Still More Resignations From The Carter Center
Fourteen members of the advisory board to the Carter Center at Emory University have resigned in protest over Jimmy Carter's execrable new book. This is a very public punch in the nose for Carter and should tell people more about just how badly Carter skewed the truth in his latest screed.
The resignations from The Carter Center board are the latest backlash against the former president's book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," which has drawn fire from Jewish groups, been attacked by fellow Democrats and led to the resignation last month of Kenneth Stein, a center fellow and a longtime Carter adviser.
"You have clearly abandoned your historic role of broker in favor of becoming an advocate for one side," the departing members of the Center's Board of Councilors told Carter in their letter of resignation.
The 200-member board is responsible for building public support for the Carter Center. It is not the organization's governing board.
The board's members "are not engaged in implementing work of the Center," Carter Center Executive Director John Hardman said Thursday in a news release.
It looks like Jimmy finally got enough rope. The statement from the Carter center, boiling down to, "We didn't need you anyway," is an extremely lame defense.
UPDATE: And it is getting even uglier. Little Green Footballs has this event plus a lot more, including Alan Dershowitz's latest body slam. This is devastating. Dershowitz flat out calls for an investigation into Carter's finances to determine if Carter should be forced to register a a lobbyist for foreign governments. Ouch.
By daveinboca, Friday, 12 January , 2007 @ 7:03 am
Ask Bill Clinton who was more willing to compromise for peace: Ehud Barak or Yasser Arafat?
Carter is becoming a poster boy of how old age can bring on obsessive delusions. His real motivation is his obsession that AIPAC and friends of Israel mousetrapped him in 1980, funding Kennedy and John Anderson campaigns to chip away at his constituency.
If AIPAC did so, congratulations to them, because Carter would never have confronted the USSR as Reagan did. His simpering approach to the Kremlin in 1983 requesting help in opposing Reagan’s re-election in ‘84 recently surfaced in KGB documents.
But the New York Times and other mainstream media protect Carter as a liberal—one of their own.