Jimmy Carter on PBS is even more devastating to Bush than in speech

[lottie244]

The PBS tape needs to be played and re-played. Jimmy is AWESOME!!!
He doesn't back away from anything he said. nada, nothing

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. How is Leher handling it?

[uhhuh]

2. Not too bad

He's asking questions that allow Carter to give good aswers and is not interrupting at all.

[aquart]

10. He's letting him talk. Iterating that the charges are serious.

He isn't challenging Carter, just making sure the record is straight.

Jimmy doesn't take back a word or back down an inch. He KNOWS his subject cold.

[ThomWV]

3. Have You Seen "In Their Own Words"

Its a show Sir David Frost had on BBC that reshowed excerpts with various persons from years ago. The show of his interviews with Jimmy Carter and the most inspireing tape ever made if you ask me.

[Old and In the Way]

4. "We cannot lead if our leaders mislead."

As another DUer said, he knows how to use the velvet dagger.

And treated like the hero and forward thinker that he was/is, too!

[loudsue]

8. THAT, my friend, is a REAL Nobel Peace Prize Winner......

The man has class.

:kick::kick:

[aquart]

12. Always did.

Love the respect they're giving him.

[cthrumatrix]

5. it's excellent becuase they ask a question and allow him to "explain"

not a soundbite.

He's like a scholar compared to the "slang" from AWOL.

[jimshoes]

14. They not only lowered the bar for *

they had to lay it on the ground.

[TaleWgnDg]

6. . . . in addition, President Jimmy Carter was

awesome on Monday night, the first night of the DNC in Boston. AWESOME . . . Carter said it like it is, period.

Go, Dems, Go !!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[librechik]

7. Jim is asking some good questions tonight

and Carter is brilliant.

"Were we mislead into Iraq?"

"I think the facts will show this."

[GreenArrow]

28. no, the facts will show

that we were not "misled." The facts will show that there was no justification, but that is not the same as being misled.

[thebigidea]

9. David Brooks is such an asshole

He said Allawi govt has "some legitimacy."

[TNMOM]

18. Agreed.

When Lehrer turned it over to him to sum up his criticism of Carter's speech, I swear I saw fear in his eyes. Coming face-to-face with a man of integrity, he shook in his boots. He didn't repeat the most vitriolic critism he had lobbed at Carter at a distance. He didn't raise the "bipartisan" bullshit or re-state, to Carter's face, his belief that Jimmy Carter was in no shape to lecture about foreign policy mistakes. That's because Jimmy was in the zone tonight, and Jimmy would have given him hell.

Instead, all Brooks could muster was ",...I, uh, uh, just want to.uh, know what the, uh, Democratic strategy is for Iraq..." (I'm paraphrasing). What a frickin' loser.

[Nlighten1]

11. Is this online?

Or on the TV only?

[librechik]

16. apparently not--

transcripts up soon, though.

[librechik]

13. Wow! Davis Brooks vs Carter!

Brooks: what is the Dem strategy against Islamic terrorism?

C: I think the Dem strategy that hasn't been implemented by the admin is a unity of action among all countries throughout the world.

Shields up next to pound in the nail about Kerry (Hero) vs Shrub (AWOL)

Har har, thanks Mark!

Carter "Unnecessary war. Eisenhower wouldn't have gone in without phalanxes of allies"

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

15. I heart Jimmy

I was just a kid when he was in office, but I remember my parents and grandparents liking him a lot. They always used to say he got a bum deal and kinda was in office at a bad time, economically.

[Jokinomx]

24. High Interest Rates by the Fed Reserve did him in...

I lived through his term and liked his honesty... by he was back stabbed by Reagan and the CIA... Bush was the former head of the CIA and Carter had laid off several hundred of their forces to cut the budget... I think this was a critical mistake.. Bush then had his own private laid off secret service.... they worked to undermine the efforts to release the hostages.

Anyway... he has done wonders since with his honest and sincere effort to make the planet a better place..

