Tonight at dinner my daughter (27) was asking what was so bad about Carter. Extended family regaled her with stories of gas lines, flags at the gas stations showing if they had gas or not, odd-even gas days, 55 MPH maximum, interest rates of 18% and more for a house, etc. Iran hostages, etc.
After listening to it all she said “Sounds like he helped elect Reagan - so that was good!”
I remember having a CD that paid 20% back in those happy days.
Watch the opening of the movie “Miracle” (the 1980 US Olympic hockey victory) for a Carter recap of his failures….
You left out the worst of it. That imbecile *CAUSED* all world wide Islamic terrorism. By helping depose the Shah, he caused the religious nuts who took over to start pumping money into world wide Islamic terrorism.
Without Carter, there would be no Hezbollah, there would be no Hamas, there would be no Taliban, there would have been none of these terrorist organizations out there killing people.
The War between Iran and Iraq would not have happened. A million people were killed in that war, and it would not have happened had Carter never been president.
And yes, he gave away the Panama Canal, which is now biting us in the @$$. Everything that idiot did was wrong and detrimental to the US and to the world.
“...with stories of gas lines, flags at the gas stations showing if they had gas or not, odd-even gas days”
I was college at the time, I rode the Greyhound bus home for holidays and areound that small NC town where my college was located I rode a 10 speed.
“55 MPH maximum” before my sister totaled my 62 Chevy 6 banger Biscayne (which put me the 10 speed and the Greyhound) that ‘ol reliable handmedown purred at 55mph.
“interest rates of 18% and more for a house” I was decades away from that purchase and U/W in the electrical trades for most of it.
“Iran hostages” I have known several Persians over the decades and they’re fine people whose lives were completely ruined by those events in that region.
“After listening to it all she said Sounds like he helped elect Reagan - so that was good!” a very similar reoccurrence this last election cycle.
I voted Ford, the country was in a rough patch after Vietnam, we were a gold star family, I was numb from that experience, many cousins were in the conflict, it was all consuming. Thinking back... it really was a kind of hell we, as a family, were living through.