{"id":2409,"date":"2010-12-15T03:04:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T03:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-12-15T03:04:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T03:04:43","slug":"carter_strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2409","title":{"rendered":"Carter Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

They say that as you age, you become more of who you truly are.<\/p>\n

In that case, we’re seeing the preening vacuous fool<\/a> that James Earl Carter must have always been.<\/p>\n

“I guess my biggest failure was not getting reelected,” he said in an interview with Big Think, referring to the 1980 presidential election.<\/p>\n

Carter, 86, said the loss taught him “not to ever let American hostages be held for 444 days in a foreign country without extracting them.” He added, “I did the best I could, but I failed.”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When his minion Warren Christopher shined his shoes and explained<\/a><\/p>\n

Not “maybe we wouldn’t be looking down the barrel of a major confrontation with state-supported Islamist radicals<\/b>.” Not “maybe 9\/11 wouldn’t have happened, and tens of thousands of people wouldn’t have died.<\/b>” Not any number of other things involving the United States and our relations with the rest of the world. Ronald effing Reagan’s election is as bad a thing as he can imagine.<\/p>\n

I can’t imagine a more insular view of things. And I’m terrified that one of the actual people who shaped events can’t see past the mirrored window of his political party.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you wonder why some people (not me) want Palin for President, think about what it means that these clowns are the height of Washington respectability.
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Carter, preening and vacuous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}