bashing Carter now 'eh?

So I suppose we've seen everyone high and low bashed by the Whitehouse for saying something, anything, slightly negitive about how they're doing business. It never really started with one person, but one could claim that the bashing all started when McCain was running against Bush in the 2000 elections. Who knew that seven years later and reputations blasted (from Cindi Shehan to Kennedy) the administration now is blasting Nobel Peaceprize winner, former President of the United States, and habitat for humanities spokesman JIMMY CARTER... from the Washington Times:

CRAWFORD, Texas, May 21 (UPI) -- The White House is returning fire against former U.S. President Jimmy Carter who publicly termed Bush's presidency "the worst in history."

Bush spokesman Tony Fratto called Carter's criticism "reckless" and said the former president has proven to be increasingly irrelevant by making these kinds of comments, The Los Angeles Times reported.

"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history," Carter was quoted as saying in a telephone interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

He not only lashed out at U.S. President George Bush but he told BBC Radio "The almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq has been a major tragedy for the world."

In defense of himself he said on NBC's Today's Show that he was not comparing this administration to all of the US's administrations, but to one.. Former President Nixon's administration. The comment remained and the White House, on que, reacted like a protective parent.

If anything can be mentioned here, it is that the White House cannot withstand one huff or puff by any one, much less a big-bad-wolf. It's obvious that some ideot is incharge of the train, because while anyone can see that former presidents do not have real power; former presidents do have public power to influence. In the minds of many, Jimmy Carter is an icon and one to influence minds towards one way or the other. His influence has, without a doubt, grown in the past 25 years and if he says that policies made by the Nixon-Kissenger adminstration were better then policies made by the current Bush-Rice-Rove adminstration then that's his noble opinion which, I thought, all Americans are allowed to have.

Not mentioned yet is the stupiddity of a comment from Tony Fratto labeling Carter, CARTER?!, as "reckless" and "increasingly irrelevant." Reckless? Irrelevant? please... I'm thinking someone is going a little too extreme here! If people can't voice a simple critisim when asked (or in this case provoked by a comparitive question) then freedom is not free anymore. If our brave men and women in the military fight to protect freedom, but the people are yet to be free to speakout, then

"its 1, 2, 3, what are we fighting for?"

~J out