A $5 million lawsuit against Jimmy Carter for the ‘fiction’ of his Middle East book

No, it’s a shame that ignorant people are blind to greatness.

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Sorry the truth hurts for you folks…

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@SawBe… It’s a shame we can’t sue you for being a jackhole.

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I assume these are foreigners filing this law suit. They don’t have any rights in their own country. They come to the US and think they have the same rights as Americans. I dare you.

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JJ1183 and BRW, here’s a mirror for both of you.

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it would be interested to know how many people that are knocking carter as a preseidnet, were even adults when he was president.

so many young people on blogs that make so many a$$anine comments when they haven’t a clue of what they are speaking of.

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You are right! Jimmy Carter was blind to greatness. That is one reason he took all of his incompetent cronies to Washington with him when he was president and they failed miserably!!!!

Jimmy Carter = Worst President of the 20th Century

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Just think what a more peaceful place the Middle East would be if Jimmy had just stopped all financial and military aid to Israel and abrogated all treaties with Israel until they returned the occupied territories.

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Jimmy Carter wins a noble peace prize and small minds can’t grasp it – he has done more for GA and the country than any living person – yet again small minds want to be heard — like the guy that says Carter should of kicked Irans ass – read some history – we caused the trouble when we installed the Shaw — again small minds that don’t read but just yell — over and over and over -

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I now wish we’d elected his bother, Billy. As a drunk at least he had a good excuse for his utter, unabashed futility!

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Jimmy Caarrtar will pay for his lies and evil books and speeches. He is more
than a traitor to America, he is a traitor, ex-president, gets seen on TV every
time he has some evil spew to speak, a shame and sham to intelligent Americans.

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I remember Jimmy (I’ve lusted in my heart) Carter and I remember the 13 3/4% Interest on home mortgages! I remember his total screw up of the hostage “rescue” which cost a lot of good men’s lives. I remember, I just wish I could forget.

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Jimmy was indeed a gullible moron. And … has anyone lost their way and ended up at the Carter Library? I did one day about 3:00 PM, when it was open to the public, and there were only 3 or 4 cars in the visitor parking lot.

Contrast that with the thousands that daily visit the Reagan Library in Simi Valley and have busses continually shuttling visitors from remote parking lots to the library.

Jimmy Carter and greatness is an oxymoron, as Jimmy Carter is a gullible moron and easily the worst president of the 20th century.

Let’s celebrate the 100th birthday of the greatest president of the 20th century on February 6th – Ronald W. Reagan!

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You guys haven’t offered any reason why Jimmy was so bad. Who else would have negotiated the treaty with Israel and Egypt in the first place? Who actually negotiated the release of the hostages (that Reagan got credit for)? Who canceled the B-1 bomber in favor of cruise missiles? Who pushed for development of the Trident D5 missiles? Peace in the region is more important and cheaper than the stupid Iraq war(s), and bombing Iran would have given Russia all the leverage they needed to move in, not to mention ANOTHER OPEC embargo, or did you guys conveniently forget about that?

I think Reagan (and every President since) continued giving Israel and Egypt plenty of aid. Does that make him a bad president too?
You think we can sail through the Suez canal without Egypt’s okay?

Poor Jimmy was just a good guy in an evil game. Mr. Deeds wouldn’t have stood a chance in the real Washington, D.C.

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Thank God Reagan cleaned up his mess so quickly and restored honor, pride and hope for our country once again. Too bad it all went right down the drain again 12 years later when Slick Willy was more interested in mating with any willing female species.

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@ bash the big ego,
Hahahahahaha! You thought Reagan had anything to do with that?!? Man, you need to go back and read your history books! At least watch the History Channel in between Fox News reruns.

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As someone that made the horrible error of voting for Mr. Carter, please accept my abject apology. As a military member in 1980 I can tell you he was no military leader either.

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Two of the worst, if not the two worst, presidents ever!

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Mr. Carter was the last NOT to belong to a secret order. Dem’s / Rep’s they’re all the same. All he did was try to balance the government. Has any done that yet? He’s a thinking man’s man. Not some used car salesman spitting out what we want to hear. It’s been very shady since Reagan, the actor. Enjoy the increase in fed / state taxes for 2011? Jobs anyone?? WHO WANTS TO GO AND PLAY WAR WITH THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES???

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Carter is a very good man. He would have been the worst president ever but Obama has that spot now.

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Hey Larry, how about all those massive deficits he ran up, and the increased income gap? All he did was benefit other rich people and use patriotism and religion (falsely) to stir people up. Meanwhile, he was committing illegal acts and consulting astrologers.
Reagan didn’t clean up anything, he hid it under the bed! And poor Bush got all the blame!

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The ignorance of some ajc readers is mind-numbing… simply scary that I share the same air with a bunch of you losers…

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I guess the Jesus you want to be more like starts wars and hates gays and puts his kids in private school that he cannot afford because a black family two streets over has a kid the same age as yours.
Jesus runs up credit card debts and files bankruptcies and screws people he meets at church and doesn’t do his math homework and then uses racial slurs to describe the Indian who took his job that he actually lost because he didn’t do his math homework.
Jimmy Carter follows the principles of a totally different Jesus – one with whom you will never be familiar.

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Jimmy Carter needs to simply fade away.

His Presidency would have a been a complete failure had it not been for the Camp David Peace Accord. He wrecked the economy and made National Strategy decisions that took years to undo.

This lawsuit seems somewhat frivilous but I can understand why some may feel damaged. Jimmy Carter is a fine man and a good Georgian. But, he was a lousy President and he needs to spend the remainder of his years in quiet retirement. He doesn’t have a realistic grasp of world events.

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yea jimmy was not good, but reagan, bush I and II, clinton’s boy rubin, and obama’s geithner have put us on a course of destruction by the coporate elite…there is no american dream for 98% of population

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Phil writes, “There’s also the crock that the military suffered under Carter. Carter’s policies lead to the cruise missle, rapid deployment force, etc.”

Sorry, Phil. While Jimmy’s decision to move forward with the cruise missile program versus the B1 bomber (kind of like today’s Predator Drones), was spot on. He was responsible for gutting the military.

I know. I was there and retired from the Air Force in 1998. When did you serve?

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@bigdawg88
That you, Zbignew? Thought so. Only 2 people on planet who still support the Carter agenda. You need to read what led up to Carter’s ill fated policy in the months before the revolt. Seriously there is some very important info you need to study.
As for the release of the hiostages what gave you the idea I thought Reagan arranged it? The Iranians acted quickly to pragmatically keep their word within minutes of the oath, fearing a real American leader would act accordingly.
Were you an adult at the time? I was, and the economy then made today seem very prosperous. Reagan brought real prosperity, not morose indecision and only reactive solutions. P.S. Fox is entertaining, but I don’t watch them or MSNObama often. Reading gets the job done

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Jimmy Carter has his best years behind him. He should have retired from public appearance after winning the Nobel Prize. I love the smell of small boys and baseball mits. I love sitting on the bleachers hlding a newspaper in front of me while I play with myself.

