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Jimmy Carter: I Wouldn't Change a Thing About My Presidency
DC Examiner ^ | 10/11/07

Posted on 10/11/2007 5:58:21 AM PDT by YourAdHere

Jimmy Carter says in an interview that he wouldn't have changed a thing about his presidency. He claims that if he had only had "one more helicopter," he could have freed those hostages and thus won re-election. But he adds, if he had won a second term, he probably would not have the Carter Center today. So he says, it's a good thing.

I'd love for him to explain this logic to the people he ignored for 444 days.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carter; carterlegacy; failure; jimmycarter; malaise; smalllittleman; worstpresidentever
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The story is on page 6. Sorry I can't direct link to it. The Examiner web site is funny.
1 posted on 10/11/2007 5:58:25 AM PDT by YourAdHere
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To: YourAdHere

My favorite part of the Carter Presidency was his second term. ;-)


2 posted on 10/11/2007 5:59:20 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: YourAdHere

Funny...I’d change EVERYTHING about his presidency. I really cannot understand why politics seems to be very largely inhabited by folks who find the operation of a light bulb to be beyond their comprehension. This guy is the king of the maroons.


3 posted on 10/11/2007 6:00:36 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: YourAdHere
I feel a malaise coming on.
4 posted on 10/11/2007 6:01:21 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: YourAdHere

One again, Jimmy Carter proves to the whole world that he is a total failure.


5 posted on 10/11/2007 6:02:10 AM PDT by Ken522
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To: YourAdHere

and neither would I. If it hadn’t been for Carter’s incompetency, we might never had a Ronald Reagan as President...............


6 posted on 10/11/2007 6:02:27 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we have consensus.......)
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To: YourAdHere
I'm sure HE wouldn't. Which is what makes him ever the imbecile.
7 posted on 10/11/2007 6:02:49 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: YourAdHere
. . . wouldn't have changed a thing about his presidency.

Which includes being booted out of office for gross incompetence.

8 posted on 10/11/2007 6:02:53 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: YourAdHere

Jimmy gets a “D” for DELUSIONAL.


9 posted on 10/11/2007 6:03:48 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (When gov't wants to fix something, chances are it was the gov't that broke it in the first place.)
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To: YourAdHere

the man is the democrat attack dog for the election.

Carter fought against Reagan by going to the USSR, Carter is fighting against the republicans.

We need to PUBLICLY spank this fraud.

He is the biggest failure as post president and president.


10 posted on 10/11/2007 6:04:16 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: YourAdHere
The only good thing that happened during Carters term was when Reagan was sworn in.

11 posted on 10/11/2007 6:05:03 AM PDT by b4its2late (~ This Tagline Intentionally Left Blank ~)
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To: YourAdHere

Jimmy Carter was the Bill Clinton prototype.

A southern fried liberal hiding in a moderate cover.

Jimmy “lusted in his heart” after women.

Billy Boy took action on that issue.


12 posted on 10/11/2007 6:05:24 AM PDT by Nextrush (Proudly uncommitted in the 2008 race for president for now)
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To: YourAdHere

He’s just a goofy feller, aint he?


13 posted on 10/11/2007 6:05:33 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (Tempus Fidget - The time between the final hymn and recessional.)
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To: YourAdHere

Carter and Bush. Two of a kind.


14 posted on 10/11/2007 6:06:16 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: YourAdHere

.."cept that dammm wabbit"

15 posted on 10/11/2007 6:06:32 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: YourAdHere

There is something about a moonbat....They tend to believe their own delusions.


16 posted on 10/11/2007 6:06:32 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Planting trees to offset carbon emissions is like drinking water to offset rising ocean levels)
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To: Da Coyote

You capture what I was thinking beautifully and succinctly.


17 posted on 10/11/2007 6:06:35 AM PDT by GOPPachyderm
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To: YourAdHere

He’s even dumber than I thought. What a delusional idiot.


18 posted on 10/11/2007 6:06:37 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
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To: YourAdHere
Jimmy Carter says in an interview that he wouldn't have changed a thing about his presidency.

Since Jimmy's utter failure as president led to a monumental landslide victory for Reagan and gave Ronnie the political capital to initiate the Reagan tax cuts and the ensuing economic growth, I agree that Carter shouldn't have changed a thing about his presidency.

19 posted on 10/11/2007 6:06:47 AM PDT by VRWCmember (Fred Thompson 2008! Taking America Back for Conservatives!)
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To: longtermmemmory

“the man is the democrat attack dog for the election.”

Then send him to Michael Vick’s house !!!


20 posted on 10/11/2007 6:07:00 AM PDT by Obie Wan
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To: YourAdHere

My favorite part of his presidency was me getting a mortgage loan for 14.25%. Yessirree, I wouldn’t change a thing!


21 posted on 10/11/2007 6:07:00 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: YourAdHere

“One more helicopter”?

Don’t worry, Reagan would’ve used a lot more than one, but the Iranians knew that.....


22 posted on 10/11/2007 6:07:02 AM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: YourAdHere
From Rush:


23 posted on 10/11/2007 6:07:27 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: InvisibleChurch

I can think of 52 hostages who have a different opinion on the matter.


24 posted on 10/11/2007 6:07:38 AM PDT by guido911 (Islamic terrorists are members of the "ROP", the "religion of pu*&ies")
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To: YourAdHere

Mark of a genuine idiot.

Minds one of Proverbs 27:22, to wit:
Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,
yet his folly will not depart from him.


25 posted on 10/11/2007 6:07:51 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: b4its2late
The only good thing that happened during Carters term was when Reagan was sworn in.

Well, that and the Olympic Gold in Hockey at Lake Placid.

