Posted on 02/12/2007 6:33:02 AM PST by presidio9
My vote goes to Carter. A few of the reasons, allowing the unabated rise of militant Islam, 21% interest rates, Grain embargo on the USSR, During the Carter administration was truely the worst economy in my lifetime.
And then there was his battle with the attacking rabbit...
The President that turned me into a Republican. Jimmy Carter. Read by FR Profile to learn more on how one guy turned my whole conservative democrat family into solid Republicans.
The writer's leap from 'undies on the head' to 'thumbscrews' is pretty amazing. Also, how did he overlook Jerry Ford and his 'Whip Inflation Now' button? I think he should have at least been given an honorable mention.
At virtually every level, he was as poor a choice for elected office as was possible.
1. Carter
2. Clinton
3. Johnson
4. Ford
Of all time???
1. Carter
2. Filmore
3. Garfield
4. F. Roosevelt
5. Clinton
IMHO...
What? You mean you didn't like those chummy, sociable gas lines? And mortgages you could sink your teeth into at 20%? LOL!
Unquestionable, Jimmah Cahtah has this prize bagged. He was incompetent militarily and economically. Bush screwed the pooch by using an incremental approach in Iraq.
I don't remember that bit about an open mike but I surely believe you.
You know, it worries me that these terrible people not only do NOT go down in the ignomy they deserve, they actually get respect they surely don't deserve.
Everytime I have a chance I tell MY stories of Carter. Yes indeed, that man almost ruined my own life.
First, the economy was really awful. I was a single woman, supporting myself, way down in my company's totum pole of seniority and scared bejeesus every damn day that THIS would be the day I'd get let go. I lived like this for two solid years. Yes, some of the problem was my company, but the terrible economy and, heh, the general malaise of the nation, didn't help.
Then I had lots of co-workers dealing with those outta sight interest rates and almost single-handedly Carter almost eliminated the ONE major thing that makes America great: the ability of the Middle Class to buy and own a home and property. NO country thrives without a strong and sturdy middle class and yet, yes indeed dummies with no memories, Jimmah Carter almost brought this country to its knees.
Oh...and the gas lines! Along with biting my fingers raw for fear of losing my job, when I had a job I couldn't GET GAS!
They don't remember this, ladies and gems. My daughter, she doesn't remember long gas lines, she wasn't even born.
And yet history gets written by the liberals and taught by the mighty teachers' unions.
Don't get me started on Jimmy Carter. I could go on all night. Not to mention my bitterness over his STILL presence on our national scene and the damage this causes.
For suffering a stroke early in his second term and being brain damaged for most of the rest of the way, Woodrow Wilson deserves serious consideration. Thanks to Woodrow Wilson, America entered into World War I, and Hitler, Stalin, and Mao came into power.
They left out Carter and LBJ? From a leftist rag, no doubt.
You're joking, right?
Incidently, Jimmy Carter also pronounced nuclear "nook-u-ler."
I tell you, if that's not Ahmadinejad than I'm a monkey's Aunt. Heh.
Jimmuh didn't "allow" anything. He tried his hardest to prevent it, and he got his ass kicked, because the American voters were disgusted with him.
I, should pay attention to what this rag says?
This line of reasoning is well worth examining. It's highly revealing of The Nation's biases.
They analyze the Civil War as a very destructive and damaging experience, which I won't argue with. By the end of the war, something like 5% of the prewar population lay dead of wounds and disease incidental to battle and campaigning. Of these, 60%, or 600,000, were military casualties. The rest were civilians. That's pretty dire no matter how you slice it.
However, the war didn't occur on Buchanan's watch. And although they excoriate Buchanan's "cowardice in handling the South...." (emphasis added) on the one hand, nevertheless they seamlessly continue to argue that the damage of his cowardice in handling was what "ended the remotest possibility that the United States would be spared the horrors of the Civil War".
So if he'd been braver, and just slapped the hell out of the South right away, things would have come out better?
But the Civil War didn't even begin on Buchanan's watch, which was certainly careworn with the possibility of an open split among the States. Rather, the war began when his successor's platform, politics, and political associates kicked off secession by being "braver" in their bold assertions about what they were going to do when in office, and in their preparations for war.
It is a fixed feature of Marxism, that Marxists openly admire Abraham Lincoln, in particular for his warring down the wealthy planters of the South. Therefore it is unsurprising that, the gravity of the Civil War being self-evidently dire as a national experience, the editors of The Nation, Marxist termites all, so vigorously fix the blame for it......elsewhere. On President Buchanan, on whose watch the war did not occur.
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