Open Letter To Jimmy Carter
By Mitch Berg
To: Jimmy Carter
From: Mitch Berg
Re: You
Dear “President” Carter:
Your legacy – national impotence, personal incompetence, omnipresent hopelessness – was one of the things that started me on the road from liberalism to conservatism.
And that’s as you appeared thirty years ago – incompetent, but well-meaning.
Of course, had I known thirty years ago that you were not only an incompetent idiot, but…
Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act “based on racism” and rooted in fears of a black president.
“I think it’s based on racism,” Carter said in response to an audience question at a town hall held at his presidential center in Atlanta. “There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.”
…a corrosively stupid person, it would have made the choice all the easier.
Please emigrate.
That is all.
September 16th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
JR – if you eliminate employer contributions, one of the leading recommendations from the right – do you think employers would make up the contribution as salary? I don’t.
If they don’t, I think the outcome is rather apparent – there would be a very significant decrease in the ability of employees/average people to pay for either care and/or insurance – with the consequence being substantial deflation in health care – a catasrophically BAD thing – and if you think doctors will leave the workforce under Obama’s proposals – then you ain’t seen nothing yet as compared to how many would leave if 60% (ish) of the funding for health care suddenly dried up.
September 16th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Pen, is this the post you meant to comment on?
Plus, I think you’re missing a few paragraphs.
September 16th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
To: Jimmy Carter
From: Angryclown
Re: Mitch Berg
Dear President Carter:
Although you served only one term as president, three decades ago, America’s wingnuts remain obsessed with you. I hope you don’t take it personally. As you know, wingnuts aren’t big fans of facts or data. Or logic. Or breathing through their noses. And because they worship your successor, the late B-actor and World War II avoider Ronald Raygun, it’s important for them to demonize you.
Also, it makes them mad when you point out just how many racist creeps they have in their party. Please don’t emigrate. It entertains Angryclown to see how crazy you make them when your contemporary statements make it into the news and disturb their onanistic Reagan nostalgia.
September 16th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
To: Jimmy Carter
From: Kermit
Re: angryclown
Dear President Carter:
When you emigrate, please take your buddy angryclown with you. He has been a consistent drain on the collective IQ of this country, and almost as divisive as yourself. I’m sure the two of you will be quite happy in your retirement on the Black Sea. You can both congratulate yourselves for being not racist because you live next to a huge body of water named Black.
Corrosively stupid people need to stick together, and Washington DC is already full.
September 16th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Race baiting entertains angryclown? Why am I not surprised?
September 16th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
“Wingnuts aren`t big fans of facts, or logic.” You mean as opposed to party-line Dem logic such as: If people don`t have enough money to buy things (as in now), you should A.) “Give” them more money to spend via tax cuts or, B.) Make it so they even have less money to spend via tax increases. You mean that kind of logic, Bozo?
September 16th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
“Wingnuts aren`t big fans of facts, or logic.”
Interesting comment, considering that a later post by Mitch highlights a report issued by a progressive think tank that relies on regional data that is specifically tagged by its originators as not suitable to be used for drawing regional political conclusions.
The progressive think tank published their conclusions on a blog called “Smart Politics”.
LOL, ROFLMAO, etc.
September 16th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Wingnuts aren`t big fans of facts, or logic.
You mean like the rocket scientists in Congress who, to make heath care more affordable, are going to throw a 35% excise tax on medical device makers? You DO realize what that tax will do to the price of medical devices, right?
September 17th, 2009 at 7:51 am
nerdbert said:
“You DO realize what that tax will do to the price of medical devices, right?”
Sadly, I think he is willing to ignore that, and all the other bad things that will predictably come from this legislation, because the people producing it have good intentions and a similar political ideology. Right angryclown?
September 17th, 2009 at 8:59 am
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/09/17/marc-lamont-hill-obama-race-right/
September 17th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Oh look! Someone at Fox News thinks Carter is right.
“President Obama has been the victim of the most racist smear campaign in American political history”
“terms like “Marxist,” “Nazi,” “extremist,” and “foreigner” have been used to smuggle racism”
“Of course, this is not to suggest that everyone who opposes President Obama is a racist.”
“I have witnessed this firsthand at several of the health care town halls, where angry white citizens gathered”
“many citizens are closing ranks around racial anger and fear rather than a principled and unified political vision”
A big, bold statement with not much more than ether to back it up: “it’s racist because I say so”. It could have been “What Carter said!”.