ex-president met with Mashaal for seven hours in Damascus to negotiate a cease-fire with Gaza's Hamas rulers. Carter then called Mashaal on Monday to try to get him to agree to a one-month truce without conditions, but the Hamas leader rejected the idea.

The ambassador called last weekend's encounter "a very sad episode in American history."

He said it was "a shame" to see Carter, who had done "good things" as a former president, "turn into what I believe to be a bigot."

Good call.

Carter and Rice: He Said, She Said

ATLANTA (Reuters) -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday accused Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of not telling the truth about warnings she said her department gave Carter not to speak to Hamas before a Middle East trip.

The State Department has said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David Welch, the top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, issued the warning before Carter, a veteran of Middle East diplomacy, went on his trip last week.

Rice said in Kuwait on Tuesday: "We counseled President Carter against going to the region and particularly against having contact with Hamas."

"President Carter has the greatest respect for ... Rice and believes her to be a truthful person. However, perhaps inadvertently, she is continuing to make a statement that is not true," a statement issued by the Carter center in Atlanta said on Wednesday.

"No one in the State Department or any other department of the U.S. government ever asked him (Carter) to refrain from his recent visit to the Middle East or even suggested that he not meet with Syrian President (Bashar) Assad or leaders of Hamas," it said.

It said Carter attempted to call Rice before making the trip and a deputy returned his call since Rice was in Europe.

"They had a very pleasant discussion for about 15 minutes, during which he never made any of the negative or cautionary comments described above. He never talked to anyone else," the statement said.

Given the fact that Carter "exaggerated" when he said "Hamas is prepared to accept the Jewish state's right to 'live as a neighbor next door in peace'" and presented a false report on his talks with Hamas, I am more inclined to doubt Carter's version of events.

I wish Carter would quit whining and cozying up to terrorists, and instead do something constructive -- like build a house.

Jimmy Carter's Delusions of Middle East Peace

If Jimmy Carter doesn't regret his meetings with Hamas, he should.

The group has humiliated him. And of course, Carter humiliated himself.

JERUSALEM -- Former President Carter said Monday that the Islamic group Hamas was willing to accept the Jewish state as a "neighbor next door," but the militants did not match their upbeat words with concrete steps to halt violence.

Hamas, which advocates Israel's destruction, instead recycled previous offers, including a 10-year truce if Israel takes the unlikely step of withdrawing from the West Bank and Jerusalem first.

Hamas has repeatedly confounded observers with its conflicting messages. Actions on the ground — seven rockets were fired on Israel from Hamas-ruled Gaza Monday, including one that wounded a 4-year-old boy — contradicted the Islamic militant group's positive words about coexistence and a truce.

And a leader of the Hamas military wing, which carried out a twin suicide bombing on the Gaza border Saturday, said his group would step up attacks against Israel in coming days.

The salvo of rockets came despite a last-minute phone call from Carter, urging a one-month halt to attacks on Israel, to gain some international goodwill and defuse tensions.

"I did the best I could," Carter said of his conversation with Hamas supreme leader, Khaled Mashaal, pressing him to declare a one-month truce. "They turned me down, and I think they're wrong."

This is ridiculous. Carter continues to claim that he didn't go to the Middle East to negotiate anything.

He said so again in an interview with Reena Ninan on FOX News.

NINAN: One Israeli official actually said to me, 'We don't know whose behalf he's negotiating.' Why are you doing this? And would you have appreciated someone undermining your administration?

CARTER: First, I'm not undermining anything. And secondly, I'm not negotiating. I have no role to play as a mediator or a negotiator. I'm just here representing myself and the Carter Center, no one else, with no authority at all. I don't want any authority. And my decision was just to talk to people who must be involved in the final peace agreement, who are excluded at this point from any discussions leading to a peace agreement.

One minute, Carter says he has no authority and he's not negotiating anything. Then the next, Carter says he did the best he could and Hamas turned him down. That sounds like negotiations to me.

One-month truce. Ten-year truce. Hamas is ready to accept the Jewish state's right to "live as a neighbor next door in peace." Whatever.

On Monday, Hamas fired seven rockets on Israel, wounding a 4-year-old boy.

