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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Ed Koch's View on Jimmy Carter

Former New York Democrat Mayor Ed Koch wrote an article about his life, in which he has a very interesting view on Jimmy Carter.

When he ran for reelection, he asked me to campaign for him in 1980 - I was by then Mayor of New York City -- and I said that I would vote for him, but not campaign for him because he was then engaging in hostile acts towards Israel. I was popular with the Jewish community and when I would not campaign for him unless he changed his position, he called me to his hotel in New York when attending a fundraiser and said, "You have done me more damage than any man in America." I felt proud then, and even more today, since we now know what a miserable president he was then and the miserable human being he is now as he prepares to meet with Hamas.

Ouch.