Probably, I will never understand!
"How could Carter become the US president?!
Probably, I will never understand!"
Ford barely lost. I think there was just too much fallout from Nixon to overcome.
Is that like Cooter?
A natural reaction from American voters following the Watergate? Also remember that leftism was very fashionable in the 1970s - it was at its height of influence on all fronts (at least today economic leftism is on the retreat) and free market beliefs were confined to "eccentric" individuals like Milton Friedman, Pinochet-era Chilean economic ministers, or colonial Hong Kong civil servants.
Nonetheless, even with this set of factors Carter had to campaign emphasising he was no leftist, and even under this set of condition Gerald Ford almost pulled a victory. It just shows that full-frontal leftism has less market in America than Britain or any Western European country for instance.
Disaster ping!
Carter had/has ideas and opinions. Ford, nothing. Hard to beat even a bad something with a nothing. Carter tried and wanted to win bad. Ford didn't, thought he'd be annointed.
In 1960 you could not have convined 1% of the pop. there would ever be a Prez. like Carter or Klinton. If you proposed to write a book/novel on this you would be told, "Fiction must be believable. It won't sell."
Me? I never voted for him.
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Jimmy Carter:
"The Best President Moscow Ever Had!"
Until Clinton came along, Carter held the title of "Worst President in History"!
And Billy made Jimmy look like a Piker.
Jack.
Home mortgage rates also went above 10 percent at the time. I felt lucky to get a home loan at 8.5 percent.
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Carter was imposed, during a long building National hangover- kinda like a drunk wakes up with a broken nose and a two-bit hooker robbing his wallet. Carter would be the hooker, for those in Point Arena.
Carter would qualify as the worst president ever.
No, the worse President ever was LBJ for the coup killing JFK, followed by Bill Clinton covering up terrorist attacks disguised as "conspiracies" which of course led to the attacks of 9/11 and the whitewash called the 9/11 commission, followed by Able Danger, Sandy Berger stuffing Top Secret documents in his underwear etc.
Carter was just an idiot.
Pushed the trash to the curb.
As to how he got elected, it was a Nixon/Ford backlash thing, as far as I could see.
As bad as that guy was as president, he is even more of a disgrace as an ex president.
The only time that I heard him say anything that made sense was right after his defeat, when he said that 4 years of on the job training were not enough to qualify him for the presidency again.
It all began in one of their debates when G. Ford said that Poland was free, Carter jumped on the statement, and the rest was history.
I was sitting in Berlin, watching the debate and knew it was over for Ford.
"How could Carter become US president?"
As I posted in an earlier reply, it was all about Nixon, not Ford. The MSM had painted such a horrible picture of Nixon (and he did let things get out of hand as far as the coverup, etc. went) and the subsequent pardon from Ford, that a Republican couldn't find a dog in Washington let alone a friend.
Nixon put Carter in the White House. It remains the only thing I cannot forgive him for.
---- Begin Forwarded Message
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:23:39 -0500
From: Rosalie Bertell
Subject: Rickover Report on TMI
To: Robert Smirnow
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From: Rosalie Bertell,
To: Jimmy Carter, INTERNET:library@carter.nara.gov
Date: 2/10/98 11:29 AM
RE: Rickover Report on TMI
Former President Jimmy Carter
Dear Former President Carter,
Many of us have been impressed with your activities on behalf of Habitat for Humanity and for Conflict Resolution since leaving the presidency. There is only one large blot on your record, which distresses those of us who respect you, and that is the cover up of the Three Mile Island accident, and in particular the serious health damage done to the people who lived nearby. I was on the Citizen's Advisory Council to the Blue Ribbon Panel which you established to look into the accident. I, and indeed the whole panel, was dismissed when I asked the implications of having a staff cleared for security and a Blue Ribbon Panel which was not cleared, with the exception of Dr. Kemmeny who had worked on the Manhattan Project. The staff was able to withhold any information they wanted from the Panel under the guise of "classified for national security". Another Advisory Council member asked who was in charge during the accident. These two questions were enough to cause the dissolution of the entire panel. In fact, Dr. Kemmeny even stated publically that we had never been invited to Washington (although the Panel paid our air fare).
You were especially trust by the people because of your own nuclear background. You failed to deserve that trust. Can you not make it up now by joining with those of us who want the true documents released to the public? The nuclear industry has frustrated all of the serious health claims of the people, in spite of the Supreme Court's ruling. Their lawyers are gloating that they are "invincible" before the Courts because of their dirty tactics. Other countries find it hard to believe that in America the people cannot get justice after their experience!
Please put your moral authority to work to make the truth finally known!
Sincerely,
Dr. Rosalie Bertell, President
International Institute of Concern for Public Health Toronto, Canada
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From: smirnowb@ix.netcom.com (Robert Smirnow)
To: nukenet@envirolink.org
Subject: Fwd: Three Mile Island
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 14:17:17 -0600 (CST)
---- Begin Forwarded Message
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 12:28:44 -0500
From: Steve Wing
Subject: Three Mile Island
To: library@carter.nara.gov
I have received a message indicating that President Carter may be able to release additional information on the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island. Based on work recently published by our group at the University of North Carolina I urge President Carter to make any such additional information available as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Steve Wing
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology
School of Public Health, CB#7400
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7400
919-966-7416
919-966-2089 (fax)
steve_wing@unc.edu
More info - http://www.ratical.org/radiation/RBtoJCreTMI.html
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