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White-trash fake-Christian Bigot, I’m am laughing so hard right now. You hit the nail on the head. I wish more people would tell the truth.

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Talk about being drunk, GWB apparently fell off the wagon, with his coke head arse….. No President can or will ever compare to this lames stint in office. America apparently doesn’t have much intellect, because for the life of me, I can’t imagine why anyone would have wanted GW in office a 2nd time??!!!!! This guy squanders millions of dollars within his first year in office, kills the economy, is responsible a huge unemployment rate, but yet keeps his job?? How on earth does that happen???

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My mother was a yellow dog Democrat, who felt that here hand would fall off if she voted Republican. When it came time in 1980 to vote for President, she voted for REAGAN rather than for Carter.

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Historians will mark Jimmy Carter as one of the better Presidents, won’t be anything these naysayers can do about that. There has not been a good republican president since Eisenhower, wonder why that is? Sorry Reagan was well into alzheimer’s while he was President, son Ronnie and Nancy knew too. He was a good actor wasn’t he.. I think it is because the War Mongers, religious wackos, greedy self serving people have taken over that party.

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Remember when Jimmy Carter landed on that aircraft carrier and unfurled that “Mission Accomplished” banner before another 1,750 (and counting) American troops died in Iraq?
What a goofball.
And remember when he pretended to be saved by Jesus when the news broke about his DUI and cocaine use when he was in the Texas Air National Guard?
That was crazy.

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Hey Goodsmak01 – and Social Security witholding is a contribution, not a tax! Yes, you are a moron too!

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White-trash fake-Christian Bigot.

You and your angry friends are kind of funny…

Bigot is as bigot does…

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There is not enough words in the English Language to describe how big of an idiot Jimmy Carter is!!!! Maybe we can start to use other languages to help out.
Carter is such an Idiot he will probably settle out of court for $10million!!!
Hope the Plantiffs “WIN”!!!!!

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Hehlll-oh. Mah name us Jimmuh Kahtah. I want to sell you another used vi-hick-el.

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to the pathetic clown who claims to be “in the military in 1980, Jimmy Carter most certainly was a “leader” both as Commander-in-Chief of the United States from 1977 – 1981 and as a graduate of the United States Naval Academy/Commisioned officer from 1947 – 1954, I believe. to the rest of you infantile rubes, try reading history. no comment on the Iran hostage rescue mission. Carter “greenlighted” the mission. he DID NOT cause the sandstorm which led the mechanical failures of the helicopters at Desert One” nor was he piloting the helicopter which colided with a C-130. you people have the intellectual capacity of children. oh, I have NEVER voted for a democrat, which includes Carter in 1980.

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And thats saying something, If meddling where he isn’t wanted is a crime, he is guilty as sin.

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and, Goodmack01, liberals aren’t liberals anymore – they are “Progressives”. What a joke for a bunch of pseudo-intellectuals, union members, and irresponsible leaches on society that are enable by the Demoncratic Party.

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I was an adult when Carter was the president. I was also in the military and I will tell you that he cost lives of troops. He cut the pentagon so bad that we could not even train. Then he sent troops to the desert to get out the hostages and looked what happened. I worked that op and will tell you we could do no training or preparation prior to going in. No money!!!!! I hold him personally accountable. He was the worst president we have ever had and just the thought of him opening his mouth makes me angry. I have 2 friends that I will never see again because of this idiot.

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So what if Mr. Carter served one term as president. Since then, he has served 30 years as an ambassador of peace, advocate for human rights and the one person capable of holding world leaders accountable for their actions. If you will check the facts, the Middle East was explosive in the 1970s. Airline hijackings, the collapse of Iran’s government with the beginning of an Islamic state and nations on the brink of war were heating the Cold War into a blast furnace. Amidst that, Mr. Carter did the unthinkable when he brought the leaders of Egypt and Israel into Camp David and literally shook the world back into reality.
Thank you Mr. Carter for everything that we know about and much more that we don’t know.

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Yum yum–some real facts: OMB statistics show that while federal defense spending as a percentage of the GDP did, in fact, decrease following the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, defense spending as a percentage of the GDP increased throughout Carter’s presidency — from 4.7 percent in fiscal year 1979 (October 1, 1978, to September 30, 1979), to 4.9 percent in FY 1980. Congress again increased military spending from 4.9 percent GDP to 5.2 percent GDP from FY 1980 to FY 1981 (the final budget approved during the Carter administration). Over the entire course of Carter’s presidency, spending for national defense increased from 4.7 percent GDP to 5.2 percent GDP. Yes, Carter really gutted the U.S. military.

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Just to clarify: the reason I will never see these two friends again is because I got really upset after losing at poker and shot them and buried them in the woods off of GA Hwy 5 near Jasper, GA.
It was April 6, 1988, and I remember it like it was yesterday. I miss the hell out of those guys, and to be honest I’m not sure what President carter has to do with it, but this seemed like a good time to blame him.

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Five million isn’t peanuts.

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All I know is that I had a 21% business loan when Carter was Prez. The only Prez. that will be worse is Obamarama…He will drive us over the cliff to bankruptcy hell…you gov’t employees or union dopes…in a nice way of course ~

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Ron my son has 10 friends that he will never see again that shed their percious blood because Bush Jr started a war because of his stupidity and ego.

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Carterize-I’d like to hear your opinion of why Carter is responsible for your 21% business loan. Do you recall the worldwide energy crisis at the time, and the resulting worldwide inflation?

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To: Atlanta Native

I, too, am a native Georgian and you hit the nail squarely on the head!

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I could name the religion these people belong to without a problem. The problem is that israel has been nothing but trouble since Palestine was split and given to the zionists. Its amazing how ignorant people here are, they have no knowledge of history but act like they know everything. Morons

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Hey, you want to know the kind of honest and full of scruples he surrounded himself witih? In college I wrote him re: a political science project. He handwrote his answers but failed to sign the letter. I sent it back during his White House years to get it signed. It promptly disappeared. Despire the efforts of both Georgia’s US Senators and the 5th District Representative, it had “disappeared.” Thanks a lot, Plains Mafia!

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Israel was there before Palestine. Check your History please. Around 1948 Israel became a Country AGAIN. GOD Bless them.

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UHHH @ Z it’s been thirty years since Carter left office and historians still consider him a failed Prez. What historians are you waiting for that will rewrite history and say he was good?

