US: Jimmy Carter Shills for Hamas...and himself.

Jimmy Carter gets my vote for most pathetic ex-president.  And having lived through the Carter years, I can say with some authority that he was also a pathetic PRESIDENT.  (Poor thing, he yearns to be relevant in the worst old way.  I wish he'd just shuffle back to his peanut farm.  Or go somewhere and build more sub-standard housing for the poor.)

Anyways, in this piece Jimmy pretty much says he visited the Israelis of Sderot and they are whiners and namby-pambys.  And they have some nerve complaining about a few rockets when 1.5 million Palestinians are STARVING!   HE visited the Palestinians - they sort of blew him off but HE, Jimmy Carter was able to get them to agree to peace talks.  Then HE, superstar president and world humanitarian that HE is - was singlehandedly able to bring Egypt to the negotiating table.   If that wasn't enough, HE singlehandedly got Israel to allow the resumption of humanitarian aid.  Not through with the region, HE traveled to Syria to see if the Syrians could get Hamas to stop shooting rockets long enough to get them to REALLY stop firing rockets so the humanitarian missions would continue. 

You know what happened next.

Big surprise - they were just playing him. 

Poor Jimmy.

HE tried to broker and mideast peace deal and all HE got was FREQUENT FLYER MILES!   

An Unnecessary War by Jimmy Carter

After 12 days of "combat," the Israeli Defense Forces reported that more than 1,000 targets were shelled or bombed. During that time, Israel rejected international efforts to obtain a cease-fire, with full support from Washington. Seventeen mosques, the American International School, many private homes and much of the basic infrastructure of the small but heavily populated area have been destroyed. This includes the systems that provide water, electricity and sanitation. Heavy civilian casualties are being reported by courageous medical volunteers from many nations, as the fortunate ones operate on the wounded by light from diesel-powered generators.

I tell you, my heart bleeds and my knee jerks.

Bonus Presidential Coverage.

From FReeper silent_jonny reporting on yesterday's Presidential luncheon: 

"Today President Bush welcomed former President George H. W. Bush to the Oval Office. A disbarred lawyer, a failed peanut-farmer and a former ACORN employee were also in attendance."

courtesy of FReeper Roscoe Karns.

Guess who said, "I like the rug?" 

If you guessed Slick Willy - you guessed right. 

(Reminds you of the good old days of rolling around on with it with the interns, eh there Bill?)