CRAWFORD, Texas — Former President Jimmy Carter backed off Monday from harshly critical comments he made of President Bush over the weekend after the White House offered a biting rebuke to the former president by calling him “increasingly irrelevant.”
“My remarks were maybe careless or misinterpreted but I wasn’t comparing the overall administration and certainly not talking about anyone personally,” Carter said in an interview Monday when asked to explain.
The comments “were interpreted as comparing this whole administration to all other administrations when what I was actually doing was responding to a question about foreign policy between [President Richard] Nixon and this administration, and I think that this administration’s foreign policy compared to Nixon’s was much worse. … I wasn’t comparing this administration with other administrations throughout history but just with President Nixon’s,” he told NBC’s “The Today Show.”
Carter, whose administration was plagued by sky-high inflation and a 444-day American hostage crisis in Iran, was filling in a quote Saturday in which he said, “I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history.”
You’re an idiot, Jimmah. Always have been; this just proves the point.
Looks from here as if someone reminded you that the problems of Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan which the Bush administration is dealing with now, started under your misadministration.
Actually, SEVERAL someones.
Addendum: (David L) Additional rebutal to Jimmy, in two parts Like Bitsbox, itself, we like to travel all roads, provided they takes us to some destination we desire. The nice thing about this road, is that it doesn’t take three dollars a gallon to get there.
First the high road, Scott, Power Line, “No man can be a judge in his own case.”
Second, the low road, Christopher Hitchens, Slate, “Peanut Envy.”
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