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Originally Posted by geetrue
Your alright Dean, I don't care what Jimmy said about you ... lol
You don't still hold it against him for those helicopters crashing into each other out in the middle of no where
(therefore aborting their mission) do you?
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Yes, maybe because I am feeling a bit froggy today, but here are two jacka##es of historical purportions.
I wouldn't dream of saything that about a former President and Secretary of State normally, but giving aid and comfort to an enemy in a time of war is tantamont to the big "T" word. I can not begin to imagine this type of politicized rhetoric coming from a Franklin Roosevelt or a Harry Truman at a sitting President.
http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap...y.asp?ID=88008
It isn't really all the stupid ideas about the world that Carter espoused during his Presidency that causes me to really dislike him. I mean, I don't like George McGovern either, but Carter WAS the Presdient and being so, he shouldn't feel free to run around spouting about how horrible the current administation is. The old rule is that ex-Presidents are not allowed to be openly hostile to whomever the current administration is, espically when it comes to foreign policy.
The elder Bush was certainly no fan of President Clinton, but he sure didn't say anything about him publically until Clinton started to get involved in the 2000 campaign, and making comments on candidate Bush Jr., at which point Bush Sr. said that if Mr. Clinton did not cease and desist, the elder Bush would lay out his feelings vis-a-vis Mr. Clinton's foreign policy "successes" and Mr. Clinton's actions which has sullied the office fo the Presidency. I just state this as an example of the unwritten rule about former Presidents making public comments like Carter has a horrible penchant for.
Please don't respond that Carter is now a private citizen and is allowed to make any comment he would like. No one who is President ever returns to the simple status as the rest of us, they will always be a former holder of the most important job in the United States of America, and should act as such.