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HMM my elderly mom and Aunt met Carter at the Carter Library. They were horrified to find him rude and obnoxious, after all the years they supported him

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Amazing the stupid people who read these articles.

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JIMMY CARTER IS AN HONEST MAN. I’M SURE HE WROTE IT AS HE SAW IT. THAT DOESN’T MEAN HE’S ANTISEMITIC; ANYONE WHO DARES TO EYE ISRAEL THE LEAST BIT CRITICALLY IS LABELED SO. PLEASE TELL ME WHY THE MOSSAD SPYS ON OUR GOVERNMENT? A WHILE BACK, I SEEM TO REMEMBER A SPY SCANDAL WITH AGENTS SPYING ON THE US GOV. FOR ISRAEL.I SUPPORT ISRAEL, BUT, NOT EVERY THING THEY DO. THERE’S ROOM FOR CRITICISM.

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You tea baggers are so angry! All y’all do is btch, complain, and praise the idiot politicians who are angry like you. Y’all are probably the same people who bring up Obama in the sports blogs.

Jim,

This isn’t blog material. This is a brief news story, not another excuse for people to relive the debates from the late seventies.

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Right On! Hope they put the Whoomp There It Is on him.

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I am sure there will be attacks for my opinion but piss off! Carter was OK as a President and a lot of the problems he tried to fix, but just pissed a lot of people off ending his demise, we still have today. He TRIED to go against the insiders but did not succeed. kudos to Carter for trying to rule with heart and wisdom. However, and unfortunately, every country ends up with the government they deserve and we are getting what we deserve right now, failing in almost every possible way and on our way to 3rd world status…but at least we are free to be ill informed.

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Downlewis, I was alive and well when that ass was the President. Gas lines and rationing, 18-21% interest rates, inflation about that high, military falling apart, Iranian hostages, idiot beer chugging brother etc. Until now he was the worse President ever. He threw the Shah of Iran under the bus, turning over our strongest friend in the Middle East to muslim clerics and now his little brother Obama has allowed Iran to go nuclear and is helping Egypt and Jordan fade away. So yes, I remember him and his idiotic ways. We put up with 4 years of him but got 8 years of the great Ronald Reagan.

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common sense, Carter did not get the hostages freed. Reagan was going to take miliatry action agianst them and was told that through back channels. Why do you think they were released on inaguration day? It must hve been the tremendous amount of fear Carter instilled them in after a a year of not doing. They had a sudden shiver of fear and let them go. Israel was there at the beginning. Look at al the money Carter takes in from the arab world and tell me he is not biased. Clinton took millions in pay cuts when Hillary became Sec of State because he had to cut offd his arab benefactors. why are you so anti Israel? MORON

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Hey ‘bash the ego’ guy, your reading of Reagan include the Robert Parry books on Reagan and Bushboys? Doubt it, and even if it did you’d probably call them a pack of lies, but history will ‘out’ the senile old bigot and the billionaire wingnuts that used him, and the two ‘lessers from Tex-ass’, to feather their nests and make sure that the treasury of the US paid them off first. The trouble with history, in this case, and as your other ‘hero’ geedubya said, we’ll all be dead and those that are willing to tell it accurately will be those that are picking over the ashes trying to figure out ‘what went wrong’….I’ll tell you now, greed, obstructionism and prejudice – aka, the GOP.

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rod, when were you born? 1974? do you remember the 1973 “gas lines” when Nixon was President? and from where do you get your info? “Reagan was going to take military action”? sure, if as previously noted, the “military action” he promised was supplying the Iranians with weapons. oh, and as I noted, he actually DID take “military action” againist Iran when he backed Iraq (Saddam) in its war with Iran.

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@ Jimmy Carter Fan,

‘Seriously folks, you sound like a bunch of kids writing letters to Santa Claus.’

LOL. I completely agree.

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I can’t think of anyone more deserving of a $5 million dollar lawsuit than jimmy carter. Here, we have one of the worst presidents in American history. Too many who know mr. carter knows exactly what a hypocrite, a power hungry attention seeking sick person he is. He’s granted accolades, but deserves none. While I hold no respect for bill clinton or george bush 1/2, mr. carter is one of the most artificial and phony people the state of Georgia has as a citizen.

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hey rod, what’s your take on Grenada? remember that one? 2 days after the attack in Beruit, Reagan invades a tiny Carribean island to “liberate” a bunch of American students who were too dumb to get into a respectable medical school. and 2 days after that, he actually tried to link the attack on the Marine barracks in Lebanon with the “terrorists” (Cuban construction workers) in Grenada. Google it sometime.

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UGH…away from prying eyes Jimmy was a classless jerk. Heard him many times belittle and disparage Rosaylynn….this happened several times while he was visiting Cumberland Island. I never saw the Christian values come out unless there was an audience. PS ..for us insiders, the best thing is when the outsiders that “vilify” America’s 13th colony and it’s people, do leave.

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I guess the Iran-Contra affair, in which Oliver North was allowed to pee on the Constitution in the name of political expediency, was different to a lot of you, namely those of you who ascribe to Fox News doggerel. Like the “bad guy” in pro wrestling, you turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to instances like that.

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haha, I AM from Georgia. I have just had the opportunity to leave the state at times and see how sad and embarrassing it looks from afar. Ask around outside of the state, I am not making this up. Even our Olympics fell flat. Georgia does little right, with the exception of promoting bigotry, hate, an unhealthy lifestyle and a lack of pre-college education success. Pretty sad.

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Sorry is not the word to describe old man Jimmy Carter. I think all America needs to file a lawsuit against Carter for opening the flood gate and letting every “thug”, “Scum” and “lowlife” into America. Every citizen need to have a share in the area of hundreds of thousand of dollars! That would teach Mr. “lowlife” Jimmy Carter a lesson.

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I think these Carter haters ( mostly Northern transplants) could never accept the fact that a Georgia Democrat could win the presidency. What they are saying is mostly what they heard from someone else. There are many roads that lead back up North if they can’t get over it.

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SawBe is spot on!

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OK Jimmy, Please do not write anymore books. As well, Mr. McGill, don’t make
comments about a head of state when you can’t spell their name. It was the Shah
(not Shaw) that the US was supporting in 1979.

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I can afford to leave and come back on my own terms, thank you. I was merely stating that the only thing that we are known for, other than an overblown and irrelevant notion that we are the Peach King of America, is Jimmy Carter. Outside of the South, where people are healthier, wealthier and more educated, the words Jimmy Carter aren’t such pejoratives. Oh, 10th Generation Southerner, 6th generation Georgian…

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Hope that will cause the loser to keep his mouth shut for a short period! He is a legend IN HIS OWN MIND!

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ugy, all you keep stating is “I can afford” ….big deal…what is keeping you here?

