Jimmy Carter: America's best ex-president? Only if you're not bothered
by the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism (which started on
his watch), the shamefaced foreign policy of Bill Clinton and John Kerry
(ditto), and think that ex-presidents should travel the world coddling
dictators and bad-mouthing America la Jesse Jackson. Jimmy Carter has
been given a free ride from the liberal media, liberal historians, and
even the American people, who excuse his political delinquencies and
disasters on the grounds that he is a "good" man.
But as bank robber Willie Sutton said of Carter: "I've never seen a
bigger confidence man in my life, and I've been around some of the best
in the business." It's time to set the record straight. Finally, an
honest historian Steven F. Hayward, author of The Age of Reagan
demolishes the myth of "Saint" Jimmy and exposes how he created today's
leftist Democratic party of John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. Jimmy
Carter's laundry list of failures aren't just accidents of history:
They're rooted in Carter's deeply flawed character and ideology--a
smugly pious arrogance matched with a profound distrust of America. The
Real Jimmy Carter reveals:
- Carter as meddling ex-president: Why a Time magazine columnist wrote
that some of Carter's "Lone Ranger work has taken him dangerously
close to the neighborhood of what we used to call treason"
- How Carter befriended North Korea during the Clinton administration,
appeasing the communist regime and giving it cover for its nuclear
weapons program
- How Carter made direct contacts with Soviet officials to try to
subvert President Reagan's anti-communist policies
- The shocking extent of Carter's clandestine efforts to sabotage the
first Gulf War in 1990 and how he used Gulf War II to publicly
question the Christian faith of America's commander in chief
- How Carter befriended Yasir Arafat--making himself an enemy of Israel
- Carter as politician: a vicious campaigner-and even race-baiter
- The Carter White House during the disasters of the Sandinista takeover
of Nicaragua, the energy crisis and stagflation, the Iranian
revolution and hostage crisis, and the invasion of Afghanistan
- How Carter, the failed president, remade himself as Carter the
humanitarian and freelance foreign policy critic of America
- How a Nobel official inadvertently revealed that Carter's Nobel Prize
was actually meant as a slap at America
The Real Jimmy Carter is a shocker, showing why the peanut president
should never have left his farm.
