Jimmy Carter sent on A Hostage Run

How about we stick a little more closer to the primary subject?

Given the history of both North Korean and Jimmy Carter behaviour the White House Damn well should be jittery.

Why would anyone, with half a brain, fault Jimmy Carter for reaching peaceful solutions? That just doesn't sit well with Americans, does it? Where's the profit in peace?

You piss all over America, but we have done pretty well for ourselves buddy. I have a lot of contempt for the idiots who let America rot so quickly, but I am damn proud of what we have done over the last couple hundred years.

I don't mean to abuse you with verbal violence, but you have to understand what your government and its agents are doing. They go into villages, they haul out families. With the children forced to watch they castrate the father, they peel the skin off his face, they put a grenade in his mouth and pull the pin. With the children forced to watch they gang-rape the mother, and slash her breasts off. And sometimes for variety, they make the parents watch while they do these things to the children.

This is nobody's propaganda. There have been over 100,000 American witnesses for peace who have gone down there and they have filmed and photographed and witnessed these atrocities immediately after they've happened, and documented 13,000 people killed this way, mostly women and children. These are the activities done by these contras. The contras are the people president Reagan calls `freedom fighters'. He says they're the moral equivalent of our founding fathers. And the whole world gasps at this confession of his family traditions.

Did anyone notice that the top banana decided to not stick around? He is in China. Nicely drives home that while Jimmy Carter might be a nice guy he is not worth the Dear Leader's time

Taken to talking to yourself, eh, Hawk? Have you reached any sort of agreement yet?

Are you so disparaging to everyone you disagree with?

Carter was the most decent human being ever to be president.

SEOUL, South Korea – On Day 2 of Jimmy Carter's journey to North Korea, there was no sign Thursday that the former American president had succeeded in securing the release of a Boston man jailed in the country since January.

Carter was making a private humanitarian visit to negotiate the release of Aijalon Gomes, sentenced to eight years of hard labor in a North Korean prison and fined some $700,000 for entering the country illegally from China, U.S. officials said.

There was no indication Thursday that Gomes was free. Carter, originally slated to depart Thursday, according to U.S. officials, appeared to have extended his trip by at least a day, South Korea's YTN television reported in Seoul.

We are talking about the North Koreans here, so who the **** knows??

But I maintain he was (and is) a joke as a politician.

opening actual dialogs with countries instead of instigating terrorist actions against them, bombing them, or training others to torture, rape and murder them.

and that Carter would do it like a good boy,

I suspect this is exactly what Coastal Rat thinks is a joke.

Have we heard from you on Reagan, Bush and Bush as politicians?

As far as my thoughts on the other named presidents, while I have things that bother me about each one, I do not think they were jokes as politicians. Although the most recent Bush was borderline.