The New York Times reports:

Jimmy Carter said here on Monday that in talks in Damascus, Syria, over the last several days, he obtained a significant concession from the militant group Hamas regarding Israeli-Palestinian peace and found Syrian leaders eager for a full peace treaty with Israel.

Mr. Carter said he extracted a promise from Hamas to respect the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip negotiated by Hamas’s rivals in the Palestinian Authority if it were ratified by a referendum of the Palestinian people.

Furthermore, Syrian leaders told him, he said, that “about 85 percent” of the issues between Syria’s government and Israel had been resolved in prior negotiations and that it wanted a peace deal “as soon as possible.”

Given the general pessimism surrounding Israeli-Arab peace, Mr. Carter’s upbeat assessment had a contrarian quality to it, as did his decision to meet in Damascus with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and the Hamas leadership. The Bush administration has shunned Syria and considers Hamas a terrorist group, as does Israel, and had asked him not to hold the meetings.

Israelis have not generally welcomed Mr. Carter on this trip. Many of them consider him hostile to Israel’s interests, especially since the publication of his book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” in 2006.

On Monday, Mr. Carter called the agreement on a Palestinian state, obtained from Hamas in writing, important because it appeared to mean that Hamas, which seized control of the Gaza Strip last June, would not disrupt negotiations or implementation of any accord if the Palestinian people supported it in a free vote.

“If the agreement calls for a two-state solution and the recognition of Israel and Palestine, Hamas will, in effect, recognize Israel, if the people agree on the plan,” Mr. Carter told the Israel Council on Foreign Relations in a speech here.

In a subsequent interview, Mr. Carter struck a more cautious note, saying, “I’m not claiming it’s a breakthrough.” He added, “I don’t have any control over whether or not Hamas does what they tell me.”

Hamas’s charter calls for Israel’s destruction, and it has consistently refused to recognize Israel. But Mr. Carter says that Hamas is coming around to the idea of a two-state solution.

...Mr. Carter had made several other requests to Hamas but was turned down. Those included a prisoner exchange and the declaration of a 30-day unilateral cease-fire with Israel.

I think someone needs to explain to Carter what "negotiate" means.

His claims of obtaining a significant concession and extracting a promise of an agreement on a Palestinian state, obtained from Hamas in writing, sounds like he was taking it upon himself to negotiate. Carter says that Hamas turned down his several other requests and the declaration of a cease-fire.

OF COURSE, HE WAS NEGOTIATING AND ACTING AS A MEDIATOR.

He was acting against the wishes of the Bush administration. Carter says he was just talking to people.

I don't consider his meetings with Hamas to be just typical talking to people, chit chat.

...Mr. Carter said in the interview that he found the Hamas leadership, including Mr. Meshal, to be clear-thinking, educated people who gave no sign of fanaticism, although he did condemn in harsh terms their use of violence. During his meetings, he said, they did not break for prayer or talk of holy land or God. “It was secular talk,” he said.

Mr. Carter also said that what he learned about Syrian intentions toward Israel might prove more significant than the Hamas agreement.

He asserted that Mr. Assad had said that there were only a few details left to work out on a full peace treaty but that the Bush administration was discouraging Israel from proceeding because of the Americans’ other concerns about Syria, especially related to Iraq.

“All of our group were surprisingly impressed with his strength and knowledge of the details in contrast to what we had heard from propaganda,” Mr. Carter said of the Syrian president. He emphasized that for Syria, a deal with Israel had to be brokered by the United States.

Once again, Carter has high praise for terrorists.

They're "clear-thinking, educated people who gave no sign of fanaticism."

I guess Carter didn't watch any Hamas TV programs for kids, like the puppet show of a child stabbing Bush to death and turning the White House into a mosque. No, nothing fanatical about that. That's the product of clear-thinking, educated people.

It sickens me that Carter is charging the U.S. government with spreading propaganda about Syrian president Bashar al-Assad while he disseminates Assad's lines about the Bush administration discouraging Israel from proceeding with a peace treaty because of the Americans' concerns about Syria related to Iraq.

Carter paints Assad as the good guy and Bush as blocking peace efforts.

What an anti-American tool!

