Below The Beltway

Ladies and gentlemen, the General Election campaign has officially started:
WATERTOWN, S.D. — Barack Obama rebuked Republican rival John McCain and President Bush for “dishonest and divisive” attacks in hinting that the Democratic presidential candidate would appease terrorists, staunchly defending his national security credentials for the general election campaign.
Obama responded Friday to Bush’s speech to the […]

James Rubin talks about an interview he did with John McCain two years ago:
Two years ago, just after Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections, I interviewed McCain for the British network Sky News’s “World News Tonight” program. Here is the crucial part of our exchange:
I asked: “Do you think that American diplomats should be operating […]

Hamas presents it’s theory on the events of 1939-1945:
Jewish leaders concocted the mass murder of handicapped Jews in order to keep from having to support them, and this murder is what the Jews term “the Holocaust,” according to a documentary special that aired on April 18 on Hamas’s Al Aqsa television station.
Palestinian Media Watch located […]

There’s a pretty good argument that his recent adventures in the Middle East violated the Logan Act:
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with […]

ABC News’s Jake Tapper brings to light some rather aggressive comments from Hillary Clinton about Iran:
Clinton further displayed tough talk in an interview airing on “Good Morning America” Tuesday. ABC News’ Chris Cuomo asked Clinton what she would do if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons.
“I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the […]

Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is refuting a statement by former President Carter about his trip to the Middle East:
KUWAIT CITY, April 22– Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Tuesday refuted a statement by former president Jimmy Carter that no one in the U.S. government told him not to go on a trip to the […]

Yesterday, former President Carter emerged from his meetings with the terrorist leaders of Hamas claiming a breakthrough for peace:
JERUSALEM, April 21 — The armed Islamist movement Hamas is prepared to accept Israel as a neighbor if the Palestinian people approve the terms for peace, former president Jimmy Carter and the group’s exiled leadership said Monday […]

For the most part, Jimmy Carter is the first President I have a real memory of while I was growing up. I was in third grade during the 1976 Presidential Election and remember watching his January `77 Inauguration on television in my classroom, a fairly big deal for a third grader back then.
By the time […]

Everytime I think that former President Carter has reached a low point, he does something that makes me think even less of him:
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - 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.
Carter […]

Given the propaganda that comes out of the supporters of Hamas, it’s no wonder that peace in the Middle East is more an idea than a reality:
GAZA — In the Katib Wilayat mosque one recent Friday, the imam was discussing the wiliness of the Jew.
“Jews are a people who cannot be trusted,” Imam Yousif al-Zahar […]