Grumpy Old Men
I don’t know if he was wearing a tracksuit and sneakers, but Jimmy Carter did the reputation of American toursits no good:
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter got in a shouting match Wednesday with Sudanese security officials who blocked him from a town in Darfur where he was trying to meet representatives of ethnic African refugees from the ongoing conflict.
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“You can’t go. It’s not on the program!” the local national security chief, who only gave his first name as Omar, yelled at Carter, who is in Darfur as part of a delegation of respected international figures known as “The Elders.”
“We’re going to anyway!” an angry Carter retorted, telling security officers they didn’t have the authority to stop him.
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“I’ll tell President Bashir about this,” Carter said, referring to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
I suppose I should be cheering Carter on for hollering truth to power—but did he? That last line, appealing to the authority of the Genocidist-in-Chief, so captures the Carter worldview.
Has he ever met a Jew-hater he didn’t like?
The accusation that Jewish interests are behind calls for international peacekeepers in Darfur “does not even merit a response,” Elie Wiesel told The Jerusalem Post.
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He was among several Jewish luminaries and groups to condemn Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s statements accusing “Jewish organizations” of pushing for UN peacekeepers in Darfur, while supporting the concept of intervention in the bloody conflict.
Carter’s kind of people.