John McCain and other Republicans, such as Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, are linking Obama to Jimmy Carter, who was also a newcomer full of promises of hope and change and whose presidency was tarnished by economic turmoil, high energy costs and a weak foreign policy.

McCain’s response to Obama’s argument that choosing McCain equates to a third Bush term, is put quite simply. “It seems to me [Obama] is running for Jimmy Carter’s second term.” He reiterated his point to a group of donors in Chicago when he said “When I look at him dusting off the old, failed policies of the 1960s and 1970s, I’m beginning to think if he would elected it’d be a second Jimmy Carter term.”

However, some pundits do not think this strategy will work with the younger than 40s voters who have no memory of Carter’s presidency and only know him as the Nobel Prize winner in 2002 for his philanthropic work on Habitat for Humanity and a global humanitarian. Merle Black, a political scientist at Emory University said “for younger voters, there isn’t a clear image of Jimmy Carter at all except for his international work. The better way would be for McCain to talk to them about problems facing the country and what he’d do about them, rather than bringing up Jimmy Carter.”

One positive fact of Jimmy Carter’s presidency though is, according to Judy Powell, Carter’s former White House press secretary, his many proposals to develop alternative energies and clean-coal technology, but they were stalled in Congress.

OBAMA EQUALS CARTER SAYS MCCAIN
By Beth Fouhy (A.P. in AJC 6/22/08)
Abstract by Johana Nadler

That former President Jimmy Carter has a warp idea of diplomacy isn’t a novelty, but his latest action leaves one to wonder whether this time he has truly lost his mind. Embracing Hamas, a renown terrorist group vowing the destruction of Israel and continuing to send rockets in Israel killing innocent civilians, leads to only one conclusion: at long last Carter has come out of the closet as an antisemite and pro-Arab. One wonders why he hasn’t yet gone to Iran to embrace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who shares the same goal as Hamas: the complete and total annihilation of Israel from the face of the earth. May be he should go to Germany and fund a memorial to Hitler, because when it comes to cowardly destroying human lives, Nazis and Arabs (who were allies during WWII) are equal in my book. Behind his appearance as a Peace emissary, Carter is either truly clueless of the harm he is doing or he willfully is giving his complete support to murderers.

We all understand the plight of the Palestinians and want them to have their own Palestinian State, but one must also have an in-depth and thorough knowledge of the Arab mentality (still tribal in essence as we are witnessing it in Iraq). Additionally one must face the truth and realize that the Palestinians live under a totalitarian government similar to the one during Nazi Germany. Every part of the Palestinians’ lives, from curriculum taught in schools (especially in the formative years of children), to scholastic books content, to worshipping, to allegiance first and foremost to the government, to the Palestinian propaganda, amplified by other Arab countries and people like Jimmy Carter, to the manipulation by the few (governmental leaders) of the population in order to keep the latter in ignorance and in limbo as to improving not only their social status but their basic living status, every aspect of this society is under the control of Hamas’ dictatorship. The Palestinians have more to fear from their own than from their neighbouring Israeli. The Palestinians live in a society lacking the four freedoms we enjoy and more often than not take for granted: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of want and freedom of fear. It is evident that the Hamas government is a mirror image of the Nazi government.

Golda Meir said it all so clearly decades ago, “When Arabs will love their children more than they hate us, we might have peace.” Former President Carter should return to his peanut plantation and drink his pink lemonade in the shade (as it seems the heat and sun of the South have impaired him enough) and let abler people take care of the world. Today he is more of a liability than an asset to our government, be it Republican or Democrat.

By Johana Nadler