Posted on 08/06/2005 3:18:34 AM PDT by F14 Pilot
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I had always thought of Jimmie Carter as incompetent. But to combine that with MALICIOUS intent, disguised as "fighting despotism", well, indirectly, he may have done the US a huge favor. The country was finally compelled to turn to Ronald Reagan.
As a "nation builder" Jimmie was a total failure.
I used to think Jimmy Carter was just incompetent. I now think he is a traitorous fool who would be better off spending ALL of his time in third world countries whose dictators he so idolizes.
Worst President in U.S. history. Time will tell, but this goofball is already way up the list.
It amazes me that a former military man like Carter would aid the terrorists and attack his own country.
Never before in our history has a former President caused his country such harm.
I agree, but give Clinton time.
He should be tried for treason both while President and since.
Jimmy Carter is almost like a character out of an Ayn Rand novel. Only Ayn couldn't invent a character as inept and pathetic as Jimmy.
a. Lyndon Johnson
b. Jimmy Carter
c. Bill Clinton
d. All of the above
he should be tried for all wrong deeds he did
Just a terrible, bitter little man!
Jimmie Carter learned less about command and control as a military man than either John McCain or Tom Daschle. He ALWAYS had the "subordinate" way of thinking. Grumble and criticize, but never capable of the big decision. Which is probably why he concentrated on micromanagement while President.
Carter is such a fantastic disgrace that it's almost become mundane to point it out - sort of like saying, "Michael Jackson is a weirdo."
“For those too young to remember, under Carter’s tenure in the White House inflation and interest rates rose to their highest levels since the Second World War. In 1978 interest rates of 20 percent were not unheard of…”
Boy! Do I remember!!! Having to pay 14-17% interest rates to finance a new home! BTW, I had the opportunity to ask Michael Medved if he thought Hillary Clinton could be elected president. His reply was that, yes, she was electable…and her presidency would be much like that of Jimmy Carter, except worse!
Oh great, just GREAT!!!
Democrats like Jimmy Carter stir up feeling in me that I do not like!!!!!!!!
or michael moore is a hippo
It is ironic that this happened, as Carter was directly responsible for the Ayatollah Khomeini’s takeover of Iran. Carter had decided that Mohammed Reza Palavi, the Shah of Iran and a committed friend of the United States, wasn’t democratic enough for Carter’s taste. As a result, Carter insisted the Shah democratize his regime, the result of which was the takeover of Iran by the Ayatollah when the Shah left Iran for cancer treatment in the U.S.
More ironically still, the takeover of Iran by the Islamic fundamentalists emboldened Saddam Hussein, who had just begun his tenure as absolute dictator of Iraq. Believing that the departure of the Shah and the chilling of American/Iranian relations would render Iran ripe for an invasion, Saddam attacked Iran in hopes of securing that country’s oil fields and deposing the Shia Muslim theocracy there. The result was that over 1,000,000 men died during that conflict, which remained at a stalemate for years.
Maybe those feelings are worth exploring?
If a Carter or a Clinton can reach the highest office in the land in spite of their glaring inadequacies, WE are in disturbing jeapardy.
The notion of "only the best and the brightest" vaporizes.
And if a dreadful disquietude does'nt grip us, it should. Think how close Kerry came?
While the Dems and other lunatic fringe appear to be in an inexorable death spiral, a Hillary is really on the radar screen...NOW.
If we are going to talk seriously,we had better get serious. This is real.
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