Bottom line

It's time now for Cain to defend the worst President in history, because he hates the current one so. I'm sure you remember.....the president who allowed an invasion of Soverien US embasy, and did NOTHING about it.

Jimmy go home please Mr. President.....You efforts may seem good in your mind but, with respect for the office you held, the efforts of "doing good" are a dismal failure like so many of your other decisions.....My questions to you Sir "Are you up for a Nobel Peace Prize"; Would this be one of your reasons for your obvious convorting with a group of terrorists that would just as soon destroy all of Israel as well as the U.S. as to look at us or you?....

I agree with the congressman that says it's time for Carter's passport to be pulled. In his doddering wanderings, he causes as much damage as he did when he was considered sane. He also needs a new handler. His current one isn't getting the job done.

Jimmy! Ya Maws calling you, so'more.

Here's the bottom line: Neither the Israeli govt of Ehud Olmert nor the U.S. govt run by George W. Bush is interested in peace. They were not interested in peace when Hamas was elected in Jan 2006. Hamas offered to indefinitely extend the cease-fire then in place & acknowledged the fact that the Jewish State of Israel physically existed although they did not agree that the state of Israel has a legal right to exist. That wasn't sufficient for Olmert or Bush. They proceeded to isolate Hamas & starve Gazans. It perpetrated a Palestinian civil war. Hamas won Gaza. Fatah (Yassar Arafat's old party) under Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rule in the West Bank. Everything Bush has done has been in unquestioning support of Israel including the disastrous Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon & bombing of Beirut in summer 2006. Bush's foreign policy is dominated by neoconservatives. Paul Craig Roberts writes "There is no such thing as a neoconservative who is not allied with Israel." U.S. military intervention in the Middle East including in Iraq is on behalf of a "greater Israel". The religious right including "Christian Zionists" support Bush & war. Jimmy Carter is God's man - a peacemaker.

The postings of Cain conjure visions of Bedbugs!

Only an imbecile would believe any word of meaningful peace will come from Palestine. Peace is just a ploy with the Palestinians. They have NEVER and will NEVER accept a state of Israel. Fifty years have proven it with impunity (they will have to change their written govt policy which hasn't happened). If Jimmy Carter were to bring peace to the Middle East he would not be God's man but the anti-Christ according to Revelations. I agree that Carter needs to be retired. These guys get old and crazy. Watson (of Watson and Crick DNA helix fame) was forced to retire from his ColdSpringHarbor position because of racist comments he made babbling like an old coot.

No wonder Cain quotes Paul Craig Roberts. many of his writings appear on the Antiwar.com website (Cain must host that one). Once again Cain only quotes those that support his own point of view, and posting on antiwar.com is right up Cains alley. Back up how Olmert and Bush are "not interested in peace". If you cannot back that up with FACTS, then once again you are a LIAR with your postings, spewing crap with no verifiable evidence.

PT you are right about Carter. It is time he retired to the front porch of his Plains Georgia home and kept his mouth shut. Too bad the media is so desperate for news they continue to follow and quote Carter.

McKee's cartoon says it all.

Hamas didn't even let Carter get back on American soil before they denied everything he claimed that they had agreed to. They did not, at any point, agree to anything resembling "peace" with Israel. They agreed to a 10-year cease-fire if Israel gave up all the buffer territory they hold. Israel has repeatedly offered to give up that territory if all parties would agree to Israelis' right not to be killed. However, only Israel BELIEVES in Israelis' right not to be killed, so no dice. Of COURSE Hamas would be happy to agree to a 10-year cease-fire. In the jihadi lexicon, "cease-fire" = "rearmament period" C'mon, only Carter is actually stupid enough to BELIEVE this, right?

Carter also said that Hamas would'nt undermine Palestine President Abbas' efforts to reach a peace deal with Isreal, as long as the Palestinian people approved it in a referendum. Then Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, said Carter's comments "do not mean that Hamas is going to accept the result of the referendum". This is exactly why we do not negotiate with terrorists, they are not true to their word. They only want to push Isreal back into the sea, wipe them from the map. I do not know why Carter thinks what he did was worth the effort. And people like Cain think you can negotiate and trust these people. They say they would not undermine an effort, but are not bound by it, that sounds like undermining to me.

Does the Chronicle have a better alternative? Blessed are the peacemakers...

There have been cease fires ad nauseum, which obviously means the Palestinians are waiting for a new shipment of rockets and mortars. They have never been able to maintain a peace for any significant time period. They have never been able to keep all the fighting factions to abide by a peace.

i concur with cain.watch when [filtered word] bush and [filtered word] cheney leave washington (hopefully in handcuffs) how quickly tensions cease in the middle east.more killings, bombings,and cutting off resources will not solve anything.we will send a real sec of state over there in 2009 he or she will broker a peace deal,then all the republicans will have to find something else to gripe about. i'm really surprised that they haven't blamed bill clinton for all of this yet.they blame him for everything else.

