Posted on 01/23/2006 6:45:21 PM PST by HonduGOP
CARTER UNMASKED "Jimmy Carter's reputation for idealism has been one of the great swindles of American politics for two decades." -- The New Republic
The Real Jimmy Carter by Steven F. Hayward The Nobel Prize is just the beginning: Jimmy Carter is enjoying a new day in the sun, with left-wing historians taking a "fresh look" at his disastrous presidency and trying to bamboozle Americans into thinking that it was actually successful. This ongoing Saint Jimmy campaign would be laughable if it weren't part of a larger strategy to whitewash the records of failed Democrats and justify Carter's outsize influence on today's Democratic party. Although the voters decisively dispatched Jimmy Carter in 1980, his legacy lives on in potent form today and is likely to survive his death. But now in The Real Jimmy Carter Steven F. Hayward demolishes the Carter myth once and for all.
Hayward knows a real leader when he sees one (he's the author of The Age of Reagan, 1964-1980 and Churchill on Leadership) and in this book he provides a wealth of devastating new information that proves that Carter was and is one of the worst American leaders in history. He explains why Carter's presidency really was as bad as we thought at the time, or worse. Turning to today, he details how Carter's lasting and dominant impact on the Democratic Party -- the party of John Kerry and Hillary Clinton -- has been calamitous, and why his supposed status as a "model" ex-president is the reverse of the truth (unless your idea of a model statesman is Jesse Jackson). Steven F. Hayward reveals:
How Carter's political persona amounts to little more than an odd combination of Machiavelli and Mr. Rogers
Why the editor of the Atlanta Constitution called Carter "one of the three or four phoniest men I ever met"
How Carter has again and again shown himself bereft of a solid intellectual foundation for his political views
Carter as a politician: his habits of exaggeration, disingenuousness, and outright deception -- belying his claim to occupy the moral high ground
Carter's weak, vacillating position on school desegregation as a member of a Georgia school board in the 1950s
Carter's 1970 run for Georgia governor: after conducting an appallingly cynical race-baiting campaign, he immediately proclaimed that the time had come for the South to repudiate its racist ways
Why Carter the renowned liberal moralist once declared that "Lester Maddox is the embodiment of the Democratic Party" and "George Wallace and I are in agreement on most issues"
Jimmy's loopy side: who's the only person elected to the presidency to have filed a UFO-sighting report with the Air Force? You guessed it
Why the national media ignored Carter's race-baiting and made him one of the darlings of the Democratic party in the early 1970s
How, despite claiming to be "above politics," Carter used the traditional weapons of power as Governor: patronage appointments, attempts to maneuver his supporters into key legislative posts, and more
False: Carter's claim, made during his 1976 presidential run, that he was a nuclear physicist
Abortion: how Carter's 1976 position on this issue vividly displayed his ability to stand on both sides of an issue
How Carter's 1976 election as president was not a fluke of the post-Watergate moment, but the fruit of his own carefully planned five-year effort
Why even Carter's notorious use of foul language in his mid-campaign Playboy interview may have been the result of careful calculation
Carter: born again? Disquieting evidence that he was not as much "one of us" as evangelical Christians assumed in 1976
The massive blunder Carter committed as President -- that was repeated by Bill Clinton in 1993
President Carter's foreign policy: "McGovernism without McGovern"
The Camp David accords: why Anwar Sadat exclaimed, "I'd just spent two years throwing the Soviets out of the Middle East, and now the United States is inviting them back in"
The Carter executive order that Barry Goldwater blasted as "the most disgraceful thing a president has ever done"
Inside the Carter White House during the disasters of the Sandinista takeover of Nicaragua, the energy crisis and the Khomeini Revolution and hostage crisis in Iran
The "malaise speech": why Carter made it, and the effect it had on his failed presidency
Global 2000: the doom-and-gloom study that Carter released shortly before leaving the presidency -- how most of its predictions have turned out to be wildly wrong
Why the Carter Administration believed that the old Cold War strategy of containment was no longer necessary
How Carter made direct contacts with Soviet officials to try to subvert President Reagan's anti-Communist policies
Revealed: the shocking extent of Carter's clandestine efforts to sabotage the first Gulf War in 1990
The Clinton Administration: how it became Carter's virtual second term, despite Slick Willie's disdain for Carter
How Carter's perspective has become dominant among contemporary liberals and his Democratic Party successors
Carter's Nobel Prize: how a Nobel official inadvertently revealed that it was actually meant as a slap in the face of the American people
Carter the meddling ex-president: how, in the words of Time magazine's Lance Morrow, some of his "Lone Ranger work has taken him dangerously close to the neighborhood of what we used to call treason"
Bank robber Willie Sutton's assessment of Carter: "I've never seen a bigger confidence man in my life, and I've been around some of the best in the business" Steven Hayward demonstrates again and again that Jimmy Carter's failures weren't just accidents of history. They're rooted in the character and ideology of the man himself. This wouldn't concern anyone except Rosalynn and Amy if it weren't for the fact that Carter continues to insert himself in the nation's business, both at home and around the world. But The Real Jimmy Carter proves that the Emperor from Plains has no clothes -- and never has.
It's hard to imagine how a book could be more devastating to Carter than he has been to himself.
I bet a few posts will say Carter is the worst president ever. But that dishonor should go to Clinton.
The funny thing is that the American people regarded it as an example of how the Nobel Committee has reached rock bottom.
The difference between Carter and Clinton is that Carter was only incompetent, while Clinton was malicious.
This is an excellent book but it has been out for a while--I read it some time ago.
I would say its about time that people start coming out with the truth about these democRATS, set the records straight....nothing more disgusting than to hear a RAT is a 'walk on water' sort of person when we all know they crawl in the gutter....
I don't think Jimmah's legacy will be anything but one of failure, no matter what he tries to do.
That's like saying that the turd that sank is worse than the one that floated. But they're both still...
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Sorry, but I don't need this book to tell me all I need to know about that loser.
I bet a few posts will say Carter is the worst president ever. But that dishonor should go to Clinton.
That's really a tallest midget in the circus type proposition isn't it. I'm a Carter detractor, but I'll bet we could find common ground in that X42 was the worst PERSON we ever had as President. My #2 would be Lyndon B Johnson.
Owl_Eagle
"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in. I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"
Jimmy Carter is pure EVIL. Slickmeister wants to be Jimmy when he grows up.
An good argument could be made in either direction.
They were both so bad in their own different ways.
Refurbish is always the route for ex democRAT presidents. They all have to be refurbished.
Carter was so bad that it would be easier to refurbish the presidency of the crooked bent one.
I bet a few posts will say Carter is the worst president ever. But that dishonor should go to Clinton.
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"Jimmy Carter!? He's history's greatest monster!"
I think Carter was personally malicious too. He was not as sexually immoral as Clinton but maybe even more mean spirited.
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