Posted on 04/13/2009 1:59:46 PM PDT by Mind Freed
I was born the year Reagan took office. Needless to say I don't remember much of the President that I have heard things about that make me wish I was born sooner so I can remember him. Since I don't remember Reagan, I also don't know how much he had to do to fix what Carter did. I'm trying to get more information on how Obama is acting like Carter, or acting worse. And... Is Obama on a road to make Carter look like he was a good President?
You were born the year Reagan took office? Sorry, but that made me so jealous, I didn’t read the rest of your post.
Carter so far is worse. However, Obama has just started. Of course I was in sixth Grade when Carter was done, but I remember those damn gas lines when my Dad needed to fill up. A nine year old does not appreciate waiting an hour for gas that is for sure.
It’s your own fault for being born so late.
Gas Lines.....Odd and Even Days to get gas...Iran taking American hostages and Carter doing nothing....Fireside chats where Carter tells the American people to “sacrifice”....Interest rates skyrockets....unemployment skyrockets...inflation...
Look at what it has gotten us now. A STATE OF TOTAL DISASTER and OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT that thinks we exist to serve it — not the other way around. Reagan knew better, that the government was by and FOR THE PEOPLE.
Carter was small potatoes compared to the damage already here and coming out way with Obama. His twisted ideology, racism and hate for America's greatness and success will make Carter look like chump change. I heard a black commentator say the other night in the best terms, “The United States could not have picked a more disastrous president than Obama”. The truth lies not only in what he clearly professes, but his past associations, his mentors, and their socialist/communist ideology. Terrorists, radicals, traitors, criminals, and America haters -— a real credential of association.
America has brought this upon itself. It will be up to the people to fix it. I would much rather have Carter or Clinton back in the White House than Obama -— any day.
Carter was an incompetent liberal with no particular goal other than to avoid the mistakes of Nixon. Obama is an incompetent liberal with the intention of outright detroying American Judeo-Christian culture and rebuilding it into a racist afro-islamo-marxist one.
Carter actually started off fairly strong in office (for him) in 1977-1978, and there was not a terrible economic or foreign crisis like we have today, so some comparisons are tough to make. He really fell apart in 1979-1980, for a slew of well-documented foreign and domestic problems. The reputation he gained for being weak in his first two years fatally undid him in his second two years. One shared characteristic they both have: they both want to lecture Americans on how they need to sacrifice and get used to being second-rate. Of course, that gets old fast with the electorate!
You might be surprised... LOL...
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See my list of Presidential Crises and see where Reagan and Clinton and Bush and Obama fit in there...
A previous post of mine below...
Well, an interesting thing happened on the way to Free Republic for me, a few days ago..., it just started with a simple post and two little items on it... I never intended for the following list to come about... LOL...
Here’s where it all started, and then some FReepers started giving me some more events.. :-)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2226437/posts?page=5#5
THEN... it turned into this...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2226437/posts?page=135#135
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Carter is on there, along with Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower ...
Well, we needed “EPIC GREATNESS” because he encountered ‘EPIC PROBLEMS” while in office... :-)
See my chart, referenced in my post #10, just above...
Compare my chart, referenced in post #10, for some interesting comparisons of the “Presidential Crises” for the various Presidents...
Thanks
Oh my, what did I just say...
Yes. Being lectured by Carter about how “we the people” were stuck in a “malaise” and needed to sacrifice and quit being so spoiled, needed to wear sweaters and turn down the heat . . then Reagan came along and told us “we the people” were more than OKAY, that it was Carter who was stuck in the malaise, that America was dear, a shining city on a hill, the last best hope of mankind for liberty. It wasn’t hard to have REAL HOPE with Reagan, and he came along, knocked Khadafi’s and his ilk’s turbans on crooked, got us out of Carter’s “malaise” and that was it. That’s why those of us who loved Reagan are having a very hard time with Obama’s apparent “destroy America” tour and mission. (I credit the military with freeing the captain and expect Obama to have dropped any pretension of dealing harshly with such terrorists ASAP.)
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"Gas Lines.....Odd and Even Days to get gas...Iran taking American hostages and Carter doing nothing....Fireside chats where Carter tells the American people to “sacrifice”....Interest rates skyrockets....unemployment skyrockets...inflation..."
Ah, those were the good old days. Can I say it? "Happy Days are Here Again."
Or will be soon.
Well, you were showing the inflation index, and I remember the one thing that could have stopped that — and when President Nixon *shocked the world* by taking the U.S. off the Gold Standard...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock
I remember being *absolutely shocked* at the time, and I knew we were *in trouble* from then on, as a result of that. And sure enough, we were..., as you can see from the resulting inflation...
You also had those “Islamic terrorists” back then, (those Arab countries) who tried to “muscle” the United States by cutting off oil to the country. They also contributed to the future problems...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Oil_Embargo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis
And then you had the huge run-up in costs from Johnson running the Vietnam War — and — social programs — “Guns and Butter” — as it was called back then. That contributed to the future problems, too...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/21/AR2005092102504.html
[don’t know who this is, but it’s just for documenting the “guns and butter” policy which did exist back then...]
You can look at all those things for the high inflation rates that inevitably came “down the road”. The economy is a large entity for which “inputs” work its way through the system over years and it finally shows up, sooner or later...
"Obama’s apparent “destroy America” tour and mission."
Could we call it the G-d Damn America Tour?"
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