Jimmy Carter Would Be ‘Comfortable’ with President Mitt Romney: Would You Vote for Carter or Romney?

Remember Carter's human rights program, where he demanded the Shah of Iran step down and turn over power to the Ayatollah Khomeini?

No matter that Khomeini was a madman. Carter had the U.S. Pentagon tell the Shah's top military commanders – about 150 of them – to acquiesce to the Ayatollah and not fight him.

The Shah's military listened to Carter. All of them were murdered in one of the Ayatollah's first acts.

By allowing the Shah to fall, Carter created one of the most militant anti-American dictatorships ever.

Soon the new Iranian government was ransacking our embassy and held hostage its staff for over a year. Only President Reagan's election gave Iran the impetus to release the hostages.

I believe Carter's decision to have the Shah fall is arguably the most egregious U.S. foreign policy mistake of the last 50 years. [Former President Bush's decision to allow Saddam Hussein to stay in power is a close second.]

With the Shah gone, the whole region was destabilized. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan; no doubt a direct link to the rise of the Taliban can be traced to this invasion. Iraq also took advantage of the Shah's departure to invade Iran. A long war followed that helped make Saddam's Iraq a great Middle Eastern power.

And decades after Carter's ignominious act, Iran is still bent on destroying America. President Bush named it one of the three nations in the "axis of evil." Iran is developing both nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver these weapons to its enemies.

We can thank Jimmy Carter for all of this.

Since Carter left the presidency, he has had little to say about the human rights abuses in Iran. Why should he? Iran opposes the U.S.

Instead, he has focused his attention on Israel, America's lone democratic ally in the Mideast. Recently, Carter suggested that the U.S. should cut off aid to Israel, so angry was he after Israel sought to defend itself in the wake of suicide bombings.

Fair enough. But what has Carter said about Arab or Muslim countries that have had long records of human rights abuse – Syria or Libya or Iran or Iraq?

Not much. One reason may be money. Carter and his Carter Center foundation are recipients of millions of dollars of Arab money.

So I give Carter his due. At least he is not a hypocrite in one sense. He is good to the dictators and butchers who give him money.

from what I know what I know now...even though I am a Reagan Democrat...I would pick Cater over Romney/Ryan. The latter are far worse. It is like Bush II on steroids.

Carter oversaw high inflation, but it came as spillover from the earlier Oil Embargoes. (High gas prices too.) He was sincere, and could have helped, if it wasn't for the Iran Hostage Crisis. Instead, we got Trickle Down Economics, that helped bankrupt the county in 25 years.

Romney's gameplan includes:
* Laying off 400,000 teachers, and increasing class size to 40 students.
(Through proxies.)

* 1,000,000 workers could lose their jobs outright under Romney's plan.
(How is that going to help with unemployment?)

* Increasing the tax load unto the Middle Class by $2,000/yr average. A family of 4 making $30,000 will PAY the gov't $400 instead of getting a $2,700 tax cut.
See
www.barakobama.com
for more details.

* Romney wants to invade Iran...at a cost of $2 to $3 trillion, paid for by your expanding national debt.

* Romney's gameplan includes dismantling Medicare, and those over age 62...are NOT safe until the law would pass...

* No more existing conditions for switching health insurance after Romney is sworn in.

* No more insurance coverage for stay at home kids to age 26.

* He will weaken the unions, so they can attack the minimum wage laws.

* Women will lose the abortion option under Romney, because he will appoint ONE more judge to the SCOTUS, and they will make it illegal again.

* Your daughter - and her BF - become a felons if she seeks an abortion, and he's driving. 1,000's die in 'dirty' clinics like happened before 1973. 1,000 of docs could lose their license if caught.

* Women will have all sorts of health regulations thrown at them, that have nothing to do with health, such as an involuntary probe stuck up their privates if they want an abortion.

* No more abortions in the case of rape or incest...or even to save the life of the mother. It it goes breach - too bad. In the Fillopian tubes...too bad.

* All regulations to ensure our public safety will get erased, when it comes to product safety, and so will the bank laws to help prevent another massive recession.

* Your children will NOT be going to college. The scholarships will be scarse and the grants will dry up. The price of admission is beyond your ability to pay. Only rich people can take manageament positions, etc...once the Romney administration takes over.

JFK did. He was a fiscal conservative. LBJ was one of the worst liberals through and through with his mis-guided, wasteful 'war on poverty':

Well, it’s now official: the war on poverty was a costly, tragic mistake. Ordinary people have suspected that for decades, of course, but we had to wait for the New York Times to decide this news was fit to print—which it finally did on February 9, 1998. In a front-page story on poverty in rural Kentucky, Michael Janofsky detailed the failure of this effort in the one region that was supposed to be the centerpiece of reform. “Federal and state agencies have plowed billions of dollars into Appalachia,” he wrote, yet the area “looks much as it did 30 years ago, when President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty, taking special aim at the rural decay.”1

Janofsky visited Owsley County, Kentucky, and found a poverty rate of over 46 percent, with over half the adults illiterate and half unemployed. “Feelings of hopelessness have become so deeply entrenched,” he reported, “that many residents have long forsaken any expectation of bettering themselves.” For years, the government has been trying to treat the despair with welfare programs: two-thirds of the inhabitants receive federal assistance, including food stamps, AFDC, and SSI disability payments. This, it now appears, is part of the area’s problems.

“The war on poverty was the worst thing that ever happened to Appalachia,” Janofsky quotes one resident as saying. “It gave people a way to get by without having to do any work.” Local officials told him that “many parents urge their children to try to go to special education classes at school as a way to prove they are eligible for [SSI] disability benefits.” (The senior class at the local high school picked as its motto, “I came, I slept, I graduated.”)