Backing terror
January 22, 2006
Jimmy Carter is at it again. The former president Friday expressed optimism at the prospect of Hamas making a good showing in the upcoming Palestinian parlimentary elections, saying that, while they may be terrorists, "there have been no complaints of corruption against [their] elected officials."
Carter, of course, has good reason to try to scrub and mainstream the public image of Hamas and other terrorist organizations, since he openly and illegally negotiated with the PLO, then already an outlawed terrorist organization, back when he was president.
That a former president would do that to the security of his own nation in wartime for personal ego reasons, in spite Carter's many prior acts of treason, still retains the capacity to shock.
Carter went on to say that sometimes, you have to learn to work with terrorists. No kidding.
Speaking of backing the play of terrorists, even CBS anchor-pro-tem Bob Schieffer apparently knows it when he sees it. The news veteran, asked recently about the remarkable convergence between the recent public comments of Osama Bin Laden and presidential wannabe John Kerry, at first tried to split hairs, claiming that there was no evidence that OBL had actually deliberately lifted Kerry's talking points, saying of that notion, "You can never know about things like that."
But the CBSster had to implicitly concede the obvious, saying "[bin Laden's] people seem to have tremendous access. And television being what it is, and now with satellites and so forth, these things go all over the world. Perhaps he did."
And there are still people who want this guy to be president someday.
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