September 30, 2004

Carter, observed

By A.M. Mora y Leon
American Thinker Exclusive Jimmy Carter has been acting like a grumpy old man this week, casting somewhat shocking aspersions on the fairness and legitimacy of the forthcoming Presidential election in Florida. Maybe his nasty streak has something to do with a quiet but very significant affront dealt him by the United States Department of State, an insult which has completely escaped the notice of the legacy media, but which is loudly reverberating in the clubby universe of high level diplomacy and elite NGOs. The Man from Plains, who has so assiduously cultivated a good—guy image, has taken to disparaging the possibility of a fair democratic process in his own country, in a fit of pique. Carter's been making a nice little side business out of  'observing' foreign elections for years, through the vehicle of his nonprofit Carter Center. In the same op—ed article that he used to disparage in advance Florida's election, he touted his role in the Aug. 15 Venezuelan recall...(Read Full Article)