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 ...
Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.
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Yep, you can take that to the bank. Carter is stupid where the Obamoron is dangerous. Under Carter, we had inflation that topped 21%. Reagan's tax cust did a whole lot to reverse the "stagflation" of Carter and grew the economy at a phenominal rate.
Nothing could make Carter look good. Obama will make him look better than he deserves. Carter did only two things right in 4 years:
— He appointed Paul Volcker chairman of the Federal Reserve, which helped make Carter a one-term president, but was good for the country. (All that pain was necessary to wring the inflation out of the economy...)
— He was lacking in any form of leadership, which prompted the country to turn to Reagan in 1980.
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I was in college when Carter was elected. I voted for Ford, even though he wasn’t so great. When Carter was done, not only had we been thru the hostage crisis in Iran, and had gas rationing, we had a 70% top marginal income tax rate, double digit inflation and double digit unemployment. Reagan very wisely understood that lower taxes meant an economic boom ultimately generating more income for the government, as well as job creation. The government itself is not supposed to “create” jobs! Rather, they are to have loose regulations - ours got too loose for a time - on corporations so the CORPORATIONS can create jobs. If we keep taxes where they are, and put back the banking regulations, our economy will come around WITHOUT any government interference. The so-called stimulus package is going to drive us into the ground.
It doesn’t matter. Obama can do no wrong. Every action he takes is magnificently well thought out, thus demonstrating his coolness under presure. Mistakes will not occur in this administration.
If they do, the blame goes to Bush and/or those who thought they were mistakes when they were actually brilliant ploys.
He can’t be wrong! He is the Messiah!
I was a photographer in DC during both the Carter and the Reagan years, and spent a lot of time in the White House around both of these presidents. Carter was not only the worst President we’ve ever had, but an arrogant, mean spirited little man. Reagan was the most humble and gracious man you’d ever want to meet. It didn’t matter who you were, he treated you the same as he would treat a foreign dignitary. I spent 6 hours in line to pay respects to him when he was laying in state in the Capitol. I won’t even think twice about Carter when he goes.