The terrorist-in-chief speaks
Watching the live streaming of Ahmadinejad at Columbia. Started out letting everyone know he found Bollinger’s introduction rather insulting. Then went into a discussion about scientific inquiry as a gift from God, and how it can be misued, as when the major powers make WMDs. Lots of nods to Jacob, Moses, David and Jesus. The Palestinians were just minding their own business and then got displaced sixty years ago and have been subjected to helicopter gunship attacks ever since. Iran has the right to develop peaceful nuclear power.
I must say, the guy has learned how to talk to a Western audience.
And can he ever prevaricate during Q&A time.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Come on. Not too many of want to hear his Islamic preaching. We are first and foremost (despite what Newtie trys to prove) a Western Christian country. If you think his speech in any way persuades more than a smidgeon of the masses here, freedom lovers and alleged haters (to you as you declare) you are sadly mistaken. Yet, there is some truth to the displacement of the Palestinians from their homeland too. But not because Ahole so declares. Would you compare Carter to him? That would be misplaced invective if you did. And sometimes it seems you do, bloggie.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Carter’s no beacon of virtue. Or common sense, for that matter.
September 24th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
I know you think so and put him incorrectly and immorally in the same category of all alleged freedom haters, i.e., those who do not agree with your line items for world diplomacy and your provisional (presumed final?) solutions. That is exactly what polarized the Cheney-Rumsfeld administration. But that is OK with you, right? But A is a certain common enemy. We don’t want to have to be in bed with you, but, got at least that?
September 24th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
I’ll put Carter up for beacon of virtue over Newtie (that joke) any day.
September 25th, 2007 at 2:25 am
You can’t be serious.
September 25th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Difference of opinion, freedom lover.
September 26th, 2007 at 12:58 am
That’s self styled freedom lover to you, bloggie.
October 1st, 2007 at 4:57 pm
From “Nobody Asked Me by Burt Rosen at http://www.nobodyaskedme.com/newtoped.htm:
Nobody Asked Me…
If you look up “hypocrite” in the dictionary, you should see a picture of Newt Gingrich.
The former Speaker of the House, whose proudly verbalized morality still dominates the right wing of the Republican party, was one of the framers of the Republican platform of family values. Gingrich orchestrated the impeachment of the President over charges arising from Mr. Clinton’s private life. He used terms such as “abnormal” to describe those who differed with him and his allies in the Christian Coalition. He often derided those he claimed did not meet the standards of his “moral majority.” He exuded an almost holy aura that made him the Bible Belt’s favorite son.
But guess what? Gingrich is about to begin divorce proceedings from his second wife, Marianne. Why? Because while Gingrich was busy persecuting the President for his illicit affairs, Gingrich himself was having an affair with a scheduler and assistant hearing clerk for the House Agriculture Committee. A woman who was twenty-three years younger than he. The affair had reportedly been going on since 1995, which makes one wonder: While Newt was accusing the President of having Monica Lewinsky under his desk while fielding calls from international leaders, who was beneath Newt’s desk while he doggedly pursued the President?
This isn’t the first time Newt has proven himself to be a hypocrite. A few years ago he was denouncing violence in the media, proclaiming the entertainment industry as being part of a “unionized, bureaucratic, credentialed, secular assault on the core values of this country” to use his words. Of course, his complaints apparently didn’t apply to the book Newt penned, 1945, which was filled with sex and violence. By the way, you can find hardcover editions of 1945 at most bargain basement bookstores these days for about $2.99.
If Newt is one of their best examples, then the Christian Coalition obviously doesn’t think much of love and marriage either. Newt served his first wife with divorce papers while she was in her hospital bed dying of cancer. Later, he tried to cut life insurance to the mother of his children. More recently, Newt phoned his second wife on her mother’s 84th birthday to tell her that he wanted a divorce and to reveal that he’d been having an affair with a young aide for the past four years. Of that telephone call, Marianne Gingrich’s mother told the Washington Post: “It’s about the cruelest thing you can do. I think it’s terrible when people get away with things like this. We accepted him like a son.”
Strangely, Gingrich remains a hero to many conservatives despite his committing the very same offense that Bill Clinton committed. Newt has committed adultery, lied to the public and ignored his own rules of morality. He may no longer be in Congress, but his name is still spoken with respect in certain circles, despite his questionable history.
Newt Gingrich often decried “the moral decay of the left.” What he forgot to mention was that his own morality had rotted away until nothing was left of his soul.
Nobody asked me but that’s my opinion - I welcome yours.
From today’s Writer’s Almanac by Garrison Keillor:
It’s the birthday of the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, (books by this author) born in Plains, Georgia (1924), who served only one term as the governor of Georgia before he ran for president in the wake of the Watergate scandal as an ordinary, honest peanut farmer. On Inauguration Day, he walked to the ceremony rather than riding in a limousine. He often appeared in public in casual clothes, sold off the presidential yacht, and even banned the playing of “Hail to the Chief” when he entered a room. He had Democratic majorities in Congress, but he had a hard time dealing with rising inflation and the energy crisis because he didn’t like compromising with other politicians. He was defeated in a landslide in 1980, and went back to his hometown in Georgia, feeling like a failure.
He wasn’t sure what to do, so he started gathering papers for a memoir, and then he decided to just go out into the world to solve problems. He became one of the most active ex-presidents in American history, traveled all over the world talking about human rights, fair elections, new farming techniques, and water safety; brokered several cease fires, wrote numerous books, and got into carpentry, helping to build houses for the poor with Habitat for Humanity. He even carved his own four-poster bed for himself and his wife. He said, “As president, I wouldn’t have had time to do all the things I’m doing now.” He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 — Jimmy Carter, who said, “America did not invent human rights. In a very real way, human rights invented America.”
October 3rd, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Newtie would have nuked them?
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/carter-faces-down-darfur-officials/20071003073709990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
“You can’t go. It’s not on the program!” the local national security chief, who only gave his first name as Omar, yelled at Carter, who is in Darfur as part of a delegation of respected international figures known as “The Elders.”
“We’re going to anyway!” an angry Carter retorted, telling security officers they didn’t have the authority to stop him.
As a growing crowd gathered around the former president, Carter’s U.S. security detail and his African Union escort tried to ease tensions. Carter later agreed to a compromise by which tribal representatives would be brought to him at another location later Wednesday.
“I’ll tell President Bashir about this,” Carter said, referring to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.