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Um…I said I can afford one time and it was in response to you. I have a farm and a family and intelligent friends here to show me that not everyone acts like the typical Georgian, which apparently happens to be you. Thank you for serving as an example for Georgia that the rest of the nation can laugh and deride. Here is hoping you have failed at creating a 6th Generation in your line….

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Those of us bitchin’ about Carter are A) people that don’t depend on the gobment for entitlements B)Do charitable work to help, not for the notoriety

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Can we sue the dimwit for his 1978 Community Investment Act, rootcause of our present US economic crash and also for ushering the Islamic terriorist government in Iran?

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Jimmah’s lies and treasonous actions need to be prosecuted. I’m praying for these patriots’ swift victory in this case.

I read the book and it’s filled with venom and hate towards the Hebrews. Jimmah is an arrogant and ignorant anti-Semite.

I burned this piece of trash along with “Senator” Al Franken’s disgusting books in my church parking lot.

Amen,
Bill

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Jimmy Carter is one of our greatest presidents. The GOP equivalents reversed policies that Jimmy Carter started in the 80’s that the World is starting to adopt. Jimmy Carter was the first president in office to witness the crazy radicals in Iran, but since, we know Tea Party/GOP leaders are equal in radical and shameless

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JIm – Please explain the point you were trying to make when you wrote:

“The five plaintiffs named in the lawsuit are seeking at least $5 million in compensation. The hard cover edition cost $27.”

Tell me what is the relationship between the retail price of the book and the amount of the lawsuit?

Thank you.

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Free speech means free speech, now some that did not like the book or agree with it want to sue, yet our courts are behind in dealing with true crimes, like murder and rape, child abuse.

Please don t read this book or any book if you don t agree or feels it may offend you, or move to Egypt, North Korea or Iran where you won t be allowed to read anything that is not approved.

Maybe we should sue the un for starting this problem and maybe we should sue the Israeli govt for
lying about settlement expansions, I have been there, seen both sides and I see both sides and it seems funny that everyone, Carter or the average Joe is attacked if they dare speak against the mother ship Israel.

If you disagree with the illegal, inhumane occupation of Israel then you are called a bigot or racist, yet if you don t support Egypt’s desire to live freely, then you are also condemned, so what make sit ok for Egypt to desire freedom, yet it is not ok for Palestine, maybe we should sue all that disagree with the rights of another country to live freely, that seems very racist to me, or at least a big fat DOUBLE STANDARD and what does being a good or bad president have to do with a book that he wrote about another topic?

Let’s also sue Cheney and Bush for their lies, fiction about wmd, that has cost us lives, money and respect

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Just in…WikiLeaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize..drum roll….by a 26 year old Norwegian socialist…JC you are in good company

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MysteryMoves,

Ditto

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MysteryMoves,

You too.

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I voted for him when he ran. I voted for him after he left office because none of the GOP hacks, war mongers, business lobbyist representatives had half his integrity.

He was a good President, and is a good man. You folks are generally blinded by your hate and ignorance.

This law suit is frivolous and should be thrown out of court.

Get a life and get some ethics.

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Russ Younger, the idiot is you sir…..

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Russ Younger, I mentioned that you were an idiot right? R U the bald short fat man @ this url standing next to the short fat woman with hair chest?

http://www.facebook.com/people/Russ-Younger/100000262816717

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MysteryMoves,

I rest my case.

Thank you.

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Habitat for Humanity.
Google it.

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You are an idiot if you think these people you just described are the typical representation of Georgia…you just described the head of the class. Also, do your research into the percentage breakdown of how many Emory students are actually from Georgia now. It is significantly lower than it used to be. Also, The Carter Center, Jimmy Carter’s non-profit, is a part of Emory University. Emory students typically represent the Carter Center as interns.

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Tony,

You believe Mister Jimmy is one of our greatest presidents, I don’t. I do think that you you are a nasty, frustrated irrelevant old fool like Mr. Carter.

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I am a native Georgian and I’m frequently ashamed of many stupid people that comment here.

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The fact that we are discussing a law suit over a book seems to have been lost here amongst the rants and bitterness. The reality that so much of the world agrees with the premise of this same book again is lost to political correctness. Agree or not with the mans politics, I applaud his ability to speak out on an Israeli policy that promotes strife and will never facilitate peace. It is even more troublesome knowing how many American tax dollars are sent as “aid” to Israel.

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I’m not going to claim Carter was a great president. He is one of those ‘good guys’ type. That is nice, but does not fit for a great leader. However, there are a lot of people that like Reagan and W. Unless you have attention deficit disorder, those where about the worse things to happen to this great country.
And I say great country, because in this great country, you are free to express your opinion, no matter if others don’t like it. Carter expressed an opinion in his book, and these jerks think that means they should get money.
NOT!

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Jiminy Carter is an ass. Worse than that, he’s a liar. He never DID anything yet people idolize him. He was a terrible President. His friend asked him to throw his name in a good cause, Habitat For Humanity, and when he got a chance, Jiminy threw his “friend” under a bus. He lied when he said Victor Chavez’s election was valid. Jiminy never met a dictator he didn’t like. He sold out Georgia when the submarine base closures came out. He sold out his church. He has sold out everything and everyone he ever knew.

I know that. So why didn’t these idiots who bought his book know that? Not only are they dumber than dog squeeze, but the proof is that it took them 5 years to figure it out. Anyone who didn’t know that Jiminy Carter was a lying Jew Hating SOB just needs a sign……………………….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5ZkdHImCuQ

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Whoops, HUGO not Victor. Where’s my sign?

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Peace at all cost when you’re a superpower is the most sane route. Beside his gentility, it was his work that got the hostages out of Iran. Learn the real history, not what you have been told. But then again, “ignorance is bliss”. Bless your hearts….

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Let us see what Jimmy Carter did. He gave us gas lines, very long gas ones. High inflation, high interest rates, and he embarrassed the country by going to our enemies after he got out of office and stabbed the country in the back. He was no good for the country and allowed our embassy to be sacked and a bunch of people to be imprisoned. It was a terrible time for the country. It took a long time to get out if we ever have.

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He gave us gas lines, very long gas ones – OPEC oil embargo, October 1973 – Nixon
High inflation – Ford’s WIN (Whip Inflation Now)?
high interest rates – Banks set interest rates, not presidents
and he embarrassed the country by going to our enemies after he got out of office and stabbed the country in the back.- Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
He was no good for the country and allowed our embassy to be sacked and a bunch of people to be imprisoned. – technically, the USMC is responsible for emabssy security.
It was a terrible time for the country. It took a long time to get out if we ever have. – so, what you’re saying is, Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43 “failed”? interesting take.