This is another disgrace for Carter. He doesn't understand the terrorists' goal. It's not peace. It's the destruction of Israel.

I think Carter may be clinically delusional.

The fact is by continuing the terrorism and lobbing the seven rockets at Israel on Monday, the day Carter was bragging about the Middle East being on the verge of peace, Hamas spit in Carter's face; sort of the way Carter spit in the face of the Bush administration.

What goes around comes around.

Hamas and Israel and Jimmy Carter

Contradicting Jimmy Carter's babbling, Hamas won't recognize Israel.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal says his militant Islamic group will not recognize Israel.

But Mashaal says Hamas will accept a Palestinian state on Palestinian territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

The statement amounted to a tacit acceptance of Israel's right to exist alongside a Palestinian state, but without explicit recognition of the Jewish state.

Earlier, former President Jimmy Carter said that Hamas is prepared to accept the Jewish state's right to "live as a neighbor next door in peace." Carter met twice with Mashaal over the weekend.

Carter is wearing his rose-colored glasses, or he's just lying.

Then there's this:

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- The leader of Hamas says his Palestinian militant group is offering Israel a 10-year truce if it withdraws from all lands it seized in the 1967 war.

Khaled Mashaal says he made the offer to former President Carter in talks on Saturday.

Mashaal says Hamas would accept a Palestinian state limited to the lands Israel seized in 1967 — an implicit acceptance that Israel would exist alongside that state.

But Mashaal says the group would never outright formally recognize Israel.

Ten-year truce?

Yeah, right.

What's what this "offer to former President Carter" stuff?

Carter claimed he wasn't going to the Middle East to negotiate any agreements.

In any event, there's definitely a failure to communicate.

Hamas is NOT prepared to accept the Jewish state's right to "live as a neighbor next door in peace."

Carter and Hamas: Peace in Our Time

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Monday Hamas leaders told him they would accept a peace agreement negotiated by their rival, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, if Palestinians approved the deal in a vote.

"They said they would accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders if approved by Palestinians ... even though Hamas might disagree with some terms of the agreement," Carter said in a speech, after talks in Syria and Egypt with Hamas leaders.

"It means that Hamas will not undermine Abbas's efforts to negotiate an agreement and Hamas will accept an agreement if the Palestinians support it in a free vote," he said.

...He said "there's no doubt that both the Arab world and the Palestinians, including Hamas, will accept Israel's right to live in peace within the 1967 borders".

Yeah, right.

Hamas refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist, but miracle worker Jimmy Carter has changed that. Years and years of bloodshed could soon be over thanks to Jimmy.

Hamas won't undermine Abbas' negotiations and any agreement must be accepted by the Palestinian people in a free vote.

Sure, that'll happen. No problem. Peace at last!

This is absolutely meaningless.

On Saturday, while Carter was in the region working his magic, Hamas carried out a terrorist attack.

And we're supposed to believe that Carter has convinced Hamas to take a step toward peace?

Has hell frozen over yet?

Jimmy Carter and Hamas Suicide Bombers

So, Jimmy, how are those talks with Hamas going?

Is it peace yet?

JERUSALEM -- Hamas bombers attacked an Israeli-Gaza border crossing under the cover of fog Saturday, detonating two jeeps made to look like Israeli military vehicles and packed with hundreds of pounds of explosives.

The twin blasts, just hours before the Jewish Passover holiday, wounded 13 Israeli soldiers in what Hamas said was an attempt to break the nearly yearlong blockade of the territory. Four Hamas assailants died, Israeli officials said.

Meanwhile, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met with senior Hamas leaders in Damascus, Syria, for a second day to hear their views, defying U.S. and Israeli warnings that doing so would grant the group legitimacy. The U.S. and Israel have labeled Hamas a terrorist organization.

An Israeli army commander said the Hamas operation was the most ambitious since Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, even though another planned attempt at the border was averted Saturday. The attack was the fifth on a crossing by Gaza militants since last week, and Hamas threatened to target the passages again.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak later visited the area. "When the time comes, Hamas will bear the consequences," Barak warned, in comments quoted by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on its Web site.

