Jimmah’s Prayers

Recently, Jimmah Carter, arguably the worst President in history, who brought us: • Blindfolded American hostages paraded before the world press by a rogue regime in Iran (whose current president, of course, was one of the hostage takers); • Helicopters crashing in the desert, and eight brave young Americans dying in the sand during an ill-conceived, abortive rescue mission which became symbolic of the Carter presidency; • Oppressive home mortgage interest rates as high as twenty-one percent (21%); • Billy Beer--a cheap swill shamelessly hawked by Jimmah’s brother Billy, who embarrassed the county and the president with inane TV commercials and half-sober interviews with the press, and who distinguished himself by becoming the only President in recent history to openly and shamelessly criticizing a sitting President, went on another of his famous (and ineffectual) trips to bring peace to the Middle East. Why the Israelis would trust Jimmah—whose organization has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Arab lobby and who considers Hamas and Hezbollah “Freedom Fighters” --God only knows.

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Jimmah’s pro-Arab inclination was never more evident than during a recent interview with a certain ProBama cable channel reporter which I happened to hear on the news one evening on the way home from work. The reporter asked Jimmah: “What are the prospects for peace in the Middle East?” The former President replied: “There is a lot of pessimism in the Middle East right now.” When the reporter pressed Jimmah as to what can be done to bring peace to the Middle East, Jimmah responded: ”We are praying for the end to the Israeli settlements….” Period. Now, of course, I waited with bated breath for him to finish what I expected to be a complete thought—you know, some symmetrical, diplomatic response to sort of round out the interview and show the slightest semblance of balance. But alas, it never came. You know…the rest of the sentence like: “We are praying for an end to the Israeli settlements… and that Hamas and Hezbollah will stop arming themselves with thousands of missiles purchased from the Bazalt weapons works in Russia with Iranian funding.” Or, perhaps even: “We are praying for and end to the Israeli settlements… and that Hamas and Hezbollah will change their charters which call for the destruction of Israel and decry all efforts at negotiations with Israel as foolishness.” Yeah, something like that. But, not so surprisingly, Jimmah—who has become an unapologetic shill for the radical Arab lobby—just cannot bring himself to pray for an end to the violence perpetuated against this tiny island of democracy and our only true friend in the Middle East. Nope, if only Israel would stop the settlements, all will be well in the Middle East. Forget about the three thousand missiles purchased by the terrorist groups who Jimmah champions and are sworn to destroy Israel. Forget about the Iranian President who continually denies the Holocaust and who threatens Israel with nuclear annihilation. We need not worry about them or pray that they have a change of heart. Jimmah has become irrelevant, shrill, and incredible. Until he prays for true peace, and for real change on both sides of the dispute, his one-sided prayers are hollow, his words as dry and lifeless as the desert sand.