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President Carter, Mandela, Mother Teresa, Tenzin Gyatso, Martin Luther King, Jesus, Reverend Tutu, Allah, Ghandi and
Buddha

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Being a Georgian I voted for Jimmy Carter. I later regretted that move. I voted against Barack Obama and he still got elected. Both won Nobel prizes. This only served to lessen the creditability of the Nobel group. Today it appears anyone can “earn” a Nobel prize. That and a buck fifty will get you a cup of coffee an any Waffle House. This Nobel thing is no longer important. There was a time when only great men could get the prize and it was something to be proud of. Today it is worthless and its home is in the trash.

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Having actually met the man, served for the man, and conversing with him, he’s probably the most approachable down to earth guy that ever served as President. He’s a true southern gentleman that actually practices the things he preaches about. There isn’t a President out there that you can’t criticize. And to completely criticize a President based on their actions is without a doubt based on your assumption that you knew all of the details of the scenario based on what the media has informed you of. Slightly absurd? He didn’t run on his daddy’s name, he didn’t lie to the nation or have an affair while in office, he didn’t create project star wars, etc… He’s madly in love with his wife, rides his bike around town to this day, teaches Sunday school for his church, and conducts his day to day business on southern values, always considering his fellow neighbors. What more could you ask of the guy? Is he perfect? No. Would he claim to be? No. Are you? No. Would you claim to be? Depending on some of the previous posts… possibly.

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Jimmy Carter was a great president … compared to poser “no long form birth certificate” Obama.

At least with Carter we got Billy Beer.

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Good luck with that.

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This is the best Jimmy Carter deconstruction I have ever read. I especially liked the last paragraph.

http://www.slate.com/id/2166661/

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Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize. I agree with Mike that it is small minded people who write ignorant ranting comments about him. Who cares if some idiots bring a frivilous lawsuit against him? That is their stupidity and it will be thrown out. I don’t care if he called his book fiction or nonfiction because those who bought it were not forced to.

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“Plaintiff Steven Tabak is an adult dual citizen of the United States and Israel residing in both New York and Israel, who purchased the book.
Plaintiff Danica Bernard is an adult resident-citizen of Marina Del Ray, California who purchased the book.
Plaintiff Ryan Shuman is an adult resident-citizen of Orono, Minnesota who purchased the book.
Plaintiff Susan Eckman is an adult resident-citizens of Elizabeth, New Jersey who purchased the book.
Plaintiff Stephen Unterberg is an adult citizen of the United States and Israel residing in both New York and Israel, who purchased the book.”
America should not allow dual citizenship. One cannot have two masters

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Americans wake up from your slumber in front of the television set. This outrageous lawsuit illustrates the lengths to which some people will go to instill fear in others to criticize the country which so richly deserves criticism. Anyone who criticizes Israel is immediately labeled with bad names to divert attention from the basic issues of how Israel has been committing crimes against humanity with United States assistance of money and military hardware. We Americans have aided and abetted these crimes against humanity through our cowardly non representatives in Congress who are bought and paid for by the Israel Lobby and media. Is it any wonder most of the rest of the world hates us so? What Israel is good at is copying the insidious methods of Adolph Hitler and Joseph Goebbels they so purport to despise. Today they rub out own precious Constitution in our faces, in our courts, with some outrageous lawsuit which seeks to further intimidate dissent to demands of Israel for more of our hard earned money and military hardware for them to kill more innocent victims with who disagree with them.
“The great masses of the people….will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one….”
Adolph Hitler

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Jimmah just trying harder these days. He has some serious competition as worst President these days.

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Carter and Obummer, now that’s a pair that is certain to send the US of A into oblivion.

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Jimmy goes to Africa to validate voting and the dictator’s constituents kill tens of thousand of people and he sees nothing wrong with that. If the killings had been the other way around he would have problems then. Carter is an evil man. I used to think he is was just too good and honest but now, he is just plain evil.

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Israel is a bad actor. The country was created because Britain thought that Jews had secret, world-wide control and they wanted their help against the Arabs. They are just as bad on human rights as their neighbors. President Carter wanted to set the record straight on the false information planted in our media by AIPAC and their cronies. Anybody who thinks the Jews have historical “rights” to that land must also think that American Indians have rights to New York.

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If they’re gonna start suing politicians for lying, we can’t build a courthouse big enough.

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hee hee

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It’s Shah, not Shaw — you dummies! @bigdawg88 and Phil — Good to see that at least some commenting here have a grasp on some facts!

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You can tell which morons watch Fox News.

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Wow what a bunch of hateful petty human beings on this posting site. Jimmy Carter was a victim of uncontrollable circumstances. He was the only true Christian US President who solved problems by diplomacy and not by invading other countries like the GW Bush. The Iran hostage crisis, even though it was a long protracted ordeal came to a close peacefully. There were no wars waged in the Carter administration. If Jimmy Carter can get sued by some morons, I guess all the bs books that have been written by Bush, Cheney, Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh and the other domestic terrorists are ripe for lawsuits.

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As long as you cling to wrong headed, lying ideas planted by those, who have gotten RICH as a result of it………this country will continue to go down! OUR STATISTICS ON income inequality are worse than Egypt’s……..those people have had enough, we are still a WAITING FOR THE TOOTH FAIRY TO MAKE it all better here. Read this article to see who the REAL worst president was..I was an adult running a small independent business that was hampered,,and disappeared eventially as HIS TRICKLE DOWN small government disaster metasticized over the last 30 years! I witnessed it happening!
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/012811.html Ronald Reagan’s 30-Year Time Bombs
By Robert Parry
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2011/012911Parry.shtml Reagan’s ‘Tear Down This Wall’ Myth
By Robert Parry

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T.J. Jackson, et al. I remain amused – in a depressing – no hope for GA kinda way by your childlike (petulant and whiny) posts. if your observations are true, and Carter and Obama are sening the US of A “into oblivion” what are you doing to reverse the course? and more to the point, by what criteria do you ‘rank” Presidents? as has been noted ad nauseum, the President does not set interest rates (Federal Reserve/Bank). ditto “inflation”. inflation is the result of the Fed’s policies, not the POTUS. one might argue that a President’s ability to operate the USA within a reasonable budget is tied to the Fed’s policies, but if so, Carter’s “budgets” and execution of budget policy trumps Reagan, Bush 41, Bush 43 and Obama. and as far as foreign policy goes, Carter was perhaps the last POTUS to “manage” relationships and plan for the future, as opposed to arrogantly and belligerently projecting US policy abroad. as was noted by Loyal Gerogian; as far as Desert One/Iran hostage rescue goes, he authorized the mission, but it was mechanical failure and perhaps even human errror (Murphy’s law) which ended the mission – and as has also been noted, ALL hostages returned home alive. if some of you folks don’t like him because he is a Democrat, Christian, peanut farmer; or because he “lusted after women” outside of his marriage, fine. none of these things has anything to do with his performance as POTUS. geez, you foklks give me a headache sometimes; and as I have stated on other blogs, I never voted for the man, but I’d take him over any POTUS since. again, you’re all a bunch a whining crybabies. read your history (and read the contemporary conservative rag; The American Conservative), you’ll find that in the light of time, Carter’s “conservative” values trump those of his neo-conservative successors (Reagan, Bush & Bush).

