Jimmy Carter: Anti-Semite

On the Tonight Show with Jay Leno,

Carter: "I don't want to see Apartheid, but in Palestinian territory there's horrible persecution of the Palestinians who live on their own land. They have occupied the land, they have confiscated, they've colonized it and they've forced Palestinians away from their homes, away from their pastures, away from their fields, cut down their olive trees and severely persecuted the Palestinians."

Why is this man given any type of credit about ANYTHING! He was one of the most worthless presidents in this great country's history. In some people's interpretation, my own included, Jimmy Carter started all the problems that we have in the middle-east right now. That's more than likely the reason he's attacking Israel. He doesn't want his own Iran debacle to be passed around again and ruin his legacy, so he is tranferring blame.

Some more. This is with Tim Russert when asked about the Jewish lobby.

Russert: "There's no doubt there's a stronger adversion to criticizing Israel in this country. I wouldn't say it's all because of intimidation, but that's one factor."

Carter: "It's almost completely unacceptable in this country for any public official to criticize the policies of Israel, even if they are horribly abusive against the Palestinians. (Unintelligible). The Jewish lobby may be part of it."

Go back to building houses or pickin peanuts, Carter. Hopefully, the United States won't stand for such anti-semetism or racism of any sort. But he will probably be forgiven. Well, he already has. Not many media outlets are even taking issue with the facts of his book, just the "hard hitting issues that people don't want to talk about".