Despite such attacks, Hamas has said it seeks a truce on the Gaza-Israel border, and Egypt has been trying to broker such a deal. Hamas' motives for its ostensibly contradictory actions were not clear.

Hamas officials said they talked to Carter about ways to lift the Gaza closure and the possibility of swapping an Israeli soldier held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners in Israel.

So, Jimmy is meeting with Hamas leaders even as the terrorist group launches more attacks. I guess Jimmy's not making much progress at all.

"Despite such attacks, Hamas has said it seeks a truce on the Gaza-Israel border, and Egypt has been trying to broker such a deal. Hamas' motives for its ostensibly contradictory actions were not clear."

Not clear?

It's very clear.

Hamas is a terrorist organization. It has no intention of making peace.

Talk is cheap.

Unfortunately, Jimmy Carter continues to cheapen himself.

Carter Honors Terrorist Arafat

I knew Jimmy Carter's Middle East Terrorist-palooza Tour would be nauseating, but I wasn't prepared for this.

From FOX News:

Jimmy Carter reportedly hugged — and kissed — a Hamas leader Tuesday in the West Bank on a Mideast visit that will culminate in a meeting with the terror group's exiled leader in Syria later this week.

Carter's embrace of Nasser Shaer, a senior Hamas politician, at a closed-door reception organized by Carter's office was reported by several news outlets Tuesday. Carter has been widely criticized over the trip by both U.S. and Israeli officials, who have listed Hamas as a terror organization.

Carter also laid a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat, whom he praised as a man who fought for "just causes" in the world. The Bush administration and many Israelis blame Arafat for the breakdown of peace talks seven years ago and the violence that followed.

"He gave me a hug. We hugged each other, and it was a warm reception," Shaer told The Associated Press. "Carter asked what he can do to achieve peace between the Palestinians and Israel ... and I told him the possibility for peace is high."

"Carter has weight and respect, and I hope he'll have a role and effect on the Palestinian problem," Shaer said, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

...Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Carter's meeting with Hamas "dignified" a group committed to Israel's destruction. "One cannot but wonder how this attitude is supposed to promote peace and understanding," he said.

Israel and the West Bank are the first stops on a visit that also is to include Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Syria — where the virulently anti-Israel Hamas movement is headquartered. Shunned by his Israeli hosts and criticized by the White House for his willingness to meet with Hamas, Carter has urged that both stop isolating the militant group.

...President Bush did not visit Arafat's mausoleum in Ramallah when he visited earlier this year.

Carter is taking it up a notch by laying a wreath at Arafat's grave.


In this photo released by the Palestinian Authority, Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter lays a wreath at the grave of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said he'll meet with a Hamas leader at a West Bank reception Tuesday, a sign he has not been cowed by criticism of his plans to meet with the violently anti-Israel group. (AP Photo/Palestinian Authority, Thaer Ganaim, HO)



Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, second right lays a wreath at late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's grave in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said he will meet with a Hamas leader in the West Bank. Woman standing next to him is unidentified. (AP Photo/Atef Safadi, Pool)

From the Associated Press:

Former President Carter angered Israel's government Tuesday by embracing a Hamas politician during a visit to the West Bank, ignoring Israeli and U.S. designation of the Islamic militants as a terror group.

Israel accused Carter, the broker of the first Arab-Israeli peace accord, of "dignifying" extremists. But Carter vowed to meet Hamas' supreme leader this week in Syria.

Carter, a Nobel Peace laureate, also laid a wreath at Yasser Arafat's grave, another break with U.S. policy during a private peace mission to the Middle East that includes stops in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Syria — where the virulently anti-Israel Hamas movement has its headquarters. Carter returns to Israel on Monday.

Carter has been shunned by Israel this week, and the White House has criticized him for his willingness to meet with Hamas leaders. Carter says the U.S. and Israel should stop isolating the group, whose control of the Gaza Strip threatens to undermine Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts.

"Since Syria and Hamas will have to be involved in a final peace agreement, they have to be involved in discussions that lead to final peace," Carter said in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

During the graveside ceremony, a two-man honor guard escorted the 83-year-old Carter and his wife, Rosalynn. Carter placed the wreath on the grave, then solemnly nodded before turning away. Later, a Palestinian host told Carter that Arafat's resting place was temporary, and the Palestinians hope to move his remains to Jerusalem one day. Carter did not react.

