http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/02/rudds-jimmy-carter-moment/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:34:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/02/rudds-jimmy-carter-moment/#comment-6187 The Kid From Bondi Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-6187 Thank you Bernard your response was not expected but most welcome. As for the Rudd - Carter comparison, sadly well intentioned and badly executed ends in the same result as bad intentions well executed. I remember Carter being elected, I was in NY at the time and all my friends who voted for him with high hopes and expectations became totally disillusioned with him within months. More importantly Carter's fingerprints are all over the major blunders of his era , especially in the Middle East and Oil, for which we are now paying a tragic price. Khomeini was an unknown cleric living in exile in Paris until Carter cut US support for the Shah and thus let loose the religious revolution, the effects of which we are still feeling more and more, daily. Carter is now an unwanted postulant who is so ignorant of his mistakes and deluded that he thinks he has something to contribute to the debate surrounding the Middle East, that if it were not so tragic would be funny .... any similarities with "our Kev"? Wait and see ... brace yourselves "working families" Thank you Bernard your response was not expected but most welcome. As for the Rudd - Carter comparison, sadly well intentioned and badly executed ends in the same result as bad intentions well executed. I remember Carter being elected, I was in NY at the time and all my friends who voted for him with high hopes and expectations became totally disillusioned with him within months. More importantly Carter’s fingerprints are all over the major blunders of his era , especially in the Middle East and Oil, for which we are now paying a tragic price. Khomeini was an unknown cleric living in exile in Paris until Carter cut US support for the Shah and thus let loose the religious revolution, the effects of which we are still feeling more and more, daily. Carter is now an unwanted postulant who is so ignorant of his mistakes and deluded that he thinks he has something to contribute to the debate surrounding the Middle East, that if it were not so tragic would be funny …. any similarities with “our Kev”? Wait and see … brace yourselves “working families”

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