Jimmy Carter On Obama’s Future: “Next Two Years Will Be Better”
Nov 30, 2010 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The best thing Jimmy Carter could do for Obama is disappear and shut the f- up and stop reminding people how much he reminds them of Obama.
by Tom Diemer
Jimmy Carter, a one-term president, visited Tuesday at the White House where another Democratic president, Barack Obama, is hoping to avoid Carter’s fate after taking what he himself called a “shellacking” in the midterm election.
Carter, one of the few American politicians to visit North Korea, was scheduled to meet with National Security Adviser Tom Donilon in the midst of a crisis on the Korean peninsula brought on by the communist regime’s deadly attack on a South Korean island last week. But the former president was also expected to meet with Obama, USA Today and Politico said, citing White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
On Monday, Carter told CBS News that Obama should chart an independent course over the next two years and give up on trying to gain Republican support for his policies.
“I think the next two years will be better…President Obama will be much more independent in fighting hard to prevail and not trying to reach out, which turned out to be fruitlessly, to get two or three Republican votes,” Carter predicted.