President Bush blamed Arafat for the breakdown of peace talks and subsequent wave of violence and cut off of contacts with the longtime Palestinian leader before he died in 2004. Bush did not visit Arafat's grave when he visited Ramallah this year.

Carter, the Nobel peace laureate, embraces and honors terrorists.

What is Carter's message? Peace through terror?

Carter continues to add to his abysmal legacy.

Why Hamas Likes Jimmy Carter and the Democrats

Aaron Klein of WorldNetDaily reports:

Former President Jimmy Carter is a "noble person" whose planned meeting with Hamas would help the terror organization "engage with the world community," Ahmed Yousuf, Hamas' top political adviser in the Gaza Strip, told WND today in an exclusive interview.

"Carter can achieve something no one else can. He is open-minded and has a very noble cause to come and meet with all people," said Yousuf, the chief political adviser to Ismail Haniyeh, the deposed prime minister of the Hamas-led Palestinian government.

Yousuf, who is usually the Hamas figure responsible for coordinating meetings with foreign officials, said Carter "should get credit because he is the one who really understands the (Israeli-Palestinian) conflict and knows what is needed to achieve peace."

He indicated Carter's visit could help end Hamas' international isolation.

"If he comes and meets Hamas, this will also enhance the image and understanding between America and the Muslim world," said Yousuf, speaking by phone from Gaza. "Carter's visit is a good step and a positive step in the right direction. It would engage with the world community. To what degree he succeeds depends on the people in Europe and the U.S."

Yousuf blasted the Bush administration for "trying to block every attempt to lift sanctions against Hamas."

He accused "Zionists" and U.S. Jewish groups of "trying to sabotage [Carter's Middle East] trip ... . Some reports said American Jewish groups tried to stigmatize him with being connected to terrorism or working against Jewish ambitions at home."

Asked if he believes Democrats would engage Hamas if the party takes the White House next year, Yousuf replied, "I do believe Democrats will make a drastic change in American foreign policy. I hope they are able to fix the damage done by [President] Bush and the Republicans and engage again in a very positive way with the Arab and Muslim world, where most of their vital interests lie."

Yousuf slammed Bush for "engaging in a terrible crusade against the Muslim world."

We know that Hamas loves Carter. He's a useful idiot for Hamas. Of course, Carter is revered as a peacemaker by Hamas because he's so biased against the Israelis.

And of course, Yousuf slams Bush because the President isn't an appeaser of terrorists.

This interview provides an incredible revelation: HAMAS IS HOPING THE DEMOCRATS TAKE THE WHITE HOUSE.

Yousuf says, "I do believe Democrats will make a drastic change in American foreign policy. I hope they are able to fix the damage done by [President] Bush and the Republicans and engage again in a very positive way with the Arab and Muslim world, where most of their vital interests lie."

That's not an endorsement Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton should welcome.

...Carter did meet Israeli President Shimon Peres in a low key talk that was closed to members of the media.

Israel's Haaretz daily newspaper quoted sources in Peres' office stating the Israeli president rebuked Carter over his last book, titled, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," in which he claimed Israel was an apartheid state, and told Carter his activities in the Israeli-Palestinian arena in recent years caused grave damage to Israel and to the peace process.

I hope this is accurate and Peres did blast Carter for his disgraceful book and his activities.

I keep thinking of this saying: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Hamas views Carter as an enemy of Israel. Thus, Hamas embraces Carter as a friend. Hamas also sees the Democrats as serving its interests.

Those interests aren't in America's best interests.

Jimmy Carter, Hamas, and the Beijing Olympics

A Palestinian boy wears a Hamas headband during a protest organized by the Hamas movement calling for an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip April 11, 2008. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA)

There was a time when I had a great deal of respect for Jimmy Carter. Yes, he was a disaster as president, but I thought he was honorable and decent, a man of character. Not anymore.

I see Jimmy Carter as an old, desperate, selfish man.

