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Jimmah? That you?

Ugh. I’m sorry. I keep pulling the cord, but the engine won’t start. I’ve been staring at my Twitter stream today, swinging between horror and smoldering resentment. And, at this stage of the game, I don’t know how much of the information I’m getting is true.

There is that eerie familiar Jimmy Carterish stench hovering over the whole business, though. Which made me think…for as long as I can remember, excitable young men periodically pour into the Arab street, go “rabble rabble rabble!” and burn an American flag. I’m still unclear what they hope to accomplish by this.


I don’t like Jimmy Carter. Does it show?

Comments


Comment from Dustoffmom
Time: September 13, 2012, 11:32 pm

I’m old enough that I just can’t get beyond the thought that ‘we’ve been here before’. It’s all so damn familiar and we know how it ends. Sadly so.


Comment from Nina
Time: September 14, 2012, 12:33 am

I feel exactly the same way that you do, Stoaty.


Comment from Oceania
Time: September 14, 2012, 12:36 am

He’s got a Koon Nose.


Comment from JeffS
Time: September 14, 2012, 1:09 am

I keep trying to pick Jimmah Cahtah in the Dead Pool, but other readers of yours are quicker than I.

If I win the Dead Pool for JC, I’ll bronze that dick and hang it on the wall. That way, I can tell guests it’s JImmy Carter’s dick.


Comment from Elphaba
Time: September 14, 2012, 1:27 am

Rest assured that you are not alone in your disgust and resentment. I just hope there are enough pissed off voters to throw Obama & Co. out on their terrorist appeasing asses this November. Another four years and we’ll be staring Sharia law in the face over here.


Comment from Redd
Time: September 14, 2012, 1:28 am

In a few weeks, he’ll be 88 years old. His mother kicked the bucket at 85, his dad at 58 and his 3 siblings at 51, 54, and 63. All of them died of pancreatic cancer. You have to wonder what’s in the water down there.

PEANUTS KILL!!!!1!!!!


Comment from PatAZ
Time: September 14, 2012, 1:45 am

I never could understand why Jimmah thought he could win reelection with the hostage situation going on. But he soldiered on. Thankfully he didn’t win.

I have to say, you did an excellent job with the picture, SW. That’s one ugly dude.


Comment from Christopher Taylor
Time: September 14, 2012, 2:08 am

Yeah when I said Obma would be Carter II, I didn’t realize it was going to be this literal.


Comment from Mitchell
Time: September 14, 2012, 2:38 am

Actually I REALLY hope he doesn’t kick off before the election. You know the press would beatify the man and completely gloss over his miserable failures. Hell they’ll even tell us what the “Golden Age” his 2nd term could have been if only that bastard Reagan hadn’t won. This would be the promise that the Empty Chair would use to bolster his candidacy – a second Carter term? YES, this is what it could be!


Comment from Redd
Time: September 14, 2012, 2:41 am

Now the Chinese are dicking with us by provoking Japan.


Comment from Some Vegetable.
Time: September 14, 2012, 3:24 am

Much as I hate the dirty bastard, I learned a valuable life lesson from watching Jimmah crawl helplessly in front of some Persian so poor he wore a towel hat- a lesson that served me well in my business life.

1. Never assume that your opponent thinks like you do.
2. Never assume that your opponent would not do something just because you wouldn’t do it.
3. Focus on what your opponent does and ignore what he says.
4. It is valuable if your opponent views you as unpredictable, easily provoked, and irrational. ( I actually learned this part from Reagan. Between the election and actually taking office, he very publicly gave Iran the impression that he not only wanted to nuke them but wanted to push the button with his tongue. It works. Your opponent will often roll over rather than take the chance that you really might just do something that stupid.

This perspective and approach served me very well, both in political infighting in the firm, and while doing labor negotiations with the union.

Having said all this, I’ve been saving up my money for years to make sure that I can take the trip to piss on Jimmy’s grave.


Comment from Deborah
Time: September 14, 2012, 4:08 am

Jimmy Carter was the perfect example of the Peter Principle. Of course, that was before the advent of Barack Obama.


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: September 14, 2012, 7:41 am

Days like this, I keep expecting you to do a moving Gif of Jimmy-boy as Timmy on South Park… LIVENALIE!!!!!


Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: September 14, 2012, 10:03 am

Love the comment, Some Vegetable.

That’s mustelid thinking 😉


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: September 14, 2012, 10:47 am

Or, as my mother used to say, Some Veg: first establish the fact that you’re a little bit crazy.

