I just lost a lot of hard-won respect for President Carter.
Though I of course voted for him twice, I always have felt he lacked the political skills to make an effective President. But no one has made a better ex-President.
On the Argentine junta and Palestine Israeli question he took courageous stands and his moral character is light years above that of most politicians. But, in the end he looked weak and ineffective in his handling of Iran and left us vulnerable to the predatory policies of Reagan.
Today, we parted ways again, perhaps for good.
U.S.A. Today -
“I think the media have been harder on Trump than any other president certainly that I’ve known about,” Carter told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. "I think they feel free to claim that Trump is mentally deranged and everything else without hesitation.”
Carter also defended Trump against claims that the current president's aggressive style is souring U.S. relations with the world. “Well, he might be escalating it but I think that precedes Trump,” he told the Times. “The United States has been the dominant character in the whole world and now we’re not anymore. And we’re not going to be. Russia’s coming back and India and China are coming forward.”
Perhaps Carter is seeking to placate Trump as part of a job interview: The 93-year-old former president said he is willing to undertake a diplomatic mission to North Korea to discuss its nuclear weapons program.
I guess Carter is just too much the gentleman to accept the fact that the Press, and the rest of us on the left, are hard on drumpf because he is a fucking dick.
AND deranged.
I sincerely hope Jimmy has time for another act, because this is no way to exit the stage.
Sigh.