foxnews.com - 1/25/2009
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There they stood, all four living U.S. presidents at the White House, smiling and posing with the soon-to-be newest member of the club, Barack Obama. But at that historic gathering earlier this month, one member of the group, Jimmy Carter, appeared to be cut off from the rest, as if he had ...
foxnews.com - 1/29/2009
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foxnews.com —
Americans may be able to rest a little
easier this April if Congressman John Carter, R-Texas gets...
his way. Rep. Carter introduced a bill Wednesday to eliminate all IRS penalties and interest for paying taxes past due. The legislation calls for the ...
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GOP Congressman Intros 'Rangel Rule,' Eliminating IRS ...
blogs.abcnews.com - 1/20/2009
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ABC News' David Wright reports: Today may be
a day when the nation briefly sets aside partisan...
enmity for the peaceful transition of power, but personal enmity? That’s another matter. One small example: as the ex-Presidents gathered in the crypt...
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Carter Snubs Clinton
timesonline.co.uk - 2/1/2009
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timesonline.co.uk —
LESS than two weeks into his administration, President
Barack Obama is being portrayed by opponents as a...
new Jimmy Carter - weak at home and naive abroad - in an attempt to dim his post-election glow and ensure that he serves only one term. The ...
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‘Jimmy Carter’ tag has Obama wincing
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Jimmy Carter: The Shadow President That Will Not Go Away
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Just like Glenn Close’s whacked out character in “Fatal Attraction”, Jimmy Carter ‘refuses to be ignored’ …
Jimmy Carter Has Stuck His Thumb In The Eye Of Every President That Has Succeeded Him
FOX:
By Stephen Clark
There they stood, all four living U.S. presidents at the White House, smiling and posing with the soon-to-be newest member of the club, Barack Obama. But at that historic gathering earlier this month, one member of the group, Jimmy Carter, appeared to be cut off from the ...
Dissecting Leftism —
... Carter the outcast: ""There they stood, all four living U.S. presidents at the White House, smiling and posing with the soon-to-be newest member of the club, Barack Obama. But at that historic gathering earlier this month, one member of the group, Jimmy Carter, appeared to be cut off from the rest, as if he had crashed the party but could stay if he didn't cause any trouble. `It was fascinating,' said Stephen Hess, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who said the photo opportunity showed the others as clubby while Carter was a step apart. And there's probably a good ...
Will Jimmy Carter meddle in Obama's foreign policy?
Top of the Ticket —
... But, as Stephen Clark wrote recently in a thoughtful post on FoxNews.com, Carter has a history of meddling. He quotes Stephen Hess, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, as saying that Carter is "a person who has stuck his thumb in the eye of every president who has followed him." ...
Jimmy Carter Meddling Again
Flopping Aces —
... Hamas didn’t violate the cease fire because there was no SERIOUS rocket fire. What the hell does that mean? They continued to lob rockets into civilian areas, plain and simple. 126 rockets and 71 mortars in November alone….guess that isn’t serious. Baloney. It’s a violation of the cease fire.
Then he dismisses out of hand the fact that Hamas doesn’t recognize Israel and wants them destroyed.
David Greenberg and Stephen Hess describe Carter perfectly:
There they stood, all four living U.S. presidents ...
Right Wing Continues to Fantasize About Obama
NJDC Blog —
... that former President Jimmy Carter “is close to President Obama and considered a role-model for the new Nobel laureate.”
This could not be further from the truth. As Ira N. Forman, NJDC’s CEO, writes, “It does not take a PhD in American politics to know that Carter is not an advisor to Obama” and that Carter has not been affiliated with any presidential administration since his defeat in 1980. On the contrary, many previous presidents regard him as a nuisance to their foreign policy agendas. ...
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The Problem with Jimmy Carter
behindbluelines.com 6/17/2009 — Jimmy Carter never gets tired of being Jimmy Carter. Arrogant, blinkered and utterly convinced of his own rectitude, Carter has treated his post-presidential years as a weird sort of ’do-over’, always trying to prove that (1) his presidency really was a success, and (2) he was right ...
Obama = Carter?
theanchoressonline.com 1/25/2009 — While out and about, driving and listening to the news, one thing did occur to me…
I think absolutely everything President Obama has so far done or declared is pretty much exactly what Jimmy Carter would have done or declared.
Just saying. ...
Is it Jimmy Obama?
pajamasmedia.com 3/2/2009 — We came to Washington in 1977, and Jimmy Carter had just been inaugurated. So I well remember the years of malaise and humiliation, the stagflation, chilly offices in the winter, the rapidly expanding power of the Soviet Union, the appeasement ...
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah
iowahawk.typepad.com 11/20/2008 — The Summer Camp Letters of U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson CAMP WAPSIPINOCONOMOWAC WISCONSIN "Where Boys Learn the Ways of Nature" June 8, 1956 Dear Mom and Dad, How are you? I am fine. I am having fun at camp. Today we swam. I ...
Carter advises Obama to follow his lead on energy
thehill.com 5/13/2009 — Jimmy Carter, who presidend over the oil crisis of 1979, told Congress Tuesday that America's energy challenges are deeper and more urgent today than when he was president, but the solutions are the same. In testimony to the Foreign Relations ...
A Tough Call
balloon-juice.com 1/4/2009 — Via memeorandum , this :
RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart.
Fairway Oaks was built on northern Florida ...
Carter Is Sworn In as President, Asks 'Fresh Faith in Old Dream'
washingtonpost.com 12/10/2008 — Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 21, 1977; Page A01 Jimmy Carter promised he would be different, and on his inaugural day he proved it. After delivering a solemn, short speech, understated in tone and in stated promise, he set out on his ...
Jimmy Carter vs. Inflation
time.com 10/25/2008 — COVER STORY He promises budget cuts and credit curbs, but more is needed As Jimmy Carter stepped before the television cameras in the East Room of the White House last Friday, his task was not just to proclaim another new anti-inflation program but ...
Why Does Jimmy Carter Think We're All Racists?
powerlineblog.com 9/21/2009 — At The Corner yesterday, Hans von Spakovsky offered a compelling explanation: Carter himself has a history of virulent racism. The facts, drawn from A Voting Rights Odyssey by Laughlin McDonald, director of the ACLU's Voting Project, are astonishing: ...
Can Obama broker Middle East peace? —
CNN Political Ticker 1/25/2009
Palestinians sit next to Israeli-bombed buildings in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip.
CAIRO, Egypt (TIME) — President Barack Obama got off to a good start last week where the Middle East is concerned, using his first full day on the the job to ...
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