Captain's Quarters -

George Soros, Shiekh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan, Hollywood and MSM moguls - the Democrat Party is truly the party of creepy sinister plutocrats.

The lefty trolls who trouble this blog will need more than their usual hefty ration of Kool-Aid to swallow this.

Carter may be the leader of the ratio of real to apparent integrity race but Al Gore is running a close second.

Jimmuh (who I vited for twice, by the way, to my everlasting regret) spoke in Massachusetts a few months back at Tufts.

Dershowitz challenged him to a debate.

Jimmuh refused.

Case closed.

George Will was wrong. Bill Clinton is not the worst person ever to be President.

but I had no idea of the scale of which the Saudis have bought him.

This implies Carter needed to change his views in order to collect the monies from the Saudis...

This of the man who gave away the Panama Canal (Cross off one more item on the Stalin Checklist for things to do to destroy America), the man who began filling American missile silos with CEMENT and didn't stop that when he LOST his 2nd election, but continued right on with it, up til Reagan's INAUGURATION, the man who announced American surrender and defeat back when he jerked the rug out from under the Shah, and the Iranians rewarded him by capturing the American Embassy.

HE needed to be BOUGHT?
as in "Pursuaded to be MOVED" towards a more amenable position towards American enemies?

Of, course, I am arguing SEMANTICS only, and it is hard in the American language to come up with a term for rewarding someone financially for just NATURALLY BEING the epitome of all you hope for another human being, and so very very much MORE than you could have anticipated in your wildest dreams.

Look at all the DIMS trying to emulate and top him now, and falling so very far short. Not that they aren't giving it 1,000% !

These days, you lose absolutely no popularity points with America's far left, by being overtly anti-Semitic. If you've ever seen the images of the crowds, at recent anti-war rallies in the Bay Area for example, you'd think they were pro-Palestinian rallies. The Palestinian flags and pro-Hamas signs outnumber the anti-war signs by about 2 to 1. It's no wonder that Carter is courting that segment of America. They're the only ones that still have any respect for his presidency. They're the Americans who approve of how Carter handled Iran policy in the Late '70s. The only ones in America delusional enough to approve.

Even when I was a Dem, I couldn't bring myself to vote for Jimmy. I "wasted" a ballot on Gene McCarthy instead.

I was naive enough to "vote for a good Christian to help clean up Washington" once.  At least I wised up after I saw how well he stood up to the Iranians.

I excerpted and linked at Speaking frankly about Abu Carter -- Update 13

I'm somewhat surprised by how many of the Captain's shipmates voted for Carter.

I've made plenty of mistakes in my life. I guess I have my parents to thank for not making THAT one. In 1980, at 18, I was young and foolish. But at least I can say not foolish enough to have pulled the handle for Carter over Reagan…in spite of the “fact” that “everyone” said Reagan was a warmonger and was going to get all us young people killed. Thanks Mom and Pop!!

The fact that Carter can rake in all this dough without anyone “knowing” it…really does say a lot about politics in the U.S.

Carter was always all style and no substance. After leaving office, though, he has sought to develop substance - all of it evil. He's a tool of the Arabs, going back to when Brother Billy got a sweet contract to "lobby" for Libya. If it hadn't hit the news . . .

The man is a disgrace, not only to America, but to humanity.

One of the truly good days in American history is the day Carter left office.

So, Ed, you're trying to help distribute Dershowitz's latest effort at smearing Carter. No wonder you picked it up -- he's gotten to where his tactics are almost as crude and dishonest as yours.

In your case, I guess ignorance is also a factor, because you obviously don't have any idea who this Sheikh Zayed is. You say that Dershowitz's charges about Carter receiving money in Zayed's name and from "the Zayed Foundation" -- together with Carter's past loans from the Zayed-backed BCCI--show how "the Saudis have bought him."

Try again, Ed. Sheikh Zayed wasn't a Saudi. He was the emir of Abu Dhabi and the longtime president of the United Arab Emirates -- and a strategically important ally of the United States for all those years. Couldn't you even take a few seconds to look into the person you're talking about?

