Carter with his wife Rosalyn laying a wreath at Arafat’s grave

Jimmy Carter one of our worst Presidents was in Ramallah Laying a wreath on the mausoleum of former AIDS infected Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat. President Bush refused the chore of laying the wreath on Arafat’s grave during his visit to the Middle East.

A rumored supporter of Barack Obama’s, Carter will remain in the region to meet with exiled Hamas leader Mashaal later in the week.

More on Carter’s trip:

Former President Jimmy Carter embraced a leading Hamas figure Tuesday, according to participants in a meeting that infuriated Israeli officials already upset by Carter’s freelance Mideast peace mission.
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Carter also laid a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat, whom the Bush administration and many Israelis blame for the breakdown of peace talks seven years ago and the violence that followed.

At a reception in the West Bank town of Ramallah organized by Carter’s office, the former president hugged Nasser Shaer, a senior Hamas politician, meeting participants said. Embraces between men are a common custom in Arab culture.

“He gave me a hug. We hugged each other, and it was a warm reception,” Shaer told The Associated Press. “Carter asked what he can do to achieve peace between the Palestinians and Israel … and I told him the possibility for peace is high.”

Carter’s office refused to comment, saying he does not discuss closed meetings.

Shaer, who served as deputy prime minister and education minister in the Hamas-led Palestinian government that unraveled last year, is considered a leading member of the Islamic militant group’s pragmatic wing. After a stint in an Israeli prison last year, he is now a professor at a West Bank university, teaching comparative religion.

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Carter’s meeting with Hamas “dignified” a group committed to Israel’s destruction. “One cannot but wonder how this attitude is supposed to promote peace and understanding,” he said.

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Carter continues to prove his disdain for Israel with this last outrage.

Jimmy’s creepiness factor is overwhelming. I wish he would stay there. It would the beginning of a cleansing that this country needs from traitorous hacks like Mr. Carter.

t/b: Hot Air

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The above photo shows Jodie Evans along with Cindy Sheehan fawning over

Hugo Chavez the notorious Communist Venezuelan Dictator

(Evans is to the right of Sheehan).

Jodie Evans of Code Pink a big money bundler for Barack Obama is a supporter of Hugo Chavez.

Obama received $50,000 from Code Pink, Evans’ far left organization.

Evans is anti-(American) Military.

Code Pink has been leading the anti-war movement and has attacked American members of the military.

More from Human Events on Evans and her involvement with the Obama 2008 Presidential Campaign:

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Evans and her son, a student who lives at her Southern California address, each also gave the maximum individual allowable donation of $2,300 to Obama’s campaign.

The donations have raised questions about Obama’s association with the more radical elements of his base. Code Pink has harassed, vandalized and impeded military recruiters across the United States in a campaign it calls “counter-recruitment.” The group also gave $600,000 to the families of Iraqi terrorists in Fallujah, whom it called “insurgents” fighting for their homes.

Families United for Our Troops and Their Mission, Move America Forward,
Military Families Voice of Victory, The Band of Mothers and FreeRepublic.com, issued a statement this week saying Obama should cut ties to his radical bundler.

“Barack Obama’s judgment to be commander-in-chief is seriously in question because of his association with Code Pink’s Jodie Evans and her war against the American military,” the groups said in a joint statement. “If Sen. Obama wants to earn the trust of the American people to send their sons and daughters in harm’s way, he should immediately renounce Evans and return all contributions associated with her.”

Obama’s campaign did not respond to repeated attempts to get comment on the latest controversy to hit his campaign.

“As somebody who has stood toe-to-toe with Code Pink, I am sickened that Senator Obama would accept large donations from the leader of the hateful, anti-American group,” said Melanie Morgan, chairman of Move America Forward, the nation’s largest pro-troop group.

Code Pink has also waged a campaign of psychological warfare against
America’s wounded warriors and their families by protesting at Walter Reed
Army Medical Center, targeting them with signs bearing messages such as
“Maimed for a lie” and “Enlist here and die for Halliburton,” the joint statement from pro-troops groups said.

