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2007-11-09 Home Front: Culture Wars

Movie Review: "Man From Plains" - three and a half stars!

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Posted by Frank G 2007-11-09 11:20|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 notice he left off the part about shooting the cat....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-11-09 11:33|| 2007-11-09 11:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Rated R (anti-Semitism, violence against animals, lust in the heart)

Posted by Mike 2007-11-09 11:52|| 2007-11-09 11:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Me givum Big Chief new Indian name - "Swims With Rabbits"...

Posted by Crazy Horse 2007-11-09 11:59|| 2007-11-09 11:59|| Front Page Top

#4 "Virtual consensus", ya say?
Are we supposed to take your word on that, movie dork, because I'm one "blog-bog fever tick" who would like to see your evidence.

Posted by tu3031 2007-11-09 11:59|| 2007-11-09 11:59|| Front Page Top

#5 But already there is virtual consensus that Carter is our greatest ex-president...

Uh, I thought the consensus was that he's "History's Greatest Monster".

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-11-09 12:05|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-11-09 12:05|| Front Page Top

#6 "But already there is virtual consensus that Carter is our greatest ex-president"

Possible responses:

In fact he was the best democrat president we republicans could hope to get!

Great as an ex president, not so good as a president...

He was the only excuse to drink billy beer.

Posted by flash91 2007-11-09 12:11|| 2007-11-09 12:11|| Front Page Top

#7 heh, Jimmy's defining moment in History will be the Swamp Wabbit incident!

as Presidential figure he was peevishly small man with an even smaller character. [lots of proofs]

He can't stand sharing the limelight with most first rate public figures. He knows he's inferior, that's why he Loves his Dictators, side by side they make him look good.

Jimmy Carter as President is a niggardly character IMO, as a peanut farmer he would have been just fine, the office is to great for most mortals.

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-11-09 12:28|| 2007-11-09 12:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Wow, this guy's Boston Globe material. Too bad it's going broke...

Rosalynn, maybe our top former first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt, except (possibly) Mrs. Clinton...

Though he lost the image duel to Ronald Reagan in 1980...

Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard, a man who tends to confuse his ego with the Mosaic burning bush, tried to bait Carter into a debate at Brandeis. Carter said no, not from fear but on the sensible grounds that Brandeis could provide its own Socrates.

Then with his smiling but sad-eyed blend of teach, preach and gentle admonition he won over the students. They found not just a former president, but a good and even great man.

Posted by tu3031 2007-11-09 13:03|| 2007-11-09 13:03|| Front Page Top

#9 OK, let's compile a quick list of his incredible ~~screw ups~~ , ~~achievements~~ "accomplishments" as President:

The "Malaise" speech, and asking for full cabinet resigations
Inflation
Loosing Iran
Allowing invasion of Afghanistan
Hostages
Failed hostage rescue attempt
Giving in to the USSR, surrender in Central and South America
Camp David
Creation of both the Dept of Energy, Dept. of Education, and dept. of HHS
Panama Canal giveback
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
Amnesty for Viet Nam draft dodgers
B1 Bomber cancellation
etc.!

And that is just a quick list off the top of my head from during his presidency....

Posted by Mark E.">Mark E. 2007-11-09 14:46|| 2007-11-09 14:46|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh and one other thing:

He's a SQUID!!!!

GO ARMY!! BEAT NAVY!!

Posted by Mark E.">Mark E. 2007-11-09 14:54|| 2007-11-09 14:54|| Front Page Top

#11 Mark, take that back! he's an Academy Ring Knocker, and not worthy of being called a squid. no sailor i ever served with ever wanted anything do to with that peanut farmer.
besides he is a sewer pipe ring knocker.(submariner)

Posted by USN,Ret. 2007-11-09 15:00|| 2007-11-09 15:00|| Front Page Top

#12 Mark E, you forget, he did serious damage to the Soviet Union when he forced our athletes to boycott the Moscow Olympics.

Yeah, that's what really did in the old USSR.

/sarcasm off

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-11-09 15:46|| 2007-11-09 15:46|| Front Page Top

#13 LOL! I always say I went to "the trade school" as my friends at VMI called it... And wearing rings can get your finger pulled off.... HA!

How can that fool come from an academy and be so anti-military? I don't get it.

Fool is precisely what he is.

Posted by Mark E.">Mark E. 2007-11-09 15:47|| 2007-11-09 15:47|| Front Page Top

#14 In Carter's defense, unlike Bill Clinton Jimbo didn't point a finger while wilfully lying to the Nation, nor admitted to twice being POTUS by election fraud. Among other thingys, CLINTONISM > NO MATTER WHAT CRIME(S) OR OTHER MALICE(S) AFORETHOUGHT IS COMMITTED ANDOR ADMITTED BY ANY MAJOR POL LEADER, SAID LEADER CANNOT BE PUNISHED EVER BY ANYONE FOR ANYTHING. IOW, ELITIST GOVERNMENT-WIDE "LEGAL ANARCHY/FRAUD" + NEPOTIST-MAFIA STATE-GOVERNING AUTHORITY, the benefits and advantages, etc of which DO NOT APPLY TO THE [Peonist]MAINSTREAM/ORDINARY MASSES. Medievalist Lord-Servant, Master-Slave/Peonage = LEFTISM-COMMUNISM-GOVTISM!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-09 19:36|| 2007-11-09 19:36|| Front Page Top

#15 Medievalism > you know, PROGRESSIVE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-09 19:39|| 2007-11-09 19:39|| Front Page Top

#16 Mark E you forgot Cambodia and Pol Pot

Posted by Beavis 2007-11-09 22:15|| 2007-11-09 22:15|| Front Page Top

#17 KOMMERSANT > 1/3 of surveyed Russians favor AUTHORITARIAN RULING[Govt]. 40% reporetdly prefer a PLANNED ECONOMY over a MARKET ECONOMY.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-09 23:07|| 2007-11-09 23:07|| Front Page Top

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