WASHINGTON -- Former President Carter said he feels "quite at ease" about meeting Hamas militants over the objections of Washington because the Palestinian group is essential to a future peace with Israel.

Carter, interviewed Saturday for ABC News' "This Week," airing Sunday, also said he would oppose a U.S. Olympic boycott and hopes all countries will join in the Beijing games.

He spoke from Katmandu, Nepal, where his team of observers from the Carter Center monitored an election that appeared likely to transform rule by royal dynasty into a democracy with former Maoist rebels in a strong position, judging by incomplete returns.

Several State Department officials, including the secretary, Condoleezza Rice, criticized Carter's plans to talk in Syria this week with exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in the first public contact in two years between a prominent American figure and the group. Carter said he had not heard the objections directly, although a State Department spokesman said earlier that a senior official from the department had called the former president.

"President Carter is a private citizen. We respect his views," Stephen Hadley, President Bush's national security adviser, said Sunday on ABC.

"The position of the government is that Hamas is a terrorist organization and we don't negotiate with terrorists. We think that's a very important principle to maintain," Hadley said. "The State Department made clear we think it's not useful for people to be running to Hamas at this point and having meetings."

Carter demurred.

"I feel quite at ease in doing this," he said. "I think there's no doubt in anyone's mind that, if Israel is ever going to find peace with justice concerning the relationship with their next-door neighbors, the Palestinians, that Hamas will have to be included in the process."

Although he said the meeting would not be a negotiation, he outlined distinct goals.

"I think that it's very important that at least someone meet with the Hamas leaders to express their views, to ascertain what flexibility they have, to try to induce them to stop all attacks against innocent civilians in Israel and to cooperate with the Fatah as a group that unites the Palestinians, maybe to get them to agree to a cease-fire — things of this kind," he said.

The State Department says it advised Carter twice against meeting representatives of Hamas, which Washington considers a terrorist organization.

"I find it hard to understand what is going to be gained by having discussions with Hamas about peace when Hamas is, in fact, the impediment to peace," Rice said Friday, after reports of the planned meeting surfaced.

It's true that Carter is a private citizen, but he's not your average private citizen. He was president of the United States.

And he feels "quite at ease" with undercutting the policy of the current administration.

There's something seriously wrong with Carter if he can feel "quite at ease" with that.

Carter said he'd be meeting Syrians, Egyptians, Jordanians, Saudi Arabians and others "who might have to play a crucial role in any future peace agreement that involves the Middle East."

Asked whether it was right to meet a group that has not renounced violence or recognized Israel, he said, "Well, you can't always get prerequisites adopted by other people before you even talk to them."

Carter claims that he's not negotiating.

Then what is it that he's doing? Having casual chats about peace agreements in the Middle East?

Pressure to drop the meeting has come from his own party. Democratic Reps. Artur Davis of Alabama, Shelley Berkley of Nevada, Adam Schiff of California and Adam Smith of Washington state wrote a letter to Carter saying the meeting could confer legitimacy on a group that embraces violence.

"I've been meeting with Hamas leaders for years," Carter said.

Carter says he has been meeting with Hamas leaders for years.

Perhaps that's why he feels so comfortable getting cozy with terrorists. Perhaps that's why he spouts opinions that verge on the anti-Semitic.

In spite of Carter's years of meetings, Hamas is no closer to rejecting terrorism.

Carter can add that to his list of failures.

The Carter Center said his "study mission" was taking him to Israel, the West Bank, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan this week.

"Study mission."

Good grief.

Apparently, Carter's idea of a "study mission" is spitting in the face of the American government.

Carter, a broker of the 1978 Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel, won the Nobel Peace Prize for his conflict mediation as president and since.

Carter isn't acting as a peacemaker. He's serving to legitimize terrorists. He's complicating matters. He's an obstacle to peace.

As president, Carter led the boycott of the Moscow Olympics in protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. "That was a totally different experience in 1980, when the Soviet Union had brutally invaded and killed thousands and thousands of people," he said, rejecting the idea of boycotting the Beijing games to protest China's crackdown in Tibet. He did not address whether just the opening ceremonies should be boycotted.

Carter is clueless. He was clueless as president and he's grown more clueless.