I thought that was the most compelling reason to stick with Bush. Don’t you want the bad guys to think your leader is a trigger-happy cowboy who shoots first and asks questions later? Isn’t that the best way to make sure your embassies don’t get attacked and your tourists don’t get molested abroad?

Scoob, in one of my less tasteful efforts, I did do Obammah.


Comment from Pupster
Time: September 14, 2012, 11:11 am

he very publicly gave Iran the impression that he not only wanted to nuke them but wanted to push the button with his tongue.

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Comment from AliceH
Time: September 14, 2012, 1:12 pm

Some Vegetable <==== Hero


Comment from Formerly known as Skeptic
Time: September 14, 2012, 2:25 pm

Believe it or else, Obama has screwed the Middle East response up so much even Carter has felt the need to correct him (http://nation.foxnews.com/jimmy-carter/2012/09/13/jimmy-carter-corrects-obama).


Comment from mojo
Time: September 14, 2012, 6:09 pm

Honey, NOBODY likes Jimmuh. Even Miss Lillian couldn’t stand him.


Comment from Feynmangroupie
Time: September 14, 2012, 6:29 pm

Skeptic,

That was only so he could name drop and let everyone know that he and Morsi were BFFs. They probably give each other pedicures and compare notes on hair products and state-controlled energy policy. Meanwhile, Hezbollah has him on speed-dial, so they can ask his advice on nuclear technology.

Then he makes a funny

He added that Morsi was dedicated to peace and a democratic government.


Comment from Formerly known as Skeptic
Time: September 14, 2012, 6:38 pm

Yeah, personally I think Obama’s error here was undiplomatically speaking the truth. The new Egyptian government may or may not be the ally that the old Egyptian government was, but has not proven itself to be an enemy. The problem, of course, is that diplomatically we NEED to maintain the polite fiction that they remain an ally until such a time as we definitively decide that they are not, otherwise we could push them into being an enemy when friend was still possible. Obama’s inexperience shows.


Comment from Easy
Time: September 14, 2012, 8:02 pm

How did you get a photo of his insides?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: September 14, 2012, 8:16 pm

Believe it or not, mojo, my mother liked Jimmah. Thought he was “a good man.”

Someone who knew him described him as “spiteful” – that seems nearer the mark.


Comment from mojo
Time: September 14, 2012, 8:33 pm

He was a classic “Reform” pol – which means that if you could convince him that the winds were blowing your way, he’d be off like a kite, until somebody else got to him. He had the moral spine of an invertebrate.

The only reason he got elected was the stench of the Nixon pardon coming off of Gerry Ford.

An Honest Politician: One who stays bought.
— The Devil’s Dictionary


Comment from Oldcat
Time: September 14, 2012, 9:01 pm

Comment from Christopher Taylor
Time: September 14, 2012, 2:08 am

Yeah when I said Obma would be Carter II, I didn’t realize it was going to be this literal.

…I did.


Comment from Stark Dickflüssig
Time: September 14, 2012, 10:26 pm

Yeah when I said Obma would be Carter II, I didn’t realize it was going to be this literal.

Oh goody, just what we all need: 35 years of this new Stuttering Clusterfuck of Miserable Failure self-righteously babbling while ineptly screwing around in world affairs. Damn, I wish Carter had been taken hostage & eaten by the Norks.


Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: September 14, 2012, 10:58 pm

Stark Dickflüssig: Damn, I wish Carter had been taken hostage & eaten by the Norks.

Do you really hate Koreans that much? I wouldn’t wish that meal on the inmates of Guantanamo.


Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: September 14, 2012, 11:42 pm

mojo: The only reason he got elected was the stench of the Nixon pardon coming off of Gerry Ford.

And being a Southerner. Carter swept the South, winning 10 of 11 “Confederate” states, the only Democrat to do that since FDR. In 1968, 1972, 1980, 1984, and 1988, Democrats won two Southern states total. Carter was the huge exception; he was the first Southern candidate since 1860. (Not counting LBJ, who was a Texan, instead.)

An Honest Politician: One who stays bought. – The Devil’s Dictionary

That’s not from The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, which is formatted like a real dictionary:

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.

The aphorism is a quote from Simon Cameron, a notoriously corrupt Pennsylvania politician of the Civil War era.


Comment from TehSchlippy
Time: September 22, 2012, 12:12 am

Shame this bumbling fool is still dribbling his senility around the globe on our behalf but we had to lose Reagan.

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