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you really didn’t think this was going to be a tribute page, did you?

updated May 25,2007
Investor’s Business Daily’s 10 part Editorial on Jimmy Carter

More good news for Jimmy – take the link below to read. http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13674&print=yes

January 11, 2007 UPDATE – this is encouraging!

I have to tell you I did this tribute page as a “joke” because Jimmy Carter deserves no less. The page initally started with the cartoons below and notes and links showing where 2 esteemed members of the Carter Center resigned when Carter’s latest book was published at the end of 2006.

Now it seems people are fleeing from the Carter Center in droves – and it MAKES MY DAY!

“Fourteen members of an advisory board at the Carter Center resigned today, concluding they could ‘no longer in good conscience continue to serve’ following publication of former President Jimmy Carter’s controversial book, ‘Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,’ from the Wall Street Journal:

“It seems that you have turned to a world of advocacy, including even malicious advocacy,” the board members wrote in a letter, a copy of which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “We can no longer endorse your strident and uncompromising position. This is not the Carter Center or Jimmy Carter we came to respect and support. Therefore it is with sadness and regret that we hereby tender our resignation from the Board of Councilors of the Carter Center effective immediately.”

The advisory board is comprised of more than 200 members, including representatives from leading businesses and other groups in the Atlanta area.

Some of the Carter Center board members who quit in protest have known Mr. Carter for decades. William B. Schwartz Jr., whose name is on the list of those resigning today, was U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas during the Carter administration. S. Stephen Selig III, chairman and president of Atlanta real-estate developer Selig Enterprises Inc., was a top White House aide to Mr. Carter who led outreach to the business community. Mr. Selig was chairman of the host committee for the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta.

The resignation letter is scathing. After enumerating various factual errors both in Carter’s book and in his subsequent comments on it, the erstwhile advisers note that he has made some new “friends”: From this link you can get to the postings of White Supremacist organizations that both support and make use of the contents of Carter’s book and what he’s said in public. Jimmy Carter should be ASHAMED!

From December 2006

Emory Professors Resign from the Carter Center

A prominent Middle East scholar, Dr. Kenneth W. Stein, announced his resignation as a fellow of Emory University’s Carter Center, in response to former President Jimmy Carter’s new book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.”

President Carter’s book on the Middle East, a title too inflammatory to even print, is not based on unvarnished analyses; it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments. Aside from the one-sided nature of the book, meant to provoke, there are recollections cited from meetings where I was the third person in the room, and my notes of those meetings show little similarity to points claimed in the book. Being a former President does not give one a unique privilege to invent information or to unpack it with cuts, deftly slanted to provide a particular outlook. read more here

Melvin Konner, physician and professor at Emory University, declined an invitation to be part of a group advising President Carter and The Carter Center on Carter’s recent book on the Mideast. Konner notes especially that “President Carter has proved capable of distorting the truth about such meetings and consultations in public remarks following them.

In particular, he mischaracterized the meeting he had with the executive committee of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Phoenix, saying he and they had positive interactions and prayed together, when in fact others present stated that the meeting was highly confrontational and that the prayer was merely a pro forma closing invocation.” Konner says also that “in television interviews I have seen over the past week, President Carter has revealed himself to be so rigid and inflexible in his views that he seems to me no longer capable of dialogue.”
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