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"Bush is the Worst President in History," says Jimmy Carter
"Bush is the worst...in history", said former President Cater; a man whose dismal failure as president is exceeded only by his incompetence as a former president.
Once again the peanut farmer from Georgia exhibits what has become known as the "Jimmy Cater Syndrome." Having been rejected by the American people, he now seeks comfort, solace, and approval from America's enemies.
Not content to only disparage President Bush, Carter also lashed out at British Prime Minister Tony Blair accusing him of being "Abominable. Loyal. Blind. Apparently subservient."
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Former President Carter says President Bush's administration is "the worst in history" in international relations, taking aim at the White House's policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.
The criticism from Carter, which a biographer says is unprecedented for the 39th president, also took aim at Bush's environmental policies and the administration's "quite disturbing" faith-based initiative funding.
"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history," Carter told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a story that appeared in the newspaper's Saturday editions. "The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me."
Carter spokeswoman Deanna Congileo confirmed his comments to The Associated Press on Saturday and declined to elaborate. He spoke while promoting his new audiobook series, "Sunday Mornings in Plains," a collection of weekly Bible lessons from his hometown of Plains, Ga.
"Apparently, Sunday mornings in Plains for former President Carter includes hurling reckless accusations at your fellow man," said Amber Wilkerson, Republican National Committee spokeswoman. She said it was hard to take Carter seriously because he also "challenged Ronald Reagan's strategy for the Cold War."
Carter came down hard on the Iraq war.
"We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened, if we want to change the regime there or if we fear that some time in the future our security might be endangered," he said.
"But that's been a radical departure from all previous administration policies."
Carter, who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, criticized Bush for having "zero peace talks" in Israel. Carter also said the administration "abandoned or directly refuted" every negotiated nuclear arms agreement, as well as environmental efforts by other presidents.
Carter also offered a harsh assessment for the White House's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, which helped religious charities receive $2.15 billion in federal grants in fiscal year 2005 alone.
"The policy from the White House has been to allocate funds to religious institutions, even those that channel those funds exclusively to their own particular group of believers in a particular religion," Carter said.
"As a traditional Baptist, I've always believed in separation of church and state and honored that premise when I was president, and so have all other presidents, I might say, except this one."
Douglas Brinkley, a Tulane University presidential historian and Carter biographer, described Carter's comments as unprecedented.
"This is the most forceful denunciation President Carter has ever made about an American president," Brinkley said. "When you call somebody the worst president, that's volatile. Those are fighting words."
Carter also lashed out Saturday at British prime minister Tony Blair. Asked how he would judge Blair's support of Bush, the former president said: "Abominable. Loyal. Blind. Apparently subservient."
"And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world," Carter told British Broadcasting Corp. radio.
White House strikes back at Carter
By Freddie Mooche
(AXcess News) Washington - It's an unwritten credo that President's do not take shots at each other, but after former President Jimmy Carter called President George W. Bush's tenure in the White House "the worst in history", Bush spokesman Tony Fratto returned fire Sunday, calling Carter's comments "reckless" and "out there".
In a telephone interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Friday, ex-president Jimmy Carter accused President Bush of eliminating the line between church and state and of abandoning "America’s basic values." Carter was promoting his new audiobook series, "Sunday Mornings in Plains," when he lashed out against President Bush.
"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history. The overt reversal of America’s basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including [those of] George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me," Carter said.
In response, White House spokesman Tony Fratto on Sunday said, "I think he is proving to be increasingly irrelevant with these kinds of comments."
Cater had gone on to say that Bush's two terms in office were "radical departures" of any other administration's policies.
"We have a new policy now on war," Carter said. "We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war. That's been a radical departure from all previous administration policies."
But the outspoken Carter hasn't just singled out President Bush in his criticism. In a previous interview with the BBC, Carter condemned British Pime Minister Tony Blair for blindly supporting the Iraq war - an indirect slam at the Bush administration.
When asked to characterise the close relationship between the Bush administration and Blair's, the former Democratic president said, "Abominable, loyal, blind, apparently subservient."
While Carter's openness is nothing new, President Bush himself had declined to comment on the ex-president's comments Sunday while visiting with NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at his Crawford, Texas ranch.
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