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Veritas – right on!!

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Even Carter’s book title was deceptive: we need peace, by living together, not by apartheid.

History shows that living with living with Muslims who are honor and religion-bound to kill you is a bad idea. The plaintiff’s won’t win anything, I’m certain, but in some small way, I’m glad to see someone will dragging that dumb Nobel-prize-hawking hick into court to have his integrity judged one last time.

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If the US would have continued in the footsteps of energy independence that Jimmy Carter put in place after the gas shortage of the 70’s, we would be weaned off foreign oil. Of course as soon as Reagan came into power, the first thing he did was to dismantle the symbolic solar panels on the White House and let energy tax credits expire. Some of those solar companies that we spawned in the ’70’s and ’80’s went bankrupt because of this and were bought by Japan. I can’t tell you how grateful the innovators and corporate leaders of Japan and Denmark are today for all the money America invested in research in wind and solar. Congratulations conservatives. You wanted the US to fail back in the 80’s and are bent on doing the same today.
Let me leave you with one more little tidbit. Reagan was the worst president (til Bush came along), because he and his administration funded, trained and armed the same terrorists (The Mujahideen) who then formed Al-Qaeda. One of those “freedom fighters” was none other than Osama Bin Laded.

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How sad you all are
February 3rd, 2011
8:29 am

After reading your post I came to the conclusion that you should change your name to How sad I am. Read your post again and then explain to everyone what you were trying to say. Who is laughing all the way to the polls???

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I just wish we’d leave the middle east alone and let them blow each other off the map. I’m sorry but that place is the worlds crap hole.We need to spend the money on our own people in our own country. To think that there will be peace in the middle east in our lifetime is a colossal form of idiocy. There hasn’t been peace there in over 1000 years. What the hell would make anyone think there will be peace there anytime soon? Let them blow each other away, the world would be a better place.

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Let’s sue Gee Wiz Bush for false advertising. By running for President, he purports to be intelligent enough to hold that office.

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Well said Veritas…. the mis-guided patroitism of Reagan and both Bush I and Bush II have done more harm to our country than any other inside or outside influence. Ohhhhh… and those 3 all qualify for worse Prez ever…. even worse than Coolidge…. So sad to see that money and power are the real objective… not the well-being of America’s citizens.

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Friend of GA, just so we are clear, the veracity of your claim (Carter makes anti-semetic comments) aside, such comments are not “criminal”. to wite; the First Amendment allows for “free speech”, ergo, “anti-semtism” is not ‘against the law’. does your disdain for a fomer President of the United States, and your ignorance as it relates to the law (Bill of Rights)) make you “anti-American”? I believe those who make ‘anti-American” comments are referred to as traitors in some circles.

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Jimmy is very concerned that BO is going to take away his honor of being the worst president.
Joe the Plutocrat do you know what a Plutocrat is?

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OMG!!!!! I guess as long as we have Republican in office…..you all dumb@@@@ will be okay….they ALL have their issues…some got caught and others were able to get away with it……oh I forogt everyone who has all these nasty comments are perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get a life!!!!

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He is as much an idiot like our famous C Tucker !!!!

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It’s a shame so many lawsuits are filed each year, more and more frivolous or attention seeking.

It’s a shame people call other people names and write snarks because of opinions.

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Does this mean we can now sue Sean Hannity or Sara Palin or Ann Coulter, et al, since they propagandize, promote their own agendas, and try to deceive readers? Get a life, people. If you don’t agree with someone, ok, but suing, except in the case of libel, is a direct attack on 1st amendment rights.

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Comments here are truly mind-numbing. Carter was an OK president. He did some good things including reducing the deficit. But since his presidency he has become anti-semitic. The reason for the lawsuit is that he is knowingly promoting falsehoods wrt Israel and the middle East. I don’t know who the plaintiffs are but I suspect that at least some of them are people who were in his cabinet or worked for him who would have first hand knowlege of what he should have known. Lawsuites like these are not frivilous and is not an attack on the first amendment. To the contrary, this is one of the few ways to have an impartial observer judge the veracity of conflicting/competing historical accounts.
Israel is not the bad guy so many of you depict. To the contrary, Israel is usually on the Moral side of history. They are a true democracy despite the rhetoric and propaganda you may hear. They are not an apartheid state. And most israelis would gladly see the establishment of a Palastinian state on most of the “West Bank.” Recall they were not the aggressors in any of their wars, including 1967 but they were the victors.

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“Jimmy Carter wins a noble peace prize and small minds can’t grasp it”……..Nobel Peace Prize = worthless crap. Were you aware that a couple of weeks ago, you had the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner (Jimmy C) along with the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner (Oblahma) attending a dinner in honor of the Chinese president who is holding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner captive? Funny stuff eh?

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Carter…Clinton…Obama….wow the hits just keep on coming from those who were not even alive during the Carter Presidency (not only was I alive, I voted for him). Carter was overthrown in a coup that intentionally delayed the release of pawns, er, ‘hostages’ so the Repug’s could swap dope and guns for the ‘hostages’. Hell, ANYONE could swap guns and dope for whatever they desired, when dealing with thugs.

tl;dr – Carter refused to negotiate with terrorists. Repug’s? Well two words – Ollie North. YOu children of Fox Fail at History. I lived it, you were spoon fed select ‘facts’. Morons/haters.

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Jimmy Carter is a Shakespearean tragedy replete with tragic flaw. It hobbled his one term governorship and his one term presidency. While he was a weak though not terrible president, he left the legacy of Israeli/Egyptian peace that has endured to today. He rightly promoted a program to remove the US from Arab oil dependency only to have some of those initiatives undone by Reagan. But Carter’s flaw, revealed to me by a state employee while Carter was Governor, is that he is unable to trust others in the decision making process. As a result, he ends up being isolated without the best information to make the decision. His amazing determination is all that has kept his fierce independence from relegating this enigmatic man to the peanut farm during his life.

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@ 7thGenGeorgian…you’re being blind to stupidity. This man was the WORST president we’ve had. (But thanks to Obama, he may lose that title!)

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I was so proud when Jimmy Carter was elected. I have been embarassed by him since. He made way to many mistakes and was a lousy president. Gas lines, screwed up the hostage situation, 18 1/2% interest rates to name a few. He needs to sit down and shut up, his time is done!