Dershowitz brings up again what a lot of us found out in 2003, at the time of the Harvard Divinity School controversy -- that the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up (a short-lived organization run by Zayed's son that functioned for several years as the Arab League's official think tank) sponsored some conferences attended by anti-Semitic speakers and conspiracy theorists. In fact, after the controversy, the UAE shut the Zayed Center down. But Dershowitz clearly still believes that he can dig up the Harvard episode when he needs to, and cover Zayed himself and anything bearing his name with the dirt.

So, Dershowitz zeroes in on a contribution by "the Zayed Foundation" to the Carter Center, and Carter's refusal to give the funds back after Harvard gave back its donation from the Zayed Center. Well, even if this were true, the Zayed Foundation isn't the same entity as the now-defunct Zayed Center. Zayed presided over the UAE for 33 years. As James Zogby pointed out, there are more than a few things in Abu Dhabi that are named for him.

Actually, what Dershowitz is really trying to cite is the Zayed International Prize for the Environment, which appears to be administered by one of the other emirs (the ruler of Dubai), and which was given to the Carter Center back in 2001 (two years before the whole Harvard controversy even occurred). Again, there's no sign of any connection at all between the prize and the Zayed Center, beyond the name Zayed and the use of UAE money. Basically, Dershowitz is lumping together anything and anyone named Zayed, and trying to conjure up the appearance of guilt by association.

He's up to the same foul play when he brings up Carter's acceptance of the prize in the name of Sheikh Zayed, his "personal friend," and tries to use it to tie Carter to anti-Semitism. Remember, this was in 2001 -- two years before the Harvard controversy and the revelations about the Zayed Center -- as if that even mattered. And whatever personal tie existed between them obviously came about because Zayed was a longtime pro-American head of state. There was nothing demonstrably wrong with Carter accepting the prize, or keeping the money.

What the Harvard controversy legitimately brought up -- which Dershowitz doesn't even mention -- is the claim that Carter, along with other world leaders, spoke at events "sponsored by" the Zayed Center. The same question should be asked about whatever similarly sponsored events Jim Baker and Al Gore attended. The Zayed Center was understandably eager to drop their names, but it's not clear what these events were -- or whether any of them were actually hosted by the Zayed Center, or even held in Abu Dhabi, or co-sponsored by the Center among others. Or whether these events predated the objectionable conferences which the Zayed Center did host.

That at least would be fair game, but Dershowitz didn't raise any of it. Instead, he resorted to his own sleight-of-hand and slander. He's clearly so caught up in his vendetta that he's abandoned his scruples. In reality, he should be ashamed of this, and he owes Carter an apology -- just as Ed Morrissey owes his readers an apology for recycling this garbage.

I won't be holding my breath. But if there's one bit about what Ed has done here that readers should keep in mind, it's probably this: Ed doesn't care to distinguish between "the Saudis" and the emir of Abu Dhabi. They're all just Zayeds -- just Arabs -- to him.

Wait, wait, wait! I thought George Bush was the one with the cozy relationship with the Saudis. And that he DID cause 9-11 in conjunction with the Mossad!

/sarcasm

BTW, anybody else notice the glaring paradox in these commonly-held liberal delusions? That Bush is in bed with the Saudis AND the Israelis at the same time?

Dershowtiz's article is pretty damned of Jimmuh and his apparently sordid connections, but I must say that nandrews raises some good points in defense. Is this simply a case of Dershowitz having an axe to grind and making damning accusations on the basis of tenuous, twisted evidence? He's both a lawyer and a liberal, so we may expect any level of dishonesty if not outright fantasy.

It would be interesting to see others do some digging on this issue. I'm not holding my breath that the MSM will do it; when they're not busy carrying water for Dingy Harry, they've got all their reporters and multiple layers of fact-checkers tied up in the vital Anna Nicole Smith story. But maybe somebody will look into it, and perhaps we'll find out what many of us have believed for years: that Jimmuh's "saint" act is no more real that the Hilldabeast's black accent.

Carter is a vile man, the worst President of the 20th Century and the worst ex-President of all time. The only good thing I can say about the man is that I'll get a day off as a federal holiday when he dies. There will be no "mourning" in my house on that day.

nandrews3, thank you for your informative defense of Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan.

Jimmy Carter made his terrible mistakes as our President. Having served as President, I am troubled by his overt attacks on the current President. A true statesman does not personally overtly attack the current President so vindictively in media interviews as Carter does. Until Carter, former Presidents kept the public peace, privately offering their advice when asked.