Blessed are the peacemakers, yep. I'll tell you what--when a crack-addled thug is holding you up and ready to blow your brains out over the $5 you have in your wallet (because it's not enough for him, not because you won't give it to him), whatEVER you do, don't pull out your own nine and blow him away. Nope, be sure to be a "peacemaker." charley, you have made the most ridiculous comment to date, so congratulations: "we will send a real sec of state over there in 2009 he or she will broker a peace deal," REALLY? Sweet! Now, no, I'm NOT "blaming" Clinton, but the fact remains that we've had Democratic presidents since the creation of Israel, since the 6 days' war, etc., and yet SOMEhow, they've all managed to fail at being 'peacemakers' Any reason to suspect that Clinton or Obama would succeed? Besides your own baseless assertion, backed up by your blind, insane, fanatic ideological bias, I mean???

do your homework smitty! since 1948 the republicans have been in office 36 years and the demos 29.if you count from 1967 it's 14 for the demos and 27 for the repuke administrations.this only proves that you guys believe the answer to everything is war.what do you think mcinsane will say? yes, more war please! fine, but you send your children and relatives not mine.

Great job, Charley Yonce. You've put it in the kind of black-or-white terms that even the most narrow-minded anal retentive Bush butt kissers can understand. Jimmy Carter appears to be the only U.S. leader with the balls to speak the truth about Israel. The Chronicle has hated Carter since he didn't appoint Billy Morris to the Board of Regents years ago when Carter was Governor of Georgia. No one ever seems to mention Henry Kissinger, a frequent visitor to the White House and a favorite confidant to The Shrub. Ironically, Kissinger received a Nobel also, as unthinkable as that might be. Yeah, Republicans knows all about birthin' peace deals. HA!

The WORST president in history is the current president!!!!

...AND the most disgraceful liar to emerge from U. S. politics in a generation.

Ya'll sure make it clear that the bar for being a Democrat is set very low. You don't mind embarrassing your party?

charley, you are such an idiot that I'm not sure it's even worth debating with you. I did not say that we've had nothing but Dem presidents since the creation of the state of Israel, or since the 6 days' war, you ignorant, reading-challenged numbskull. I said (I quote) "we've had Democratic presidents since the creation of Israel, since the 6 days' war" Thank YOU for doing the math that rebuts your own stupid, thoughtless point for me, charley: we've had (by your count) 29 years of Democrats in the White House. If the only requirement for peace in the Middle East is a Democrat in the White House, to "end a real sec of state over there" and magically create peace, then what the HELL were all of your "Best President EVER, I mean he's JUST so DREAMY!" candidates doing during their terms? Even if we accept your insane premises (that Republicans are awful people who slip transfats into our drinking water, stomp puppies, and dream of a day when the whole planet will be at war with the long-discredited U.S.), we've STILL had 29 years of sane, rational Democrats who love kittens and can convince the warm, peaceful, serene followers of muhammed to stop blowing up the neighboring Pre-K...

And by the way, folks, let's see a show of hands for everyone who thinks that charley's relatives are rushing down to the recruiting office and volunteering in droves to join the USAF...? Anyone...? Well, then again, he may be an aberration in his family, but I have my doubts. Now, now, before you go claiming that I, the innocent and friendly johnsmith, am suggesting that those who do not serve cannot comment on matters military, hush a moment and read what charley said. It is MY firm belief that all informed American citizens should comment freely on all political issues (that lets Cain out, but let's face it, what does he really contribute???) Charley said "yes, more war please! fine, but you send your children and relatives not mine." My point being, if you relatives don't volunteer, they won't be going anywhere, so save your breath and argue a point that matters, numbskull...

that's not what i said smitty. i was pointing out to you that your party has occupied the whitehouse longer than ours since the creation of israel.we've been their best ally yet we still cannot achieve a lasting peace there.carter and clinton tried. the gop presidents as we all know are not as intelligent as ours,so we have to do their negotiating also.nothing more, nothing less.mcshame wants to invade iran,yeah, that should really set us back another 50 years.and who mentioned kissinger? the biggest demon of all?he loves war to because he makes money on it.he is pushing bush to keep this mess going, and advised nixon to keep vietnam going.the diversion? they blamed the failure of vietnam on kerry.kissinger should have left us a long time ago, but obviously God didn't want him, neither did satan.

i'm out of here smitty.i don't have any children anyway, but if i did these demons wouldn't get their hands on them.one quick question for you though.card approaches bush and tells him the nation is under attack on 911.why didn't the secret service whisk him out of there and become airborne?if it was a nuclear attack then bush's aide has the nuclear football with him,and they must move out immediately in case he needs to use them.why did he sit there for 35 minutes, unless he knew exactly what was going on?can you explain this? my point? 911 was an inside job.when all of this is revealed, you go the va's and comfort these soldiers who thought they were fighting for us, when they were really just fighting to keep money flowing to the oil barons.later

charley..It is simple, no on knew at that point what in the hexx was going on. They thought a small plane had crashed. Never Mind. Forget it, you are dead set on believing a lie. Go figure.

I wonder why people agree with our enemies and think they're being patriotic. Government schools must not have dictionaries.