SICKENING – AT 6:35 A.M. ET:  Jimmy Carter is more than a public embarrassment.  He is a disgrace to the American presidency.  From Newsmax: 

Former President Jimmy Carter will headline a fundraising convention for Hamas, a group which has been recognized by the U.S. as a terrorist organization dedicated to the destruction of Israel.

Breitbart News reports that Carter, 89, long known as a supporter of Hamas in its struggle with Israel, will be welcomed this weekend to the Detroit event by members of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), implicated by the Justice Department in a scheme to funnel $12 million to Hamas.

Expected to speak at the meeting at Cobo Hall are unindicted co-conspirators Jamal Badawi, named in 2007 in the Holy Land Foundation Trial, and Siraj Wahhaj, listed for his involvement in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

Bishop Elizabeth Eaton, head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the U.S., and Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim member of Congress, also will speak.

Carter's involvement may be in violation of the law, U.S. Code 2339B, Section 18, which makes it a crime for any U.S. citizen to provide material support to any group designated as a foreign terrorist organization.

Constitutional law expert Alan Dershowitz stressed that Carter's actions, in raising funds for the ISNA, place him "very close, if not across the line," of criminal behavior.

COMMENT:   One of the great lies about Carter is that he's a human-rights activist.  In fact, his support for human rights, and basic democratic rights, is very selective.  You never hear him arguing for human rights in, say, Saudi Arabia.  I am speculating, but I wonder what size check it took to shut Carter up on that score.

When he was president he lectured this nation about its "inordinate fear of Communism," essentially ridiculing the notion that Communist nations were a threat to our way of life. What a great crusader for human rights!  Compare please to Ronald Reagan, who inspired the refuseniks and others fighting for freedom in the Soviet Union. 

He was given the Nobel Peace Prize for nothing, which is why it's usually given.  He contributed nothing to peace.  Indeed, one of the Nobel big shots said at the time that Carter was awarded the prize as a "kick in the shins" to George W. Bush, who had the gall to defend his country.

Carter is getting more eccentric and more mean-spirited with age.  Even his grandson, who is running for governor of Georgia, has distanced himself from him.  Some men don't know when to get off the stage.

August 29,  2014