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Lawsuit for false and misleading information to reach an agenda. This being done by a writer with a bully pulpit. If this lawsuit wins there goes the media.

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Typical left wing liberal’s spouting out their hate! Fox lies, Carter was great, you people who don’t listen to us are just stupid. Why don’t you folks get a life!

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Lets not forget that Jimmy opened to borders to anyone and everyone to enter this country. Since then every one has come here and took our health care, social security and put nothing back into the system. And now the government does not know how to stop…..Poor Jimmy was the worst President this county ever had. Intentions were good, but he screwed that up too!

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To: “GROBER”..
GREATNESS is just in the eyes of the beholder, or….is it only: BEAUTY?

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President carter was the last high ranking military officer to make it to become the President of the United States and its ironic how people bash him because of his intelligence or lack of. First, respect the uniform of an officer in our military, second, know what the hell you talking about as it relates to world history. Stay in your lanes and go skin a pig, leave grown folk conversation to grown folks…watch reruns of the Beverly Hillibillies

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Someone should have sued him years ago for stupidity.

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Just think about this for a second…this lawsuit may actually be the case that will allow me to sue Glenn Beck and Mark Levin, along with their ilk, for the fiction they publish and know is misleading or completely false.

Perhaps I will start, first, by suing Boortz and Linder for the fiction of the fair tax book!

I will not stop there. I will sue News Corp for the actions taken by FoxNews and their deceptive “journalistic” behavior.

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Teller of Truth – plutocrat n. 1 – Anyone having political influence because of wealth or class. 2 – A member of a governing wealthy class.

do you know what ‘the truth’ is? do you know what irony, cynicism and sarcasm are? do you remember “Joe the Plumber”? I am Joe the Plutocrat.

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time to “tell the truth”. for what it is worth, I will concede Carter was a “failure” as POTUS when all the neo-cons and blind Republicans concede that he was a failure because in order to “succeed” as POTUS one must either be a card-carrying member of the Plutocracy (Bush I & II) or a pimp for the plutocracy (LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Clinton, and Obama). Ike was aware of this sad fact when he warned of the “influence” of the military industrial complex in his farewell address 50 years ago. so, you folks can wring your hands and gnash your teeth about what makes Republicans good and Democrats bad, or vice versa,and I would it that were the USA a true representative democracy or Constiutional replublic, the difference between red states and blue, or “good presidents and bad” would be germane. but the USA is a plutocracy, and as such, it is not about party affiliation, or even ideology, it is about the relationship between wealth and (political) power. see: Special Interests, Lobbyists, etc. ain’t that right Jim?

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President Carter and Rosalyn are living a life as Jesus intended. As exemplified in these angry posts, the path to
leading a spiritual, wholesome life appears to be non-existant in your life. I ask those writers to examine your own minds, and what long lasting contribution you are making to the world?

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Carter’s a bitter old bigot, toiling hard to whitewash the legacy of Islamic naziism (his pals toiled for Hitler during WWII). He also ran a racist and disgusting campaign against Carl Sanders in the early 70s.

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Shame on Carter. Why didn’t he just start a massive deficit, like Reagan? What kind of problems could that cause?

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The article didn’t say what the inaccurate information in the book is. I think if we knew that we all could make a better decision about its validity.

It is true Jimmy is a Israel hater, so I would tend to believe he might have mislead readers to bolster his pro Palestinian claims.
Some people -even Carter- will support the so-called underdog, even if the “underdog” is wrong. It makes them fell like a good person.

Brother Jimmy and most liberals will support anyone instead of Israel.

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It’s the Shah of Iran, not Shaw…go back to school.

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Anybody that would call Jimmy Carter a great President is either too dull, too young, or too blind to remember what “The Misery Index” was then, and is today. The curious should look it up, unless you’re a liberal. Then you won’t have to, because you already know everything. But nobody back then, nobody was ready to spend money so wildly and recklessly as is done today. After all, the 1.5 trillion dollar deficit for Obama in 2011 is 2 1/2 times what the entire Federal Budget was during Carter’s last year in office.

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Bless this old fossils heart; but he has no business interjecting his misguided foolish opinion into anything. I can’t figure why anyone would listen to him anyway. He was not intentional wreckless during his administration but unfortunately he was quite possiblt the second worst prisident in modern history.

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It is people like “Steve” that causes so much consternation within the ranks of all political parties. He appears to be incapable of debating an issue without getting personal. I think he is just a young kid that has had a bad childhood. Getsome medical help Steve.

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Before you are entitled to rank any president as “last,” you must be able to recite the legacies of James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce, and Martin Van Buren. You must be able to explain how a president who resigned in disgrace and led the country into a generation of political cynicism would be higher in rank than any but the above three.

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Ican’t belive anyone would buy his book.

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Regardless of one’s political stripe, name calling simply masks either a lack of knowledge on the topic or the inability to express reasoned thought.

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Carter was a lousy President,but he is right about the Middle East.The Zionist Lobby has total ontrol of the media,finances(Rothchilds 57% Federal Reserve),and congress;(AIPAC).PatBuchanan(A Reagan aide you GOPERS)called congress;Isreali occupied territory and the neoconservatives; ‘the boat people of the McGovern campaign,(FOX NEWS)because the are ex-Democrat Isreali-Lobby war mongers.(WILSON<FDR<TRUMAM,JOHNSON.Bush 2 followed them to this countries destruction.The want WW3.This suit is so typically Jewish.It is arrogant subjective nonsence by a sel-destruction,selfush,materialistic group which sets themselves above us all.

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yes he was a terrible President but an even worse road builder.
I hate driving on his blvd. It is packed with people with no particular direction in mind. It is way to narrow minded and def has more left turns than right turns.
I miss Lily and Billy

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It is a shame that you judge so harshly. No he did not make the best president but he was good for many other things. Clinton has not faded away nor has Bush I and Bush II. Jimmy Carter did so some great things in his lifetime.

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Jimmy Carter is a Shakespearean tragedy replete with tragic flaw. It hobbled his one term governorship and his one term presidency. While he was a weak though not terrible president, he left the legacy of Israeli/Egyptian peace that has endured to today. He rightly promoted a program to remove the US from Arab oil dependency only to have some of those initiatives undone by Reagan. But Carter’s flaw, revealed to me by a state employee while Carter was Governor, is that he is unable to trust others in the decision making process. As a result, he ends up being isolated without the best information to make the decision. His amazing determination is all that has kept his fierce independence from relegating this enigmatic man to the peanut farm during his life.

