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I agree....the thing is the government will continue to tax and spend (it really seems like there is not a whole CRAP load of difference between the R and D's) to keep bribing the Masses. Like parents trying to buy their children's love by showering them with presents.

What we need to understand is REGARDLESS of who is in power someone will be pissed off. The object should be to have it where the government cannot screw with our lives anymore than necessary. My biggest fear is that we are losing the intent of the original Constitution. As people ask for more and more "things" from the government they do not realize that each "gift" comes with a recepit that will never be marked "PAID in FULL"
Fuegofox
6:59:28 AM
10/05/07

kleetn
7:02:08 AM
10/05/07

WHAHAHAHAA...sorry but I know two of the Agents who were on that detail...and truly there was NOTHING he could do.

i mean when a rabid rabbit comes at you, you can't negotiate..you have to kill it.

My Favorite about JIMUH was when he was in Mexico and he made the comment that he started jogging years ago when he went to Mexico and drank the water....(WHAT a morooon)
Fuegofox
7:09:55 AM
10/05/07

JImmy Carter speaks out on the election...

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/i_got_what_america_needs_right
last edited: 2/09/08 10:00:18 AM
birch
9:59:57 AM
2/09/08

I never really thought cussing in itself is funny. The Onion can do better than that.
Sarge
10:21:45 AM
2/09/08

Drove too many nails and like all good framers he starts speaking fluent FVCK.

Jimmy learned from the Nixon tapes.
last edited: 2/09/08 11:02:37 AM
uncliff
11:01:10 AM
2/09/08

Saw that a couple of weeks ago.

Instant Classic.
Tilt
11:39:48 AM
2/09/08

Pulled up this thread to do an angry rant on Carter and Hamas and saw the link to the Carter rant in the Onion. I feel much better already.

Still, I started off ambivalent about Carter's Hamas trips. It looked like a dumb move to me, but I thought - well maybe he wants to shake things up because our current approach to Hamas is so stupid. When Hamas won democratic elections, we and much of the world gave three conditions to recognizing Hamas or even talk to them: renounce terrorism and all violence, accept previously signed agreements and renounce and recognize Israel.

Now, "renounce terrorism" - thats a reasonable demand. I'd settle for a moratorium to talk to them, but "renounce terrorism" might be enough to show anyone who is misguided enough to sympathize with them that their attachment to terror is what is isolating them. Renounce violence and recognize Israel - that's nuts. What sane country in the Middle East or anytwhere else would completely renounce violence. Recognize Israel - is basically asking them to capitulate in order to talk.

But Carter's pronouncements seem just as fricking stupid. Hamas willing to have a ten year truce with no recognition? And he calls that defacto recognition. Has he read the freakin' Hamas covenant? Does anybody doubt how that ten year truce (if it lasted 10 years) would end? Does anybody doubt what kind of arming and fortifiying Hamas would do in Gaza with a 10 year truce.

Anybody who wonders what Hamas is about should read their covenant:

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/hamas.htm
pedxing
1:52:13 PM
4/27/08

Democrat? LOL
StoveStomper
2:07:18 PM
4/27/08

Say what, Mr. Stomper?
pedxing
2:10:29 PM
4/27/08

If Jimmy was there on the UStaxdollar, wasn't authorized to stop all aid to both Israel and Hamas and wasn't authorized to pull all US employees out, he should never have been there.
salebored
2:36:19 PM
4/27/08

Why not Sale? Are you not just as entitled to go talk to the Hamas? I think it is great ol' Jimmy is still persuing his beliefs.
Lumberjack
5:08:43 PM
4/27/08

Tax dollars and no stick?? Let them do what we let our gangs do on our streets and at our borders- kill each other.

Or, do you like being an insurgent?
last edited: 4/27/08 9:06:40 PM
salebored
8:57:31 PM
4/27/08

Carter is an a-hole. He's like the whore standing outside the whole house giving it away for free. HAMAS will never stop trying to push Israelis into the sea. Sure they, like the Palestinians, may say they recognize Israel but there will always be the terrorists who will never stop. And HAMAS, like the PLO will never do anything about them.

Jews drowning in the Mediterranean is the end game.
Nigal
2:38:09 AM
4/28/08

Carter was the worst President in history. Nixon had better judgment.
bacpac
3:24:52 AM
4/28/08

I respect Carter's work with Habitat and respect him speaking up for what he believes in, but I think this Hamas thing is a major mistake. Whatever else he is trying to accomplish will be discredited due to his abyssmal judgement here.

I was willing to give him some benefit of the doubt and listen with an open mind. From now on, if he says something I disagree with - instead of spending time trying to get his point of view, I'll just think "there goes Jimmy again." His credibility for me is flushed - there are enough people out there worth my time.

Bacpac, I think the guy we have now clearly has him beat on the worst list, as do about 1/2 a dozen other presidents.
pedxing
4:48:23 AM
4/28/08

I was five years old when Israel became a problem and have had to listen to them dominate the news ever since. I've had it with these seven million trouble makers, cut them free to do what they may.
salebored
6:12:52 AM
4/28/08

Explain how Israel can be the single blessed theocracy, by you godders?
salebored
6:26:00 AM
4/28/08

Bacpac, I think the guy we have now clearly has him beat on the worst list, as do about 1/2 a dozen other presidents.”
pedxing
4:48:23 AM
4/28/08

That is because you are no student of history and your understanding of current events is limited.
bacpac
9:38:22 AM
4/28/08

Yeah the other day when I spent an hour sitting in line at the gas station because of rationing, I thought, 'Damn you W!'.

Oh wait a tick...
nigal
10:02:05 AM
4/28/08

Actually no, Carter nor any American citizen is "entitled" to negotiate with HAMAS or any other foreign entity by law.
humanpackmule
10:55:52 AM
4/28/08

I will confess to not having an infinite understanding of current events.
pedxing
11:32:33 AM
4/28/08

What country do the Hamasites belong to- USforeignaidia?
salebored
12:11:01 PM
4/28/08

StoveStomper
3:15:10 PM
4/28/08

humanity rhymes with insanity. thats clever
crash bang
4:00:54 PM
4/28/08

StoveStomper
11:54:44 AM
5/05/08

MarkO
12:03:15 PM
5/05/08

Wright Again >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LMAO

In Bible Prophecy
What every Christian should know Could the Final Conflict be Here?
last edited: 5/05/08 12:21:40 PM
salebored
12:17:54 PM
5/05/08

Did someone over react?
MarkO
12:20:52 PM
5/05/08

Reactors are for oil imports only.
salebored
12:23:44 PM
5/05/08

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