Dark secrets

Okay, time to ‘fess up…time to bring to light my deepest, darkest, most shameful secret.

Deep breath here…IVotedForJimmyCarterinthe1980election…There! I said (or at least typed) it! Whew! What a load off my chest!

This admission is particularly mortifying when you have to listen to the drek which has been spewing from Carter’s mouth nearly since he became “former President.” Yesterday, Carter said we have to keep funding the Palestinian government as it transitions from Fatah to Hamas control.

Yes, that would be the same Hamas which has “obliterate Israel” right at the top of its “to do” list. It would also be the same Hamas which, upon its ascendancy in the recent elections, declined to renounce its intention to drive Israel and all of its residents into the sea. It’s the same Hamas which has the stamp of approval from a majority of the Palestinian people, with some of the newly elected representatives still serving time in Israeli prisons.

To Carter, however, that is immaterial…a paper peace is most important.

An excerpt:

“It was under this umbrella and not the Palestinian Authority that Arafat negotiated with Israeli leaders to conclude the Oslo peace agreement. Abbas has sought peace talks with Israel since his election a year ago, and there is nothing to prevent direct talks with him, even if Hamas does not soon take the ultimately inevitable steps of renouncing violence and recognizing Israel's right to exist.”

So, according to Carter, Israel should take at face value a peace negotiated with someone who does not represent a majority of the Palestinian people? And the U.S. and Israel should let the money flow to Hamas because some of the money withheld probably makes it down to buy kufta for the average guy on the street?

You know, I used to think (at age 20) that Carter was smart. I even stuck with him through that whole “committed adultery in my heart” Playboy interview debacle. I still think it’s nice that he builds Habitat for Humanity homes. I guess you can be a damned fool and still swing a hammer…there’s probably legions of carpenters who will vouch for that.

And Carter has proven time and again lately that he’s a damned fool. He’s become a member of the “blame America first” crowd, which values cultural diversity (not AMERICAN culture, mind you) and appearance above all things. He hasn’t learned that diplomacy and appearance are not the same as reality – you’d think the Iran hostage crisis would have disabused him of that notion. He even managed to say with a straight face that Venezuela’s last elections, in which President Hugo Chavez airlifted in thousands of Cuban soldiers to vote and to “keep order,” were on the up and up. This despite the fact that every exit poll showed Chavez losing by double digits.

I can't tell whether he's a genuinely nice man who believes everything people tell him or is an evil and active enemy of America.

Thankfully, the government no longer runs according to “Cartervision.” And amusingly, the Israelis are free to tell him to go piss up a rope. Give your sworn and unrepentant enemy the means to undertake your destruction? Are you kidding me, Jimmy?

If I was religious, I know I’d still be in the confessional…”Father forgive me, for I have sinned…I voted for the biggest nitwit on the planet.” And I’d fully expect to be reciting “Our Fathers” until Judgment Day as penance.