My memory goes back to 1970, and 1979 was the worst year that I can remember. Thank you Jimmy Carter!
Carter was the first to declawed the CIA. Bad intelligence was the cause of the hostage taking in Iran. Foreign policy and the economy go together. Jimmy spent 444 days trying to talk Iranians to release our hostage while our economy was being suffocated by the Iran Oil Embargo. Carter frown upon the use of force and soon our military was ineffective to be any good. Carter try to bring in alternative unproven energy sources which was fool hearty because people were not willing to pay the high prices. The liberals in the Senate didn't want to dig for oil on our soil because they didn't want to damage the environment. You think things were bad enough but Carter placed stringent EPA standards to make the oil prices go up further! Do we really want double digit inflation, long gas lines and live in a second greatest depression because we want to be nice to people who don't like us?
Were going to have a repeat performance if Kerry gets elected because his cabinet will be filled with Jimmy Carter retreads! Jimmy Carter got the Noble Peace Prize on the backs of Americans who lost jobs due to his fiasco. Carter had the nerve to say Bush's foreign policy "squandered the goodwill" when he squandered our strength as a nation for 444 days. Other nations are not going to take you seriously if your a wimp. Our economy and the world suffered from his poor leadership.