Former White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordon Dies
Hamilton Jordan, who served former President Jimmy Carter as his Chief of Staff, died from complications of cancer in his Georgia home on Tuesday. Jordan was 62-years old.
Jordan died peacefully in his Atlanta, Georgia, home surrounded by his family, according to a statement from Camp Sunshine, a nonprofit camp for children with cancer that he and his wife, Dorothy, founded in 1982.
Carter said he and his wife, Rosalynn, were “deeply saddened” by the news of Jordan’s death. “Hamilton was my closest political adviser, a trusted confidant and my friend. His judgment, insight and wisdom were excelled only by his compassion and love of our country,” Carter said, according to The Associated Press.
Hamilton and his wife founded Camp Kudzu for children with Type 1 Diabetes. He also founded Camp Sunshine for children with cancer.
Jordan is survived by his wife Dorothy.
Sphere: Related ContentBush Aimed for Carter Not Obama
In private circles earlier this week I mentioned that I thought President Bush’s strong comments were directed at former resident President Jimmy Carter and not Barack Obama. Today Ed Gillespie said just that to the press.
Here is what Ed had to say:
“We did not anticipate that it would be taken that way, because its kind of hard to take it that way when you look at the actual words. … There was some anticipation that someone might say you know its an expression of rebuke to former President Carter for having met with Hamas. that was something that was anticipated but no one wrote about it or raised it.”
Here is what Bush said that riled up Obama so much:
“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.”
“We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: “Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.” We have an obligation to call this what it is – the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”
It only makes sense being that Carter was just over there meeting with and literally kissing on Hamas.
One might say that Bush’s aim is about as accurate as V.P. Cheney’s.
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