Watching Hope ‘n Change and Hillary bumble and fumble protocol and translations this week brings to mind none other than – you guessed it – James Earl Carter, 39th President of these United States.
The year is 1977 and Carter is on an early foreign trip to Poland. Time Magazine tells the story well:
Are you from Poland? Then President Jimmy Carter wants to sleep with you. That’s what his translator, Steven Seymour, told the then-Communist country during the U.S. President’s 1977 visit. Carter said he wanted to learn about the Polish people’s desires for the future; Seymour said that Carter desired the Poles. Carter said he was happy to be in Poland; Seymour said he was happy to grasp at Poland’s private parts. Carter talked about leaving the U.S. to go on a trip; Seymour said that he had abandoned America forever. Then he spoke Russian — to a nation struggling under the thumb of the Soviet Union. Yikes.
Let’s fast and pray and hope against all hope that we’re not seeing the beginning of Jimmy Carter II.
For the country’s sake.
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