Boycotting the Moscow Olympics punished American athletes, not the Soviet Union. It didn't change a thing in Afghanistan. Carter reveals how myopic he is when he says, "That was a totally different experience in 1980, when the Soviet Union had brutally invaded and killed thousands and thousands of people."

How many people have been treated brutally and killed by the Chinese government?

It's ridiculous for him to suggest that the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan was a greater affront to humanity than China's abysmal record on human rights. If Carter had any sense of history and personal honor, he would admit that the Olympic boycott he led was a mistake.

I believe since Carter left office he's been on a crusade to alter his page in American history. His presidency was an unmitigated disaster. I don't think he's come to terms with being rejected and tossed out of office. He clings to the Camp David Accords but that accomplishment doesn't erase his complete impotence in dealing with the Iranian hostage crisis, the Soviet Union, and domestic issues.

Carter is not a humble man. He has a massive ego. He acts as if he has all the answers.

For all the talk from the Left that George W. Bush behaves in a messianic manner, it seems to me that Carter is the messianic one.

There's no defending Carter meeting with Hamas, or his pro-Palestinian bias.

Jimmy Carter, Hamas, and an "Unsanctioned Diplomatic Trip"

UPDATE, April 12, 2008: Obama declines to criticize Carter on Hamas

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Friday it was not his place to criticize former President Jimmy Carter if he were to meet with Hamas, although Obama said he would not meet with the militant Palestinian group.

Hamas says the meeting will take place but Carter has not provided any details of whom he plans to meet during his nine-day trip to the Middle East, which begins on Sunday. The Bush administration and close U.S. ally Israel oppose the meeting.

"I'm not going to comment on former President Carter. He's a private citizen. It's not my place to discuss who he shouldn't meet with," Obama told reporters while campaigning in Indianapolis. "I know that I've said consistently that I would not meet with Hamas."

Carter has not publicly backed either candidate in the Democratic race but hinted recently that he supports Obama.

Carter's planned trip creates awkwardness for the Illinois senator, whose critics have sought to raise doubts about whether he might be inclined as president to put greater pressure on Israel to make concessions in peace talks with the Palestinians.

Such doubts could cost Obama support with some U.S. Jewish voters.

Obama doesn't have a spine when it comes to criticizing the disgraceful Jimmy Carter.

That's very weak on Obama's part. He should condemn Carter for meeting with Hamas.

What's Obama afraid of? Losing a super delegate?

Obama is doing what's politically expedient, what he thinks is in his own best interest.

Note to Obama: It's a mistake to look like such a suck-up.
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Jimmy Carter continues to add to his achievements as being one of the worst ex-presidents in U.S. history.

From FOX News:

The State Department confirmed Wednesday that former President Jimmy Carter is planning to visit Syria on an unsanctioned diplomatic trip in mid-April.

A State Department official in Israel told FOX News that Carter is scheduled to arrive in Israel on April 12, and is expected to visit Syria and Saudi Arabia while in the region.

Meanwhile, a State Department spokesman in Washington, D.C., told FOXNews.com that he is aware that Carter was planning a stay in the region, but would not disclose details of the trip.

That spokesman noted, however, that “the State Department has expressed our concerns and advised President Carter that past engagement with the Syrian regime has not produced positive results.”

FOXNews.com first reported Tuesday on an item in the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat that said Carter was preparing an unprecedented meeting on April 18 with with Khaled Meshal, the exiled head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas.

The State Department official in Israel did not confirm whether President Carter planned to meet Meshal during his time in Syria....

Ahmed Yousuf, Hamas’ top political adviser in Gaza, did not have any information on a meeting between Carter and Meshal, according to World Net Daily.

...The State Department has designated Hamas a “foreign terrorist organization.” Chief spokesman Sean McCormack once said of the prospect of meeting with Meshal, “That’s not something that we could possibly conceive of.”

Meshal, who lives in Syria to avoid being arrested by the Israeli government, leads Hamas from his seat in Damascus, where he is a guest of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

Should Carter meet with the Hamas chief, he would be the first Western leader of his stature to do so. Though Meshal met with Clinton officials in the 1990s, the Bush administration has sought to isolate Hamas, enforcing rigid sanctions on its government in Gaza and refusing to meet with its leaders unless it recognizes Israel and abandons terror.