And after reading the other comments, I'm proud to say that in my first Presidential election in 1980, I proudly voted to throw Carter out of office. Thank you, Ronald Reagan!

Hmmm-- I litigated a non-political case against a convicted felon almost twenty years ago. Dershowitz already had destroyed the same felon's credibility in a previous litigation, so I was able to bootstrap on Dershowitz's very effective legal work.

Jimmy Carter a sanctimonious hypocrite? Who woulda thunk it? ;-) I've just attended a lecture at which Douglas E. Schoen, who worked for the Clintons, was analyzing the results of the Venezuelan elections. He said that EVERYBODY now understands that Chavez stole those elections. Yet Jimmy Carter declared them "fair and honest", giving Chavez political cover. Schoen declared himself "mystified" by Carter's position.

I'm grateful to Nandrews3 for pointing out that this money really was from Abu Dhabi, not from Saudi Arabia. After all, Hillary Clinton has taken a $40,000 cash prize from Abu Dhabi (she said it was going to charity), and Bill Clinton has been stuffing his pockets with cash from the emirate for quite a while. Remember the Abu Dhabi ports deal, where Hillary was opposed, while Bill was taking their money?

If Abu Dhabi has bought Jimmy Carter, whose sanctimony as an ex-president is unexcelled, then their investment has paid off in spades. Have they gotten as good a return on their investment from the Clintons?

I did a quick check, and stumbled across this fascinating website linking Bert Lance, later of the Carter Administration, BCCI, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, http://www.alamo-girl.com/0336.htm:

"Lance and Stephens helped BCCI take over Financial General. A Financial General lawsuit "Bert Lance, Bank of Credit & Commerce International, Agha Hasan Abedi, Eugene J. Metzger, Jackson Stephens, Stephens Inc., Systematics Inc. and John Does numbers 1 through 25." Systematics was represented by C.J. Giroir, Webster Hubbell, and Hillary Rodham Clinton of the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock."

nandrews3 said:

Try again, Ed. Sheikh Zayed wasn't a Saudi. He was the emir of Abu Dhabi and the longtime president of the United Arab Emirates -- and a strategically important ally of the United States for all those years.

This is a distinction without a difference. The UAE is every bit as anti-Semitic as Saudi Arabia -- which is to say, viciously anti-Semitic. Try getting into the UAE if your passport shows that you previously visited Israel.

Those who think the UAE and the Saudis are our allies are not familiar with the Islamic principle of taqiyyah -- unfortunately, neither are most of our politicians and leaders.

Lets clearify a couple of things first:

Just because the overtly biased and unobjective (yes the same can be said for President Carter) Dershowitz yes Anti-Zionist = Anti-Semite does not make it so. Same for anti-Israel = Anti Jew.

Saudis are Semites and the hate spewd toward them as a People (though you may claim a Government/policy (well gee - kinda like Israel/Zionism?)) in sites like this one could make someone like Carter say all of you are Anti-semites.

Lets get back to reality shall we?

Dershowitz is an Israeli apollogist and probably a paid shill.

IF ANYONE OBJECTIVE AND NOT AN ISRAELI SHILL can provide the same proof and charges against President Carter as the very UNobjective Dershowitz - THEN I'll lend an ear to the accusations against President Carter. Not until then. Dershowitz is a raving rabid lunatic - esp. after 911, and has no credibility.

Rose - the Shah was as bad as Saddam, and we supported BOTH - including Carter.

you historical revisionism is pathetic. Iranians took things into their own hands are removed a tyrant WE supported. All are now paying for that suport of the tyrant many years ago.

And the removal of Mosidek before him.

A fair price I think.

you love of the traranical Shah is noted Rose.

"This is a distinction without a difference. The UAE is every bit as anti-Semitic as Saudi Arabia -- which is to say, viciously anti-Semitic. Try getting into the UAE if your passport shows that you previously visited Israel."

So that is the new lower standard for "Anti-semitism" now.

Not that the passport has a name like Cowan/etc.......
just one from another Nation - Israel.

interesting. So UAE would be equally anti-semitic if an Israeli named Ali or Omar were refused entry.

who woulda thought........

