d'oh. i wish carter would go home and raise peanuts

and shut the f**k up.
i was perusing my list of usual haunts in the news bookmark folder and came across an article/editorial written for the international herald tribune
a short paragraph from the article here:

Innocent Palestinian people are being treated like animals, with the presumption that they are guilty of some crime. Because they voted for candidates who are members of Hamas, the United States government has become the driving force behind an apparently effective scheme of depriving the general public of income, access to the outside world and the necessities of life.

hmmm, let's see. palestinians elected a government run by hamas, one of the no BS, real deal, blood on their hand terrorist groups. carter bemoans the fact that the Israelis are withholding some $55million dollars from the palis, and then goes on to say :

"...Hamas has so far refused to recognize the sovereign state of Israel as legitimate, with a right to live in peace. This is a matter of great concern to all of us, and the international community needs to probe for an acceptable way out of this quagmire."

well, color me stupid, but if i was looking over my shoulder all the time trying to avoid suicide murderers, and i had the means to cut funding to pay for the explosives their wacks carry, that's inhumane?
and part of the big issue with carter, although he doesn't come right out, but it is implicit in his discourse, is that the US is withholding funding and aid to the palis because of hamas. well, WTF does he think? this is a government inimical to our entire philosophy. why on earth should american tax dollars be spent supporting a regime that espouses the exact same philosophy of the groups we are fighting around the world.
carter needs to go back to his peanut farm and raise goobers. he is embarrassing me as an american.