Posted on 01/06/2025 11:45:55 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Biden’s insistence on running for a second term at the age of 81 despite voters’ doubts that he was up to the job, and his disastrous debate performance in June, threw his party into a three-week-long crisis. By the time he dropped out of the race in July, it was too late to stage an orderly competition among potential successors; his vice president, Kamala Harris, had only 103 days to campaign.
But there was far more to Biden’s four years in office than his physical decline and his monumental blunder in trying to run.
The death of former President Carter serves as a reminder that presidents who...
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So it may also be with the president who leaves office this month.
While FJB accuses his political opponents of "an unrelenting effort ... to rewrite — even erase — the history of (January 6, 2020)", the gaslight press telegraphs its intention to "focus on the underappreciated accomplishments" of FJB.
Funny how they never try to “re-assess” Harding or Hoover. Probably because Republicans don’t deserve a second look and a chance at rehabilitation.
The only thing complicated about Carter’s utter failure of a legacy is the work propagandist LSM like yourself need to go through to twist the truth trying to hide his failure and Biden’s failure.
FJB.
He even makes Carter look good.
He’s NEVER done anything for the good of the American People in over 50 years of government so-called service. All he’s ever done was enrich himself and family at taxpayer expense and the demise of the coutry.
Yeah...FJB, BIG TIME.
FTA——By the standard President Biden set himself, “the core purpose” he proclaimed when he ran in 2020, it is impossible to assess his one-term presidency as anything but a failure.
“We are in a battle for the soul of this nation,” Biden said as he began his campaign in 2019. “If we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. And I cannot stand by and watch that happen.”
Now Trump has a chance to do precisely what Biden wanted to prevent — to complete eight years in the White House and put his stamp on American politics for decades to come.
And there will be little Biden can do beyond stand by and watch.
The left never calls something “complex” when they think it was the greatest thing since Marx. It’s only disasters they lack the honesty to call disasters that are “complex”.
Stalin, Vlad the Impaler, Genghis Khan, J Edgar Hoover, Beria, Pol Pot, Kim il-Sung, Mao, Fidel, Atilla the Hun, Osama bin Laden, Ayatolla Khomeini.... they did impressive things too. So what?
Biden is no Harry Truman. I don’t think he will be rehabilitated, at least during the years I have left.
Ex-presidents can also be rated down. Consider Woodrow Wilson. He once was considered a hero for leading the US through World War I, and he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his “Fourteen Points” and creating the League of Nations. Nowadays, however, he is seen as both a racist and a failure.
What’s complex about an absolute four year failed Presidency?
No problem. When Trump starts bringing this country back from demonhell and things generally begin to improve the demonparty will claim it all for Biden. The stones in the street know this.
The passing of Jimmy Carter is a good time to recognize the former president’s involvement in the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, an accomplishment for which Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 (“Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. president, dies at age 100,” Page 1, Dec. 30).
Concurrently, we can applaud Mr. Carter’s 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, such as the one in the Middle East.
Nevertheless, we should remember that the truly worthy recipient in 1978 was Sadat. Through three wars, Arab leaders had used Egyptian blood and treasure for vicarious satisfaction of their hatred of Jews, which had invigorated their despotic regimes. By the end of the 1973 war, Sadat was certain Egypt’s price for Arab victory would include not only countless military deaths, but also the destruction of the Aswan Dam. This would lead to flooding affecting hundreds of thousands of Egyptians, as well as catastrophic infrastructure damage.
Sadat brought an end to this cycle (and looming national catastrophe) with his historic trip to Jerusalem on Nov. 7, 1977, when he began a process formalized with the signing of the Camp David Accords the following September and the peace treaty of 1979. For Sadat’s extraordinary statesmanship, the Arab League suspended Egypt’s membership. Two years later, Sadat was assassinated by an amalgam of Islamic radicals including Ayman al-Zawahiri, who came from the Muslim Brotherhood and became a leader of al Qaeda.
In comparison, Begin risked nothing politically, and Mr. Carter just served milk and cookies.
“Complex”: hard to put a polish on that turd.
DOYLE IS IN A COMA OF HIS OWN MAKING
Complex? Since when is a pile of stinking manure complex?
I have to give Biden small credit, his inflation was not quite as bad as at the end of Carters term. Mortgage interest rates have yet to hit the double digit range and no gasoline rationing lines. My wife and I bought our first home in 1979 with an 11.25% mortgage.
If by under appreciated accomplishments they mean abject failures, then I agree because I lived the Carter years and I can’t recall a single success or positive thing he was responsible for. By all means let’s celebrate the man responsible for the rise of radical moslems in the Middle East, the man who palled around with terrorists.
Drop him in a hole cover him up, and lets memory hole him.
If Pedo Joe’s legacy is in Trump’s hands, the Trumpster will have to wash, wash again, and then sanitize his hands before he will be deemed safe to be with others. Everything touched by that lying low IQ child shiffer should be considered extremely toxic. Even slime molds avoid Biden.
Well, there’s um, you know,. sorta, well, nuances, yeah, that’s the ticket, nuances
From the movie “Diner”:
Modell : You know what word I’m not comfortable with? Nuance. It’s not a real word. Like gesture. Gesture’s a real word. With gesture you know where you stand. But nuance? I don’t know. Maybe I’m wrong.
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