Jimmy Carter tutorial

Uninformed friends (those who get their news, if any, from lamestream media) would look askance at me when I would make any comment about how lousy I thought Jimmy Carter was both as president and since leaving office. If people get their news from that [insert pejorative here] Katie Couric all they know about Carter is he is that kindly old guy who goes around helping build homes for losers.

Now, the fine people at The Spoons Experience have written an article titled Jimmy Carter for Dummies which explains his actions and behavior which so infuriates loyal Americans. Here's a taste:

Jimmy Carter, euolgized Yasser Arafat, praising, among other things, his "indispensable leadership to a revolutionary movement." Aside from Arafat's well-known role in the murders of hundreds of Israelis (which doesn't seem to matter to people like Carter -- or some of his defenders), Arafat also personally directed the murders of numerous American citizens, not the least of which were 1973 murders of U.S. Ambassador Cleo Noel and his aide, George Curtis Moore. Noel and Moore were kidnapped, allowed to write farewell notes to their families, then beaten and machine-gunned to death by Arafat's Black September group.

I wonder how those Americans' families feel about their former President dressed in black, head bowed, and solemnly standing beside the grave of the murderer of their sons, their husbands, their fathers, and praising the killer as "A powerful human symbol and forceful advocate."

Adding to the sick irony, it bears noting Ambassador Noel and his aide were murdered in retaliation for the U.S.'s refusal to accede to the demands of Black September to release Sirhan Sirhan -- the assassin of Presidential Candidate Robert Kennedy.