ARROGANCE & PRIDE and a Peanut Farmer

WHAT DOES ARROGANCE, PRIDE AND A PEANUT FARMING EX-PRESIDENT HAVE IN COMMON?

I don't like getting involved in political rhetoric which attacks the character of an Ex-President of the United States, but Mr. Carter has crossed the line from self-appointed peace-maker to self-appointed international policy designer, IN A TIME OF WAR.

Mr. James Carter is going to consult with Iranian backed HAMAS terror leader Khaled Meshaal in Damascus, killer of US, Israeli, Lebanese troops and civilians, AGAINST THE ADVICE of our sitting US President and State Department.

When this was pointed out by today's Sunday News wonks he shrugged it of, and suggested he was, "quite at ease" about meeting with Hamas because they were an important player in the Israeli Palestinian peace movement.

HELLO! Mr. CARTER? YOU WHOOOO! ??? You aint' the President. You are a few decades removed and a few marbles shy! It isn't your turn, sir! You aren't appointed to the "peace process." YOU SIR, SMACK OF "ARROGANT." And arrogance in self-appointed missions of peace to sworn enemies of our country is as dangerous as it gets. Remember the Biblical injunction: "Pride cometh before the fall." Well it isn't your "fall" alone at stake! It is our country's!

Webster's Arrogance: "That species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree: proud contempt of others; lordiness, haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption."

YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE, MR. CARTER. We had an embassy taken over by Iranian thugs under your watch. Rescuers were killed in an ill-advised attempt at saving your reputation. Energy crisis and gas lines, the spread of Soviet aggression, one chaos creating economic policy after another. Yes - you got Mr. Sadat and Mr. Begin together. Good for you! NOW LET GO!

UNDERMINING: This is really about you, isn't it? Come on, you can't get over the fact that the American people would like to know you are in Plains, a dignified ex-President, writing occasional advice pieces but staying put where a "former head of state" belongs... Past tense!

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  Teach Sunday School! You are good at that! It makes you like-able.


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  Write a book or two. They out last us all and add luster to a personal legacy of service.


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  Plant peanuts. Who knows? You may produce a viable fuel alternative from them... make up for gasoline lines we endured under your Presidency 30 years ago.

Ex President Jimmy Carter -- The super smiling, harmless appearing man who ACTS the self-effacing patriarch of goodness and American correctness, is a wolf in sheep's clothing in this mis-guided "peace-making" romp to the Middle East. His pride won't allow him to take the lead from those legally and morally obligated to create and administer policy with regards to fighting the war on terror, with the clear stated policy of NO NEGOTIATIONS WITH TERRORISTS!

Shame on you Jimmy Carter! You are ending your life-time of "public service" in "private service" by snubbing those directly involved in our country's policy making. Can't you give it a rest and just let us like you? You were President once... or has age caught up and you forget what it means to have the burden to make final decisions, hard decisions, based upon information you alone and a few others trusted by you, possessed?

YOU SIR ARE pride-filled, and have the civic intellect the size of the nuts you so proudly produce. Do us a favor, and be a true servant of all Americans. Yield your proud heart to the voices of those whose stewardship it is to deal with our enemies.

James Pratt

April 13, 2008