President Carter Showing His True Colors?

Jimmy Carter was a poor President. However, I have always thought he was a good person even if he made a weak leader, and I felt he did more for our country after leaving office than he did during his presidency (1977-1981). But after his comments at Coretta Scott King’s funeral this week, I must admit my feelings about him were wrong. He showed a lack of leadership (after all, he is still an “elder statesman” in the Democratic Party) as well as plain old class with his negative comments about President Bush and the administration’s handling of the Hurricane Katrina aftermath.

Funerals are neither the time nor the place for politics, especially when the object of your attack is another guest sitting in the congregation. Those present, including President Bush, were gathered to pay tribute to a woman whose life had been devoted to the civil rights cause, and who had unfailingly comported herself with dignity and graciousness during her lifetime. To have used her funeral as a platform for political mud-slinging was an insult to a great lady, and I feel she would have been embarrassed by these ill-timed comments by the man I have always thought of as one of the best representatives of the Democratic Party in terms of his personal life and moral standards.

Unfortunately, the Democrat’s strategy at this time seems to be one of character assassination. To make it even worse, the attacks are not based on facts, they are just coming across as hateful and uncaring. The Dems seem to think that if they say something often enough, it will be accepted as the truth. I believe the American people are too smart to fall for this tactic, and will eventually see this for what it really is, a group of unscrupulous politicians trying to get votes based on lies and deceptions. The judgment of the Democratic Party leaders at this time is so clouded that they do not seem to see the harm they are inflicting on our country.

The New York Post’s on-line edition editorial summed Carter up very well. He has no clue and no class! Their editorial was titled “Carter: No Clue”.