Posted on 12/30/2024 10:07:27 AM PST by DallasBiff
History has been kind to Jimmy Carter in a way the present never was during his one term as US president.
His four years were dogged by economic "stagflation", which began during the term of his predecessor Richard Nixon, and America's stumbles on foreign policy.
The surprise 1980 landslide loss to Ronald Reagan was deemed a referendum on Carter's leadership.
Voters had daily reminders that their commander in chief was unable to free the dozens of Americans held captive in an embassy in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
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Weak and showing weakness every day. Wonder what the surviving Iran hostages are thinking today.
That said, must show respect to the dead, RIP.
Until the very last minute as Reagan was sworn in
Video
January 20, 1981. Ted Koppel reports on the last minute efforts of president Jimmy Carter to secure the release of American hostages in Iran
https://rumble.com/vlmy36-american-hostages-day-444.html
Only because the Left controls history departments.
The hostage situation undid Carter’s presidency?
That’s a pretty passive participation view for this inept president. Typical
Did he not interfere with their leadership? Did he not throw his hands up and wait for Reagan to fix it? Even running against Reagan while he should have been fixing this
ABC News BS. They’re on their way out. The kids are NOT tuning in to this
These accounts from media sound like he was simply unlucky. Carter’s actions DIRECTLY contributed to those 444 days of American impotence.
That and mid-teens inflation.
“ History has been kind to Jimmy Carter
Only because the Left controls history departments.”
And they is tge only reason. Other than the left occupies the media
Orwell:
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
The war is on—every single day.
We must give no quarter to our enemies—or we lose.
Latest in a long line of screw ups by Mr. Carter as President.
The good news is Carter's non-stop failures brought us Reagan, one of our greatest Presidents.
Carter helped topple the Shah, got the hostage situation in return and STILL felt that he did the right thing in Iran.
The Shah was not popular in Iran. His days were numbered.
Little Jimmy was in the same class of President as Woodrow Wilson, FDR and himself for damage to the Nation.
*Iran hostage crisis
*The Saving and Loan debacle
*Passing and signing the Community Reinvestment Act - which led directly to the fraud that fueled the crash of 2008
*Giving away the Panama Canal
and the thing that killed any chance at re-election - the Cuban Boatlift. That cost him all support in the South, his power base.
Carter was a trainwrexck....like any other Dem politician
That news was accompanied by video of the plane carrying them lifting off from the airport in Tehran. I watched it on TV and I can tell you which channel it was, ABC-7 in the Chicago TV market. That's how well I remember it.
The fact is, the Iranians were deathly afraid of Reagan and they had every reason to be. The American media and portrayed him as a warmonger who'd use the nuclear bomb at the drop of a hat. The media unwittingly played a role in helping Reagan and getting the hostages free at the same time.
The dummies in the legacy lamestream news media still haven't learned.
Malaise.
55 mph speed limit.
Gas lines.
68 degree thermostats.
I could go on….
80mph speedometers in all vehicles.
My 85 IROC Camaro came with one.
I would add LBJ to that list.
his predecessor Richard Nixon...
I seem to remember a man named Gerald Ford.
Those Iranians are pikers, DOJ has held Jan 6th Americans twice as long.
45 years later and the world is still addicted to middle-east oil like a narcotic.
Hey V_Twin! Somebody is insulting your hero.
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