I'll let CQ's readers judge the credibility and objectivity of the Alamo-Girl website: http://www.alamo-girl.com . Then click on "Criminal Enterprise" and "CDFI and BCCI" to read the details of the Carter/Bert Lance/Clinton involvement with BCCI.

A true man of God is never for sale. Jimmy Carter turned out to be far sale so that confirms what Jimmy Carter is not.

gaffo said:

So that is the new lower standard for "Anti-semitism" now.

The fact that the UAE is willing to deny entry to ANYONE who has previously visited Israel, whether they are Jew, Arab, American or whatever, is not a LOWER standard -- it does not indicate a LESS anti-semitic attitude than merely denying entry to Jews, but an even more vicious one. It means they hate Jews to such an extent they do not wish to associate with anyone who does not share that hatred.

Wow, Ed, you have some truly stupid and illiterate trolls here. Entertaining, though.

I do have to thank Jimmy Carter for one thing...I was 13 when he ran for President...even though my parents were Dems, I knew even at that primitive age that I liked Gerald Ford more...and then his presidency confirmed my distaste for putting Dems in charge of anything. Yes, indeed. Worst. President. Ever! ....oh, and where do the trolls get off claiming the Shah of Iran was tyrannical compared to the Islamic mullahs of today? Seems as if executing people for being gay and stoning women for not wearing burkas is just a teeny bit more "tyrannical" then tossing people dedicated to killing you into prison...

Is there any evidence other than Mr. Dershowitz's assertion that BCCI bailed out the Carter peanut business? I am certain that I had never heard this before. If true, it is devastating to Pres. Carter's reputation.

FWIW, I got "link not found" when I tried to go to the website mentioned at quickjustice's 8:45 a.m. comment.

Levi: The first link I posted above is giving an error message, but the second link I posted still works for me: Http://www.alamo-girl.com . This link does not address BCCI in the context of the Carter peanut business, but does address the close relationship between BCCI and Bert Lance, a friend of Carter's and a senior official in the Carter Administration thus:

"In November 1977, Stephens introduced BCCI-founder Abedi to Bert Lance, Carter's Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Financial General had sold to Lance controlling interest in the National Bank of Georgia in 1975. Abedi introduced Lance to Ghaith Pharaon who proceeded to acquire the stock of Lance's National Bank of Georgia, a deal consummated on January 5, 1978, a day after Lance's $3.4 million loan from the First National Bank of Chicago was repaid by BCCI London.

Lance and Stephens helped BCCI take over Financial General. A Financial General lawsuit "Bert Lance, Bank of Credit & Commerce International, Agha Hasan Abedi, Eugene J. Metzger, Jackson Stephens, Stephens Inc., Systematics Inc. and John Does numbers 1 through 25." Systematics was represented by C.J. Giroir, Webster Hubbell, and Hillary Rodham Clinton of the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock.

Also involved in the takeover were Clark Clifford (the former Defense Secretary under Johnson and lawyer for BCCI), Robert Altman (attorney for Bert Lance and Clifford's partner), and Kamal Adham (the former head of Saudi Arabian intelligence who was King Faisal's most trusted advisor, and whose half-sister Iffat was King Faisal's favorite wife).

In a lawsuit filed March 18, 1978, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Lance with violations of federal security laws, and BCCI's application to purchase Financial General Bankshares was denied. Abedi then formed Credit and Commerce American Holdings (CCAH), Netherlands Antilles. On October 19, 1978, CCAH filed for approval with the Federal Reserve to purchase Financial General. This application was dismissed on February 16, 1979, but a new application was submitted later. The Federal Reserve finally approved the purchase on April 19, 1982, and BCCI renamed the bank "First American" three months later. Clark Clifford was made chairman and Robert Altman president. The head of Bank Supervision at the Federal Reserve when BCCI's purchase was approved was Jack Ryan, who later became head of the Resolution Trust Corporation, in which role he denied Rep. Leach's requests for documents related to Madison Guaranty, the Whitewater thrift."