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@frw “Cooliage?” Didn’t he invent Kool-Aid? Geesh! And if Hoover was so bad, why was he so bad? Could it be that he advocated raising taxes after the big crash in 1929? That’s precisely what Obama has been advocating all along, to raise taxes in the middle of a recession, and precisely what Obamacare does as well. Obamanation! So make room at the bottom of whatever list you want to rate Presidents. We got a big time bottom entry bungling his way to truly legendary mediocrity and incompetency.

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Carter’s energy policy and education initiatives were either gutted or dismantled by His successor. Few of those who post here know of Nasser and pre Anwar Sadat Egypt/Israel relations. No, he wasn’t a great president but he had a vision of a good America and a good world.
For all the detractors who spout talking points, the economy was an inherited mess. He didn’t have the support of congress and nothing got better. That he should have done more is his fault. The problem, however was not of his making and I invite the detractors to explain how it was.

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Just wondering if the lawyer handling the case for the plaintiffs is Denny Crain?

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Carter had and has many leadership flaws – but one thing he isn’t is a liar.
Telling people truths they didn’t enjoy hearing got him booted from office.
He has a perspective, and states his opinions. Unlike Faux “News” and books “written” (and I use the term loosely) by most politicians, he doesn’t fabricate facts to make his points. His conclusions are controversial – his facts are not. It’s certainly possible to use the same facts he does and come to different conclusions, which many folks do.

I’m guessing the concerned citizens fronting this lawsuit aren’t so worried about the bald-faced laughable and demonstrable lies in the tomes that Bush and Palin, for example, pretended to “write.”

It’s entirely possible to feel deep empathy and concern for the people and the future of Israel, and be deeply disturbed by some actions taken by their leaders. People who don’t grasp that concept have the same difficulty understanding it when applied to our own nation. Gunning down kids who threw rocks at Israeli tanks was wrong. So was relocating and decimating the Cherokee nation during the Trail of Tears. The truth is, sometimes great nations do bad things. The thing that makes them great is acknowledging it, committing to doing the right thing and telling the truth.
People who point this out don’t “hate Israel,” … and no, they’re not the “blame America first” crowd.
They understand where real strength and greatness come from.

It would have been understandable if after world war II, we had decided to quarantine and occupy Germany and Japan, pushing the previous residents off land we’d conquered and leaving them the scraps. After all, they’d certainly earned it. But America did something remarkable and unprecedented. We rebuilt the lands we’d destroyed, and gave our former enemies a path to redeem themselves and reclaim their nations. Now, THAT’s a great country.
Israel is certainly within their rights to “keep” the land won in the 7-Day war. They’re on shakier moral ground when they continue to build subdivisions packed with armed settlers on disputed land. But is this the path of a great nation?

To despise Carter for having the nerve to point this out? Go get a life, folks.

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Sounds like the Mossad. They have been surpressing what they view as anti-Israeli views.

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I want to work with Jimmy on voter certification here in US to make sure elections don’t get rigged by TPers.

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George Custer graduated from West Point. Are you equating where one graduates from college with greatness???
Custer was to battlefield tacticians as Carter was to Presidents.
Both stunk. Real bad.

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Wow, even $3 billion per year for ransom could not stop these murderers Jews from insulting Carter.

Jimmy told the truth and zionist jews dont like it, now they are suing him? This is idiotic.

Camp David Accord has guaranteed a steady flow of free money to the Jews at the expense of education, infrastructures and medical needs of the US citizens. Despite that, they have sent their tugs to denigrate the man that gave them $180 billion? What a shame…Wonders shall never end.

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One guess; how many of these people are jewish?

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Anyone who says anything true about Israel, or their influence wherever tragedy occurs should be
immediately have an attack on their credibility, or should face immediate criminal charges.just ask any Israeli. Just because you find it difficult to identify any good the state of Israel, and their affiliates, have ever done, anywhere, does not mean you should broadcast your criticism.
Mubarak in Egypt is lucky to have his Israeli advisors, and security forces protecting him. We all know that all the Egyptians wanted their border with Palestine closed. They sure did not want any of those Palestinians to escape the Israeli bombings, or to stop the containment of Palestinian Holocast.(on the Palestinians). Mubarak is like may other Israeli puppets worldwide.
Americans are very fortunate to have the Jimmy Carters of this world, he is the most honest President America has ever had. Yet you can witness on sites like these how the small amounts of the real truths are criticised. and it is obvious where this criticism originates.

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Who brought down the Towers? Who was the influence behind all similar terrorist attacks worldwide?
Doc; not all Americans are stupid enough to even entertain your moronic comments. Your type of propaganda can be likened to the real traitors of, and within the USA, and the rest of the world.

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How do we get to the point of electing so many retarded presidents? It’s because most of us are retarded in understanding of how the country should be run and ran by whom! It’s makes me really mad! And we continue on down the road of electing these jerks that have no understanding of running a business. The country is a business and big business at that. I believe the president we have now has no clue as to where all the meoney comes from that is being flushed away by his so call administration. A very tired situation and we are losing ground every day and most of the people standing by and saying nothing more than; Oh! It will get better. Not sure about that!

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Tyler Gee, great explanation of what happened. I remember all of that going down. Just more examples of our greedy banking system messing with world economies back then. I remember those long gas lines and the high interest rates – all blamed on Carter, but in actuality caused by daddy Bush, the great manipulator.

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Wonder how the current deficit hawks would treat Reagan if he were in today. He built up massive debts and only cut taxes not spending. He was the father of the spend more tax less crowd.
Also, how much of the technology boom did he het to ride.

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I think you have be to the right of the IQ bell curve to understand Carter.
Carter’s a _really_ smart guy. If it weren’t for family trajedy, he would have stayed in Naval
engineering. It’s all a fluke that he took over the family farm, got rich, and got political.
He wasn’t one of the Skull&Bones, groomed-since-birth-for-President kinda guy.
The Iran thing was no-win. We couldn’t go in full military, that would have inflamed a situation that was built on anti-US sentiment. We had one chance, it failed. Carter didn’t plan the mission, it was a Delta force Op. Carter’s a thinker, and a do-er, on important things. Not the b.s.red-herring partisan stuff that get’s people like Palin talking about you like you’re the second coming of christ, but stuff that actually means something to real people.
In 20 years, the Carter legacy will still be quietly working for human rights, and working to house people.And in the unlikely case he’s still alive, he’ll still be able to kick your @ss at chess

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Recently released wikileak documents reveal the Isrealis have been negociating in bad faith for decades, while complaining that they had an untrustworthy partner in the Palistinians. Seems our best statesman Carter was right. Don’t forget the trump card of scallawags everywhere: victimhood. The truth will eventually out. In an unrelated note, Bush cancels a planned speaking engagement in Switzerland for fear of being arrested on torture charges. The tale of two presidents…

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