Evans has a long history as a political organizer for radical causes and as a Democratic operative. She also worked for former California Gov. Jerry Brown, who is now the state’s attorney general.

Evans sat on the board of directors of the Rain Forest Action Network (RAN), a coalition of capitalist-hating environmentalist groups. The cofounder of RAN also founded the violent and radical Animal Liberation Front, which the FBI listed as one of the largest domestic terrorism threats in the United States.

The FBI reported that RAN and the Earth Liberation Front committed more than 600 criminal acts and racked up $43 million in damages over seven years.

Evan’s radical ideology fit with the other founders of Code Pink, which is notorious for its attempts to shut down the Berkeley Marine Recruiting Center, occupying congressional offices, intimidating families of soldiers who gave their lives in Iraq, attacking opponents and disrupting Congress while dressed in Pepto Bismol-colored outfits.

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Conservative groups are asking that the Obama Campaign return the $50,000 contribution back to Code Pink. Will news outlets such as NBC/MSNBC, ABC, CBS,CNN or PBS cover this? Highly doubtful.

Hat tip to Newsbusters.

t/b: STACLU, Obamarizer compliments of Michelle Malkin.

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Jimmy Carter hasn’t met a terrorist that he doesn’t like. Carter is scheduled to meet Khaled Meshala in Syria in mid-April. Meshala is the exiled leader of Hamas, a Palestinian terror group.

Fox News Reports:

Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist threats in the world.

The Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that Carter was planning a trip to Syria for mid-April, during which he would meet with Khaled Meshal, the exiled head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, on April 18.

Deanna Congileo, Carter’s press secretary, confirmed in an e-mail to FOXNews.com that Carter will be in the Mideast in April. Pressed for comment, Congileo did not deny that the former president is considering visiting Meshal.

“President Carter is planning a trip to the Mideast next week; however, we are still confirming details of the trip and will issue a press release by the end of this week,” wrote Congileo. “I cannot confirm any specific meetings at this point in time.”

Meshal, who lives in Syria to avoid being arrested by the Israeli government, leads Hamas from his seat in Damascus, where he is a guest of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

The State Department has designated Hamas a “foreign terrorist organization,” and some groups hold Meshal personally responsible for ordering the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack once said of the prospect of meeting with Meshal, “That’s not something that we could possibly conceive of.”

Some Carter critics called the latest reports typical of the ex-president.

“It’s about par for the course from President Carter, demonstrating a lack of judgment typical of what he does,” said John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. “To go to Syria to visit Hamas at this point is just an ill-timed, ill-advised decision on his part.”

“I’m not surprised that Carter would do this, as he has been supporting Palestinian extremism for many years,” said Steve Emerson, director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, a watchdog group.

In June 2007 Carter Jimmy Carter called the United States’ policy not to fund Iranian backed terrorist group Hamas, “criminal”. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded on CNN’s Situation Room that Carter’s comments were “bizarre.”

Jimmy Carter is an embarrassment to the United States. The Middle East Situation can in part be attributed to his disasterous Presidency.

t/b: Hot Air

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~There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. ~
Frank Zappa

The ‘Baghdad Quartet’

Singing the Blues For Saddam

Bonior, Thompson & “Baghdad” Jim McDermott with “Baghdad Bob’

during the Saddam financed trip in 2002

Officials in the State Department revealed Wednesday that Saddam Hussein’s foreign intelligence agency with an Iraqi-American sympathizer organized and paid for a visit to Iraq in 2002 by three House Democrats. The trip was criticized by colleagues upon their return.An indictment of a former Iraqi citizen and employee of a charity group in Detroit was issued Wednesday. He was charged with accepting multi millions of dollars in Iraqi oil contracts for helping the spy agency with projects in the United States.

The three lawmakers Jim McDermott of Washington State, Mike Thompson of California and David E. Bonior of Michigan made the five-day trip to Iraq five months before the American invasion.

Although the trip was financed by Saddam Hussein no one knows for sure there wasn’t any involvement with the Iraqi Intelligence by any of these Representatives. They were not accused of anything illegal as of yet.