Who do you conservatives like better as a whipping boy, Clinton or Carter? Do you ever get tired of pounding on them? Does it help you to forget about dumbo, who currently occupies the Oval Office? If it does than its good therapy for you. If Carter took money from some anti-semitic organization, he should give it back. But your boy Bush should then come out and tell the American people the Saudis aren't our allies. They are the state sponsors of the Wahhabi Sect of Islam, you know, Bin Ladens religion. How many of their petro dollars end up in "Islamic Charities"? Get real people, don't pick and choose who are enemies are. The "decider" can invade Iraq, but can't control OUR BORDERS. So if you feel good about ripping Jimmy, start on your own boy. And even though I'm no fan of Jimmy, intellectually he'd run circles around Dubya.

Mike Smith said:

"The fact that the UAE is willing to deny entry to ANYONE who has previously visited Israel, whether they are Jew, Arab, American or whatever, is not a LOWER standard -- it does not indicate a LESS anti-semitic attitude than merely denying entry to Jews, but an even more vicious one. It means they hate Jews to such an extent they do not wish to associate with anyone who does not share that hatred."

what utter horseshit.
if the above was true then the UAE would deny entry of AMERICAN JEWS.

they don't - but they DO (appearent, you claim) deny entry of NON-JEWISH Israelis!!

So, this has NOTHING to do with anti-semitism and everything to do with Nation Israeli POLICY!

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I guess in your mind when the US gave South Africa a hard time they were being "Anti-White".racist..................correct?

geez...............................

one can loathe the Nation-state Israel for her policies and have nothing against "Jews" ( where ever they live)..............

unless those Jews are rabid bigots like the dead Mier Kahane - but then its personal and not racial/ethnic.

Trackback cleanup on Aisle 1, Ed. Eight copies from bustardblog in an hour seems excessive.

Posted by: gaffo

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You know nothing of me or of my opinions of the Shah.

What I told you is how dispicable Jimmy Carter's rash ignorance was and is and always will be.

It will always be dispicable to pretend you know what you are doing with you trigger the capture of an Embassy full of Americans and their allies by muslim fanatics, and then fail miserably to rescue them, while filling missile silos with cement, and giving away the Panama Canal, lusting after other women on MUSLIM territory while your brother p***es in public on the tarmac at a red carpet affair.

He is an ignorant traitor, and it is America's everlasting shame we didn't try him and then punish him accordingly, at the time.

Would have prevented a whole lot of other garbage, since then.

hey Rose, sounds to me like you are'nt thankful in the least that ALL of the 444 were freed and NONE were killed.

So it took three years. You would have prefered a few get killed and had them back in one year?

as for the Shah - I've not seen any disparaging remarks about him from you yet - just some for our President.

I must conclude that you think the Shah was a swell guy. Guess the Iranians didn't share you opinion about the guy.

You're ignorance is showing, gaffo. There were not 444 hostages. The hostage crisis lasted 444 DAYS, not three years.

But I'll give you credit for one thing: You knew that there was a 444 in there somewhere.

Your ignorance is showing, gaffo. There were not 444 hostages. The hostage crisis lasted 444 DAYS, not three years.

But I'll give you credit for one thing: You knew that there was a 444 in there somewhere.

Hate Campus Invites Carter

The University of California Irvine, where the Muslim Students Union called for jihad and genocide following a disrupted speech by Daniel Pipes, has invited America’s disgraceful Israel-hating ex-president Jimmy Carter to the campus: Jimmy Carter to visit UC Irvine, talk with students. (LGF)

Cartoon will likely be lecturing these students on the benefits of 18% interest rates on home loans.

Laugh my ass off. You know the left-tards are morally and intellectually bankrupt when they actually TRY to defend Jimma the Retarded Peanut Farmer.

You guys cannot be serious. But you are funny.

Oh my god, you leftists are silly....444 hostages? Wow....missed THAT story....3 years? you mean you actually believe the hostages (barely more than 50, actually) were held for 3 YEARS (as opposed to the 444 days they were actually held, less than half what you thought), and you aren't OUTRAGED at carter for letting it happen and failing to do anything about it? For 3 YEARS? I can see why you're such a big fan of his....anyone who can overlook such overt stupidity (and show such ignorance in the process) deserves nothing more than carter.

And gaffo, are you seriously suggesting that the arabs in the UAE hate Israel but love jews? Are you really this stupid, or do you just want to appear this stupid?