Saturday, April 04, 2009

Don’t Get Carter

Julia Gorin
http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2009/04/01/dont-get-carter/

According to New Yorker scribe Seymour Hersh, Jimmy Carter is advising Obama on Israel. From a Republican Jewish Coalition press release:

…Carter has met with President Obama to discuss foreign policy…Carter is advocating that the Obama administration become actively involved in Syrian-Israeli talks…[which] would be predicated on Israel giving up the Golan Heights, including their strategic control over Israel’s water sources…[T]he President is being advised to pursue warmer relations with Syria based on pressuring Israel to make strategic concessions….

I don’t get it. Aren’t there plenty of other Jew-haters out there that Obama could tap? Why does everyone always latch on to Carter?

This comes just as I was thinking how between appointing the entire Clinton administration and appointing Zbigniew Brzezinski, the only person Obama forgot to reinstall was Jimmy Carter. But now here he is.

Does anyone know why these people are still even alive? I swear it seems like sometimes God just forgets about some folks, usually the ones who do the most damage. But just because God doesn’t take them doesn’t mean Obama has to.

Everyone keeps wondering when Fidel Castro is going to drop dead already, but he’s actually two years younger than his best friend Jimmy Carter. I know you’re not supposed to talk about presidents dying, but what if they’re already brain-dead? Jimmy Carter has been in a Permanent Vegitative State for 40 years. We killed Terri Schiavo and she wasn’t nearly as brain-dead as Carter.

I know he’s a great humanitarian. He builds houses for poor people and helps Arabic people kill Jewish people.

But still. Obama could at least find someone who gets better marks from Hezbollah, which in December refused to meet with Carter, explaining that he supports “Zionist terrorism.” (Not openly calling for the destruction of Israel qualifies as support for Zionist terrorism, which is also what implicates all Western media as being “pro-Israeli.”)

Rather than Carter, why not Jeremiah Wright? When Carter went on his rogue Middle East tour in December, Wright praised him and went a step further by denouncing Zionism itself. Or how about Ingrid Mattson instead of Carter — chosen to speak at Obama’s inaugural prayer service, and president of the mainstream Islamic Society of North America, which has actual ties to Hamas and other terrorist groups and is included as a co-conspirator in the Dallas terrorism case against the Holy Land Foundation.

Then again, Obama and Carter do have a lot in common — moral relativism, anti-Americanism, pacifism, and embarrassing relatives.

I know we’re not supposed to talk badly about the second black president, because it can easily be perceived as racism. But I’ve got nothing against the idea of a President Obama. After all, some of my best friends are anti-Semites. Including a few black ones.

Of course, one shouldn’t assume that the man is anti-Semitic. Just because he always surrounds himself with a multicultural cornucopia of Jew-haters doesn’t mean that he hates Jews. Apparently he just didn’t know there was anything wrong with hating Jews.

“What are you talking about, Julia? He appointed Rahm Emanuel his chief of staff — and he’s Jewish.”

So was Stalin’s chief executioner.

OK, so black people voted for Obama because they think he’s black; Muslims voted for him because they think he’s Muslim; gay people voted for him because they heard he might be gay; Democrats voted for him because he’s a communist; and Jews voted for him because they’re suicidal.

Seventy-eight percent of Jews voted for Obama — and he won. Oh my God, we really do control everything. You can tell by the fact that there’s a black part-time Muslim in the Oval Office. Where no Jew will ever be.

Indeed, Jews made sure that a black man became president before any Jew, any woman, any Italian-American or any Mormon did. Because to a Jew there is no higher achievement than this.

The thinking goes: “We got a black man into the White House. Our work is done. It’s OK for the world to let Ahmadinejad kill us now. The important thing is we elected a black man president, and it shows how far the world has come since the Holocaust. So they can go ahead and kill us now.”

For some reason, Jews think they have more in common with black people than with white people. Unfortunately for them, a lot of black people feel they have more in common with Muslims. Such as hating Jews, for example.

(Hypothetically: Is it racist to be more freaked out by black or brown anti-Semites than by white ones?)

Anyway, the moral of the story is: When people tell you that you’re racist if you didn’t vote for Barack Obama, tell them that they’re anti-Semitic if they did. Especially the Jews.

Any Jew who finally and belatedly eschewed Jimmy Carter in 2006 when he released his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid and then voted for his intellectual clone in 2008 needs to be reminded of what Carter said to Menachem Begin in 1979, when the latter cited the Holocaust to underscore why a secure Israel is important. Carter shot back, “I’m sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust!”

It had been only 35 years since one-third of the world’s Jewish population was exterminated, and seven years since that encore in Munich — and Carter had had enough of hearing about it. Imagine him rolling his eyes about slavery — 113 years after it was abolished — in the same way, and saying “Get off the plantation already!” Siblings estranged by the Holocaust are still being reunited; WWII Nazis are still running loose; and mass graves of Jews are still turning up in the Ukraine — but just 30-some years since the event itself and Carter was saying, “Quit yer whining and get out of the oven already!”

I think the state of the world can be summed up with a selection from the 1982 book Truly Tasteless Jokes:

Sammy Davis, Jr. stepped onto a bus…and the bus driver said, “[Ethnic slur], get to the back of the bus.”

“But I’m Jewish,” protested Davis.

“Get off.”

The Obama-Carter World is truly tasteless.

Carter does have a point, however, when he says that in America one can’t freely discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — that in a way, there is more freedom of speech outside America. Indeed, you can go almost anywhere else in the world and hold a press conference announcing that Jews suck, and you’ll be applauded. Here it’s not so easy still. But we’re getting there.

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