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Article: Echoes of President Jimmy Carter.(OPINION)
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- The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 16, 2008
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At this point it's reasonable to wonder how Jimmy Carter got elected governor of Georgia, let alone president of the United States. To witness him laying wreath at the tomb of Yasser Arafat, then schmoozing with Hamas in Damascus, is enough to make the sane among us recoil in disgust.
On the very day that the peanut-farmer-who-became-president claimed to have scored commitment of peace from Hamas, the terrorist thugs launched a rocket salvo at Israel, thus leading the former president to claim that at least he gallantly tried to bring about peace and stability to the Middle East.
And in the world of Jimmy Carter, it never hurts to try. The Carter mantra ...