The indicted Iraqi-American is Muthanna al-Hanooti was employed by Life for Relief and Development, a Michigan-based charity.

The trip had cost a minimum of $34,000.

al-Hanooti was released on $100,000 bail.

More from The AP via Breitbart:

During the trip, the lawmakers expressed skepticism about the Bush administration’s claims that Saddam was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. Though such weapons ultimately were never found, the lawmakers drew criticism for their trip at the time.

Oklahoma Sen. Don Nickles, then the second-ranking Senate Republican, said the Democrats “sound somewhat like spokespersons for the Iraqi government.” Seattle-area conservatives dubbed McDermott “Baghdad Jim” for the Iraq trip.

Al-Hanooti was arrested Tuesday night while returning to the U.S. from the Middle East, where he was looking for a job, his attorney, James Thomas, said. Al-Hanooti pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign government, illegally purchasing Iraqi oil and lying to authorities. He was being held on $100,000 bail.

Between 1999 and 2006, he worked on and off as a public relations coordinator for Life for Relief and Development, a charity formed after the first Gulf War to fund humanitarian work in Iraq. FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force agents raided the charity’s headquarters in 2006 but charged nobody and allowed the agency to continue operating.

McDermott identified that charity as the group financing the Iraq trip. In House disclosure forms, he put the cost at $5,510. Thompson also understood the charity to be financing the trip, spokeswoman Anne Warden said.

Prosecutors said Al-Hanooti was responsible for monitoring Congress for the Iraqi Intelligence Service. From 1999 to 2002, he allegedly provided Saddam’s government with a list of U.S. lawmakers he believed favored lifting economic sanctions against Iraq.

Thomas said Al-Hanooti would “vigorously defend” himself against the charges but he could not discuss the specifics of the case since he had seen none of the evidence.
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Here is part of an interview broadcast on CNN in October, 2002:

…So how does it feel to be used as a propaganda tool against your own country? McDermott, who was asked that question by CNN’s Jane Arraf when he was still in Baghdad, said it feels fine. “If being used means that we’re highlighting the suffering of Iraqi children, or any children, then, yes, we don’t mind being used.”

These 3 clowns knew what the charity was and where it was located but their staffs did no investigation of this organization? Hard to believe….

So does anyone think that al-Hanooti will show up for trial on these charges? McDermott’s office probably supplied him with a passport back to the middle east.

The probable Democrat response; This is old news let’s just move on…..

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Hillary Rodham Clinton’s involvement in illegal foreign campaign contributions have been revealed with the disclosure of Clinton’s 11,046 pages of White House activity calendars.

With a large charitable donation in hand, Indonesian businessman Mochtar Riady flew to Little Rock to dine with first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at a 1993 gala honoring her as an “Arkansan of the Year” at a time his company, a multibillion dollar banking conglomerate, was seeking an end to a 30-year trade embargo with Vietnam.

Five days after the March 4, 1993, dinner at the Excelsior Hotel, Mr. Riady took the embargo question directly to President Clinton, saying in a four-page letter that its demise would bring political reforms in that communist country.

By that time, Mr. Riady’s banking conglomerate, the $12 billion Indonesia-based Lippo Group, its subsidiaries and its employees, including his son James and executive John Huang had funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to Mr. Clinton’s 1992 presidential race and had guaranteed a $3 million last-minute loan to a cash-short Clinton campaign just before the crucial New York primary in 1992.

Within six months of the dinner, the Lippo firm opened its first offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, and a further five months later Mr. Clinton signed an executive order lifting the embargo, which had been in effect since 1964.

The close proximity of Mrs. Clinton’s contact and Mr. Riady’s Little Rock donation to his efforts to lobby for an end to the embargo were never disclosed at the time and only became public with the release last week of 11,046 pages of Mrs. Clinton’s White House activity calendars.

The calendars, released in response to a Freedom of Information lawsuit by Judicial Watch, a Washington-based watchdog group, show that Mr. Riady and his wife were among nine people who sat with Mrs. Clinton at the head table. His name is listed next to the notation, “**giving large donation**.”

Hillary Campaign likely response: Let’smove on… That’s old news.

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