Correct
Posted on 09/14/2006 7:01:17 PM PDT by STARWISE
Correct
To say he was a "failed" President is an understatement. He was the worst President of the 20th Century; possibly the worst President in the history of this great nation.
Jimmy Carter, the WORST president and ex-president!
Yes he was
Whenever I see Carter postings, I am reminded of his brother, Billy Carter. I often had occasion to stay in the same hotel that Billy stayed at in Atlanta. Several times I bought him a beer or two in the lounge and would be rewarded with his tales about his brother, Jimmy. Suffice it to say, while Billy did not have the intellect of his brother..., he certainly knew him. He called him a DREAMER and said, were it not for Rosslyn, the Plains peanut warehouse would have gone under! She was Jimmy's only contact with reality since Jimmy had always tended to see the world as the fantasy he wished for!
Carter was a "useful idiot" for the dims (and a disaster for all of us!).
Brother Billy would have been a better POTUS; a lot more entertaining.
In late 1978 and early 1979, Carter visited Libya with a contingent from Georgia three times. He eventually registered as a foreign agent of the Libyan government and received a $220,000 loan. This led to a Senate hearing over alleged influence peddling which some in the press dubbed "Billygate." A Senate sub-committee was called To Investigate Activities of Individuals Representing Interests of Foreign Governments (Billy Carter-Libya Investigation).
The Libya Controversy
In September 1978 Billy made a highly publicized trip to Libya with a group of Georgia legislators and businessmen eager to make deals. Several months later, he hosted a delegation of Libyans in Atlanta, as they looked for a place to locate a permanent trade mission. When asked why he was involved, Billy said, "The only thing I can say is there is a hell of a lot more Arabians than there is Jews." He also argued that the "Jewish media [tore] up the Arab countries full-time," and defended Libya against charges of state-sponsored terrorism by saying that a "heap of governments support terrorists and [Libya] at least admitted it."
President Carter tried to disassociate himself from the controversy that ensued, telling NBC News that he hoped people would "realize that I don't have any control over what my brother says [and] he has no control over me." Billy also apologized and explained he wasn't anti-Semitic, but the damage was done. The Atlanta Constitution remarked, "If [Billy's] not working for the Republican Party, he should be." Some time after this, Billy spent seven weeks at an alcohol addiction treatment facility in California.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/peopleevents/p_bcarter.html
Ouch! I don't think it is possible to get lower than that.
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