That is my Humble Opinion....:-)

[scarletwoman]

17. I thought it was really quite odd how Lehrer appeared to be taken aback

when Carter said that the *administration was planning on doing Iraq even before bush* took office. I was thinking, "Geeeeze Lehrer, get a clue!" Carter didn't back down (although I wish he had mentioned PNAC) and said, "Look it up, it's a FACT."

sw

[Poiuyt]

19. I LOVED that comment!

I'm surprised at how few people bring that up. I'm glad Jimmy stood by his remark.

[Jackpine Radical]

22. He did everything BUT name PNAC. He named, Wolfowitz,

Perle, Kristol...and said, I think the facts will bear me out on this."

[scarletwoman]

23. Jackpine!!!

:hug: Great to see you!

Carter was totally awesome! And you're right, he DID "everything BUT name PNAC" -- I guess I just wished he would have gone all the way.

I'm not complaining though, his speech and his post-speech interview were excellent, absolutely excellent!

sw

[Jackpine Radical]

25. Scarlet--Wow--I must have been really oblivious last night--

I replied without even noticing it was your post.

[LiberalEsto]

20. Carter's best speech ever!

Oh, he was magnificent!
He just stood there, twinkling his grandfatherly smile and talking quietly in his down-home Georgia accent, and simply skewered and barbecued B*sh!
He talked about Kerry as the leader who volunteered for duty, as the man who showed up for duty. Between every positive sentence Carter spoke about Kerry, there was an unspoken, read-between-the lines statement about chickenhawk B*sh.
I wasn't terribly impressed with Carter when he was president, though I think he's a marvelous ex-president.
But this brilliant speech showed the steel behind the southern drawl, the courage to speak up in the face of evil.
Bravo, Jimmy Carter!

[NC_Nurse]

21. He was drop dead

AWESOME!

They can't drag him down with their BS because he's got more class than any of them. The man LIVES his principles. He can tell it like it is and I salute him.

Hell F***in' Yeah!:toast:

[mrboba1]

26. Is Carter's speech available somewhere?

I missed him last night, but I saw the Big Dog! :wow:

[Poiuyt]

29. It's on NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/26/politics/campaign/26TEXT-CARTER.html

[mrboba1]

31. thanks. n/t

[truthspeaker]

27. Note how Carter rarely mentions his faith, but is 1000x the Christian * is

It's a lot easier to talk about Jesus than act like him.

[Zynx]

30. No kidding.

Bush always talks about Jesus, but he certainly never listened to what Jesus said about peace, generosity, or tolerence.

[JCMach1]

32. Jimmy was dead on and sharp as nails in his speech and

his interview!

[NewJeffCT]

33. summary please?

I would love to get some meat of the interview, rather than all these platitudes... we do too much of that on DU (I'm guilty of it myself at times, too)

thanks

[whyzayker]

34. Link to interview

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec04/carter_7-26.html

[NewJeffCT]

35. thanks!

I appreciate the assist. Looks great so far.

[JCMach1]

36. Bookmark this people!

[lottie244]

37. It will be difficult to "spin" Carter's words ; he means what he says

Save this transcript for future use.

[phiddle]

38. I just e-mailed the News Hour:

I watched your Democratic Convention coverage last night, and was appalled at David Brooks' performance. When given the opportunity to evaluate Jimmy Carter's speech, his comments were directed toward what was NOT, in his opinion, referred to in the speech, i.e., Islamic terrorism, rather than evaluating what was actually said by Carter. Then, when Jim Lehrer in the interview with Carter can Brooks a chance to reiterate his point, he deigned to do so.
Perhaps this is because he was flat wrong on substance. To quote from the NY Times transcript of Carter's speech:
"America stood proud, wounded but determined and united. A cowardly attack on innocent civilians brought us an unprecedented level of cooperation and understanding around the world. But in just 34 months we have watched with deep concern as all this good will has been squandered by a virtually unbroken series of mistakes and miscalculations. (Cheers, applause.) Unilateral acts and demands have isolated the United States from the very nations we need to join us in combating terrorism."
If the News hour deems it desirable to have commentators, can't you choose one with at least half of a brain, and a dash of integrity? Sadly, David Brooks meets neither of those criteria.
Sincerely, XXXXX

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. Well said!

Missed ya! :hi: