Would Somebody Please Tell Jimmy Carter to Shut Up?

Today, the worst president in the last century made some waves by calling the Florida voting arrangements "fraudulent" and "suspicious." I note that this comes immediately on the heels of the Venezuelan election, wherein Carter was so giddy at the prospects of having their anti-american president, Hugo Chavez, gain reelection, that he rushed to approve the results that showed a Chavez "victory," before independant audits showed a near certainty of voter fraud.

Mr. Carter, whose foreign policy ineptness not only gave rise to the humiliating hostage crisis, but also spurred the birth of islamofascism (the biggest threat to global security of our time), argued that the voting arrangements in Florida do not meet "basic international requirements" and could undermine the US election. You will recall that Carter urged the U.S. to invite an internation team of observers to observe the election. The observers hail from such bastians of freedom as Argentina, Chile, Ghana, India, Nicaragua, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, and Zambia.

Carter, who heads the Democracy Program at the Carter center, slammed Florida's democratically elected election official for trying to get Nader on the Ballot!! Please try to contain yourselves. This is a true story - Carter is angry because an election official did her job by trying to give a candidate his constitutional right to run for office.

Carter, who invited Michael Moore to sit with him in the presidential box during the Dem convention, accused Florida's elected secretary of state of "bias."

Carter, who broke a centuries-old tradition of former presidents not criticizing sitting presidents on matters of national security, insisted that Jeb Bush had "taken no steps to correct these departures from principles of fair and equal treatment." Here, I think, he was referring to the republican efforts to disenfranchise convicted felons, a core democratic constituency.

This is the grand old man of the democratic party. You can sense his disdain for American strength in just about everything he says. This guy nearly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the Cold War. This guy addressed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by boycotting the Olympics. He is less credible than Al Gore. Every position he takes shows a lack of faith in America and the American system.

I ask you, Mr. Carter, is Florida's election procedure worse than Venezuela's?

UPDATE: Jeb Bush fired back at Carter today. From Drudge:

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's office yesterday said charges by former President Jimmy Carter that the state is "likely" to have a repetition of the voting problems that plagued the 2000 election are politically motivated by Democrats intent on undermining voter confidence in the state.

The WASHINGTON TIMES's Joe Curl will report on Tuesday: State officials also said the former president made no attempt to get up-to-date information before writing an opinion piece and never tried to contact the governor's office or that of Secretary of State Glenda Hood.

"This is a shockingly partisan opinion piece and it's unfortunate that a person such as the former president is being used by the Democratic Party for low-level political rhetoric," said Jacob DiPietre, press secretary for Gov. Jeb Bush.

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