[The_Macallan]

Jimmy Carter's achievments as President:

DOMESTIC -
* Stagflation - the seemingly impossible combination of negative economic growth and rapid inflation.
* 20% "misery index" (inflation + unemployment)
* 13.5% inflation
* 7.2% unemployment
* 18% mortgage interest rates
* 70% top marginal income tax rate
* 14+% poverty rate
* Formed the Dept. of Education = entrenching the Teachers Union in the Federal Gov't.
* The 1979 "oil crisis" and more gas lines.
* He told America to wear sweaters, turn down the heater to 68 and just do more with less from now on.
* He ran a whopping 23% approval rating during 1980 campaign.
* He lost in a 489 to 49 Electoral landslide for Reagan and Republican control of the Senate in 1980. (Thank God!!)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS -
* Gave us 444 days of non-stop world-wide humiliation at our impotent and ineffectual President.
* Approved a poorly planned and botched "rescue" that only added to America's humilation around the world.
* Watched detente crumble with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
* Pulled out of the 1980 Olympics - for spite.
* Gave away the Panama Canal.
* Never did explain that mysterious $250,000 payment from Libya to his brother Billy.
* Allowed three countries to fall to communism under his watch: Benin, Nicaragua, and Zimbabwe.

Jimmy Carter also favored:
* Equal Rights Amendment
* National Health Insurance
* SALT II missile treaty
* Unilateral disarmament

Jimmy Carter is nothing but a spineless, impotent, embarassingly-ineffectual, gutless, socialist, moronic fool who should never have held any Gov't position higher than a paper-clip sorter for Barney Fife.

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[KC_Conspirator]

Remember also that Jimmy Carter called the American people a "malaise". You should add that to his accomplishments.

[plain talk]

Jimmy Carter is nothing but a spineless, impotent, embarassingly-ineffectual, gutless, socialist, moronic fool who should never have held any Gov't position higher than a paper-clip sorter for Barney Fife.

Amen! Best post I've seen in a while!

[lowbridge]

Allowed three countries to fall to communism under his watch: Benin, Nicaragua, and Zimbabwe.

Dont forget the communist takeover of Grenada.

[Pikamax]

bttt

[TedsGarage]

Well, that's what happens when you put a Southerner in the White House.

[hershey]

I especially like your description of Carter. And thanks, also, for the list of his failures in office. He's despicable and has spent every waking moment out of office trying to whitewash his performance. This banging nails for Habitat for Humanity is another sleazy photo op., painting Jimmy as such a caring individual. It's smoke and mirrors. He got $8 mill. for his memoirs and Rosalie got a similar amount. They kept all that money and didn't give it away to the poor. He's totally bogus.