26 posted on 10/11/2007 6:08:51 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (No problem should be abandoned until treachery and brute force have been tried and failed.)
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To: Wolfie
Carter and Bush. Two of a kind.

Either you are too young to have any recollection of what the country and the economy were like under Carter, or you are so old and senile that you have forgotten.

27 posted on 10/11/2007 6:09:04 AM PDT by VRWCmember (Fred Thompson 2008! Taking America Back for Conservatives!)
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To: YourAdHere

He is certifiably senile!


28 posted on 10/11/2007 6:09:12 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("All gave some, and some gave all!")
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To: YourAdHere

The Carter Center is the lefts effort at a shadow state department that is even MORE left than the real one is far left.


29 posted on 10/11/2007 6:09:21 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: YourAdHere

Jimmy Carter...they call it the misery index for nothing.


30 posted on 10/11/2007 6:09:42 AM PDT by rod1
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To: YourAdHere

I have been priveledged to know a few truly good, Christian men. Not a one of them have been so good that they did not do or say things they regretted and would change if they could. Is that treasonous old fool saying that he is perfect, or just too stupid to see his many mistakes? Or was the damage he did and is doing to this country actually his goal?


31 posted on 10/11/2007 6:10:25 AM PDT by magslinger (I will not submit.)
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To: rhombus
My favorite part of the Carter Presidency was his second term. ;-)

LOL... that's when he really shined!

32 posted on 10/11/2007 6:10:29 AM PDT by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: YourAdHere
Maybe he should have changed his sweater.

-PJ

33 posted on 10/11/2007 6:11:01 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
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To: Doogle

LOL... Thanks for the morning laugh. (I have stolen THAT pic.)


34 posted on 10/11/2007 6:12:10 AM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: YourAdHere

Carter is a miserable, bitter old Marxist fool.


35 posted on 10/11/2007 6:12:18 AM PDT by LIConFem (Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
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To: YourAdHere

The only thing I would have changed is the vote count at election time.


36 posted on 10/11/2007 6:12:33 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: Wolfie

Whoa!

Bad as Bush is, he still ain’t no Jimmah Cahduh.


37 posted on 10/11/2007 6:13:23 AM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon
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To: Brett66
Don’t worry, Reagan would’ve used a lot more than one, but the Iranians knew that.....

The Iranians knew Reagan would have used weapons much more powerful than helicopters, and that when they crashed into Iranian soil, it wouldn't have been Americans that they killed.

38 posted on 10/11/2007 6:13:50 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("We have met the enemy and he is us." -Pogo)
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To: rhombus

Further proof the Rat party is completely out of touch with reality. Carter is no different than any other dimocrat. They all have about that same level of awareness.


39 posted on 10/11/2007 6:16:06 AM PDT by LouAvul
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To: LouAvul

444 days, and 489 electoral votes for his opponent. That says it all.

I saw another headline saying Carter bashes president. I would stand up and cheer (and send $100 to the GOP) if a headline were to read “President bashes Carter.” It’s about time. GWB is too much of a class act though.


40 posted on 10/11/2007 6:18:51 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: Ken522

He was an is a total failure. Can you imagine his stating he wouldn’t change a thing about his presidency?

He must be the ‘second coming’ and we are missing it.


41 posted on 10/11/2007 6:19:24 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: Ken522

He was an is a total failure. Can you imagine his stating he wouldn’t change a thing about his presidency?

He must be the ‘second coming’ and we are missing it.


42 posted on 10/11/2007 6:19:34 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: Nextrush
A southern fried liberal hiding in a moderate cover.

Whoa now, I'm a southerner and I didn't vote for that idiot!!

Not all southerners are hiding moderates, he was and still is a liar and an extreme liberal leftist...

The media needs to stop allowing this jerk to defend his Presidency, it is was it is and that it was a failure..

He's been in England on the BBC complaining on how bad the USA has treated prisoners.

I wonder what part of terrorists doesn't he get?

43 posted on 10/11/2007 6:19:36 AM PDT by oswegodeee (Dee ( Born and raised in the south, yummy corn bread and BBQ ))
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To: LouAvul

Jimmy Carter.....Stupid is as stupid does.

I wish he would stay on his peanut farm and shut the hell up.


44 posted on 10/11/2007 6:19:50 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (My number one goal in life is to leave a bigger carbon footprint than Al Gore.)
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To: YourAdHere

He doesn’t even regret the loss of My fellow Marines that I knew personally.

One More Helicopter indeed.

I say this about President George W. Bush, he has never been short a single helicopter, or let anything of the sort stop him from succeeding in what he sets out to do.


45 posted on 10/11/2007 6:20:11 AM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: LouAvul

I became a Republican because of Jimmy Carter.


46 posted on 10/11/2007 6:20:11 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Ken522

47 posted on 10/11/2007 6:20:11 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Kill the terrorists, secure the borders, and give me back my freedoms.)
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To: YourAdHere

OMG......I can think of pages of things I would like to change...and his presidency was when I was between 9 & 13 years old. When Reagan was elected to office the announcement came over the loudspeakers that Ronald Reagan was going to be the next president of the United States of America (conservative town) and the entire school erupted into applause and cheering.

Dear Jimmy.....even 7th & 8th graders thought you sucked and all we had were 4 tv channels at that time.


48 posted on 10/11/2007 6:20:11 AM PDT by Michigan Bowhunter (What quantifies this as an assault rifle?)
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To: LouAvul
Whouldja like malaise with that?


49 posted on 10/11/2007 6:20:42 AM PDT by evad
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To: YourAdHere
Yes, Jimmy, your presidency was a complete 100% success. He was so successful, he only needed 1 term!
50 posted on 10/11/2007 6:20:58 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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