Once again, the disgraceful Jimmy Carter is seeking to undercut President Bush and his administration.

Although Carter wants us to believe that he's not anti-Israel, he is so pro-Palestinian that he most definitely comes off as an advocate for the Palestinians.

Carter's book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, clarified his stance on the conflict.

He has gone beyond being an apologist for Hamas and terrorists. He is firmly entrenched in their corner. In short, Carter is an enemy of Israel.

He should quit pretending to be the wise elder statesman, the peacemaker.

He was never wise and he was never a statesman. He wasn't much of a peacemaker either. (I'll give him the elderly though.)

QUESTIONS:

1. When Carter was president and he allowed Islamic extremism to take root and flourish in the Middle East, did former President Gerald Ford step in and take unsanctioned diplomatic trips to the region?

2. When Carter was president and Americans spent 444 days in captivity because he was utterly impotent when it came to handling the Iranian hostage crisis, did former President Richard Nixon negotiate with Iranian officials without the State Department's approval?

3. When Carter was president and the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan did any former U.S. presidents have unsanctioned meetings with Leonid Brezhnev?

ANSWERS:

1. NO

2. NO

3. NO

Jimmy Carter Hints at Obama Endorsement

What a day for Barack Obama!

First, Jane Fonda gives him her support and now it looks like Jimmy Carter, possibly the worst president and ex-president in U.S. history, is leaning toward Obama.

WASHINGTON -- Former President Carter wouldn't quite say it, but he left little doubt this week about who he'd like to see in the White House next year.

Speaking to local reporters Wednesday on a trip to Nigeria, the former Democratic president noted that Barack Obama had won his home state of Georgia and his hometown of Plains.

"My children and their spouses are pro-Obama. My grandchildren are also pro-Obama," he said at a press conference, according to the Nigerian newspaper This Day. "As a superdelegate, I would not disclose who I am rooting for, but I leave you to make that guess."

Carter's spokeswoman confirmed the comments.

I suppose it makes sense for Carter to back Obama, given his pathetically weak on terror, pro-Palestinian bias.

Hey, Jimmy Carter! Read This!

JERUSALEM -- An 8-year-old boy and his older brother were seriously wounded Saturday when a rocket from Gaza slammed into the Israeli border town of Sderot, police and medics said.

The younger boy's legs were at least partially severed by the explosion, Israel's Army Radio reported. His 19-year-old brother was also badly hurt. A medic, who only gave his first name as Gil, said he heard a loud explosion and rushed toward the scene.

"I found two injured people, one boy very seriously wounded in the legs," the medic told Army Radio.

Israel threatened retaliation.

"Israel will take resolute and decisive measures to protect our citizens," government spokesman David Baker said. "We will not allow Israeli families to be victimized by Palestinian rockets in the heart of their own cities."

The militant group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for firing two rockets toward Sderot around the time of the attack. Two rockets had fallen earlier in the day, but caused no damage or injuries.

The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip had vowed to persist in their attacks despite an Israeli cutback in power supply to the coastal territory that was meant to pressure Palestinians to stop the launchings.

The Israeli army and government have been reluctant to launch a large military campaign in Gaza against the rocket operation for fear both soldiers and Palestinian civilians would suffer a great number of casualties. But analysts say any serious rocket attacks will put great pressure on the political echelon to approve such a broad operation.

Jimmy Carter's Pro-Palestian Bias

During an interview with Charlie Rose on November 30 2006, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Carter's true colors were evident.

He acted as a PR man for the anti-Israel contingent.

He insisted that "Israel wants to confiscate Palestinian land."

He legitimized Hamas' refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist.

Carter said, "Hamas can't recognize Israel until it stays within its borders."

He even claimed that he hadn't seen any proof that Hamas was responsible for lobbing missiles at Israel.

Sorry but that's not someone who's an unbiased peace broker.

Carter doesn't seem to understand that peace can't come at the price of appeasing terrorists.

Moreover, Carter doesn't seem to understand that his Hamas buddies are terrorists.
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Watch the interview.