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Former president Jimmy Carter had some harsh words for late Massachusetts senator Edward Kennedy in an interview with “60 Minutes” set to air Sunday. Appearing on the show to discuss his new memoir, “White House Diary”,” available from Farrar, Straus and Giroux on Sept. 20, Carter was asked about his descriptions of his battles with Kennedy in advance of the 1980 election and Kennedy’s primary campaign challenge. “The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed,” Carter said. “It was his fault. Ted Kennedy killed the bill,” he added. “Just to spite you? …That’s the implication,” asked CBS correspondent Leslie Stahl. “That’s the implication,” Carter agreed.

“He did not want to see me have a major success in that realm of America life.” (Whorunsgov.com, 9/17/10)

Although we disagree on the policy, RedStateVT believes that all Democrats can now join us in despising former President Carter.

Unbalanced
It is a tricky balancing act that attests to the secretary of state's talent as a politician, as well as her predilection for getting into hot water with bold, sometimes ill-timed pronouncements.

Clinton has long taken apparently contradictory positions on the Middle East. As first lady, she hugged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's wife. As a senator from New York she staunchly defended Israel. And as President Obama's chief diplomat, she has publicly upbraided - and also bolstered - Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. (Washington Post, 9/17/10)

Of course, another explanation is that she does not know what she is doing.

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"Anyone who says we would be in the majority if we fielded a bunch of moderate candidates just doesn't understand what's happening in America," (Senator Jim DeMint, R-SC)