Interview: Jimmy Carter calls out Obama for never calling him

Interview: Jimmy Carter calls out Obama for never calling him

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Every American president since 1981 has contacted Jimmy Carter for his opinions and advice. That is, every American president with the notable exception of Barack Obama, as reported by Mediaite.com on March 21, 2014.

In a yet-to-be-televised interview with Andrea Mitchell of NBC’s Meet The Press that is scheduled to air Sunday, March 23, 2014, Carter went public with the acknowledgment that all his predecessors, with the exception of the current resident of the Oval Office, have made a point of seeking him out, particularly when it came to dealing with “unsavory characters.” When asked by Mitchell if he had the type of relationship with Obama in which Carter’s experience was sought out and if Obama ever called him, the Georgia Democrat flatly responded “Unfortunately, the answer’s no.”

The former peanut farmer further intimated that Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and “even Ronald Reagan” sought his sage wisdom, but not so much Obama.

When Mitchell pressed as to why he thought no such relationship between the two existed, Carter initially attempted to laugh it off, yet eventually admitted that that was a particularly “hard question” to answer “with complete candor.” Possibly saying more than he intended, Carter attempted to put the topic to bed when he stated:

I think the problem was that — in dealing with the issue of peace in between Israel and Egypt — the Carter Center has taken a very strong and public position of equal treatment between the Palestinians and the Israelis.

And I think this was a sensitive area in which the president didn’t want to be involved.

T. Kevin Whiteman

T. Kevin Whiteman

T. Kevin Whiteman is a retired Master Sergeant of Marines. He has written for Examiner, Conservative Firing Line, and other blogs.

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